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Hello and welcome to LPI-News for February 2001.
In this newsletter:
- Prosoft and LPI Join Forces
- LPI Job Analysis Survey
- LWE Report
- Paris Linux Expo Report
- LPI Certified Hiring Practices
- Russian LPI Efforts
- Bulk LPI Testing Vouchers
- Sponsors in the spotlight
PROSOFT TRAINING AND LPI JOIN FORCES;
Prosoft Training has announced that they will retire their Linux
Certified Administrator certification program and begin to use
LPI’s certification exams instead. Prosoft will be focusing on
developing courseware to prepare for LPI exams, and continue their
Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) program.
“We are pleased to support LPI’s significant efforts to
establish a strong vendor-neutral Linux certification program. As a
charter sponsor of LPI, we recognize and support the needs for
Linux training and certification among Internet professionals,”
said Jerry Baird, ProsoftTraining.com CEO.
“We believe that support of the LPI certification complements
our industry leading vendor-neutral certification for Internet
professionals.”
ProsoftTraining.com and LPI will convert all Linux Certified
Administrator (LCA) recipients’ credentials to the LPI
certification program, giving these recipients automatic credit
toward the LPI 101 entry-level certification examination.
ProsoftTraining.com will immediately retire its Linux Certified
Administrator exam and the associated credential, while continuing
to develop and courseware preparatory to the LPI exams. Prosoft’s
flagship certification program, Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW),
already includes extensive material on Linux. CIW courses cover
such topics as server administration, security, integration with
Microsoft Windows servers, and Web site development.
LPI JOB ANALYSIS SURVEY (JAS):
The survey for LPI Level 2 exams is underway! We’ve had a great
response so far, but we’re still eager to hear from any senior
Linux admins who haven’t taken the survey yet.
One lucky admin will win 2 vouchers to take the Level 2 LPI
exams when the are completed, so be sure to take the survey if you
haven’t already. You can find the LPIC-2 survey at: http://www.lpi.org/cgi-bin/jass.py
REPORT FROM THE NEW YORK LINUXWORLD EXPO – Jan 31 – Feb 2nd
2001
Julie Thornton, our marketing director, was at this show and
reported;
“The LPI booth in the was in a terrific position at the front
end of .org row. We had a great deal of help from Kara and Steven
Pritchard, who were in the booth several hours of every day, as
well as a handful of other volunteers who we appreciate very much
for their time.
Attendees ranged from LPI Alumni to folks who were just checking
out “this Linux thing.” We were grateful to have a donated computer
with connectivity to the LPI website, which allowed us to recruit
participants in the Job Task Analysis Survey at http://www.lpi.org/cgi-bin/jass.py
A few media representatives spoke with Dan York about the program,
and we look forward to articles appearing over the next several
weeks which call attention to the LPI program.
Trade shows like LinuxWorld are a great opportunity to build
awareness of the Linux Certification program LPI has developed, and
we are pleased to participate with the help of our volunteers. LPI
will be exhibiting at CeBit in Hanover, Germany March 22 – 26 in
Hall 3, Stand C57, Booth C01 and we would be grateful for anyone
interested in volunteering in the booth!”
REPORT FROM THE PARIS LINUX EXPO – Feb 1st and 2nd
Jerry Crick is one of our volunteers from the UK who helps with
website maintenance, and he volunteered to go to the Paris show,
and offer information on LPI for us. It looks like he had a good
time, and the show was successful in many ways – according to
Jerry;
“We had a good trip visiting places like the Louvre, Musee
d’Orsy, Arc de Triumph and Notre Dame as well as having several
good meals” – sounds like he was working hard;)
“I spoke to several people interested in taking the exams and
understanding how the LPI certificate would benefit their careers.
It is clear that many Europeans are very keen on the Linux movement
and approach.”
“We need to say a bit more about the benefits of LPI exams to
those who potentially will become certified – how it is better to
get a cert which is cross distro and lasts forever unlike some
others! The issue of how relevant an old certificate is – came up
and I pointed out that nobody would expect to hire someone with an
outdated cert and no recent experience.”
Thanks Jerry, for speaking for us at this event.
If anyone else is interested in helping out at any conferences
or shows, please contact us – [email protected] or [email protected].
We hope you had an opportunity to visit LPI at one of the
booths, in New York, Amsterdam or Paris. If not, we will be in
Hanover in March and Chicago and Singapore in April 2001, we hope
to see you there! – for details see http://www.lpi.org/i-events.html.
LPI CERTIFIED HIRING PRACTICES:
We are looking to our friends and volunteers, our advisory
council and supporters to help put in place a hiring practice at
their company which will require any new Linux system admin. hires
be LPI certified. If you can assist in this program it would be
greatly appreciated. If your human resources department need any
information, please have them contact us at [email protected] or
[email protected].
RUSSIAN LPI EFFORT:
We have been contacted by some interested parties in Russia.
They would like to participate in our program, and have started to
build the website in Russian – we look forward to lots more input
from them.
We also need to remind people that should you wish to put
together some kind of formal (or informal) proposal to have LPI in
another country, we are building some documents to help you go
forward; please contact Greg, our International Committee chair
[email protected] or [email protected].
GETTING BULK LPI TESTING VOUCHERS:
Should anyone decide they want their whole team to take our
exams, it might be of interest to know we have basic discounts for
bulk purchases. (Payment to be made in advance.)