[BSDCert-Announce] BSD Certification Group Newsletter for March 2006
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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
March 2006
Contents
* 1 BSD Certification at FOSDEM
* 2 Upcoming Events
* 3 BSDCG Nomation Committee Status
* 4 New BSDCG Member
* 5 Mailing Lists
* 6 January and February Website Statistics
* 7 About this Newsletter
1 BSD Certification at FOSDEM
Daniel Seuffert of DesktopBSD (http://www.desktopbsd.org) and AllBSD
(http://www.allbsd.de) helped man the BSD booth at the recent FOSDEM
(http://www.fosdem.org) and had this to say about the response to the
BSD Certification brochures:
``I printed the BSDCertification-flyer in German, English and French.
Unfortunately only 40 of them in French and 100 overall. The French
ones went away within two hours, the English ones were out Sunday and
only 15 of the German ones were left. I printed 150 German ones for
Linuxtag Chemnitz and Cebit today.
``I was astonished so many people wanted to know something about BSD
Certification. I did an interview with Dutch television (NL21). They
asked me about BSD Certification also and I explained some things, but
couldn't do any details, two hours was not enough to tell everything
about BSD.''
2 Upcoming Events
Dru Lavigne will be giving a talk on BSD Certification in Durham,
England on March 22nd at the UKUUG Spring Conference
(http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006).
Axel Gruner, a member of the German translation team as well as AllBSD
(http://www.allbsd.de), will give a talk on BSD Certification at
LinuxTag
(http://www.linuxtag.org) in Wiesbaden, Germany in May. More details
will be available in the next newsletter.
BSD Certification brochures will be given out at the BSD booth at
LinuxWorld Boston which runs from April 4 - 6. If you're in the Boston
area, drop by and show your support for the BSD projects and BSD
Certification. The Exhibit hall is free if you register online before
April 3 at
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/exposition.
3 BSDCG Nomation Committee Status
Warner Losh, the non-voting chair responsible for determining an
unbiased and fair process for selecting the three members of the
nominating committee, describes the process he chose as follows:
"I have been selected as the non-voting chair of the nominating
committee for the board of directors for BSD Certifications. I have
been told that the following are volunteers to serve on the nominating
committee. This message is being sent to you based on that belief. See
below for details if you do not wish to be considered for the
nomination.
1. Jim Brown
2. Jonathan Drews
3. Hubert Feyrer
4. Dan Langille
5. Scott Long
6. Dru Lavigne
7. Jean M. Melo
8. Wes Peters
9. Luiz G. Ramos
10. Jeremy C. Reed
11. David Rhodus
12. Eduardo Ribeiro
13. John Richard
14. George Rosamond
15. Brad Schonhorst
16. Marc Spitzer
17. Patrick Tracanelli
According to the bylaws, I must publish the criteria that will be used
to select the nominating committee. This method must be fair, random
and independently verifiable. Once the nominating committee has been
selected, it will select the actual board, in accordance with the
bylaws using the proceedures outlined there.
The method I have chosen is that I will take the closing values for
the following financial indexes, as published in the Wall Street
Journal for the close of regular trading on February 24th (local
time), as published in the following issue. I will take the last three
digits, as published, of each index modulus 17, if the last three
digits are less than 986. If the last three digits of the index is
greater than or equal to 986, I shall skip to the next index. If I
cannot find the index in the Wall Street Journal for the appropriate
day, I will skip to the next index. I will then add 1 to it to make a
selection. This process will be repeated with successive indexes until
3 choices are selected. In the event that three choices are not made
based on the close of trade on February 24th, I will use for
successive trading days in a like manner until 3 choices are made. For
the purposes of this selection, trading days shall mean days on which
the New York stock exchange is open. If other markets are closed on
that day, those indexes shall be skipped. If a market has closed
before the the timestamp on this message posting's to a mailing list,
indexes for that market will be excluded.
If you do not wish to be considered, please notify me. I will remove
your name from consideration. I will keep everyone's number the same.
If your number is selected above, I will skip it and go onto the next
index. If the same number comes up multiple times, I shall skip it and
go to the next index on the list. If, after being selected, a person
opts out, for whatever reason, that person shall be replaced by the
next person selected by this algorithm.
The financial indexes that I shall use are, in order, as follows:
* Dow Jones Industrial Average
* NASDAQ Composite
* NASDAQ 100
* S&P 500
* Wilshire 5000
* NYSE Composite
* Dow Jones Transportational Average
* Dow Jones Utilities
* Russell 2000
* FTSE 300
* German DAX
* French CAC 40
* Nikkei 225
* Hong Kong Hang Seng Index
* Australia All Ordinaries
* Brazil BOVESPA
* Mexico Bolsa
* Chile IPSA
* Singapore SES
For example, on Feb. 23rd, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at
11069.22. The last three digits of this index would be '922'. 922
modulus 17 is 4. Adding 1 gives 5, selecting Scott Long. NASDAQ
Composite closed at 2279.32, 932 mod 17 + 1 is 15 selecting Brad
Schonhorst. The NASDAQ 100 1672.29, 229 mod 17 + 1 is 9 selecting Luiz
G. Ramos and we'd be done, assuming that none of these three opt out."
The names of the members of the nominating committee will be announced
in the next newsletter.
During the month of March, the nominating committee will create a
slate representing the three Board of Directors for the BSDCG and
present the slate to the voting members of the BSDCG. The names of the
Board of Directors should be available in the next newsletter. You can
read about the election process in Article VII of the BSDCG Bylaws at
http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=BSDCG&view=3.
4 New BSDCG Member
The BSDCG is pleased to announce that Machtelt ``Tille'' Garrels has
joined as an active (voting) member of the BSDCG. Tille is very active
in the Open Source community and until recently acted as the
translation and vendor coordinator for the Linux Professional
Institute. We look forward to working with Tille to help make BSD
certification a success.
You can read about active membership in the BSDCG in Article III of
the bylaws at
http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=BSDCG&view=3.
5 Mailing Lists
The BSD Certification Group mailing list currently has 773
subscribers. And the announcements list has 146 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 BSD Certification Group.
The general discussion list is at
http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert/.
6 January and February Website Statistics
By Patrick Tracanelli
This month's report includes information regarding both January and
February 2006.
In January, we had 42830 different visitors, which is somehow lower
(around 12%) than December. In February 2006 the visitors average was
even lower, 38748 different visitors, around 23% less visitors when
compared to December and around 11% when compared to January. January
had 3 days more than February, but in the average in January we had
approximately 250 visitors per day, against 149 visitors per day in
February, which confirms the lower visits that started in October
2005.
In the average in January 2006 we had around 23 Mbytes of data
transferred in a daily basis while in February we had about 21 Mbytes.
(Our record, from July 2005 is approximately 220 Mb). From January
16-26, we reached the month's top access, counting 240 visitors in the
average per day, and 24323 bytes. In February, this month's top access
range was from 17th to 23rd, counting 195 visitors and 19432 bytes per
day in the average.
Usually our main access period is between 10:00 and 18:00 hours. In
December, this scene was changed a little bit, the main access period
was between 12:00 and 19:00 hours. But for January the usual time
schedule was again between 10:00 and 18:00, similar to February which
was from 09:00 to 18:00. This seven/eight-hour range was responsible
for 59% of all our visits in January and 62% in February. Note that
this is usually during work hours, so most visitors reach to us in
commercial time periods.
The BSD Associate PDF release from October in the English language is
the second most accessed in both January and February. The first one
is the root URL on the website. In January, we had 671 downloads of
the mentioned file and 543 downloads in February.
The top 10 accessed pages on January are:
# Hits URL
1 12442 /
2 589 /downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
3 389 /error.html
4 310 /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
5 309 /downloads/sr1_links.pdf
6 307 /downloads/20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf
7 142 /downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
8 115 /downloads/brochure8.pdf
9 99 /downloads/pr_20050912_usage_survey_en_en.html
10 75 /scripts/contactresults.shtml
The top 10 accessed pages on February are:
# Hits URL
1 9074 /
2 361 /downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
3 312 /error.html
4 163 /downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
5 162 /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
6 139 /downloads/sr1_links.pdf
7 124 /downloads/20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf
8 115 /downloads/brochure8.pdf
9 91 /scripts/contactresults.shtml
10 91 /robots.txt
Top 5 URL by Kbytes
In January, the top URLs regarding data transfer rate are mostly
related to the BSD Associate exam document and Usage Survey, which,
together with the Road Map are the most downloaded files.
# Hits URL
1 589 /downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
2 609 /downloads/sr1_links.pdf
3 542 /
4 310 /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
5 132 /downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
The month of February had very similar statistics. The files were the
same but the order were different.
# Hits URL
1 439 /downloads/sr1_links.pdf
2 461 /downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
3 434 /
4 175 /downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
5 172 /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
Top 5 Entry Pages
In January, the root website is the very main entry page, followed by
the error pages and files to be downloaded, especially the Usage
Survey.
# Hits URL
1 12442 /
2 389 /error.html
3 59 /downloads/pr_20050912_usage_survey_en_en.html
4 11 /downloads/PressReleaseRoadMap.html
5 11 /downloads/pr-jta-20050720.html
In February, it is very similar - again the root URL is by far the
entry URL with the most hits. The difference is the #4 and #5 entries.
# Hits URL
1 9074 /
2 312 /error.html
3 53 /downloads/pr_20050912_usage_survey_en_en.html
4 50 /scripts/contactresults.shtml
5 44 http://bsdcertification.org/
Top Referrals
Our top referrers are a set of websites which usually show up as the
top referrers for the previous months. The well-known Chinese blog
site, http://blog.china-pub.com is the number one page which attracted
people to our website in February. While in January, Richard's Tao
Security blog reached number one place with his latest posts.
FreeBSDChina.org always shows up among the top referrals, and it is
not different this turn for both January and February.
Top 10 Referrers for January
# Hits URL
1 1183 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/
2 1058 http://blog.china-pub.com/more.asp
3 1022 http://blog.china-pub.com/blog.asp
4 520 http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/viewtopic.php
5 262 http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_27101.html
6 188 http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/01/13/173233.shtml
7 120 http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_27545.html
8 106 http://blog.dream4ever.org/
9 99 http://www.bsdcertification.org
10 79
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_taosecurity_archive.html
Top 10 Referrals for February
# Hits URL
1 681 http://blog.china-pub.com/more.asp
2 589 http://blog.china-pub.com/blog.asp
3 296 http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/viewtopic.php
4 170 http://www.bsdcertification.org
5 133
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_taosecurity_archive.html
6 104 http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/01/13/173233.shtml
7 76
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_taosecurity_archive.html
8 60
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_taosecurity_archive.html
9 43 http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_21870.html
10 38 http://blog.dream4ever.org/neoshi/
About Browsers / User Agents
Just like for 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 53% of total visits in January and 58% in
February. Most visits of Mozilla Family browser 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 (29%) and Mac OS
X (13%) represent approximately 40% of our visitors browser
application. Google Bot and MSN Bot are usually getting to our
website. It is true for a number of other spiders. Now gigabot from
gigablast.com is also one of the most frequent robots. The fetch(1)
application, "fetch libfetch/2.0" which became usual at our website in
the last two months is now a common issued application, it counted
4186 hits this month. Motorola and Siemens mobile telephones reached
us in January and both plus LGE mobile phone reached us in February.
Geo (countries) Statistics on Visitors
Thirty-one percent of our visits were from the US, while about 19%
could not be resolved. Among those resolved, Brazil, Germany and
Mexico are in the top listing of countries which visits us most often.
All countries which do not natively speak English. Here you can follow
the top ten countries/regions which visited us in January.
# Hits Country/Location
1 15437 Unresolved/Unknown
2 11273 Network
3 7793 US Commercial
4 1902 Brazil
5 1380 Germany
6 1188 Mexico
7 1178 Japan
8 1135 Poland
9 967 Netherlands
10 946 Australia
In February, Mexico jumped from the third non-English native speaker
country to first one regarding access to our Web site. Brazil and
Germany dropped one position each and Canada and France which are
usually on the top 10, but did show up in lower places are again among
the 10 first. Here follow the statistics for February
# Hits Country/Location
1 9854 Unresolved/Unknown
2 7407 Network
3 5208 US Commercial
4 1233 Mexico
5 1776 Brazil
6 859 Germany
7 845 Poland
8 819 Russian Federation
9 638 Canada
10 623 France
Search expressions
Ninety-five percent of the searches which lead to BSDCG's website are
made on Google. The other 5% is shared among MSN, Yahoo and Altavista,
with some minor (fewer than 1%) for Lycos. The top ten strings when
people searched the Web in January are:
# Hits Expression
1 37 bsd certification
2 24 bsd certification group
3 22 BSD-certification
4 21 Certificação BSD
5 11 bsd group
And on February, are:
# Hits Expression
1 35 bsd certification
2 33 bsdcertification
3 33 Certificação FreeBSD
4 22 Certificação BSD
5 21 BSD Certification
Note that in this two last months, we had expressions in non-English
language, specifically in Portuguese language. In January, we counted
21 searches for "Certificação BSD" and in February there are more
specific data, 22 hits for "Certificação BSD" and 33 specifically for
"Certificação FreeBSD", a less-generic search. It clearly points
interest on BSD and specially FreeBSD certs in Brazil and Portugal.
Brazilian and Portuguese translation teams are among the most active
ones so the search for those expression certainly return positive
results.
7 About this Newsletter
The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every month, near
the middle of the month.
Thank you to Dru Lavigne and Patrick Tracanelli 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.
_________________________________________________________________
Jeremy C. Reed 2006-03-15
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