[BSDCert-Announce] BSDCG announces its new logo at BSDCan

[Announce list for the BSD Certification]

Ottawa, Canada and Paris, France, May 12, 2006 -- The BSD Certification
Group and FJZone.org today announced the launch of a official logo
identifying the certification organization. The announcement was
made at <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org">BSDCan</a>, the premier
North American conference for the BSD community. As the Group
expands its activities and its reach within the IT industry, it is
preparing to step into the media and corporate spotlight. A logo
with clean colors and a strong, custom typeface send clear messages
of energy, reliability and, most of all, openness.

"The BSD family is a unique one" said FJ, founder of the Zone which
designed the logo. "It gathers some of the world's most secure,
most portable and most network-friendly operating systems, that
power millions of mission-critical servers and rich media-capable
desktop machines around the Internet." The new BSDCertification.org
logo depicts just that: there are the closed operating systems,
confined to their own spheres, a slew of individual initiatives,
lacking organizational power and, finally, there is the BSD family,
open to individual ventures while staying powerful as a coherent
whole. The logo's strong custom type underlines BSD's unique approach
to open source development as well as the BSD Certification Group's
solid, impartial foundation. FJ continues: "We just looked at the
IT landscape of today... and put it on paper."

"BSD is in use everywhere but, so far, has suffered from its lack
of a unified image and media attention", said Dru Lavigne, the
Group's Acting Executive Officer and a long time BSD specialist.
"We feel this new image will help us carry through our mission of
fostering attention around BSD, as well as underline our belief in
standard, trustworthy and reliable certification programs -- the
very programs we aim to develop within the global technological
community."

The BSD Certification Group Inc. is a non-profit organization
committed to creating and maintaining a global certification standard
for system administration on BSD based operating systems. It aims
to establish an internationally recognized set of proficiency tests
to ease IT management, hiring procedures and foster collaboration
between members of the BSD communities worldwide.

FJZone.org is a Paris, France, based studio. It focuses on networked
communication and distribution intelligence. Its aim is to show
companies and creative professionals alike how to effectively
combine tasteful design and reliable technologies to form a complete
creative strategy and carry their message consistently across all
online and offline media.