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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
September 2006
Contents
* 1 BSD Certification Events
* 2 Summer Version of BSDA Study DVD
* 3 Sponsorship
* 4 Test Delivery Survey Report
* 5 BSDA Exam Objectives
* 6 Mailing Lists
* 7 Website Statistics
* 8 About this Newsletter
1 BSD Certification Events
Andrei Kolu will be giving two presentations in Estonia on
BSD and BSD
Certification. The first is on September 16th at Tallinna
Reaalkool
(http://www.real.edu.ee/)
and the second is on October 4 at 14:00 in
auditorium 9 for Daemonest 2006 at Virumaa College
(http://www.ttu.ee/?id=1870
) in Kohtla-Jaerve. He'll provide feedback as
well as his slides in Estonian and English in the next
edition of this
newsletter.
Several members of the BSDCG will be in New York City to
attend NYCBSDCon
(http://www.nycbsdcon.org
), October 28-29. Plans are still being made for
an interactive session - watch for more details in the next
newsletter.
2 Summer Version of BSDA Study DVD
The original announcement describing the DVD can be found on
the bsdcert
mailing list
(http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/bsdcert/2006-
August/001031.html). The
DVD is a thank-you gift for a $40 USD donation to BSD
Certification Group
Inc. and the donations will be used to pay for the
psychometric analysis
and the initial setup fees required to deliver the BSDA
exam.
Since then, we have begun research into the most cost
effective method for
accepting credit card payments directly and will make an
announcement once
that feature has been implemented and tested. In the
meantime, those who
are comfortable using Paypal or sending a cheque and who
would like to
assist the certification effort are encouraged to take a
look at this
resource.
3 Sponsorship
As the BSDA draws closer to being available, the BSDCG is
actively seeking
sponsors to assist with the costs of creating the exam. Two
sponsors will
show up shortly on the website. If your company or
organization is
interested in sponsorship, please send an email to
contributions at
bsdcertification dot org.
4 Test Delivery Survey Report
The Report on the recent Test Delivery Survey has been
published and the
PDF is available for download from the website
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/delivery_
survey.pdf). Everyone
is encouraged to read and discuss the findings in the
Report. Since it is
licensed under a Creative Commons license, you are welcome
to distribute
the Report as well as cut/paste portions of the Report into
your own
literature as long as you attribute the BSDCG as the
originating source.
5 BSDA Exam Objectives
Now that another school year has started, we've begun to
receive feedback
from teachers that they are incorporating the BSDA Exam
Objectives
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/down
loads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf)
into their college and university courses. If you know of a
college,
university, or training center which has done so, use the
contact form on
the website to send the details. We will compile a list of
the courses and
contact information and publish it for the benefit of the
community.
6 Mailing Lists
If you are not on the announcements list, please sign up at
http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert-anno
unce/. It is a closed
list for announcements from the BSD Certification Group.
The general discussion list is at
ht
tp://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert/.
The announcements list at the beginning of September had 187
subscribers
and the general discussion list had 750 members.
7 Website Statistics
Extensive analysis of website statistics is available
online. Please visit
our Webstats Site at http://webstats.
bsdcertification.org to see the
current statistics for yourself. The prior month stats are
at
http://webstats.bsdcertification.org/webstats_prior.htm
l.
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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