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

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                  BSD Certification Group Newsletter
                             October 2006

Contents

  * 1 Exam Objectives Translated to Russian
  * 2 New Sponsor
  * 3 Nominations open for Board of Directors
  * 4 BSD Certification at NYCBSDCon
  * 5 BSD Talk at Viruuma College
  * 6 Website Statistics
  * 7 Mailing Lists
  * 8 About this Newsletter

                 1 Exam Objectives Translated to Russian

The  BSDA  Certification  Requirements document has been translated to
Russian. The PDF is available for download from
http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_ru_
ru.pdf.

                              2 New Sponsor

Thanks to a generous donation, Iron Systems
(http://www.ironsystems.com),  has become our first Gold sponsor. Iron
Systems  ships high quality BSD-based rackmount servers and is pleased
to  be  able  to  contribute  towards  a  certification for BSD system
administrators.

Keep  an  eye  on  the  Sponsors  page of the website as several other
sponsors will be added over the next few weeks.

                3 Nominations open for Board of Directors

Dan  Langille  announced that nominations are open for the first Board
of Directors in this mailing list post:
http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/bsdcert/2006-September/001047.html

Nominations  are open until Sunday, October 22nd and full instructions
are included in Dan's post.

                    4 BSD Certification at NYCBSDCon

A  BoF  session  will be held on Saturday, October 28 between 9:00 and
9:45   at   the   NYCBSDCon   (http://www.nycbsdcon.org)  at  Columbia
University  in  NYC.  If you're attending the conference the BoF is an
excellent  opportunity to meet with some of the BSDCG and to have your
questions answered about the status of the upcoming BSDA examination.

                      5 BSD Talk at Viruuma College

Andrei  Kolu  recently  spoke  to  an  audience of about 60 at Viruuma
College  in  Estonia.  This  was  the  first  they  had  heard  of BSD
certification   and   the  first  presentation  on  BSD  for  many  in
attendance.  A  PDF  of  the  presentation  is  available  in  Russian
(http://www.raidon.eu/files/bsdshow/bsdshow2006-ru.pdf) and Estonian
(http://www.raidon.eu/files/bsdshow/bsdshow2006.pdf).    An    English
version will be available soon.

                          6 Website Statistics

Online webstats are available at
http://webstats.bsdcertification.org/.   The  delivery  survey  report
which  was released on Sept. 11 had 1546 downloads during the month of
September.

                             7 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/.

The  announcements list has 185 subscribers and the general discussion
list has 742 members.

                         8 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.
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