Hello and welcome to the June 2003 LPI-News report.
The Linux Professional Institute is a non-profit organization sponsored by the Linux community to offer certification for system administration.
1; Website
2; Translating the website
3; Linux User and Developer - UK
4; LPI in Brazil
5; Training centre web-site
6; OSCON in Portland Oregon LinuxTag in Germany Linux World San Francisco USA and Birmingham UK
7; Looking for testimonials from candidates.
8; LPI in the UK
1; http://www.lpi.org
After some thought and much discussion the website has been redesigned. Please have a look and check it out. We are attempting to give the site a more professional and polished look - I hope you think we have achieved this look. It still has a few problems that are being worked on, but if you see anything that looks incorrect - or have any general comments, please let us know; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2; Translating the website.
LPI is looking for assistance to translate the website. We have volunteers already looking after the German translation and the Brazilian/Portuguese translation - but all other translation require some work, we would appreciate your assistance in this project.
If you can help with any translation, please log on here;
http://www.lpi.org/en/contrib/getting_started.html
and join the lpi-web list.
https://www.lpi.org/en/maillists.html
3; http://www.linuxuser.co.uk
LPI attended the Linux User and Developer conference in Birmingham England last week. It was the first show they have ever put on - and it seemed to go very well.
Two of the most well known speakers; Jon Maddog Hall spoke on 'Programming Linux for the 21st century'. and also on 'Total cost of ownership' - his talks were well received as usual. Alan Cox spoke on the 2.6 kernel improvements and updates - again very well received by the conference attendees.
The LPI booth was part of the much larger .org area where all the non-profit organizations were found. My neighbours were the guys from Debian who were of course, discussing the use of Debian, and an organization called UKCDR.org (Campaign for Digital Rights) and you can read about them here; http://www.ukcdr.org
4; LPI in Brazil
LPI President Evan Leibovitch was in S�o Paulo for two separate visits in June. While there he meet with government officials, delivered a two-day exam lab, and gave a speech before 400 people at a special meeting held by the local IT user group, SUCESU-SP. Most importantly, the trips were used to help form a permanent Brazilian affiliate group.
It has been extremely gratifying to see how many friends Linux and LPI have throughout the country. We are confident that the new group will bring together the academic, government and vendor communities to increase the use and education of Linux and "Software Livre" in Brazil.
Special thanks go to people from 4Linux, Cyclades, Conectiva and IBM for making the visits a complete success!
5; Lintraining.com
For those who are looking for training in Linux, there is an independent website available; http://www.lintraining.com
This site will help you locate the closest training site in your area.
If you are interested in adding your training centre to this site, please follow the 'add a centre link'. http://lintraining.com/submitcenter.php3
6; OSCON Portland, Oregon http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/
LinuxTag Karlsruhe, Germany http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/de/index.html
Linux World San Francisco, USA http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny03/V40/index.cvn
LPI will attend the above shows and conferences and will offer exam labs at each one. We are also planning to offer exam labs in Sydney, Australia and Hanoi, Vietnam in mid-August, though exact venues and dates are to be confirmed.
If you are interested in participating at the OSCON, Sydney or Vietnam exam labs - please let me know - [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are interested in participating at the LinuxTag lab - please contact - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you are interested in the Linux World exam labs - please watch the website at the end of this month for details to be posted.
7; Are you willing to write a testimonial on LPI's behalf ?
We are looking for testimonials that can be used in the website and other promotional material. Anyone who is interested can email Stacy (our new-business director) directly for further instructions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] We need these by July 11th, if possible.
8; We have been contacted by Adrian Thomasset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who is interested in putting together an LPI-UK affiliate and if anyone is interested in participating in this group and helping out, we suggest you use the LPI-UK mailing list to show your interest and start a dialogue.
http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo
Finally;
Some interesting reading here;
http://www.nwfusion.com/careers/2003/0602man.html
http://www.itworldcanada.com/index.cfm/highlight_keywords/ linux%20professional%20institute/ci_id/43406.htm
Let me know if you find any errors of have any questions on the News letter, or if you have anything you think should be added for the July News. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Wilma
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Wilma Silbermann VP Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 874 4822
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