[BSDCert-Announce] BSD Certification Group Newsletter -- December 2006

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                   BSD Certification Group Newsletter

                             December 2006

Contents

   * 1 New Sponsors
   * 2 BSD Certification at LISA 06
   * 3 Psychometrics Explained
   * 4 Looking Ahead to 2007
   * 5 Website Statistics
   * 6 Mailing Lists
   * 7 About this Newsletter

                              1 New Sponsors

 We're  pleased  to  announce  two  new  sponsors:  iXsystems as a gold
 sponsor and Systemics Poland as a bronze sponsor.

 iXsystems  offers  high-performance computing clusters, blade servers,
 custom   rackmount   servers,   and   storage   solutions  to  a  wide
 cross-section of industries. Using only the highest quality components
 and  manufacturing  processes,  iXsystems  supplies  FreeBSD,  NetBSD,
 OpenBSD  and  Linux  rackmount  servers  to  the global marketplace at
 competitive  prices.  iXsystems  supports  and  maintains  the  PC-BSD
 project.  iXsystems'  support  and  development  of PC-BSD helps drive
 adoption  of  the  FreeBSD operating system by Windows and Linux users
 comfortable with a graphical user interface.

 Systemics  Poland  Sp.  z  o.o.  is  a Polish service company with the
 highest  Sun  Microsystems accreditation in service and education. Due
 to  its  qualifications  and  skills,  Systemics specializes mainly in
 midrange  and  HighEnd servers, storage solutions, and the Solaris and
 FreeBSD OSes.

 If  your  company is interested in sponsorship, please use the contact
 form on the website to request details.

                      2 BSD Certification at LISA 06

 Dan  Langille  and Dru Lavigne of the BSDCG manned a *BSD booth in the
 exhibition  hall  at  this  year's LISA in Washington D.C. BSD is well
 known  in  the  Usenix  sysadmin community and there was a fair bit of
 interest in BSD certification.

                         3 Psychometrics Explained

 A  new  publication  describing  the  importance  of  psychometrics is
 available for download from the website:

 http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/psychometric.pdf

 The pdf is currently available in English; we'll announce translations
 as they become available in future newsletters.

 This document focuses on the question creation phase of psychometrics.

                          4 Looking Ahead to 2007

 The  BSDCG  would like to thank everyone for their assistance in 2006.
 By  subscribing  to the mailing list, hanging out on #bsdcert, posting
 announcements   to   newssites,   taking   surveys,   downloading  and
 distributing  publications,  translating documents, creating graphics,
 or  donating  and  seeking  sponsorships, you've helped to keep this a
 community effort.

 We  look forward to 2007 and wish everyone a happy holiday season with
 family and friends.

                           5 Website Statistics

 Online webstats are available at
 http://webstats.bsdcertification.org/.

                              6 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/.

                          7 About this Newsletter

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

 Thank  you  to  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.

 Do  you  read this newsletter? Please let us know if you read the PDF,
 webpage,  or emailed version. Any comments or advice? Is it useful for
 you?

 If  you  are  interested  in  contributing  tutorials  or useful howto
 articles for an upcoming newsletter, please email us.
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