[BSDCert-Announce] BSD Certification Group Newsletter for December 2005
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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
December 2005
Table of Contents
1 Report from FOSS India
2 Fund Raising Drive
3 Thank You NYI and NYC*BUG
4 FreeBSD Brasil LTDA on the BSD Certification Effort
5 New Non-Voting Chair
6 Roadmap Translated to Mexican Spanish
7 Mailing Lists
8 Website Statistics Report and Analysis
9 About this Newsletter
1 Report from FOSS India
Siju George has returned from FOSS India
(http://foss.in/2005) with this report about his
experience in handing out copies of the BSD
Certification brochure:
On the 2nd, 3rd and 4th days of FOSS somewhere between
1200-1300 brochures were distributed to the delegates.
Since FOSS did not have BSD representations earlier,
many people were surprised to find a BSD booth and even
more people were shocked to hear that the BSD community
worldwide are taking a certification initiative without
finding a vendor to do it for them. All most people
could do was wonder at the brochure and say "hey!
that's cool, A certification initiated by the
community? This is going to be different! certainly!".
David Fetter (http://fetter.org/) from the PostgreSQL
development team approached me to know the details
because he said that the PostgreSQL people wanted to do
something similar for PostgreSQL. He asked me to
furnish him with the details of how we actually go
about it once the things are finalized.
Tariq Sani, owner of http://www.sanisoft.com/, came and
asked more info about this because he felt, unlike Zend
certification for PHP which is vendor based, he wanted
to have a community-driven certification for PHP.
It seems many are going to follow the path of BSD
certification in the coming days. I also found to my
amazement that the Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore used FreeBSD servers and some of them from
there were very much interested to know about the BSD
certification.
I was also approached by Arun, a Red Hat trainer in
Bangalore who has his own institute. He promised to
give the facilities in his institute on week ends and
every weekday afternoon for doing anything related to
the BSDs. He said he would like to help out in
providing a testing centre for BSD certification for
free in Bangalore. Bangalore is the Silicon valley of
India and I feel this is great! He will also be working
to build up an active BUG in Bangalore.
2 Fund Raising Drive
BSD Certification needs your help! We're in the middle
of our first fund-raising drive with a goal of $35,000
which will be used towards the psychometric assessment
of the BSDA exam. If you've already donated, thank you
for your support. If you haven't, consider visiting the
Donate tab of the site to make a PayPal contribution.
No donation is too small and the quicker we raise the
funds, the quicker the psychometric assessment can take place.
We'd also like to ask you to make sure that the
relevant forums and mailing lists that you subscribe to
are aware of the fund-raising effort. We've added a
downloadable Sponsorship Fact Sheet to the Donate tab
of the site. If your company wished to negotiate a
donation or you know of a contact at a company who may
be interested, feel free to email either Dru Lavigne or
Jim Brown or use the contact form on the website.
3 Thank You NYI and NYC*BUG
The BSD Certification Group would like to recognize New
York Internet for the donation of space and bandwidth
for our development and mirror websites. We would also
like to recognize the New York City *BSD User Group for
donating hardware, resources, and time for those sites
and our mailing list. Thank you NYI and NYC*BUG for
your generous donations and all the help you provide to
the BSDCG.
The New York Internet Company (http://nyi.net/) is an
advanced Internet Service Provider offering Internet
Services since 1996. Core services include Dedicated
Servers, Colocation, as well as Web Hosting and
Internet Access. Their clients have two things in
common: a need for mission-critical reliability, as
well as NYI's personal and responsive round-the-clock
technical support.
The New York City *BSD User Group (http://nycbug.org/)
provides a forum for discussion and a bridge for
learning about the various BSD operating systems. Their
aim is to raise awareness and to advocate the BSD's,
expand the user base, and to provide insight and
education to all levels of users. They offer monthly
meetings on vital topics, an active mailing list, fund
raising efforts for the projects, and an informative
website. They also sponsor and manage the most
important BSD conference on the East Coast, NYCBSDCON
(http://nycbsdcon.org/).
4 FreeBSD Brasil LTDA on the BSD Certification Effort
The BSD Certification Group would like to recognize
FreeBSD Brasil LTDA and its partner, MDBrasil, for the
primary online infrastructure provided since the
beginning of the Group, and for donating server
hardware, connectivity and human resources for the
maintenance and availability of the main website and
mail server.
FreeBSD Brasil LTDA is a FreeBSD-only oriented company
which provides services and training in the FreeBSD
operating system. It is three years old and counts over
400 professionals trained by its qualifications
programs and many ISP/ASP companies as clients,
especially government and WiFi services providers.
FreeBSD Brasil is made up of people who are actively
involved in FreeBSD maintenance and development as well
as BSD-related activities in the Brazilian Open Source
community. FreeBSD Brasil has promoted BSDCon Brasil,
BSDDay Sao Paulo and many other BSD events in the
largest country of South America. It has been part of
the official FreeBSD pt-br documentation efforts, and
involves the running of the Brazilian FreeBSD Users
Group, the biggest BSD community in the country.
Human resources is contributed from FreeBSD Brasil by
two BSD Certification Group members, Patrick Tracanelli
and Jean M Melo, and other indirect contributors,
especially relating to the localization efforts for
Brazilian Portuguese.
5 New Non-Voting Chair
M. Warner Losh has volunteered to be the non-voting
chair to oversee the selection of the board of director
candidates. He has been involved with *BSD for more
than 10 years.
Warner's first install of FreeBSD was version 1.0
Gamma, which he obtained by mailing Jordan Hubbard a
blank set of floppies. Warner has served as the FreeBSD
security officer, he has more than 5 years experience
writing device drivers for FreeBSD, and has been a
FreeBSD core member for several years. He has also
contributed to NetBSD and OpenBSD, in the past. Warner
has a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and was an
honors student there.
6 Roadmap Translated to Mexican Spanish
The Mexican Spanish team has finished their translation
of the Roadmap. It is available for download at
http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap_mx_mx.pdf
and the press release, in Mexican Spanish, can be read at
http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=News&Item=pr025.
A big thanks to Eric De La Cruz Lugo and the rest of
the Mexican Spanish team.
7 Mailing Lists
The BSD Certification Group mailing list currently has
812 subscribers. And the announcements list has 126 subscribers.
If you are not on the announcements list, please sign up at
http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert-announce/.
It is a closed list for announcements regarding the The
BSD Certification Group.
The general discussion list is at
http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert/.
8 Website Statistics Report and Analysis
By Patrick Tracanelli
In November, we had 5340 different visitors, which is a
lot lower (around 40%) than October, but still on the
usual average. In the first months of the year, we had
an average of visitors which used to count around 3000
and 3600. In the last 3 months, this average increased
a lot, around 100% and we found out it was not a
temporary change, because it rested for over 90 days.
In October, this new average, 6500 visitors, was
surpassed around 25%, getting to 8203 visitors, and now
is back to approximately 5000-6500. In November, we had
72840 website hits, while our average on the last
months (average raised by October) is approximately
75000 hits average.
It averages in November about 163 visitors a day, and
about 16 Mbytes of data transfered in a daily basis
(our record, from July is approximately 220 Mb).
On November 1st and 2nd, we reached the month's top
access, counting 480 visitors each, and 140843 Kbytes
transferred. It is certainly a reflection of the end of October.
We still have our main access period between 10 and 18
hours. This eight hour period is responsible for
approximately 79% of all our visits in November, which
are all "commercial" period of times, so people still
visiting us mostly when they are at work.
In September we had the second Survey released, and it
is still a well accessed URL in October and now in
November. The BSD Associate PDF release from October
also counts as one of the most accessed URLs in
November, including direct access from outside
websites. But this month the most accessed URL was the
root URL, so even considering some direct access to our
internal pages, it was not that much, considering the
last three months.
The top ten accessed pages are:
1 14.22% 1.29% /
2 13.83% 6.66% /error.html
3 2.06% 42.82% /downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
4 2.03% 0.01% /robots.txt
5 0.75% 17.35% /downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
6 0.43% 7.95% /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
7 0.15% 0.29% /downloads/brochure8.pdf
8 0.13% 0.02% /downloads/pr_20050912_usage_survey_en_en.html
9 0.12% 6.16% /downloads/sr1_links.pdf
10 0.08% 0.27%
/downloads/20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf
Top 5 URL by Kbytes
In November, our top URL regarding data transfer rate
are mostly related to the Usage Survey and the BSD
Associate exam document, which, together with the
Roadmap are the most downloaded files this month, just
like in October.
# Kbytes URL
1 415129 42.82%
/downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
2 127164 17.35%
/downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
3 69940 7.95% /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
4 63433 6.66% /
5 60963 6.16% /downloads/sr1_links.pdf
Top 10 Entry Pages
In November, the front webpage is again the main entry
page, followed by the error pages, the news tab and the
English Usage Survey.
# Hits Visits URL
1 5038 1383 /
2 5183 1040 /error.html
3 1 47 /news.htm
4 47 33
/downloads/pr_20050912_usage_survey_en_en.html
5 20 20 /downloads/NewsMay05Rev7.html
6 4 4 /downloads/pr-jta-20050720.html
7 4 2 /downloads/JuneNewsletter.html
8 2 2
/downloads/pr_20050912_usage_survey_pt_pt.html
9 21 2 /scripts/contactresults.shtml
10 1 1 /downloads/BSDCertSurvey01_de-de_ann.html
The error.html error page is mostly due to website restructuring.
Top Referrals
In November, our top referrers are a set of websites
which usually show up as the top referrers for all
months. Richard's Tao Security blog is the number one
site which attracts visitors to us, followed by some
from China, especially http://blog.china-pub.com and
FreeBSDChina.org. The later is Slashdot. Together they
make the Top 10. See the Top 30 Referrals sites so you
can have idea on who follows Richard's, Slashdot and
the two China sites closely:
1 2955 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/
2 959 http://blog.china-pub.com/more.asp
3 863 http://blog.china-pub.com/blog.asp
4 453 http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/viewtopic.php
5 350
http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_25962.html
6 195 http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl
7 192 http://www.bsdcertification.org
8 188 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com
9 162 http://bsd.slashdot.org/
10 107 http://www.taosecurity.blogspot.com/
11 101 http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display
12 88 http://know.mitretek.org/MySite/default.aspx
13 81 http://lair.moria.org/planet/security/
14 79 http://gcu-squad.org/
15 78 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_...
16 77
http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/09/18/1743239.shtml
17 71 http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/news
18 61 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_...
19 55 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_..
20 46
http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_26414.html
21 44 http://dormrf.free.fr/rss/fr/index.php
22 44 http://www.monkey.org/~jose/secblogs.html
23 42 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_...
24 41 http://www.gcu-squad.org/
25 37 http://www.hup.hu/modules.php
26 35 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_...
27 34 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_...
28 33 http://www.bsdguru.org/
29 33
http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_21870.html
30 33 http://www.google.com/search
About Browsers / User Agents
Just like October, Mozilla family of web browsers are
still the most used navigation applications that people
use to visit us, which count over 56% of total visits.
Most visits using a Mozilla family browser are from
Microsoft Windows platforms using Firefox. The second
most usual combination is Mac OS X with
Firefox/Mozilla, the third is FreeBSD with Firefox and
FreeBSD with Mozilla. Later, we get Linux with
Firefox/Mozilla, and everything else are about the same
on usage compared to each other.
Microsoft Internet Explorer on both Microsoft Windows
(25%) and Mac OS X (7,2%) represent approximately 31%
of our visitors browser application.
Google Bot and MSN Bot are usually getting to our
website. It is true of a number of other spiders. The
curious thing to note is that many people is
downloading our files using the fetch(1) command.
"fetch libfetch/2.0" issued around 18430 hits in
November. No videogames refrigerators have reached us
in November, but we had 130 hits from Mobile Telephones
(our record on this kind of equipment). Forty-six were
Siemens and 71 were Treo (probably the same user always).
Geo (countries) Statistics on Visitors
Thirty-eight percent of our visits were from US in
August, while about 17% could not be resolved. Among
those resolved, Germany, Brazil, Poland, France and
Italy follow the top listing of countries which visits
us most often -- all countries which do not natively
speak English. Germany and Brazil had their top access
on the first ten days of November while all others have
balanced hits along the whole month.
Here you can follow the top thirty countries/regions
which visited us in November.
# Hits Country/Location
1 15807 Network
2 7238 Unresolved/Unknown
3 3793 US Commercial
4 812 Germany
5 761 Brazil
6 616 Poland
7 512 France
8 474 Italy
9 459 Canada
10 439 Non-Profit Organization
11 377 Netherlands
12 371 Mexico
13 364 US Educational
14 338 Romania
15 329 US Government
16 314 Japan
17 278 Sweden
18 273 Australia
19 228 Russian Federation
20 186 Taiwan
21 170 United Kingdom
22 160 Ukraine
23 155 Hungary
24 150 Belgium
25 138 India
26 127 US Military
27 114 Denmark
28 113 Greece
29 76 Finland
30 73 Estonia
Search expressions
Ninety-six percent of the searches which link to
BSDCG's website are made on Google. The other 4% is
shared among MSN, Yahoo and Altavista, with some minor
(fewer than 0.3%) for Lycos. The top five strings when
people search the web are:
# Hits Search Expression
1 45 bsd certification
2 29 project org chart
3 28 BSD Certification
4 27 bsd
5 18 free brazilian portuguese exams in PDF
9 About this Newsletter
The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published
every month, near the middle of the month.
Thank you to the contributors to this newsletter: Dru
Lavigne, Siju George, Jonathan Drews, and Patrick
Tracanelli. The editor is Jeremy C. Reed.
If you have any news items related to the BSD
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