[nycbug-talk] BSD Cert press release

[George Rosamond]

For anyone interested. . .

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News and Announcements
March 4, 2009 - Nominations Open for 3 Board of Directors Positions
Press Release     English

Nominations Open for 3 Board of Directors Positions

The BSD Certification Group will be accepting nominations for three 
Board of Directors positions starting March 4. These positions are for a 
two year term starting at the end of the election process. Nominees can 
be anyone from the general BSD community as well as any interested 
organization or company.

The board of directors will be expanded to five members with Dru Lavigne 
and Jim Brown continuing their terms until 2010. Responsibilities may 
include participating in monthly meetings and helping set the direction 
of the BSD Certification Group.

Nominations may be emailed until April 3, 2009. Please consider carbon 
copying the person being nominated on the email. (nominations at 
bsdcertification at org)

The non-voting chair, Phil Nelson from the NetBSD community, will 
acknowledge receipt of each nomination and confirm the nominees. The 
names of the confirmed nominees along with the number of nominations 
received by each will be published by mid April.

The eligible BSDCG members will hold an internal vote and the public 
announcement of the new Directors should be announced by mid May, 2009.

For more details, see the BSDCG bylaws. 
(http://www.bsdcertification.org/BSDCG/bylaws.html)

About the BSD Certification Group

The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) is a non-profit organization 
committed to creating and maintaining a global certification standard 
for system administration on BSD based operating systems. The BSDCG 
works with the BSD and sysadmin communities in order to provide a 
practical and relevant certification.