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Tonight Live: LPI and the state of Certification
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Tonight: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 from Chicago IL
Tonight on www.thelinuxshow.com.
We are BACK and this week; Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls,
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tonight. ?????
ALL News Tonight.
We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week
including: Microsoft wears the frock of corporate confusion, Sco
tap dancing, Government Waste, plus a clueless pundit or
two…….. and way more.
Story Links
- Fighting
for Radio: – By Doc Searls
Cherry launches keyboard for Linux users by Ingrid Marson – ZD
Net UK- Linux
in South Korea Schools: By Sejin Kim – ZD Net - Certification not
required: Linux Insider – By Todd R. Weiss (lets see how our
guest responds to this) - Linux Desktop
Needs PC Vendor Support By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols –
eWeek - Samba-3: A
Nine User Network Server By John Terpstra – InformIT
Open source vs non-open source computing BY INUS GOUWS –
ItWeb- Microsoft –
Submitted by listener Dan Taylor - Waste
in the UK – Submitted By listener Geoff Lane - 10
years and three failures take courts IT full circle (More UK
Waste) – Submitted By listener Geoff Lane
Microsoft quits U.N. standards group By John Markoff –
CNet- The
GPL Pickle SCO Is In — IBM’s Memo in Support of PSJ on
Counterclaim for Copyright Infringement – as text –
GrokLaw - Mirrors- we need em! and how!
Segment Two- LPI–
We are joined tonight by Evan Leibovitch of the
Linux Professional Institute, and we will be
discussing the ongoing cerification efforts of LPI. LPI was
formally incorporated as a Canadian non-profit and is headquartered
near Toronto. LPI brings together an active and committed community
with the companies and professionals who can fund and carry out
LPI’s initiatives. LPI is recognized worldwide as the premier
organization advocating and assisting in the professional use of
Linux, open source, and free software.
LPI is working on a number of initiatives to accomplish its
advocacy goals, but is currently best known for its Linux skills
certification exams. LPI’s industry standard certifications are
delivered in thousands of locations worldwide, in multiple
languages and with the support of employers, vendors, and trainers.
It has delivered over 50,000 Level One and Level Two certification
exams globally since the program’s inception. ¨LPI is an
important resource to the open source sector and its leadership in
the development of high quality linux certification is celebrated
by the community
Evan Leibovitch was one of the co-founders of
LPI. Before taking the role as LPI President, he was a Vice
President at Starnix Inc., a Linux-centric VAR located near
Toronto. He registered his first Internet domain in 1986, has been
involved with Unix even longer, and first started using Linux in
1996. He was a co-founder of the Canadian Linux Users’ Exchange and
has written on Linux issues for a number of publications. Evan has
a degree in Philosophy from York University and a graduate degree
in Journalism from Ryerson Polytechnic University.
Very recently LPI, together with its U.S. Affiliate, the Open
Source Software Institute (OSSI) announced the appointment of Ted
Cook as Director of US Business Development.¨ The US represents
the world´s single largest IT market and represents a
significant opportunity for the open source sector in general. But,
is lagging in overall adoption to the rest of the world. Ted is
already very well known to the open source sector in the US and
will bring a strong background in business development and
progressive marketing to the LPI organization to help to establish
the LPI brand to US based IT firms.
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