Welcome to our monthly News-Letter for February 2002. We hope it is of interest, and if there are any comments please write to us; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. LPI offers special program for Sair LCAs. 2. LPI was in New York at the Linux World Show. 3. Plans being put together for LPI to offer exams through Prometric. 4. LPI goes to CeBit in Hannover, Germany. http://www.hfusa.com/cebit Hall 3- Stand C57 - Booth D2 4A. CEBIT TESTING SITE - Take an LPI-101 exam at the show for 50 Euros. Thanks to IBM and MandrakeSoft for their sponsorship. 5. Volunteers of the month; Atsushi Nagano and Junichi Morita. Yokogawa Engineering Service Corp. http://www.yokogawa.co.jp 6. IBM Exam Preparation 7. Authorized training material - www.procertcom.com 8. Sponsor in the spotlight; O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com 9. LPI candidates exceed 1,000 for the month of December 2001. 10. Worldwide Affiliates. 1. LPI's program for Sair graduates. LPI has offered to all Sair LCA's the opportunity to become LPI certified. If the Sair graduate wishes to become LPI Level 1 certified, we will accept the Sair certification plus he must take 1 of the Level 1 exams - (LPI-101 or LPI-102). If the Sair graduate wishes to become Level 2 certified, we will accept the Sair LCA certification, plus he must take both the LPI Level 2 exam (LPI-201 and LPI-202). He will then become both LPI Level 1 and Level 2 certified. We recognize that Sair graduates have worked hard for their Sair certification, and want to make it as easy as possible for them to become LPI certified. You will see the detail on this program on the LPI website. http://www.lpi.org 2. LPI in New York at the Linux World Show. Anyone who attended the show in New York will have noticed their was a different attitude within the show. There were just as many suits as sandles - and real business discussions going on every where. It was all about about doing business using Linux. At the LPI booth there were lots of discussions going on, such as what CompTia is doing with LPI (we even had Eva Chen of CompTia explaining how Linux Plus will be a certification for beginners to Linux, and a stepping stone to LPI.) We also had LPI exams going on downstairs thanks to the sponsorship of IBM - We were able to offer these exams at a discount, and plan to do these inexpensive test sites where-ever we can - starting with CeBit in Hannover next month - (see #4A below). 3. Prometric and LPI. We have started discussions with Prometric, to offer our exams through their testing sites. This will take some time to roll out, but we hope to have the exams published through Prometric within the next few weeks. We will, of course continue to offer our exams through Vue's test sites. http://www.vue.com/lpi> 4. CeBit in Hannover, Germany - March 13th to March 20th If you are in Hannover during these dates, please come to CeBit and visit us at the LPI Booth; Hall 3- Stand C57 - Booth D2 If you can help out at the booth, we would appreciate it - but if you would just like to come and say 'Guten Tag' or Hello, we would be happy to meet you. 4A. Discount Testing at Cebit, thanks to IBM and Mandrake http://www.ibm.com and http://www.mandrakesoft.com With the assistance of IBM and Mandrakesoft, we will be offering discounted exams at the Cebit show; For 50 Euros you can take the LPI 101 exam. The exam 102 to complete the Level 1 certification must be taken at a Vue location; http://www.vue.com/lpi Please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you would like to put your name down in advance. (Please note we will require cash only (50Euros) as we don't have the ability to deal with other forms of payment.) We will offer the exams at: 2PM on March 14th, 10AM and 2PM on March 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19th. 5. Volunteers of the month; Atsushi Nagano and Junichi Morita, from - http://www.yokogawa.co.jp Nagano San and Morita San came from Japan to be at the New York Linux World. They spent their time at the LPI booth, helping us give out information. We would like to thank them for their time and effort. 6. Please have a look at the IBM exam preparation that has been put together by IBM; http://news.lpi.org/stories.php?story=02/02/04/1732612 7. Courseware approval by Procert. Due to requests by many different groups, LPI has contracted with Procert Labs to approve courseware. LPI will remain a neutral body in this - and has asked Procert to ensure the course-ware meets definate standards to be approved by Procert. Courseware providers have the opportunity to have their courseware approved, should they wish to do this. Please contact Procert at; http://www.procertcom.com 8. Sponsor in the Spotlight; http://www.oreilly.com/ Our friends at O'Reilly are this months sponsor in the spotlight. They kindly helped at the Linux World Show in New York, by offering our exam takers a free "LPI in a Nutshell" book. This was a very kind offer - and we really appreciate all their support, the exam takers who received the book were all delighted. 9. LPI has over 1,000 exams taken in December 2001. We are pleased to tell you that the exams taken in December exceeded the 1,000 mark. We have grown from a few exams a month to this number in just 2 short years. We gave our first exam in January 2000. 10. Worldwide Affiliates. LPI is planning to make our affiliations all over the world more official. Anyone who is interested in participating in an International affiliate, should contact us; [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Wright is our International Chairman). FAQ http://www.lpi.org/international_faq.html Guide http://www.lpi.org/affiliate_guidelines.html Thank-you for your interest in LPI, and please contact us if you would like to participate in our plans, or have any ideas or comments. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 905 874 4822 Wilma Silbermann Executive Assistant [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 874 4822 -- -- This message was sent by the lpi-announce mailing list. To unsubscribe: send Subject: unsubscribe lpi-announce to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
