Linux Professional Institute Announces Academic Training Partners in Malaysia Malaysia in LPI News.
Join us in LPI Malaysia Facebook Fanpage https://www.facebook.com/LPI.Malaysia and LPI International Facebook Fanpage https://www.facebook.com/LPIConnect LPI International Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/lpiconnect Archive http://list.lpi.org/pipermail/media/2011-October/000202.html http://lwn.net/Articles/462654/ -------------- From: Scott Lamberton <slamberton-AT-lpi.org>To: lpi-announce-AT-lpi.orgSubject: [LPI] [LPI-News] Linux Professional Institute Announces Academic Training Partners in MalaysiaDate: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:38:10 -0400Message-ID: <4e9462e2.5020...@lpi.org>Cc: media-AT-lpi.orgArchive-link: Article, ThreadLPI Announces Academic Training Partners in Malaysia (Sacramento, CA, USA: October 11, 2011) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization(http://www.lpi.org), and its affiliate, LPI-Asia Pacific(http://www.lpi-apac.org/) announced new LPI-Approved Academic Partnersin Malaysia: Faculty of Information Technology, Multimedia University(MMU) and the Advanced Medical and Dental Institute, Universiti SainsMalaysia (USM). "Malaysia has long been a leader in the adoption of Open Sourcetechnology within their public sector and LPI is pleased to be part ofthat effort. In particular, these two new LPI training partners fromMalaysia's leading academic institutions is indicative of the efforts of our affiliate in the region, LPI-APAC, to reach out to that country's IT training organizations," said Jim Lacey, president and CEO of LPI. Mr. Lacey pointed out that LPI first announced a partnership program for Malaysia's IT training organizations in February (see:http://www.lpi.org/eng/about_lpi/what_s_new/lpi_develops_...) Ibrahim Yusof of the MMU noted that Faculty of Information Technologychose to align with the LPI certification program so as to ensure thattheir students had the highest level of technical skills possible:"Linux is an important tool for every IT or Engineering graduate. Linuxis popular in Malaysia, especially with developers and systemadministrators. Therefore, if you are LPI certified as Linux-proficient, your career choices are that much wider." MMU is Malaysia's first private university and since 1997 has producedover 26,000 graduates. MMU is focused in the fields of Engineering,Information Technology, Business and Management, Creative Multimedia,Accounting, Law, Medical IT and Bio-Informatics. The Faculty ofInformation Technology (FIST) at Melaka (http://fist.mmu.edu.my) and the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) at Cyberjaya(http://fit.mmu.edu.my) will be providing Linux training courses towards the LPI certification program. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) through the Advanced Medical andDental Institute (AMDI: http://www.amdi.usm.edu.my/) also offers training programs towards all three levels of LPI certification (LPIC-1, LPIC-2 and LPIC-3). USM was established in 1969 and has offered courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels to approximately 20,000 students. Prof. Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, the Vice-Chancellor of USM noted the growing importance of Open Source Software in Malaysia as one of the reasons that the USM adopted an LPI training program: ""Open source means that anyone can and has the right to obtain access to the technology. It is not commodity-based and is not just accessible to those who can afford it. This means that we can share any technologies that have been developed for the people and everyone has the same rights to use the technology." Other LPI training partners in Malaysia include LPI Approved TrainingParter (LPI-ATP) CBT-TECHNOLOGY.COM (http://www.cbt-technology.com/) and LPI-ATP Asia Talk (http://www.asiatalk.com.my/). For more information on LPI's training partner program please see:http://www.lpi.org/training The Linux Professional Institute is globally supported by the ITindustry, enterprise customers, community professionals, governmententities and the educational community. LPI's certification program issupported by an affiliate network spanning five continents and isdistributed worldwide in multiple languages at more than 7,000 testinglocations. Since 1999, LPI has delivered over 290,000 exams and 95,000LPIC certifications around the world. # # # About the Linux Professional Institute: The Linux Professional Institute provides a global framework, industryleadership and other services to enhance, develop and further lifelongprofessional careers in Linux and Open Source technologies. Establishedas an international non-profit organization in September 1999 by theLinux community, the Linux Professional Institute continues todemonstrate recognized global leadership, direction and skill standardsfor those who pursue a career in Linux and Open Source technology. LPIadvances the Linux and Open Source movement through strategic partners,sponsorships, innovative programs and community development activities.LPI's major financial sponsors are Platinum Sponsors IBM, Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Novell, SGI, and TurboLinux as well as Gold Sponsors, HP and IDG. Media Contacts: Scott LambertonDirector of CommunicationsLinux Professional Institutehttp://www.lpi.orgslamber...@lpi.org+1-905-269-0862 Ibrahim YusofLinux Academy, Faculty of Information Science and TechnologyMulti-Media UniversityTelephone: +606-252 3422Email: ibrahim.yu...@mmu.edu.my Adnan bin HamidBio-ICT ManagerAdvanced Medical and Dental InstituteUniversiti Sains MalaysiaEmail: adn...@amdi.usm.edu.myTelephone: 604-5622241Mobile: 6012-4560356 -- Scott LambertonDirector of CommunicationsLinux Professional Institutehttp://www.lpi.orgslamber...@lpi.org+1-905-269-0862 _______________________________________________Linux Professional Institutemedia mailing listContact: Scott Lamberton, Director of CommunicationsEmail: slamberton@lpi.orgTelephone: +1-905-269-0862 To Subscribe or unsubscribe do so directly at: http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/media_______________________________________________lpi-announce mailing listlpi-announce@lpi.orghttp://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-announce -- Malaysia Open Source Software Conference 2011 MOSC2011 http://www.mosc.my/ Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 (MOSC2012) http://portal.mosc.my/ LinuxMalaysia Network http://www.facebook.com/Bukan.Sekadar.Internet.Sahaja Harisfazillah Jamel -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ OSCC Knowledge Bank Mailing List * To visit MAMPU Opensource on the web, go to: http://opensource.mampu.gov.my * To visit OSCC Knowledge Bank on the web, go to: http://www.oscc.org.my * To unsubscribe from this group, please go here: http://lists.oscc.org.my/mailman/listinfo/oscc-discuss http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cyberjaya-Malaysia/OSCC-MAMPU/66729159214 "OSCC Discuss Mailing Lists is intended to solely promote, discuss and announce OSS related topics and promotion of non-OSS matters is strictly prohibited. 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