Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:28:54 -0400
From: lpi-announce-bounce@lpi.org
To: lpi-announce@lpi.org
Subject: LPI News – October 24 2000
Welcome to yet another edition of LPI News.
Comments, concerns or ideas for the newsletter are always
appreciated.
Please contact me at: wilma@lpi.org
Here are the most recent happenings at LPI.
EXAMS ARE LIVE!
We are pleased to be able to report that our first level exams,
LPI 101 and 102 are now Live at all Vue (Virtual University
Enterprises-
http://www.vue.com/linux)
This means that if you take your exams today, you will receive your
results immediately – no waiting! This is true of all the Vue
locations both in North America and also around the world.
SCORE REPORTS!
Now that we are Live, we will be sending all remaining score
reports to our candidates by October 25th. Please look for your
score reports to arrive by snail mail by the end of October
2000.
SOUTH AFRICA!
Our friends in South Africa – CLUG (Cape Linux Users Group)
recently participated in a show called “Computer Faire Cape 2000”
in Cape Town. http://www.cfaire.co.za/obc/cape/frameset_index.html
Our thanks to Thomas Andrews who did some promotion of the LPI
program. Thomas says Linux is really gaining some ground in South
Africa – good news!
OTHER SHOWS AND CONFERENCES!
We are busy trying to get LPI recognized, and to that end we try
to attend as many shows, and conferences as possible to talk to
people and let them know our mandate, and our philosophy.
We were at: Interop in Atlanta in September and also at ALS
(Atlanta Linux Showcase) – We were also in Frankfurt at the Linux
Business Expo there. Thanks to those who came by to either help out
or just to say hello.
If you are interested in participating either as a booth
assistant of speaker for LPI – please let me know, we would love to
have you participate in some way:
http://www.lpi.org/i-events.html
UPCOMING CONFERENCES!
Our next ‘appearances’ will be at the Toronto Linux Expo at the
Toronto Convention Centre on October 30th, 31st and Nov 1st.
http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/EN/
and; Comdex in Las Vegas Nevada – November 13th to 17th. http://www.key3media.com/comdex/
We have volunteers assisting us at shows in Kuala Lumpur,
http://linuxworldmalaysia.com
and in Austin, Texas at the ITEC show http://goitec.com – thank
you, Dave Mynatt and friends in Austin, http://goitec.com – thank you, Dave Mynatt
and friends in Austin, and Richard Sharpe who will be in
Malaysia.
Hope to see some or you at these shows – please drop by and say
hello!
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS!
You will have noticed that we now have 5 different translations
of our website available – and we are in process of translating
into quite a few others, thanks so much to those who have helped
make this happen! http://www.lpi.org If you are interested
in helping with translations, please contact
me – wilma@lpi.org
FINALLY!
It’s been another exciting month here at LPI, and we are just
waiting for the translation to be completed so that our exams will
also be available in Japanese – More on this issue in the next
LPI-NEWS!
Thanks to you all for your support of LPI.