[BSDCert-Announce] Newsletter from BSD Certification Group (February 2007)

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                   BSD Certification Group Newsletter
                             February 2007

Contents

   * 1 Update on BSDA
   * 2 SCALE
   * 3 First BSDCG Board of Directors
   * 4 BSDA Study Guide Book in Progress
   * 5 Website Statistics
   * 6 Mailing Lists
   * 7 About this Newsletter

                             1 Update on BSDA

 In addition to the conferences mentioned in the January newsletter, we
 are  working out the details to have the BSDA available at Linuxtag in
 Berlin  and  Conisli  in  Brazil. Details on all of the venues will be
 announced as soon as they are finalized.

                                  2 SCALE

 Dru   Lavigne  of  the  BSDCG  recently  returned  from  the  Southern
 California  Linux  Expo  where  there  was both a FreeBSD and a NetBSD
 booth. Over 1000 attendees visited the booths and many were interested
 in  hearing  more  about  BSD  Certification and the upcoming BSDA. An
 interview was given regarding the upcoming BSDA testing engine and the
 URL will be announced once the interview has been published.

                     3 First BSDCG Board of Directors

 In  January, the slate for the first Board of Directors was voted upon
 and unanimously approved. The Board of Directors and their terms are:

   * Dru Lavigne 2 year term
   * Jim Brown 2 year term
   * Jeremy C. Reed 1 year term

 The  Board's  first  meeting  will  be  held in February to review the
 existing bylaws in regards to the voting process and to confirm if the
 acting  officers  wish to continue in their capacity. The Board wishes
 to  thank  Warner  Losh  for  acting  as  the  non-voting chair of the
 nominating committee.

                    4 BSDA Study Guide Book in Progress

 Since  the  beginning of the year, a BSDA Study Guide Book has been in
 progress  via a wiki at http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/. Over 25 writers
 and reviewers are helping write the book, hopefully to be published in
 early  March.  The  book  is  based on the objectives published by the
 BSDCG  in  the  BSDA  Requirements  Document.  The wiki is a community
 effort.  Please join to help write the book. The following is from the
 fifth status report (February 8, 2007):

   * 60 people registered as wiki users
   * 886 commits (wiki updates) by 32 users
   * 16 users with at least 5 commits
   * 6 users with at least 25 commits
   * 46 sections have an author signed up (14 total authors)
   * 40  sections  have  at  least one technical reviewer signed up (14
     total technical reviewers)
   * 67  sections  have at least an author or technical reviewer signed
     up
   * approximately 86 sections have topic in progress
   * approximately  33  sections  have  significant  content (and maybe
     almost finished)
   * 104 sections total - all with concept prewritten
   * approximately  17  sections  have  new content that do not have an
     author or technical reviewer assigned
   * 19 PDF files generated
   * book is 189 total printed pages, 178 content pages, 3 page index
   * 1379 PDF files downloaded
   * Table of Contents wiki page downloaded 1926 times

                           5 Website Statistics

 Online webstats are available at
 http://webstats.bsdcertification.org/.

                              6 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  bsdcert list has around 735 members and the bsdcert-announce list
 has around 204 subscribers.

                          7 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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