From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Aug 3 10:58:06 2009 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:06 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG this week Message-ID: <4A76FAFE.6080200@ceetonetechnology.com> This week, Dru Lavigne will be speaking about the BSD Certification Group, plus there will be an SME session on Sunday for those interested in contributing to the exam. Also, registration is open for EuroBSDCon 2009, September 18-20, at Cambridge University in Britain. http://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/ * * * * August 05, 2009, Wednesday BSD Certification: A Case Study in Open Source Community 6:45 pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Since their heydey in the 1990s, IT certifications have gained a bad rap. They are often perceived as money making machines for large companies, havens for braindumps, and certificates which aren`t worth the paper they are written on. We are all familiar with how open source is revolutionizing the proprietary software industry. Open source also has the potential to revolutionize the proprietary certification industry, and the BSD community is leading the way. This talk will introduce the BSD Certification Group and their effort to create and maintain certifications that effectively assess the skills of BSD system administrators. It will provide an update on BSD certification, some of the lessons learned along the way, and principles other open source communities can use to provide their own certifications. Dru Lavigne is founder and current chair of the BSD Certification Group. She is a sysadmin, technical trainer, author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics, maintainer of @bsdevents, board member of the FreeBSD Foundation, and editor of the Open Source Business Resource. She has been actively involved in the BSD community since 1997. If you missed the exam, we will look to coordinate another session after the SME session on Sunday. * * * * August 09, 2009, Sunday BSDA Angoff Session Call for BSD Certification Group Subject Matter Experts (SME) Are you a working sysadmin? Do you manage other sysadmins? Want to help the BSD Certification Group? If so, bring your laptop and come join us from 10 am to 2 pm on August 9 to help improve the BSDA exam. RSVP chair AT bsdcertification DOT org for exact downtown Manhattan event location. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Aug 5 09:07:33 2009 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:07:33 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: <4A798415.2020203@ceetonetechnology.com> Tonight Dru Lavigne will be speaking about the BSD Certification Group, plus there will be an SME session on Sunday for those interested in contributing to the exam. Also, registration is open for EuroBSDCon 2009, September 18-20, at Cambridge University in Britain. http://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/ * * * * August 05, 2009, Wednesday BSD Certification: A Case Study in Open Source Community 6:45 pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Since their heydey in the 1990s, IT certifications have gained a bad rap. They are often perceived as money making machines for large companies, havens for braindumps, and certificates which aren`t worth the paper they are written on. We are all familiar with how open source is revolutionizing the proprietary software industry. Open source also has the potential to revolutionize the proprietary certification industry, and the BSD community is leading the way. This talk will introduce the BSD Certification Group and their effort to create and maintain certifications that effectively assess the skills of BSD system administrators. It will provide an update on BSD certification, some of the lessons learned along the way, and principles other open source communities can use to provide their own certifications. Dru Lavigne is founder and current chair of the BSD Certification Group. She is a sysadmin, technical trainer, author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics, maintainer of @bsdevents, board member of the FreeBSD Foundation, and editor of the Open Source Business Resource. She has been actively involved in the BSD community since 1997. If you missed the exam, we will look to coordinate another session after the SME session on Sunday. * * * * August 09, 2009, Sunday BSDA Angoff Session Call for BSD Certification Group Subject Matter Experts (SME) Are you a working sysadmin? Do you manage other sysadmins? Want to help the BSD Certification Group? If so, bring your laptop and come join us from 10 am to 2 pm on August 9 to help improve the BSDA exam. RSVP chair AT bsdcertification DOT org for exact downtown Manhattan event location. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Aug 30 11:31:11 2009 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:31:11 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Sept 2: How to Get Started with Kernel Programming Message-ID: <4A9A9B3F.2050207@ceetonetechnology.com> Wednesday, September 02, 2009 Jeffrey Hsu on How to Get Started with Kernel Programming 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php This talk is intended to introduce kernel programming for the absolute novice. We will cover: # basic setup # building and booting test kernels # how to write your first system call # a quick overview of the major subsystems including # kernel locking and synchronization primitives # device drivers # VFS layer # memory allocation # networking Bio Jeffrey M. Hsu became a member the FreeBSD project in 1994 as one of its first 10 committers. He has contributed to many sections of the operating system in areas such as the networking stack, Java, and a large number of the early ports in the language category. He has worked professionally on FreeBSD and NetBSD was offered commit bits to both the OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD projects when they were first being formed and is active in the DragonFlyBSD project today. He holds a degree from U.C. Berkeley in computer science. In the past, he has consulted for leading companies such as the Western Software Laboratory division of Digital Equipment Corporation, Cygnus, Encanto, Netscape, ClickArray, Palm, Wasabi, and Cisco Systems. Jeffrey enjoys giving talks and meeting BSD enthusiasts all over the world.