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

[Announce list for the BSD Certification]

(The online and PDF versions are available via 
http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=News&Item=nl026.)

                  BSD Certification Group Newsletter
                            February 2006

Contents

  * 1 Cebit 2006
  * 2 BSDCan 2006
  * 3 BSDCG Update
  * 4 Mailing Lists
  * 5 About this Newsletter

                              1 Cebit 2006

Axel  Gruner,  one  of  the  translators from the German team, will be
handing  out  certification  brochures  at  a BSD booth at this year's
Cebit  (http://www.cebit.de)  in Hannover, Germany. If you're planning
on  attending  Cebit from March 9 - 15, do stop by. Also, if you are a
member  of  any  of the BSD projects and are able to provide handouts,
CDs or other materials for the booth in Europe, please contact Axel at
http://www.allbsd.de/.  Cebit is just one of four European conferences
which will have BSD booths this year.

                              2 BSDCan 2006

BSDCan  will  be  held  in Ottawa, Canada in May. Last year, the BSDCG
held  an  informal  BoF  (``birds  of feather'') where attendees had a
chance  to  ask  questions  answered  by a panel of six members of the
BSDCG.

We're  looking  for input on what you would like to see from the BSDCG
at this year's BSDCan. Should there be a formal talk, an informal BoF,
both,  or  something  else  entirely?  Post your answer on the bsdcert
mailing list
(http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert/) or use our contact
form
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=Contact%20Us).

                             3 BSDCG Update

While  it  has been a while since the last press release, rest assured
that we've been quite busy negotiating with other agencies the various
bits  required  to  bring  about  a  certification exam. As things are
firmed  up,  we'll make announcements and you can expect several major
announcements in the next few months.

Elections for the BSDCG board of directors and officers, as defined in
the Bylaws
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=BSDCG&view=3),     will
occur  in early March and the results will be posted on the website as
well as the newsletter that follows the election results.

We should hear back from the IRS regarding 501(c)(3) status before the
next  newsletter.  We  should also have the publication date available
for the annual financial report by then.

We  encourage those who haven't had a chance to make a donation yet to
consider doing so. (Visit
http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=Donate.) If you have any
questions or concerns regarding donating to the BSDCG, you are welcome
to  start  a thread on the mailing list for an open discussion. If you
prefer  to  voice your question privately, email either Dru Lavigne or
Jim  Brown  -  their  email addresses can be found in the mailing list
archives - or use the contact form with a subject of "donations".

                             4 Mailing Lists

The   BSD   Certification   Group   mailing  list  currently  has  824
subscribers. And the announcements list has 140 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/.

                         5 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.