[BSDCert-Announce] BSD Certification Group Newsletter for October 2005
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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
October 2005
Table of Contents
1 New Whitepaper
2 NYCBSDCon
3 BSD Usage Survey
4 BSDA Exam Objectives Published
5 New Website Format
6 Website Statistics Report and Analysis
7 GUBUG Install Fest
8 Incorporation Details
9 Mailing Lists
10 About this Newsletter
1 New Whitepaper
Bruce Montague, author of "Elements of Operating System
and Internet History: A BSD Perspective", has written
an informative whitepaper which was recently published
on the FreeBSD website. Bruce offers insight into the
history of the BSD and GPL licenses and the advantages
of choosing a BSD license. This is an excellent paper
to refer others to when explaining the BSD license. The
article is at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.html.
2 NYCBSDCon
NYCBSDCon was held on September 17 in NYC and was well
attended and received. Dru Lavigne started off the
conference with a talk on BSD Certification.
For those who missed the conference, there was a live
blog at
http://opensource.weblogsinc.com/search/?q=nycbsdcon&submit=Search+%BB.
The video for the talks is currently being edited;
we'll provide the link for the download once it is ready.
3 BSD Usage Survey
There was a tremendous response to the BSD Usage Survey
which ran from September 12 to 31. There were over 4300
responders to the survey, which was available in six
languages, and they indicated BSD systems being used in
over 80 countries throughout the world.
We're currently writing up the results of the survey
which should be ready for publication within the next
few days. An announcement will be made when the survey
results are published.
4 BSDA Exam Objectives Published
The BSDA Certification Requirements Document was
released on October 6. This document contains the seven
study domains for the BSDA certification as well as
detailed objectives for each domain. In addition, it
describes the BSDA candidate, the operating system
versions covered by the exam, and the recertification
requirements for the exam.
This document is not only of interest to those
considering taking the BSDA certification, but it also
provides a framework that can be used to construct
course curricula as well as study guides.
5 New Website Format
As you've probably noticed, the format of the website
has been updated to allow easier access to published
documents. The 'news' tab now allows you to find at a
glance downloadable PDFs to newsletters, press releases
and publications. The 'meet us' tab now includes the
names and bios for each translation team.
If you have any suggestions to further improve the
site, send a note to the discuss mailing list or fill
out the contact form on the website.
6 Website Statistics Report and Analysis
By Patrick Tracanelli
In September, we had 6510 different visitors, which is
very high. Let's consider that in August, we had 6444
and in July we had 6698, which was over 100% more, when
compared to June. Now it is 6510 which is also over
100% when compared to June and a little fewer than
July. So we had three consecutive big months for the
website, which may let us to consider that
approximately 6500 visitors is our new reality. In
September, we had 79,997 webpage hits (against 70,705
in August).
It averages about 217 visitors a day, and about
52Mbytes of data transfered in a daily basis (our
record, from July is approximately 220Mb)
On September 18th, we reached the month's top access,
counting 817 visitors, and 128,155 Kbytes transfered.
We still have our main access period between 10 and 18
hours. This 8-hours period is responsible for
approximately 79% of all our visits in September, 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
was certainly what attracted more visits to our
website. The Survey URL was the most accessed link in
our website, counting very much more hits when compare
to the second most, the root URL. It means that direct
linking from outside websites issued a very high
percentage of our accesses.
Top 10 accessed pages
The top 10 accessed pages are:
# Hits Bytes URL
1 15147 291956 /phpESP/public/survey.php
2 2503 12888 /
3 1744 4206
/downloads/pr_20050912_usage_survey_en_en.html
4 1448 405291 /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
5 889 16876 /news.htm
6 640 1884 /cert.htm
7 376 1455 /resources.htm
8 323 3865 /about.htm
9 320 1089 /goals.htm
10 318 218576 /downloads/sr1_links.pdf
Top 5 URL by Kbytes
This month, our top URL regarding data transfer rate is
mostly related to the Road Map, which is still getting
downloaded along the days in the last month, and the
second Survey, as well as the last Survey Report.
# Hits Kbytes URL
1 1448 405291 /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
2 15147 291956 /phpESP/public/survey.php
3 318 218576 /downloads/sr1_links.pdf
4 13 23497 /survey01_report/pages/Page_6.pdf
5 23 21700 /survey01_report/Survey01_pt-br.a.html
Top 10 Entry Pages
In September, the root website is again the main entry
page, followed by the English Usage Survey and the News
section.
# Hits Visits
1 2503 3.13% 1754 32.85% /
2 1744 2.18% 1577 29.54%
/downloads/pr_20050912_usage_survey_en_en.html
3 889 1.11% 543 10.17% /news.htm
4 305 0.38% 274 5.13%
/downloads/PressReleaseRoadMap.html
5 640 0.80% 98 1.84% /cert.htm
6 323 0.40% 85 1.59% /about.htm
7 78 0.10% 71 1.33% /media.htm
8 376 0.47% 55 1.03% /resources.htm
9 320 0.40% 54 1.01% /goals.htm
10 108 0.14% 52 0.97%
/downloads/nl_200508_en_en.html
Top Referrals
This month, our top referrers are now a mix of the big
change we had in the last month and what used to be the
usual referrers. Chinese, German and Brazilian websites
are still attracting a number of visitors to BSD CG
website, the first two mentioned countries are
represented by blog.china-pub.com and bsdforen.de in
the top-10.
Slashdot is the one which brings more visitors to us,
followed by Richard's Tao Security.
Richard's Tao Security is not on the third place but
was the third website which refers to us most in August.
All others can be followed at:
# Hits Referrer
1 2189 2.74% http://bsd.slashdot.org/
2 1704 2.13% http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl
3 1693 2.12% http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/
4 1013 1.27% http://blog.china-pub.com/blog.asp
5 646 0.81% http://blog.china-pub.com/more.asp
6 371 0.46% http://slashdot.org/
7 360 0.45% http://www.osnews.com/
8 317 0.40% http://bsdnews.com/
9 200 0.25% http://www.bsdforen.de/showthread.php
10 187 0.23%
http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/09/18/1743239.shtml
Just like on the last months, the Mozilla family of web
browsers are still the most used navigation
applications that people use to visit us, which count
over 59% of total visits. Most visits of the Mozilla
family browsers 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
(22%) and Mac OS X (6,3%) represent approximately 30%
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 2000 hits this month.
One more big difference. Opera which was around 2%
usually, is now used by 4.6% of our visitors -- over
100% growth rate. Maybe because Opera had some changes
in its browser licensing related to "ads"?
Thirty-five-percent of our visits were from US in
August, while about 26% could not be resolved. Among
those resolved, Poland, Germany and Brazil are the
countries which do not natively speak English with the
highest number of visitors. Here it follows the top 10
networks/countries:
# Hits Files Kbytes Country/Region/Network
1 21052 15615 467227 Network
2 14756 9921 338171 US Commercial
3 13581 9675 257025 Unresolved/Unknown
4 2565 1841 32571 Poland
5 2195 1625 33203 Germany
6 1913 1330 31776 US Educational
7 1800 1382 32316 Brazil
8 1760 1074 43494 Canada
9 1618 1163 22742 Netherlands
10 1593 1179 20373 Italy
7 GUBUG Install Fest
By Dan Langille
http://www.langille.org/
I spent the afternoon of 24 September 2005 with the
Greater Utah BSD User Group (GUBUG - http://gubug.org/)
during their InstallFest. I was picked up at the Salt
Lake City airport by Anthony Chavez, who treated me to
a great burger and fries at a local shop. Damn it was
good. Then we headed off to the location provided by
Veritie (http://www.verite.com/). They had a great
setup with wireless and wired connections. Many people
were on hand to help install and set up all the BSD flavours.
I gave a short talk on Bacula, my favourite backup solution
(http://www.bacula.org/), and handed out some BSDCan
(http://www.bsdcan.org/) and BSD Certification brochures
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/).
There were quite a few prizes given out. Later in the
evening, the pizza arrived. By this time, I was quite
zonked so I had head off to my hotel rather early in
the evening. I was very tired from my 5:30am start.
8 Incorporation Details
On October 9, 2005, the BSD Certification Group Inc.
was formally incorporated listing Dru Lavigne, George
Rosamund and Jim Brown as incorporators. The
incorporation was done in New Jersey, USA. The Group
has also received a Federal Employer Identification
Number (EIN) and also registered with the State of New
Jersey. A copy of the incorporation certificate will be
received soon. Once the dust settles, we will process
our 501(c)(3) application with the IRS as a non-profit
organization.
9 Mailing Lists
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805 subscribers. And the announcements list has 118 subscribers.
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10 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, Dan Langille, Jim Brown, George Rosamond, and
Patrick Tracanelli. The editor is Jeremy C. Reed.
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