[BSDCert-Announce] BSD Certification Group Newsletter for August 2006

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                    BSD Certification Group Newsletter
                               August 2006

Contents

  * 1 BSD User Group and Endorsments
  * 2 Test Delivery Survey
  * 3 Mailing Lists
  * 4 Website Statistics
  * 5 About this Newsletter

                     1 BSD User Group and Endorsments

This month we contacted several *BSD related user groups interested in
endorsing the BSD Certification.org effort. Endorsing groups will help
spread the news about the process and exchange website links with the
bsdcertification.org site. We are hoping that endorsing groups will
continue to raise awareness of the BSD Certification Group and generate
enthusiasm for all the BSD projects.

The current groups interested in endorsing BSDCertification.org are listed
below:

Ottawa http://www.ocuug.on.ca/
FUG Brazil http://www.fugspbr.org/
FUG-DF Brazil Distrito Federal
LOSURS http://www.losurs.org/
CLUE http://www.cluecan.ca/
BSD-DK http://www.bsd-dk.dk/
BSD-JY Jutland
KamLUG Kamloops
bsdforen.de German BSD Forum
DSLUUG Duluth linux group http://dslugg.org/
Philippines email list: ph-freebsd at yahoogroups.com
SeaBUG http://www.seabug.org/
NYC*BSD http://www.nycbug.org/

If you have any other ideas about how user groups can help contribute to
the BSD Certification effort or another group or list interested in
endorsing bsdcertiifcation.org, please do not hesitate to contact us.

                          2 Test Delivery Survey

The Test Delivery Survey ended August 12 for all languages except Mexican
Spanish which ends on September 2. Once all the results are in and
analyzed, a report will be published and available for download.

In the meantime, here are some of the preliminary results:

  * 1356: total number of respondees for all translated versions
  * 1125: number of respondees planning on taking the exam
  * 52: number of countries
  * 38% prefer to pay up to $100 USD per exam (out of 4 choices)
  * 50% are willing to take the exam at a conference
  * 28% would prefer not to take the exam using VUE or Prometric
  * 16% would prefer not to take the exam using a custom delivery solution
  * 41% would prefer not to take a paper based exam
  * 61% currently work full-time within the IT field
  * 27% are aged 26-30 and 26% are aged 21-25

                             3 Mailing Lists

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 from the BSD Certification Group.

The general discussion list is at
http://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.

Cumulative Navigational Hits

9525 Certification
6430 News
4147 Resources
3711 Meet%20Us
3629 FAQ

Jul/2006 Navigational Hits

1158 News&Item=pr031
1101 Certification
763 News
382 Resources
365 FAQ

Jun/2006 Navigational Hits

781 Certification
627 News
505 News&Item=nl031
388 News&Item=pr026
333 Resources

Cumulative PDF Downloads

17827 BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
5620 pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
4004 sr1_links.pdf
2826 pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
1534 brochure8.pdf

Jul/2006 PDF Downloads

492 pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
386 sr1_links.pdf
236 BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
200 20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf
178 pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf

Jun/2006 PDF Downloads

417 pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
233 BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
192 sr1_links.pdf
148 pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
135 20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf

                         5 About this Newsletter

The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every month, near the
middle of the month.

Thank you to Brad Schonhorst 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 let us
know by submitting via the contact form on the website or by sending an
email to newsletter at 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.

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