Re: Tom Peters joining Linuxcare

[John Scroggins]

Cheers Tom !

Good Show 

all the best 


John @ Dataefx
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 11:45 AM
Subject: Tom Peters joining Linuxcare


>LPI Advisory Council Members,
>
>After much research, Linuxcare recently decided to open its first
>European 
>office in Amsterdam.  As part of this effort, we began contacting people 
>we knew in the Amsterdam area who were knowledgable about Linux to
>determine
>if they would be available for employment.  We had seen Tom Peters
>activity
>with LPI, were impressed with what he was doing, and contacted him in
>the
>course of our search.  We learned that in fact Tom was ending a research
>contract and was about to start actively searching for future
>employment.
>
>After learning of Tom's availability, we had some lengthy internal
>debate
>about the wisdom of bringing Tom on board.  We were (and continue to be)
>very concerned about any even minor perceptions that the LPI process
>would
>be biased toward any one company.  While we were aware that the LPI
>Board 
>maintains a policy that no more than 2 of its 6 (in the near future, 7)
>Board members can be employed by the same company, we recognized that as
>we already employ Dan York, bringing on Tom would in fact mean that
>Linuxcare
>would employ two of the current LPI Board members and we were concerned
>about
>how that might be perceived.
>
>In the end, we felt that the value that could be gained by having Tom 
>employed by a Linux-related company (rather than by some company in
>another
>industry) was too great and we did not want to see his level of activity
>with LPI greatly reduced because of outside employment concerns. With 
>that in mind, and after Tom discussed the matter with the other LPI
>Board 
>members, we finalized a relationship where Tom will join Linuxcare as a 
>technical writer.
>
>FYI, Tom is the Secretary of the Board of LPI and is also charged with 
>program development.  With less spare time due to new responsibilities 
>within Linuxcare and with the program for LPI level 1 essentially 
>finished, in the future Tom will be less involved with exam development 
>and concentrate more on his LPI secretarial tasks.
>
>I hope that this action on our part will be viewed as a positive step
>and
>I would be glad to communicate with any of you about this matter. Please
>feel free to contact me using the information below.
>
>Jim
>
>-- 
>Jim Schweizer, Director, Education and Certification
>415 354-4878 x340 tel, 415 701-7457 fax
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/
>Linuxcare Inc. -  At the center of Linux.
>
>
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