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Dec 15, 2006 - December Newsletter

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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
December 2006


Contents

1 New Sponsors

We're pleased to announce two new sponsors: iXsystems as a gold sponsor and Systemics Poland as a bronze sponsor.

iXsystems offers high-performance computing clusters, blade servers, custom rackmount servers, and storage solutions to a wide cross-section of industries. Using only the highest quality components and manufacturing processes, iXsystems supplies FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux rackmount servers to the global marketplace at competitive prices. iXsystems supports and maintains the PC-BSD project. iXsystems' support and development of PC-BSD helps drive adoption of the FreeBSD operating system by Windows and Linux users comfortable with a graphical user interface.

Systemics Poland Sp. z o.o. is a Polish service company with the highest Sun Microsystems accreditation in service and education. Due to its qualifications and skills, Systemics specializes mainly in midrange and HighEnd servers, storage solutions, and the Solaris and FreeBSD OSes.

If your company is interested in sponsorship, please use the contact form on the website to request details.

2 BSD Certification at LISA 06

Dan Langille and Dru Lavigne of the BSDCG manned a *BSD booth in the exhibition hall at this year's LISA in Washington D.C. BSD is well known in the Usenix sysadmin community and there was a fair bit of interest in BSD certification.

3 Psychometrics Explained

A new publication describing the importance of psychometrics is available for download from the website:

http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/psychometric.pdf

The pdf is currently available in English; we'll announce translations as they become available in future newsletters.

This document focuses on the question creation phase of psychometrics.

4 Looking Ahead to 2007

The BSDCG would like to thank everyone for their assistance in 2006. By subscribing to the mailing list, hanging out on #bsdcert, posting announcements to newssites, taking surveys, downloading and distributing publications, translating documents, creating graphics, or donating and seeking sponsorships, you've helped to keep this a community effort.

We look forward to 2007 and wish everyone a happy holiday season with family and friends.

5 Website Statistics

Online webstats are available at http://webstats.bsdcertification.org/.

6 Mailing Lists

If you are not on the announcements list, please sign up at
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/.

7 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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