On Sunday 01 August 2010 20:12:12 J Lane wrote: > Each of the nominees is invited to post information about their general > background, their involvement with BSD and with BSDCert
Hello everyone, While there is still time, I'd like to introduce myself to you. I'm a Associate Professor of Computer Science at Western Washington University. I've been using BSD since I was going to graduate school at the University of Washington where we ran BSD on a DEC VAX around 1982. Since then I've been using some flavor of BSD. At one point, I ported NetBSD to a "net build" computer called the pc532. This was in the 1992/93 time frame. Since then I've remained a member of the NetBSD developer community. I'd did the initial work on the current NetBSD install system. (Others have improved it since then.) I also wrote and still maintain (very part time) GNU bc. My involvement with BSDCert started over a year ago when I was the election coordinator for the 2009 Board of Directors election. Also, I have given the BSDA test a in both 2009 and 2010 at the "LinuxFest Northwest" in Bellingham, WA. As for where BSDCert should be headed, I think it is doing the correct thing by persuing the BSDP. This would help strengthen the place of the BSDA. And of course, the continuation of giving as many offerings of the BSDA as possible is necessary. I'm not sure where in the process BSDCert is at the current time, but I would like to see it move away from a paper BSDA to some kind of on-line testing system. Security would be an issue and I'm sure there would still be the need for some paper offerings, but on-line tests could provide faster turn-a-round for those taking the BSDA. I hope this helps you know just a little more about me. --Phil -- Phil Nelson (phil at cs.wwu.edu) http://www.cs.wwu.edu/nelson NetBSD: http://www.NetBSD.org Coda: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu Life: http://www.goallpower.com _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
