On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 7:22 PM G. Matthew Rice: > And, if you ever need to dust off the credential, you could join for one > year. That'll reactivate the cert for whatever needed purpose. That's > about 35% of the cost of taking one exam and less than 20% of the cost of > retaking LPIC-1. As well, if you had an LPIC-2 go inactive and you wanted > to get LPIC-3, reactivating the LPIC-2 and carrying on is much less > expensive than retaking LPIC-1 and LPIC-2. Even the 3 year membership is > 90% of the cost of an exam and 45% of the cost of retaking LPIC-1. >
And there you go ... the head honcho of LPI telling everyone how to 'game' the system and save money. How many companies, let alone non-profits, have leaders that give you that? And I won't even go into the 'costs' of other entities, especially outside of GNU/Linux. I think I already mentioned that LPI is 1/5th to 1/10th my IEEE membership costs. I get a lot more out of LPI, although just like LPI, the IEEE does a lot for human knowledge that I -- and everyone else -- indirectly benefit from. Both are non-profit, although IEEE makes a heck of a lot of money from selling materials, training, etc... LPI does not. I'm a member of both. But that's just me. ;) For the rest of this email, the TL;DR is: If you are getting everything you > need/want from the "pre-Member" LPI already, that part isn't changing and > membership may not be for you. > Insert the standard 'certifications' or 'college' or 'marriage' or whatever 'may not be for you' too. ;) As well, the board wanted there to be a focus to the membership other than > simply governance. And the thought was to transition from helping people > get their first or next job to helping more broadly in their careers and > communities. Which will explain the various initiatives that'll be popping > up or already have if you poke around the web site. > I'm going to use this post to also advertise that LPI Board of Directors Nominations are almost upon us (and Elections will follow after that), so those interested in making these types of decisions should be ready to let their interest be known to various parties within LPI. I'm not formally part of that process (at least not at this time), and I cannot advise further (at this time), but it is coming. Ultimately though, it'll be up to the members to (help) shape LPI going > forward. If you think there's something LPI, as an organization, should be > doing that it isn't (or should stop), you'll have to get involved. Or, at > least, come to the AGM and shoot your mouth off for a while. Hmm, maybe > that should be listed as a member benefit, too. :) > As the sign in the windows says, "If you don't like what you see here, volunteer!" Beware though ... Matt talked so much 15+ years ago they put him in charge. ;) My 100% *PEER* viewpoint, nothing more. - bjs
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