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

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                  BSD Certification Group Newsletter
                              June 2006

Contents

  * 1 BSD Certification at BSDCan 2006
  * 2 BSD Certification at Linux World Brazil
  * 3 Mailing Lists
  * 4 Website Statistics
  * 5 About this Newsletter

                   1 BSD Certification at BSDCan 2006

At  BSDCan 2006, approximately 50 people attended the talk Dru Lavigne
gave  on the current status of BSD Certification and several came back
for  further  discussion during the BoF session. A full description of
the talk is available at Dru's blog
(http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/bsdcan-day-1-9275)   and
the slides of the talk are also available for download in PDF format
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/dru_lavigne_bsdcan2006.pdf).
This  talk  concentrates on the importance of psychometrics and the
costs associated with existing test delivery solutions.

                2 BSD Certification at Linux World Brazil

Patrick Tracanelli, translation coordinator for the BSDCG, had this to
say  about  FUG-BR  (Brazilian  FreeBSD  Users Group) participation on
Linux World Brazil:

We  distributed  over  five  hundred  FreeBSD CD's and two hundred BSD
Certification  printed  brochures.  I talked a lot with Rodolfo Gobbi,
LPI  President in Brazil, Marcelo and other LPI people in Brazil about
financial,  technical  and  practical  subjects  regarding open source
certifications.  They  said  the  LPI's  financing come, especially in
Brazil, from private institutions like Mandriva and SuSE. He mentioned
that  LPI got strength from the community, but that some more specific
employers,  especially  parts  of  government, sometimes think Red Hat
certification  is  better  than  LPI,  because  the  Red  Hat  exam is
practical (hands-on), while LPI is paper-based.

Well,   other  than  this  Linux  World  in  Brazil  seemed  too  much
commercial,  people  selling solutions instead of discussing about it.
Virtualization  was  the  big  topic,  and  it  was  very nice because
everytime  Novell  talked  about  it,  FUG-BR  could  show IPFW2 doing
Jail-based  firewalling  (with Jail ID separation) and resource limits
based  on  login.conf (memory, CPU time, etc) for each Jail ID. It was
interesting, we caught a lot of attention.

Jean  M.  Melo,  also  of  the  BSDCG, has some pictures of the FUG-BR
booth:

http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br/~jmelo/linuxworld2006/

FUG-BR  always  gets  attention  from  technical people, even on Linux
World where it was not tech we could grab some new users.

Everybody asks when BSD Certification tests will happen in Brazil, how
the  tests  will be, and well... I try to answer what is possible, but
generally,  Brazilian  people expect more technical approach (say, lab
based  or  scenario based tests, in addition to (and not only) written
tests).

                             3 Mailing Lists

The   BSD   Certification   Group   mailing  list  currently  has  764
subscribers. And the announcements list has 162 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 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.

Navigational Hits

  Cumulative

  * [7669] Certification
  * [5060] News
  * [3443] Resources
  * [3143] Meet Us
  * [2950] FAQ

  2006 05

  * [1101] Certification
  * [1037] News Item=pr027
  * [892] News
  * [543] Resources
  * [500] News Item=pr026

PDF Downloads

  Cumulative

  * [17372] BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
  * [4723] pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
  * [3431] sr1_links.pdf
  * [2503] pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
  * [1359] brochure8.pdf

  2006 05

  * [596] pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
  * [216] BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
  * [176] pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
  * [163] annual_report_2005.pdf
  * [135] sr1_links.pdf

                         5 About this Newsletter

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

Thank  you  to  Dru  Lavigne, Patrick Tracanelli, George Rosamond, and
Michael  Genoverly  for contributing to this newsletter. The editor is
Jeremy C. Reed.

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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.