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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
August 2006

• 1 BSD User Group and Endorsments
• 2 Test Delivery Survey
• 3 Mailing Lists
• 4 Website Statistics
• 5 About this Newsletter

1 BSD User Group and Endorsments

This month we contacted several *BSD related user groups interested in endorsing the BSD Certification.org effort. Endorsing groups will help spread the news about the process and exchange website links with the bsdcertification.org site. We are hoping that endorsing groups will continue to raise awareness of the BSD Certification Group and generate enthusiasm for all the BSD projects.

The current groups interested in endorsing BSDCertification.org are listed below:

• Ottawa-Carleton Unix Users Group
• FUG-BR
• FUG-DF Brazil Distrito Federal
• LOSURS
• CLUE
• BSD-DK
• BSD-JY Jutland
• KamLUG Kamloops
• German BSD Forum
• DSLUUG
• Philippines email list: ph-freebsd@yahoogroups.com
• SeaBUG
• NYCBUG

If you have any other ideas about how user groups can help contribute to the BSD Certification effort or another group or list interested in endorsing bsdcertiifcation.org, please do not hesitate to contact us.

2 Test Delivery Survey

The Test Delivery Survey ended August 12 for all languages except Mexican Spanish which ends on September 2. Once all the results are in and analyzed, a report will be published and available for download.

In the meantime, here are some of the preliminary results:

• 1356: total number of respondees for all translated versions
• 1125: number of respondees planning on taking the exam
• 52: number of countries
• 38% prefer to pay up to $100 USD per exam (out of 4 choices)
• 50% are willing to take the exam at a conference
• 28% would prefer not to take the exam using VUE or Prometric
• 16% would prefer not to take the exam using a custom delivery solution
• 41% would prefer not to take a paper based exam
• 61% currently work full-time within the IT field
• 27% are aged 26-30 and 26% are aged 21-25

3 Mailing Lists

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.

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.

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

Thank you to Brad Schonhorst and Dru Lavigne 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.