[BSDCert-Announce] BSD Certification Group Newsletter for May 2007

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available in PDF).

                    BSD Certification Group Newsletter
                                 May 2007

Contents

    * 1 BSDA Quality Assurance
    * 2 BSDA Beta
    * 3 BSD Certification at Linuxworld Toronto
    * 4 Website Statistics
    * 5 Mailing Lists
    * 6 About this Newsletter

                          1 BSDA Quality Assurance

  The  process  to  establish quality of the questions assembled for the
  BSDA certification so far has started. Special attention is being paid
  to  ensure that every question is valid for all BSD flavours, and that
  no  over-representation  of  any  specific  flavour  is  made. Quality
  assurance is done by a group of subject matter experts (SMEs) that use
  one  or  more  BSD flavours for many years, with many of them actively
  contributing to the development of one or more BSD operating systems.

  The  questions  worked  on for the BSD certification exam are under an
  NDA  and  will  not be made public. The topics covered by the exam are
  made public on the BSD Certification Group website, though.

                                 2 BSDA Beta

  There  are  still  some  seats  available  for  the  May and June beta
  locations     and     times.     Registration    is    available    at
  http://beta.bsdcertification.org:8080/bsdsme/registration.         The
  registration announcement is at
  http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/bsdcert/2007-April/001110.html   and
  details  regarding what to expect on the beta are available in English
  (http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=News&Item=pr044)    and
  Brazilian Portuguese
  (http://www.bsdcertification.org/index.php?NAV=News&Item=pr046).

                  3 BSD Certification at Linuxworld Toronto

  Dru Lavigne from the BSDCG and Nanoman from GTABUG assisted at the BSD
  Certification  booth  at  Linuxworld  Toronto. The booth was very well
  attended  by  over  1000  attendees. Those manning the booth were kept
  busy  both  days  answering questions regarding *BSD operating systems
  and BSD certification. Dru has a writeup at
  http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/linuxworld-toronto-16086.

                            4 Website Statistics

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

                               5 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 747 members and the bsdcert-announce list
  has around 225 subscribers.

                           6 About this Newsletter

  The  BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every month, near
  the middle of the month.

  Thank  you  to  Hubert Feyrer and Dru Lavigne for contributing to this
  newsletter. The editor is Jeremy C. Reed.

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