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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
October 2006


Contents

1 Exam Objectives Translated to Russian

The BSDA Certification Requirements document has been translated to Russian. The PDF is available for download from
http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_ru_ru.pdf.

2 New Sponsor

Thanks to a generous donation, Iron Systems (http://www.ironsystems.com), has become our first Gold sponsor. Iron Systems ships high quality BSD-based rackmount servers and is pleased to be able to contribute towards a certification for BSD system administrators.

Keep an eye on the Sponsors page of the website as several other sponsors will be added over the next few weeks.

3 Nominations open for Board of Directors

Dan Langille announced that nominations are open for the first Board of Directors in this mailing list post: http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/bsdcert/2006-September/001047.html

Nominations are open until Sunday, October 22nd and full instructions are included in Dan's post.

4 BSD Certification at NYCBSDCon

A BoF session will be held on Saturday, October 28 between 9:00 and 9:45 at the NYCBSDCon (http://www.nycbsdcon.org) at Columbia University in NYC. If you're attending the conference the BoF is an excellent opportunity to meet with some of the BSDCG and to have your questions answered about the status of the upcoming BSDA examination.

5 BSD Talk at Virumaa College

Andrei Kolu recently spoke to an audience of about 60 at Virumaa College in Estonia. This was the first they had heard of BSD certification and the first presentation on BSD for many in attendance. A PDF of the presentation is available in Russian (http://www.raidon.eu/files/bsdshow/bsdshow2006-ru.pdf) and Estonian
(http://www.raidon.eu/files/bsdshow/bsdshow2006.pdf). An English version will be available soon.

6 Website Statistics

Online webstats are available at http://webstats.bsdcertification.org/. The delivery survey report which was released on Sept. 11 had 1546 downloads during the month of September.

7 Mailing Lists

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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/.

The announcements list has 185 subscribers and the general discussion list has 742 members.

8 About this Newsletter

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

Thank you to 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.



























































































































































































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