> If the public perception of LPI changes to »yet another certificate« > (regardless of whether we, who are close enough to the process to at least > get some insight, and who care, subscribe to this POV or not), all the > credit > that it started out with as the »community- based certification« will be > lost, > > and this will be very difficult to re- gain. We -- and that means not just > the > LPI executive, but the sum total of all people involved in LPI work, > including folks like us who go out to actually *prepare* candidates, or > teach > general Linux classes where we try to nudge the participants towards > considering LPIC -- have to work at making LPI the #1 Linux certification, > and as we all know this is not an easy task. It requires cooperation at all > levels. In recent years we have made significant inroads towards convincing > the community that a non- proprietary Linux certification is actually a Good > Thing To Have Around -- when there used to be significant antagonism to the > idea, and still is in places. *Please* do not jeopardise all this work by > sacrificing so much of what we used to use as »ammunition« when »spreading > the word« among the heath^Wuncertified, just to make LPIC more appealing > to »business« minds. Your candidates still come from the community. >
Very well said. -------------------------------------- Ryan McCain Northrop Grumman Corporation Linux System Administrator 3 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 225.505.3832 Fax: 225.219.0540 Registered Linux User #364609 _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
