BSD Certification Group Newsletter
June 2006
Contents
* 1 BSD Certification at BSDCan 2006
* 2 BSD Certification at Linux World Brazil
* 3 Mailing Lists
* 4 Website Statistics
* 5 About this Newsletter
1 BSD Certification at BSDCan 2006
At BSDCan 2006, approximately 50 people attended the talk
Dru Lavigne
gave on the current status of BSD Certification and several
came back
for further discussion during the BoF session. A full
description of
the talk is available at Dru's blog
(http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/bsdca
n-day-1-9275) and
the slides of the talk are also available for download in
PDF format
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/dr
u_lavigne_bsdcan2006.pdf).
This talk concentrates on the importance of psychometrics
and the
costs associated with existing test delivery solutions.
2 BSD Certification at Linux World Brazil
Patrick Tracanelli, translation coordinator for the BSDCG,
had this to
say about FUG-BR (Brazilian FreeBSD Users Group)
participation on
Linux World Brazil:
We distributed over five hundred FreeBSD CD's and two
hundred BSD
Certification printed brochures. I talked a lot with
Rodolfo Gobbi,
LPI President in Brazil, Marcelo and other LPI people in
Brazil about
financial, technical and practical subjects regarding
open source
certifications. They said the LPI's financing come,
especially in
Brazil, from private institutions like Mandriva and SuSE. He
mentioned
that LPI got strength from the community, but that some
more specific
employers, especially parts of government, sometimes
think Red Hat
certification is better than LPI, because the Red
Hat exam is
practical (hands-on), while LPI is paper-based.
Well, other than this Linux World in Brazil seemed
too much
commercial, people selling solutions instead of discussing
about it.
Virtualization was the big topic, and it was very
nice because
everytime Novell talked about it, FUG-BR could show
IPFW2 doing
Jail-based firewalling (with Jail ID separation) and
resource limits
based on login.conf (memory, CPU time, etc) for each Jail
ID. It was
interesting, we caught a lot of attention.
Jean M. Melo, also of the BSDCG, has some pictures of
the FUG-BR
booth:
http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br/~jmelo/linuxworld2006/
FUG-BR always gets attention from technical people,
even on Linux
World where it was not tech we could grab some new users.
Everybody asks when BSD Certification tests will happen in
Brazil, how
the tests will be, and well... I try to answer what is
possible, but
generally, Brazilian people expect more technical approach
(say, lab
based or scenario based tests, in addition to (and not
only) written
tests).
3 Mailing Lists
The BSD Certification Group mailing list currently
has 764
subscribers. And the announcements list has 162 subscribers.
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/.
4 Website Statistics
Extensive analysis of website statistics is available
online. Please
visit our Webstats Site at http://webstats.
bsdcertification.org to see
them for yourself.
But, here are some highlights grep'd directly from the
logs.
Navigational Hits
Cumulative
* [7669] Certification
* [5060] News
* [3443] Resources
* [3143] Meet Us
* [2950] FAQ
2006 05
* [1101] Certification
* [1037] News Item=pr027
* [892] News
* [543] Resources
* [500] News Item=pr026
PDF Downloads
Cumulative
* [17372] BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
* [4723] pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
* [3431] sr1_links.pdf
* [2503] pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
* [1359] brochure8.pdf
2006 05
* [596] pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
* [216] BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
* [176] pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
* [163] annual_report_2005.pdf
* [135] sr1_links.pdf
5 About this Newsletter
The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every
month, near
the middle of the month.
Thank you to Dru Lavigne, Patrick Tracanelli, George
Rosamond, and
Michael Genoverly 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
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