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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
May 2007
Contents
* 1 BSDA Quality Assurance
* 2 BSDA Beta
* 3 BSD Certification at Linuxworld Toronto
* 4 Website Statistics
* 5 Mailing Lists
* 6 About this Newsletter
1 BSDA Quality Assurance
The process to establish quality of the questions
assembled for the
BSDA certification so far has started. Special attention
is being paid
to ensure that every question is valid for all BSD
flavours, and that
no over-representation of any specific flavour is
made. Quality
assurance is done by a group of subject matter experts
(SMEs) that use
one or more BSD flavours for many years, with many of
them actively
contributing to the development of one or more BSD
operating systems.
The questions worked on for the BSD certification exam
are under an
NDA and will not be made public. The topics covered by
the exam are
made public on the BSD Certification Group website,
though.
2 BSDA Beta
There are still some seats available for the May
and June beta
locations and times. Registration is
available at
http://beta.bsdcertification.org:8080/bsdsme/registrat
ion. The
registration announcement is at
http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/bsdcert/2007-A
pril/001110.html and
details regarding what to expect on the beta are
available in English
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=N
ews&Item=pr044) and
Brazilian Portuguese
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=N
ews&Item=pr046).
3 BSD Certification at Linuxworld Toronto
Dru Lavigne from the BSDCG and Nanoman from GTABUG
assisted at the BSD
Certification booth at Linuxworld Toronto. The booth
was very well
attended by over 1000 attendees. Those manning the
booth were kept
busy both days answering questions regarding *BSD
operating systems
and BSD certification. Dru has a writeup at
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archiv
es/linuxworld-toronto-16086.
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 747 members and the
bsdcert-announce list
has around 225 subscribers.
6 About this Newsletter
The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every
month, near
the middle of the month.
Thank you to Hubert Feyrer and 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
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website or by
sending an email to newsletter BSDCertificationGroup.org.
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