We have a number of exciting events coming up for NYC*BUG, all of which are related to the BSD Certification Group (www.bsdcertification.org).
August 2, Sunday BSDA Exam August 5, Wednesday NYC*BUG Meeting on the BSD Certification Group August 9, Sunday BSDCG Subject Matter Expert Session * * * August 02, 2009, Sunday BSDA Exam NYCBUG will be hosting a BSDA exam for the BSD Certification Group on August 2. Please register as soon as possible to ensure your spot at the exam at https://register.bsdcertification.org//register/events/nycbug. The exam will be held at 55 Broad Street between Exchange Place and Beaver Street in Manhattan. * * * 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 (http://www.bsdcertification.org/) and the 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. Please note that NYCBUG will be hosting a BSDA exam on August 2 which we encourage you to sign up for ASAP. * * * 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. _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
