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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
June 2006

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1 BSD Certification at BSDCan 2006

At BSDCan 2006, approximately 50 people attended the talk Dru Lavigne gave on the current status of BSD Certification and several came back for further discussion during the BoF session. A full description of the talk is available at Dru's blog
(http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/bsdcan-day-1-9275) and the slides of the talk are also available for download in PDF format
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/dru_lavigne_bsdcan2006.pdf). This talk concentrates on the importance of psychometrics and the costs associated with existing test delivery solutions.

2 BSD Certification at Linux World Brazil

Patrick Tracanelli, translation coordinator for the BSDCG, had this to say about FUG-BR (Brazilian FreeBSD Users Group) participation on Linux World Brazil:

We distributed over five hundred FreeBSD CD's and two hundred BSD Certification printed brochures. I talked a lot with Rodolfo Gobbi, LPI President in Brazil, Marcelo and other LPI people in Brazil about financial, technical and practical subjects regarding open source certifications. They said the LPI's financing come, especially in Brazil, from private institutions like Mandriva and SuSE. He mentioned that LPI got strength from the community, but that some more specific employers, especially parts of government, sometimes think Red Hat certification is better than LPI, because the Red Hat exam is practical (hands-on), while LPI is paper-based.

Well, other than this Linux World in Brazil seemed too much commercial, people selling solutions instead of discussing about it. Virtualization was the big topic, and it was very nice because everytime Novell talked about it, FUG-BR could show IPFW2 doing Jail-based firewalling (with Jail ID separation) and resource limits based on login.conf (memory, CPU time, etc) for each Jail ID. It was interesting, we caught a lot of attention.

Jean M. Melo, also of the BSDCG, has some pictures of the FUG-BR booth:

http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br/~jmelo/linuxworld2006/

FUG-BR always gets attention from technical people, even on Linux World where it was not tech we could grab some new users.

Everybody asks when BSD Certification tests will happen in Brazil, how the tests will be, and well... I try to answer what is possible, but generally, Brazilian people expect more technical approach (say, lab based or scenario based tests, in addition to (and not only) written tests).

3 Mailing Lists

The BSD Certification Group mailing list currently has 764 subscribers. And the announcements list has 162 subscribers.

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http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert-announce/. It is a closed list for announcements from the BSD Certification Group.

The general discussion list is at http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert/.

4 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
Cumulative
7669 Certification
5060 News
3443 Resources
3143 Meet Us
2950 FAQ
2671 Home
2077 BSDCG
2021 Donate
1983 Contribute
1677 Certification view=4
2006 05
1101 Certification
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470 FAQ
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460 Meet Us
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2006 04
788 Certification
362 News
317 Meet Us
299 Resources
278 FAQ
242 Home
239 Donate
220 BSDCG
178 Contribute
144 Mailing Lists
PDF Downloads
Cumulative
17372 BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
4723 pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
3431 sr1_links.pdf
2503 pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
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336 brochure8portuguese02.pdf
330 brochure8-ru2.pdf
286 brochure8_DE.pdf
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2006 05
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216 BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
176 pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
163 annual_report_2005.pdf
135 sr1_links.pdf
118 20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf
107 brochure8.pdf
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44 brochure8portuguese02.pdf
2006 04
413 pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
250 BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
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81 sr1_links.pdf
58 brochure8.pdf
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23 brochure8_DE.pdf
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5 About this Newsletter

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

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

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