From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Sep 1 11:55:52 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:55:52 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: <4C7E7788.7080806@ceetonetechnology.com> Several announcements besides tonight's meeting, including BSD Professional Certification Requirements Document Published. * * * September 01, 2010 Bruno Scap on Building Email Infrastructure 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant 111 Broadway in Manhattan Organizations and individuals rely on e-mail, and while Google Mail and similar hosted solutions might be a good alternative, sometimes e-mail needs to be hosted in-house. The focus of this talk is building a reliable, scalable, and distributed e-mail infrastructure using open source off-the-shelf tools. Bruno Scap helps companies achieve greater business value from IT. He works with executives and top managers to maximize the business value from the computing technologies and services. He can be reached at bruno AT konjz DOT org. * * * NYCBSDCon 2010! www.nycbsdcon.org * * * EuroBSDCon 2010 http://2010.eurobsdcon.org/ * * * August 31, 2010 - BSD Professional Certification Requirements Document Published Press Release English BSD Professional Certification Requirements Document Published The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) is pleased to announce the publication of the official examination objectives for the BSD Professional (BSDP) Certification. The 78 page document outlines 11 knowledge domains, each containing a number of objectives, that form the basis of the certification. The document, a collaborative effort by members of the BSD community, is a followup effort to the BSDP Job Task Analysis report published earlier this year. "The BSDP Certification Requirements Document provides a comprehensive set of objectives that a BSD Professional should master, ranging from general system administration to advanced security and system maintenance," said Babak Farrokhi, a seasoned BSD administrator and author of 'Network Administration with FreeBSD 7'. Set to launch in 2011, the BSD Professional certification exam has been in development for over two years. Since the launch of the BSD Associate exam in 2008, there has been a continual effort to put together a certification for the next level of achievement for BSD system administrators. "The BSD Professional certification is aimed at assessing practical skills of senior level BSD system administrators," said Jim Brown, BSDCG board member. "With the publication of these objectives, the BSD Certification Group is aiming to produce a high quality certification, giving the computing industry a new standard for excellence in system administration." The BSDP Requirements document is available as a downloadable PDF in English. http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/certreq_bsdp_en.pdf 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. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sat Sep 18 23:31:43 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:31:43 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG and BSD Fund Message-ID: <4C95841F.9000108@ceetonetechnology.com> As many have heard, we've been working with BSD Fund (.org) around NYCBSDCon. BSD Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Here's the info from their end: http://bsdfund.org/ There's also a separate space to make donations to NYCBSDCon and NYC*BUG: http://bsdfund.org/projects/nycbsdcon/ We are already finding the relation is a huge asset with NYCBSDCon. We look forward to continuing to grow with their structures supporting us. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Sep 21 15:27:55 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:27:55 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBSDCon 2010 Registration is Open Message-ID: <4C99073B.4060107@ceetonetechnology.com> The New York City *BSD User Group is proud to announce the opening of registration for NYCBSDCon 2010. NYCBSDCon is the main technical conference for the BSD projects on the US East Coast. It will be held from November 13th to 14th, opening with a social event on the evening of November 12th. This year's venue is New York's prestigious Cooper Union, located in the heart of downtown Manhattan. Past conferences were held in 2005, 2006 and 2008. Early registration will be open until November 1, and we strongly encourage potential attendees to take advantage of the low entry fee of $95. The conference cost covers over a dozen technical presentations on an array of topics related to the BSDs. Additionally, breakfast and lunch will be provided for both Saturday and Sunday sessions. A number of "birds-of-a-feather" sessions are also planned. NYCBSDCon is organized by the New York City *BSD User Group. After November 1st, the registration fee will increase to $125 until November 12th, when the fee will increase to $150. To register, please visit: http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/register.html A strong program of speakers is lined up for NYCBSDCon 2010, with topics covering security, networking and development. You can see the current schedule by visiting: http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/schedule.html Full descriptions of the presentations are at: http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/presentations.html We are proud to have NYCBSDCon 2010's backend finances handled by BSD Fund, a US 501(c)(3). Any conference profits will go back to the BSD projects. The conference organizers are thankful to the sponsors who make the event possible. Current premier sponsors include About.com, Isilon Systems, Marvell Micro Semiconductor Inc, New York Internet and ixSystems. Additional sponsors include the FreeBSD Foundation, the publisher Pearson and the pfSense project, in addition to a number of other small businesses. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Thu Sep 30 17:26:56 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:26:56 -0400 Subject: [announce] Upcoming NYC*BUG meetings and more Message-ID: <4CA500A0.4010403@ceetonetechnology.com> A number of stuff going on next week, besides early registration continuing for NYCBSDCon 2010. We are conducting an ACM/IEEE campus meeting at Cooper Union on Tuesday, October 5th at 1 PM. It's a great way to present NYCBUG and NYCBSDCon to students. If you're interested in helping out, hit the admin@ list. But we need to RSVP all names of people who will be attending 24 hours prior. * * * Our Wednesday meeting will also be with Cooper Union students, except this time they'll be speaking *to* NYCBUG. Many of them are involved in fascinating projects as students. The titles are a bit deceiving October 06, 2010 Cooper Students Present 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant 111 Broadway in Manhattan This month`s meetings will feature several Cooper Union engineering students presenting their projects. * "A Study of Bayesian Authorship Classification" with Kevin Tien and Nicole Lesperance. From a Natural Language Processing class project. * "Real Time Hand Gesture Recognition" with George Todorov and Eugene Belilovsky * "Characterization of Light Output Instabilities In Quantum Cascade Lasers Under Pulsed Operation" with Jonathan Ligo These presentations will be great opportunities to hear from the next generation of young and bright engineers.