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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
May 2006

Contents

1 New Acting Secretary

The BSDCG is pleased to welcome Mikel King as the newest BSDCG member. Mikel will be taking over as acting Secretary as Jonathan Drews, the former acting Secretary, is stepping down from secretarial duties due to his increased work commitments. We'd like to express a big thank you to Jonathan for the great work he did as secretary as well as to Mikel for offering to step into this position.

2 Nominating Committee

Warner Losh is pleased to announce that the members of the nominating committee have been confirmed as follows:

  • Warner Losh (non-voting chair of nominating committee)
  • Wes Peters
  • Patrick Tracanelli
  • Dan Langille
The nominating committee will prepare a slate of names to fill the 3 board positions and this slate will be voted on by the members of the BSDCG. You can see the election process in Article VII of the bylaws.

3 User Group Fund-raising Competition

A fund-raising competition was announced at BSDCan on May 12th and the details can be found on the website.

Here's your chance to help raise funds for BSD Certification while promoting awareness of your local User Group. Prizes will be awarded for the User Group who raises the most funds as well as the User Group who uses the most imaginative approach for raising funds. Don't forget to register your User Group by June 10th. Note: if you don't have an existing User Group in your area, gather some like-minded friends and join the competition!

4 Logo Announcement

Thanks to the generosity of FJZone.org, a design firm in Paris, BSD Certification now has an official logo. For a nominal fee, FJZone designed, donated and assigned all rights to the logo to BSD Certification Group Inc. The design was announced at BSDCan, here is the press release. Over the next few weeks you'll see the design incorporated into the website and upcoming publications.

5 Annual Report

The 2005 Annual Report is being prepared and should be published and available for download by the end of May. Watch for the press release and the announcement on the mailing lists.

6 BSD Certification at Linuxtag

Axel Gruner had this to say about the BSD track at the recent Linuxtag as well as his talk on BSD Certification: "For the BSDs it was a handsome profit. We handed out thousands of flyers, and CDs (FreeBSD, DesktopBSD, MirOS and FreeSBIE). On Friday it was 'BSD-DAY', with a lot of lectures. The most visited BSD-lecture was about DesktopBSD (held by Daniel Seuffert) with over 100 listeners."

"My lecture about BSD Certification was well visited. No, it was very good for the first time BSD Certification was really promoted in Germany. Approximate 40 listeners from young to old are interested to hear about BSD Certification."

7 Mailing Lists

The BSD Certification Group mailing list currently has 762 subscribers. And the announcements list has 156 subscribers.

If you are not on the announcements list, please sign up here. It is a closed list for announcements from the BSD Certification Group.

The general discussion list is here.

8 Website Statistics

Extensive analysis of website statistics is available online. Please visit our Webstats Site to see them for yourself.

But, here are some highlights grep'd directly from the logs.

Navigational hits during Apr/2006
788 Certification
362 News
317 Meet Us
299 Resources
278 FAQ
242 Home
239 Donate
220 BSDCG
178 Contribute
144 Mailing Lists
 Navigational hits since the beginning
6,880 Certification
4,460 News
3,063 Resources
2,821 Meet Us
2,610 FAQ
2,321 Home
1,763 BSDCG
1,730 Donate
1,679 Contribute
1,670 Certification view=4
PDF downloads during Apr/2006
413 pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
250 BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
98 20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf
93 pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
81 sr1_links.pdf
58 brochure8.pdf
38 sponsorship.pdf
23 brochure8_DE.pdf
21 brochure8portuguese02.pdf
17 brochure8-ru2.pdf
 PDF downloads since the beginning
17,230 BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
4,340 pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
3,331 sr1_links.pdf
2,407 pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
1,286 brochure8.pdf
824 20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf
309 brochure8portuguese02.pdf
303 brochure8-ru2.pdf
255 brochure8-fr.pdf
254 brochure8_DE.pdf

9 About this Newsletter

The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every month, near the middle of the month.

Thank you to Dru Lavigne, Axel Gruner, George Rosamond for contributing to this newsletter. The editor is Jeremy C. Reed.

If you have any news items related to the BSD Certification, please let us know by submitting via the contact form on the website or by sending an email to newsletter@BSDCertificationGroup.org. Or if you would like to volunteer for the translation team please send a note with the subject "translation" on the website's contact form.





























































































































































































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