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J Lane | 2 Aug 2010 05:12

BSDCert Board of Directors election: Call for open discussion of the nominees

The nominees for the two open one-year positions on the BSDCert Board of
Directors are:

	Jim Brown
	Michael Dexter
	Dru Lavigne
	Phil Nelson

According to the Bylaws, the next step in the process is an open discussion
of the election and the nominees by the general membership.

This discussion will open as of Monday, August 2, 2010, and will remain open
for two weeks. The last day of the discussion will be Monday, August 23.

Each of the nominees is invited to post information about their general
background, their involvement with BSD and with BSDCert, and what they would
like the BSDCert group to accomplish over the next year.

The next step in the election process is the election itself.

James Lane
BSDCert Election Coordinator
JLane@...

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Michael Dexter | 4 Aug 2010 11:01

Re: [BSDCertAdmin] BSDCert Board of Directors election: Call for open discussion of the nominees BSDCert Board of Directors election: Call for open discussion of the nominees


Hello all,

Thank you for your consideration.

> Each of the nominees is invited to post information about their
> general background, their involvement with BSD and with BSDCert, and
> what they would like the BSDCert group to accomplish over the
> next year.

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Jim B. | 11 Aug 2010 18:26

Re: BSDCert Board of Directors election: Call for open discussion of the nominees

* J Lane <JLane@...> [2010-08-01 23:22]:
> 
> Each of the nominees is invited to post information about their general
> background, their involvement with BSD and with BSDCert, and what they would
> like the BSDCert group to accomplish over the next year.

Hello Everyone,

I'm once again standing for election to the BSD Certification Group Board of Directors.
During the last 5 years, we have accomplished a great deal with the development
and launch of the BSD Associate Exam, and I would like to see our momentum continue.

Looking ahead, we are now actively working on the BSD Professional Certification
which we are hoping to officially launch later this year.  We are aiming to make
this certification a solid player- a psychometrically valid written exam and hands-on
lab combination that will test actual performance as well as recognition and
comprehension on BSD system administration tasks.

We are also looking at ways to expand our exam offerings through partnerships
with other organizations.  If we can make this happen, it will make it much easier
to take the BSDCG exams domestically and (hopefully!) internationally.

There are other initiatives on the table that will place BSDCG certifications
at the forefront of Open Source certification efforts.  These initiatives would
require a long term committment to push through, but I believe they would be
well worth the investment in time, effort, and financial resources.

It is my earnest desire to continue to work as a full board member within the BSDCG
to advance these and other initiatives that continue to push BSD systems ahead in the
wider computing community.

With Best Regards to All,
Jim Brown

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Phil Nelson | 13 Aug 2010 23:45

Re: BSDCert Board of Directors election: Call for open discussion of the nominees

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

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Dru Lavigne | 25 Aug 2010 14:42

anyone have time to review this week?

Hello all,

The BSDP exam objectives are in their final draft and we're in the final review push in order to publish them next Monday.

If anyone has time to read through the document by Saturday morning, ping me and I'll send you the review copy.

We're looking to catch any remaining typos, grammos, and formatting errors as well as a sanity check on the technical items.

Cheers,

Dru

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J Lane | 30 Aug 2010 23:26

2010 BSDCert Board of Directors election

The nominees for the open one-year positions on the BSDCert Board of
Directors are:

    Jim Brown
    Michael Dexter
    Dru Lavigne
    Phil Nelson

The current Board of Directors is:

    Jim Brown            (term expires 2010)
    Dru Lavigne          (term expires 2010)
    Matt Olander         (term expires 2012)
    Jeremy C. Reed       (term expires 2012)
    George Rosamond      (term expires 2012)

At the BSDCert BoD meeting of Tuesday, August 24th, the Board decided to
enlarge the BoD from the current five members to seven.

The terms of office of three of the current board members (Matt Olander,
Jeremy C. Reed, and George Rosamond) do not expire until 2012. Each of the
candidates for the open positions is assured of at least one vote
(themselves), making them the top four candidates for the four open
positions. No objections to any of the candidates were raised during the
general membership open discussion period.

Under the circumstances, the election period is unnecessary. All four
candidates are elected to the BoD; their terms of office will expire in
2011.

The new Board of Directors is:

    Jim Brown            (term expires 2011)
    Michael Dexter       (term expires 2011)
    Dru Lavigne          (term expires 2011)
    Phil Nelson          (term expires 2011)
    Matt Olander         (term expires 2012)
    Jeremy C. Reed       (term expires 2012)
    George Rosamond      (term expires 2012)

Congratulations to the candidates, and thanks from the BSD community as a
whole to the entire Board for your work promoting a family of first rate
open source operating systems.

This completes the 2010 BSDCert BoD election process.

James Lane
BSDCert Election Coordinator
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