[BSDCert-Announce] BSD Certification Group Newsletter -- January 2007

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                    BSD Certification Group Newsletter
                               January 2007

Contents

    * 1 BSDA Testing Engine
    * 2 2007 Target Dates for BSDA
    * 3 Website Statistics
    * 4 Mailing Lists
    * 5 About this Newsletter

                            1 BSDA Testing Engine

  After  considering  the  costs  of  using existing testing engines and
  using  input  from  the community gathered in the Test Delivery Survey
  Report,  it  has  been decided that a custom test delivery engine best
  fits  the needs of the BSD community. The testing engine will use Open
  Source  applications  and  will  be made available to other interested
  organizations under a BSD license.

  The software requirements specification is currently being written and
  is  expected  to be published around January 31st. Shortly thereafter,
  an  announcement  will  be made regarding the location of the code and
  documentation  repository  and  detailing  the development process for
  those who wish to contribute.

                        2 2007 Target Dates for BSDA

  The BSDCG has set the following target dates for the upcoming BSDA:

  March 31
         initial  prototype  of testing engine available for testing and
         security auditing

  May 18-19
         BSDA (or its beta) made available during BSDCan

  If  all  goes  well, the BSDA should also be available at NYCBSDCon in
  the fall and EuroBSDCon in November.

  For  those  of you waiting patiently for the BSDA to be made available
  in  your  city,  that  is  the  goal  we are working towards. Once the
  testing  engine  has  proven  itself  to  be  secure  and  stable, the
  requirements and agreements for secure, proctored environments will be
  made available.

                            3 Website Statistics

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

                               4 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 746 subscribers and the announcements list has
  195 subscribers.

                           5 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.

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