Re: FreeBSD @ Solutions Linux 2012

2012-06-29 Thread Dru Lavigne
Last week takes place at the CNIT, La Défence, close to Paris, the 2012 edition of Solutions Linux. Solutions Linux is a corporate event focused in open source solutions, and open source project. With some enthusiastic we animate a FreeBSD booth to promote FreeBSD in corporate

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Dru Lavigne
I'm curious. When will the examination cover other architectures such as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM? Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs recognition as a reliable system with the Power group. Support for ARM in the exam could increase the use of the BSDs in

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-12 Thread Dru Lavigne
The BSDA exam is for system administration, not development. Out of curiosity, is there a market for a FreeBSD Developer cert?  We have not done an analysis to see if there is a market. There has been interest since we started the program, which came as a surprise to us seeing that an open

Re: Request for advice

2012-06-11 Thread Dru Lavigne
Hello, I'm currently planning on taking the BSD Association certification, as described here.  (http://www.bsdcertification.org/) Although I am primarily doing so for personal, rather than economic reasons, I did want to ask whether or not it possibly *would* add to a resume, in the

Re: FYI: 9.0-RELEASE announced...

2012-01-19 Thread Dru Lavigne
JFYI for those of you who aren't subscribed to the announce@ mailing list...  9.0-RELEASE is, finally, announced.  The announcement message is available here:       http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html [...] Is there a Press Release available, preferably containing

RE: FreeBSD swag

2011-01-21 Thread Dru Lavigne
Where's the FreeBSD swag (hoodies, t-shirts, etc)? I find linux ones all the time, but would love to be able to represent the os I *actually* enjoy using. http://www.freebsdmall.com In the past, I remember hearing something about us (the community) having the rights to use the

RE: Save BSD magazine

2009-07-01 Thread Dru Lavigne
Does FreeBSD Mall ship internationally? If so, should we suggest that people interested in saving the mag can order there? Absolutely. If you can't find the mag locally, order from the Mall and we'll report final sales figures to the publisher on Monday. Not the best weekend for a big

RE: Save BSD magazine

2009-07-01 Thread Dru Lavigne
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:39:34AM -0700, Matt Olander wrote: We are in contact with them in an attempt to save the magazine. Not having the ability to order and pay for a subscription online really hurt them, I think. This is why we started offering it through the FreeBSD Mall.

RE: BAFUG meeting on 14 May 2009 from 7 - 10 PM @ Yahoo!, bldg E, room 9

2009-05-06 Thread Dru Lavigne
[I posted last month's meeting announcement to freebsd-user-groups@; someone strongly suggested that I post to freebsd-advocacy@, so I'll try it. My apologies to those not in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. d] Hi David, I'm going to point to this email in the archives when I

RE: BSD Certification in India

2009-03-12 Thread Dru Lavigne
, conferences, or businesses in India who may be interested, have them contact me to discuss details. The same goes for any other geographic location. Cheers, Dru Lavigne Chair, BSD Certification Group http://www.bsdcertification.org ___ freebsd

Re: bsdevents on Twitter

2009-03-12 Thread Dru Lavigne
I admit that I'm still a twitter noob and have only been on twitter for a few weeks (after my boss finally convinced me to create an account for work and I saw the value in having one). I'm now following @freebsd, @freebsdannounce and @freebsdlogs as Murray suggested. Does this repost from

RE: bsdevents on Twitter

2009-03-12 Thread Dru Lavigne
Sure, you can go to twitterfeed and you will give it the twitter password for the @bsdevents account and the RSS feed location for our events page. (Sorry, there is no strong authentication framework for twitter -- all these tools force you to share your twitter password with them). Then

bsdevents on Twitter

2009-03-10 Thread Dru Lavigne
Hi everyone, I've created a twitter account @bsdevents (https://twitter.com/bsdevents) which is meant to be a one-stop-shop for all BSD-related events such as: * BSD conferences * events where there will be a BSD booth or presentation * BSD user group meetings (including UUGs and LUGs with