The FreeBSD Foundation's semi-annual Newsletter is now available. There's a lot of information in this edition, including:

AboutBSD launched recently as a new planet for aggregating *BSD blogs. The founder of the site describes the goals of the website as follows:

I'm starting to put together my presentation for SummerCamp 2010. The presentation will discuss how to get started in an open source community. Do you have any questions you would like to see covered in such a presentation?

The autumn conference season is starting to gel and the BSDA exam will be available at a number of events across the globe. The conferences we have confirmed so far include:

Jim Brown from the BSD Certification Group provides an update on the BSDP exam objectives. We hope to publish these by end of month or very early August, and need as many people as possible to review and comment on the draft before it is published. Jim writes:

The latest FreeBSD quarterly status report has updates on some of the GSoC projects. Lots of interesting functionality coming down the pipe. From the report:

Late this month, O'Reilly will publish Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food by Jeff Potter.

PC-BSD 8.1 has just been released. From the announcement:

The FreeBSD Foundation funds various projects each year and there are several interesting projects in progress:

O'Reilly recently published the 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. This edition contains the original 1984 work, an update added in 1993, and an update added in May, 2010.

This is an excellent opportunity for new speakers to share their knowledge--note there may be travel assistance available. From the announcement:

The July issue of BSD Mag has just been announced. This month's editorial theme is OpenBSD and the authors include:

The July issue of the Open Source Business Resource is now available in PDF and HTML formats. The editorial theme this month is "Go to Market" and the authors include:

Are you familiar with system administration on BSD systems? If so, the BSD Certification Group needs your help in reviewing the exam objectives for the upcoming BSDP (BSD Professional) exam. Even if you don't have the time yourself, help us spread the word so we can get as many eyeballs as possible reviewing the objectives in preparation for their publication.

The announcement went out earlier this morning: on August 2 I'll start as the Community Manager for the PC-BSD project. Since this will be a full-time position, I'll be leaving the OSBR after the publication of the July issue.

The latest issue of BSD Mag is out. From the table of contents:

SouthEast LinuxFest will have a BSD presence:

Kris Moore has just announced the availability of PC-BSD 8.1 BETA:

Ever wonder why companies pay employees to actively contribute to an open soruce project? Or what benefits the open source project receives from such a collaboration? This month's issue of the Open Source Business Resource has a great article on the reasons behind Afilias' use of the PostgreSQL DBMS and the benefits both the company and the project receive from an active collaboration.

The June issue of the OSBR is now available in PDF and HTML formats. The editorial theme this month is "Growing Business" and the authors include: