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Feb 15, 2007 - February Newsletter

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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
February 2007


Contents

1 Update on BSDA

In addition to the conferences mentioned in the January newsletter, we are working out the details to have the BSDA available at Linuxtag in Berlin and Conisli in Brazil. Details on all of the venues will be announced as soon as they are finalized.

2 SCALE

Dru Lavigne of the BSDCG recently returned from the Southern California Linux Expo where there was both a FreeBSD and a NetBSD booth. Over 1000 attendees visited the booths and many were interested in hearing more about BSD Certification and the upcoming BSDA. An interview was given regarding the upcoming BSDA testing engine and the URL will be announced once the interview has been published.

3 First BSDCG Board of Directors

In January, the slate for the first Board of Directors was voted upon and unanimously approved. The Board of Directors and their terms are:

  • Dru Lavigne 2 year term
  • Jim Brown 2 year term
  • Jeremy C. Reed 1 year term
The Board's first meeting will be held in February to review the existing bylaws in regards to the voting process and to confirm if the acting officers wish to continue in their capacity. The Board wishes to thank Warner Losh for acting as the non-voting chair of the nominating committee.

4 BSDA Study Guide Book in Progress

Since the beginning of the year, a BSDA Study Guide Book has been in progress via a wiki at http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/. Over 25 writers and reviewers are helping write the book, hopefully to be published in early March. The book is based on the objectives published by the BSDCG in the BSDA Requirements Document. The wiki is a community effort. Please join to help write the book. The following is from the fifth status report (February 8, 2007):

  • 60 people registered as wiki users
  • 886 commits (wiki updates) by 32 users
  • 16 users with at least 5 commits
  • 6 users with at least 25 commits
  • 46 sections have an author signed up (14 total authors)
  • 40 sections have at least one technical reviewer signed up (14 total technical reviewers)
  • 67 sections have at least an author or technical reviewer signed up
  • approximately 86 sections have topic in progress
  • approximately 33 sections have significant content (and maybe almost finished)
  • 104 sections total - all with concept prewritten
  • approximately 17 sections have new content that do not have an author or technical reviewer assigned
  • 19 PDF files generated
  • book is 189 total printed pages, 178 content pages, 3 page index
  • 1379 PDF files downloaded
  • Table of Contents wiki page downloaded 1926 times

5 Website Statistics

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

6 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/.

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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.

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