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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
February 2007
Contents
* 1 Update on BSDA
* 2 SCALE
* 3 First BSDCG Board of Directors
* 4 BSDA Study Guide Book in Progress
* 5 Website Statistics
* 6 Mailing Lists
* 7 About this Newsletter
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.reedmed
ia.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://webstat
s.bsdcertification.org/.
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 bsdcert list has around 735 members and the
bsdcert-announce list
has around 204 subscribers.
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.
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send a note
with the subject ``translation'' on the website's contact
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