Welcome to the Linux Professional Institute News for September 2003. This month the President of LPI, Evan Leibovitch, is pleased to tell you of some interesting news regarding LPI's participation at the 'World Summit on the Information Society'. His article can be found at the beginning of the news letter followed by other things LPI is doing. If you find any errors, or would like to let us know of other LPI related issues, please contact us at; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1; WSIS � Geneva, Switzerland. 2; Chinese Universities encourage the use of Linux and LPI. 2A; TechX New York 3; LPI will attend conferences in; - London, UK � Enterprise Linux Forum, Washington, D.C. - Toronto, Canada - Linux World - Frankfurt, Germany - Linux World - Hong-Kong 4; Connectiva, TurboLinux and Sair LCA Certification Upgrade Program. 5; The Retake Policy - Reminder. 6; Affiliate Groups Forming 7; Statistics 1; I have some very interesting, very exciting to share with all of you. A massive international conference is taking place later this year in Geneva. The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) brings together representatives from every country and thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in order to encourage the adoption of consistent, sustainable IT policies that protect rights and encourage commerce while encouraging high standards and ethics. This conference is sponsored by the United Nations and the International Telecommunications Union. Links to the multiple sites related to this conference are available at http://www.wsis-ipr.org/wsis-links.html LPI has recently received accreditation to this conference, one of a very small number of approved groups which is explicitly working to ensure greater support for free and open source software within the conference. We have already presented one statement to the conference: http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/md/03/wsispc3/c/S03-WSISPC3-C-0172!!PDF-E.pdf WSIS participation offers a number of opportunities to LPI. It gives us a chance to showcase our skills, our programs and our projects under development, before a worldwide audience that may not be aware of us. Attendees will include governments, groups advocating open source in the developing world, and more than 2,000 NGOs of all kinds; many of these groups may not yet be aware of LPI. They will know about us at the conference. Also, many of the organizations which LPI may be approaching for funding of our ongoing development projects will be in Geneva. We will have the opportunity to speak directly to potential sponsors and philanthropic organizations on a global level, where they can see first hand our efforts to bridge the worldwide technology gap while promoting quality education, high standards, and ethics. LPI is proposing to deliver a combination of workshops, displays and exam labs. True to our community form, we intend to work together with local Geneva user groups, with whom we are already in contact. It is our goal to demonstrate LPI's role as primarily one of action rather than pure advocacy. If you are interested in participating in LPI's involvement, please subscribe to the public [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. To do so, please go to this URL: http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/wsis Evan Leibovitch President, LPI 2; LPI went to China and New York in September.. In September, LPI travelled to China and offered exam labs at Universities in; Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian Shanghai University, Shanghai Sichuan University - Chengdu and Tianjin Univ. Tianjin With some assistance from IBM-China, we were able to create awareness of the LPI program in these locations. LPI offered a total of 600 exams at these exam labs. The students really appreciated our efforts to provide exams to them in this way. These Universities and many others are offering more and more Linux classes, and we hope to return one day to help create more awareness. LPI would like to thank the Professors at these Universities for their support and encouragement in this venture. I would also like to make special mention of my guide and assistant in China, YuJia Chen of IBM-China. She helped with all the arrangements, helped me find my lost luggage, and translated everything for me. Thank-you, YuJia. https://www.lpi.org/en/community_gallery.html Some of the LPI staff attended TechX New York this month. The show was well attended and Evan Leibovitch, LPI's president, made a presentation on Open Source Licencing Models. Attendees were able to take some Linux training and were encouraged to participate in the New York and New Jersey LUGs in the area; Here you will find a listing of all the Linux User Groups around the world. http://lugww.counter.li.org/ 3; LPI will attend the following shows and conferences in the next month or two; http://www.linuxexpo.uk.co In the month of October LPI will once again attend the Olympia Linux Expo and will offer an exam lab for those interested; 11 AM and 2 PM on October 8th and 9th . Cost will be 10 UK pounds. We will offer both exam 101 and 201. Please ensure you come with your LPI registration number which you can get here; https://www.lpi.org/en/register.html Charles Galpin, one of LPI's staff members will attend the Enterprise Linux Forum in Washington D.C. On October 22nd . http://www.jupiterevents.com/elf/fall03/index.html We will also attend the IT conference in Toronto, Canada - and offer certification exams - again we would ask you to register on the LPI website and come with a registration number to the exam lab which will be held at 10 am and 2pm on each day of the show. http://www.wowgao.com www.lpi.org/en/register.html Cost per exam will be $50 Cdn. LPI will also attend the Linux World show in Frankfurt in October and in HongKong in November 2003; Frankfurt; http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/ HongKong; https://www.lpi.org/en/news_item/22 4; New Upgrade Program. We are pleased to offer to any graduates of these programs the opportunity to become LPIC-1 by taking only 1 of the Level 1 exams. Any candidates who have completed the Conectiva or Turbolinux or Sair LCA certifications may take 1 of the LPI Level 1 exams to complete the LPIC-1. Please send us proof of your prior certification, and pass one LPI Level 1 exam at the Vue or Prometic test site of your choice and you will receive your Level 1 certificate. If you have any further questions on this program, please let me know; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5; Retake Policy Reminder This is a reminder for all LPI candidates that our retake policy can be found on the LPI website. http://www.lpi.org/en/policies.html It states that if you take the LPI exam and fail, you must wait 1 week before you can take it again. If you fail a second, third, fourth (etc) time � you must wait for 3 months before you can take the exam again. If you pass the LPI exam, you can not retake it until the exam has been updated and re-released. Candidates who do not adhere to the policy will have their certification denied. 6; Affiliate Groups. We are pleased to let you know that our official affiliate groups are the following; LPI-Japan - http://lpi.or.jp/ LPI-USA � http://www.oss-institute.org LPI-Brazil - http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-brasil LPI-German � http://www.de.lpi.org/index.original.html (for Germany, Switzerland and Austria.) We are still building affiliate programs in Australia, China, Canada, India and the UK. Various other locations are also interested. Anyone interested in participating should join the mailing list set up for the affiliate they are interested in or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpi.org/en/maillist.html 7; To keep you up-to-date on LPI statistics this is the number of exams taken up to the end of August 2003. Total Exams Taken = 31,577 Thank-you to all LPI supporters for their constant assistance and support. Without our volunteers supporters and friends LPI would not exist. Thanks again, -- Wilma Silbermann VP Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 874 4822 _______________________________________________ Lpi-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-announce
