LPI at LinuxWorld Mexico February 14 -17, 2006 LPI attended the first annual Linux World Mexico and hosted exam labs, a trade show booth, and a special press conference on LPI's 30,000 certificant.
LinuxWorld Mexico is part of the much larger annual trade show Expo Comm Mexico. LinuxWorld included the standard Linux exposition attendees as HP, IBM, Novell, RedHat and a number of local Mexican companies providing Open Source solutions. LPI's delegation was led by by Jim Lacey, President and CEO of LPI along with Jose Carlos Gouveia, LPI Area Operations Manager for Latin America and Glenn McKnight, LPI Director of Operations. Trade Show and Booth: The trade show component of the show was from 3 to 9 p.m. each day and LPI provided English and Spanish information material. The interest at the booth was high and required long hours of Jose Carlos providing details in Spanish to booth visitors who were interested in our certification program. In addition, Jose Carlos was a moderator at several speakers' panels at the conference. Press Conference: LPI hosted a highly successful press conference attended by a number of media representatives and which generated news stories including a posting on Thomson Business wire services (for more information see: http://www.bnamericas.com/story.jsp?sector=1¬icia=344629&idioma=I). The press conference was held to mark LPI's achievement of having delivered 30,000 certifications. The press conference included a plaque presentation to Daniel Guadalupe Huerta Santos of Leon, Mexico who was the recipient of LPI's 30,000 the certification. Daniel works in IT security for the Municipality of Leon, Mexico and he and his fellow local government officials will be assisting Jose Carlos in developing an LPI-Mexico affiliate. A picture of Daniel receiving his plaque can be found at: https://group.lpi.org/publicwiki/pub/Operations/Resources/LWMexico9.jpg (J.Lacey (left), D.Huerta (centre), J.Gouveia (right). Exam Labs: LPI held four exam labs during the event and was the first time we have provided PBT's in Spanish. Candidate feedback on the quality of the Spanish translation was very positive. Business Development: Jim Lacey and Jose Carlos Gouveia also had productive meetings with representatives of Novell: Carlos Montero-Luque, CTO of the Identity Product Group and Jorge Chacon, Marketing Director for Latin America who has also offered to facilitate further meetings. During the event Jose Carlos also identified leads for a further 5 potential LATPs for Latin America. -- Scott Lamberton Director of Communications Linux Professional Institute Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.lpi.org Telephone: +1-416-666-1574 _______________________________________________ lpi-team mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-team -- Scott Lamberton Director of Communications Linux Professional Institute Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.lpi.org Telephone: +1-416-666-1574 _______________________________________________ lpi-announce mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-announce
