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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
March 2007
Contents
* 1 Winter 2007 version of BSDA DVD
* 2 BSD Certification at BSDCan
* 3 BSD Certification at Linuxworld Toronto
* 4 Website Statistics
* 5 Mailing Lists
* 6 About this Newsletter
1 Winter 2007 version of BSDA DVD
The BSDA DVD has been updated to reflect the latest
release versions
of the BSDs. Greg Lehey has also given permission to
include the PDF
version of ``The Complete FreeBSD'' book. Please see
the COPYRIGHT
file on the DVD regarding the copyrights on each of the
DVD contents.
This version of the DVD contains:
* Dragonfly BSD 1.8.0
* FreeBSD 6.2, along with packages and ports
* NetBSD 3.1, along with pkgsrc
* OpenBSD 4.0, along with ports
* The Complete FreeBSD
* The DragonFly BSD Handbook
* The FreeBSD FAQ
* The FreeBSD Handbook
* The NetBSD Guide
* The Pkgsrc Guide
* The BSDA Command Reference
* The BSDA Exam Objectives (Certification Requirements)
* The BSD Usage Survey Report
* The Delivery Survey Report
* The Task Analysis Survey Report
* Psychometrics Explained
As last time, we are offering the DVD as a thank
you for a $40
donation to the BSDCG and currently the only
supported donation
methods are Paypal or check.
If you can't financially afford the DVD, or would
like to have
multiple copies of the DVD sent to your school, or will
be working at
a BSD booth at a conference in 2007 and would like to
bring copies of
the DVD, please use the contact form on the
website to send an
explanatory email and we'll see what we can do.
It is our goal to make the DVD freely available once the
psychometric
bill has been paid in full. In order to freely distribute
the DVD, we
will need assistance to burn, package, and ship bulk
amounts of DVDs.
At the moment, the DVDs are being burned and shipped one
at a time on
a volunteer basis by Dru Lavigne and Axel Gruner of the
BSDCG.
If you have the time to research costs for bulk burning
and packaging
and/or to find sponsors to cover these costs, please let
us know via
the contact form or mailing list. We also need someone
with the time
to research the best deal for a merchant account so
that those who
wish to donate or to register for an exam using their
credit card
directly are able to do so.
2 BSD Certification at BSDCan
Dru Lavigne will be presenting a talk at BSDCan on
Delivering IT
Certifications BSD Style. The talk will describe the
rationale behind
creating a customized test delivery solution and explain
the process
that went into its creation. The schedule and registration
information
for BSDCan should show up on the BSDCan
website shortly:
http://www.bsdcan.org/200
7.
We are also working towards having a beta exam
available at BSDCan.
Watch the mailing lists for details as they become
available.
3 BSD Certification at Linuxworld Toronto
There will be a BSD Certification booth at Linuxworld
Toronto, May
1-2. The website should be updated with the schedule
and exhibitors
soon (http://www.it360.ca). While
the booth "space" is free, we are
required to purchase carpet and obviously a table and
power drop would
be useful. We welcome donations to assist with the
estimated $400 CDN
cost. If you're in the Toronto area that week and would
like to help
work at the booth, leave a message using the ``Contact
Us'' form on
the website.
4 Website Statistics
Online webstats are available at
http://webstat
s.bsdcertification.org/.
5 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 739 members and the
bsdcert-announce list
has around 208 subscribers.
6 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.
Do you read this newsletter? Please let us know if you
read the PDF,
webpage, or emailed version. Any comments or advice? Is
it useful for
you?
If you are interested in contributing tutorials or
useful howto
articles for an upcoming newsletter, please email us.
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