Welcome to the LPI-News for July 2003. The Linux Professional Institute is a non-profit organization sponsored by the community to offer vendor independent certification.
1; Linux World - San Francisco 2: LPI Objectives 3: LPI goes to Australia and Vietnam. 4: LPI-German at LinuxTag and LinuxWorld Frankfurt 4A: LPI-Volunteers of the Month 5: LPI-UK at the Olympia Expo 6: Exam Labs 7: Translating the website 8: Has the LPI certification helped you ? 1: Linux World - San Francisco. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com On Monday we will be setting up at the Linux World Expo in San Francisco and hope to meet some of our friends and supporters at the show. Please come to say hello to us at the .org area of the show. If anyone can help out at the booth - please stop by and lend a hand. We always need volunteers to talk about the program. LPI will be making a major announcement on desktop certification. Please watch the LPI website for details, or join the OSAC mailing list to particpate. http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/osac We will also be offering an exam lab in room 309 of the Moscone Center - and if anyone is interested in coming to the exam lab � we will be offering exam 101 and 201. Please ensure you come with your LPI ID number � which you can register for at the LPI website. 2: Printing the Objectives; The LPI exams are based on the objectives shown on the website, these objectives should be studied thoroughly, we suggest you print them, and refer to them often while preparing for the exams. http://www.lpi.org/en/lpic.html If you are running IE and can not print the objectives clearly, please go to this site and you can print the PDF that was prepared by one of the LPI volunteers. http://www.dancooper.co.uk/lpic/ We would like to thank Dan Cooper for his work in preparing this for use by others who need to print these objectives to help with their study process. 3: LPI in Australia and Vietnam; The President of LPI has planned a trip to Australia and Vietnam. Evan Leibovitch is president of LPI and he will speak at a Linux Australia event and then go on to Vietnam to speak to some Open Source enthusiasts in that country and also to offer exam labs. Please read through the press release here for some further details; http://www.lpi.org/en/news_item/9 4: LPI-German (an LPI affiliate representing all German speaking countries in Europe.) http://www.linuxworldexpo.de LPI German will be at the Linux World show in Frankfurt, Germany. Please drop in at their booth to say hello, and to learn about the new LPI affiliate and their work to promote LPI in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. LPI German also participated at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany and offered LPI exams at a discounted rate � they spoke to many people and encouraged many to participate in the LPI community program. http://www.linuxtag.de/ 4A: LPI Volunteers of the month; Marcel Henselin and Stephan Mueller. This month LPI would like to thank Marcel Henselin and Stephan Mueller for their assistance in running LPI's booth at LinuxTag. Marcel is LPIC-2 and helped proctor the exams during the four days of the show. (Even though he had to leave his wife and his 17 month old daughter at home.) He also offered to assist LPI at further activities. As a trainer and consultant he has received help and advice from the Linux community and now he wants to give some back. Stephan is a 21-year-old student from Paderborn, Germany. He is studying computer science at the University of Paderborn. Last December he started his LPI certification and subscribed to the German LPI mailing list lpi-de. Since then he has assisted LPI as a volunteer at CeBit and LinuxTag. 5: Linux Expo � Olympia, London UK LPI will also be going to London in October to attend the Linux Expo in Olympia. The plans are to create a UK affiliate that will promote LPI in the UK � there is already a core group on the LPI-UK mailing list who will discuss these plans in October. If anyone is interested in participating, please join the mailing list; http://www.lpi.org/en/maillists.html The mailing list chairman is attempting to create some interest in opensource, and has created the following site; http://www.osfoundation.net 6: Exam Labs You will notice that we offer many exam labs around the world. We have had exam labs in: Brazil, China, Germany, Canada, USA, UK and many other countries � at Linux conferences, at Computer shows, at Universities. In this way we are able to offer inexpensive exams � in many locations. If you are aware of a show or event that would benefit from an exam lab, please don't hesitate to let us know � perhaps we can try to accommodate the request. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7: Translating the website A few weeks ago LPI unveiled the new LPI website, which has been well received so far. http://www.lpi.org We are attempting to have the new site translated into many languages with the help of the Linux Community. We would like to thank those who have helped so far with the translations � however there are many areas of the site that need further translations. In particular; we have no translators for Korean Chinese (simplified) Chinese (big5) We need help with Arabic French Spanish Finnish Italian Japanese If you could help us with some of the translation please go to the site and log on. http://www.lpi.org/en/contrib/getting_started.html 8: Has the LPI certification helped you ? We are looking for comments on how the certification has helped you with employment or with your resume. Any comments are appreciated � both good and bad, as we need to know how certification is benefiting our candidates. Please let us know � send your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your continued support of LPI. Please stay in touch and participate in the LPI community; http://www.lpi.org/en/community.html -- Wilma Silbermann VP Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 874 4822 _______________________________________________ Lpi-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-announce
