The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) will offer the BSDA certification exam to attendees of FOSDEM 2008.

The exam will be paper based and in English. Exam information is available from the Certification page of the BSDCG website.
Exam candidates should be proficient in the BSDA Certification Requirements and the Command Reference, both of which are available for free download from this page of the website.

Process

Exam candidates must bring valid photo identification matching the name they used when they registered. Those who participated in the beta program should bring their beta certificate and/or the email address they used during the beta program in order to use their 50% discount.

All exam sessions will be held in room Decroly (in the U building) on both days of the event.

Due to limited seating at the event, the number of candidates per session is limited to 15.

Schedule

begin	end	session
Saturday 2008-02-23
14:30	16:00	BSDA exam session #1
16:30	18:00	BSDA exam session #2
Sunday 2008-02-24
10:00	11:30	BSDA exam session #3
13:00	14:30	BSDA exam session #4
15:00	16:30	BSDA exam session #5

Registration and pricing

Participants have to register for a BSDCG ID first, at the following URL: https://register.bsdcertification.org//register/get-a-bsdcg-id
Note that it may take up to 24 hours to receive.

Once you have an ID, you can choose an exam location and pay for the exam.
The discounted fee is only available to those who participated in the beta program.
Prices are in USD, ($75 or $37.50) and Paypal will automatically convert.

About the BSD Certification Group

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.

The BSDA certification is designed to be an entry-level certification on BSD Unix systems administration. The successful BSDA candidate is able to complete common administrative and troubleshooting tasks and has a good understanding of general BSD Unix and networking principles. In addition, the successful candidate demonstrates basic skills with these BSD operating systems: Dragonfly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

General

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FOSDEM 2008

• Flickr tag "fosdem2008"

FOSDEM 2007

• Official FOSDEM 2007 picture archive
• Flickr tag "fosdem2007"
• http://www.bebik.net/photos/fosdem2007/
• http://www.stuermer.ch/fosdem2007.html (Matthias Stuermer)
• http://dev.seamonkey.at/fosdem2007
• http://ads.wars-nicht.de/pictures/v/events/fosdem_2007/ (German Postgresql Usergroup)
• http://tevp.net/images/?sub_dir=/2007/0223-25%20fosdem (Tom Parker)
• http://fosdem.3ti.be/s/dir.php?requested=/Nick.Hofstede/2007-02-24 (Nick Hofstede)
• http://photos.corsac.net/fosdem07 (Yves-Alexis Perez)
• http://gnu.ethz.ch/photos/fosdem2007/ (Gürkan Sengün)

FOSDEM 2006

• Official FOSDEM 2006 picture archive
• Flickr tag "fosdem2006"
• openSUSE @ FOSDEM2006 gallery
• seamonkey.at FOSDEM2006 gallery
• Florian Ragwitz' FOSDEM2006 gallery

Got/found more ? Please drop a comment or contact pics at fosdem dot org.

Video recordings of talks held at FOSDEM editions 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 are available in direct download on http://video.fosdem.org and in streamed format on http://youtube.com/fosdemtalks.

Direct links to the videos can be found below. Please always use the video.fosdem.org URL when linking to the files. This way we can prevent dead links if mirrors change.

Thanks to Belnet, HEAnet, Unixheads and dotsrc.org for hosting them and NamurLUG for recording and encoding.

Starting from FOSDEM 2007, videos of all the main track talks are available in a patent unencumbered, open and free video format: Ogg/Theora, which means they will play out-of-the-box on any platform using video player applications such as VLC, MPlayer, Kaffeine, Totem, etc...

FOSDEM 2008

Talk	Speaker	Size (MB)
Opening/Closing Talks
Welcome	FOSDEM Staff	18
Tux with Shades, Linux in Hollywood	Robin Rowe & Gabrielle Pantera	84
How a large scale opensource project works	Robert Watson	82
Status update of Software Patents	Pieter Hintjens	81
Languages
Perl 6	Patrick Michaud	67
Unicoding With PHP 6	Andrei Zmievski	67
JRuby	Charles Oliver Nutter	73
Build Systems
Hudson	Kohsuke Kawaguchi	79
SCons	Steven Knight	77
CMake	Bill Hoffman	78
Games
Battle for Wesnoth	David White	297
Crystalspace3D	Jorrit Tyberghein	300
Globulation 2	Stéphane Magnenat	602
Packaging
Conary Packaging: Simply Powerful	Michael K. Johnson	73
PackageKit	Richard Hughes	72
Klik2	Simon Peter & Kurt Pfeifle	71
Virtualization
Xen	Ian Pratt	333
VirtualBox	Achim Hasenmueller	324
openQRM	Matthias Rechenburg	315
Web
CakePHP	Garrett J Woodworth	396
OWASP WebScarab-NG	Rogan Dawes	354
Mozilla Prism	Mark Finkle	245

FOSDEM 2007

Talk	Speaker	Size (MB)
Opening & Closing
Welcome to FOSDEM 2007	Raphael Bauduin	45
Thanks for visiting FOSDEM 2007	Pascal Bleser	6
Keynotes
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)	Jim Gettys	240
Liberating Java	Simon Phipps	338
Status of Software Patents in Europe	Pieter Hintjens	186
Beyond GPLv3	Georg Greve	327
Security
Security Testing	Pete Herzog	226
Metasploit Framework	H.D. Moore	303
Bacula	Kern Sibbald	327
Desktop Applications
X.org	Keith Packard	297
AIGLX	Kristian Høgsberg	229
GEGL	Øyvind Kolås	300
Development Languages
Profiling Desktop Applications	Federico Mena Quintero	258
GDB Tracepoints	Jim Blandy	197
Turbocharging Linux with Mono	Miguel de Icaza	302
Kernel
ReactOS	Aleksey Bragin	230
LinuxBIOS	Ronald G Minnich	234
Linux Kernel	Andrew Morton	264
Web
Plone 3.0	Paul Everitt	178
Drupal	Dries Buytaert	222
Mozilla	Mike Schroepfer	203
Internet Services
JBoss JBPM	Tom Baeyens	271
Secure Communications with Jabber	Peter Saint-Andre	197
Samba	Jeremy Allison	299

 

FOSDEM 2006

Talk	Speaker	Size (MB)
Opening
Welcome to FOSDEM 2006	Raphael Bauduin	38
Desktop
OpenOffice	Michael Meeks	308
XUL	Axel Hecht	229
Beagle	Jon Trowbridge	287
Security
AppArmor	Crispin Cowan	229
VOIP
Asterisk	Mark Spencer	235
SER	Jan Janak	38
Speex	Jean-Marc Valin	287
Development
Darcs	David Round	270
Subversion	Greg Stein	281
Valgrind	Julian Seward	207
Valgrind (Q+A)	Julian Seward	53
Web 2.0
Dojo Toolkit	Alex Russel	185
RIFE	Geert Bevin	38
Internet Services
DTrace	Jon Haslam	231
Plan9	Uriel Pereira	291
Xen	Ian Pratt	333
Tutorials
Asterisk Tutorial	Mark Spencer	299
DTrace Tutorial	Jon Haslam	356
OpenOffice Tutorial	Michael Meeks	249
openSUSE	-	-
Debian	-	-

 

FOSDEM 2005

Talk	Speaker	Size (MB)
Opening
Opening Talk: Copyright	Richard Stallman	480
Grid/Clusters
Globus Toolkit	Olle Mulmo	464
Linux-HA	Alan Robertson	441
OpenGFS	Ken Preslan	367
Desktop
KDE	Matthias Ettrich	431
XFCE	Olivier Fourdan	375
Nautilus	Alex Larsson	300
Linux Kernel
Linux Kernel	Alan Cox	436
Linux Device Mapper	Alasdair Kergon	491
SysFS/Kernel Driver Core	Pat Mochel	346
Distributions
Slackware	Stuart Winter	521

You can contact us at info@fosdem.org.

During the event, the Infodesk is reachable through +3227887474 (only for urgent matters please).

There's also a mailing list (archives) to help you find accomodation, transportation, etc. with other FOSDEM visitors.

Come join us for a chat at irc.freenode.net , channel #fosdem.

For press inquiries *only*, contact:

• Mark Van den Borre, +32 486 961726, mvandenborre@fosdem.org (NL, EN)
• Elise Huard, +32 486 511450, ehuard@fosdem.org (FR, NL, EN)
• Pascal Bleser, pbleser@fosdem.org (DE, EN)

Website archives

One thing you might like is the availability of the websites of previous years.

The plan is to archive the sites yearly (like we did in the past) and place them on this location:
http://archive.fosdem.org

Mailinglist archives

You can find the mailinglist archives here: http://fosdem.org/lists/fosdem