On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:14 AM Vicente Jiménez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Sergio, for starting this thread, and thank you, Matt, for > bringing this up. To be honest, I hadn't paid enough attention to what the > LPI membership was. > As brielfy as I can state it, membership is the 'unit' of control over the governance of LPI itself. This includes voting for new board members and being able to have members nominate you for the ballot. Non-members can also apply to the Nomination Committee to get on a second ballot, too. An announcement about this year's elections was just emailed to people on our newsletter lists this morning: https://www.lpi.org/elections/2022 As for the "PDU system", this exists for two reasons. The first being that members need to have a valid/active LPI certification in order to become and stay a member. Participating and submitting PDUs will keep your certifications active. Otherwise, you would eventually have to (re)take some exams in order to maintain LPI membership eligibility. The second reason for the PDUs are that they provide demonstrable, audited and provable evidence that you've been using your credentials in a professional setting and learning tech (and tech-adjacent) topics beyond the baseline in the LPI certifications. > Even though I've been a Linux user/admin for more than 20 years, it wasn't > until 5 years ago that I got my first certs, LPIC-1 and LPIC-2. They helped > me land a job as an OSS instructor for a well-known Linux organization, and > I couldn't be more grateful. > This is great to hear. Congratulations, too. > My LPIC-2 will expire in less than 4 months and it's time I think about > how to maintain it, and at the same time, it is a great opportunity to give > something back to the community. > It seems like the LPI Membership is a great choice, but I still don't > fully understand how the PDUs are evaluated, whether it'd be in a > retroactive way, or only actions performed after the membership starts do > count, which 3rd party certifications would count for it, etc. > When you join LPI (or start a new 3 year PDU cycle), your credentials' active dates are extended by the length of your membership. You can pick 1 or 3 years at a time. And renew for a total of 3 years. During those 3 years, you only need to submit PDUs if you want to renew your membership and extend the credentials by up to 3 more years. Otherwise, your certs will go inactive and you'll lose your eligibility for membership. What would be the most suitable next step to clarify these doubts? > You have a few options here. 1. Retake the LPIC-2 exams or one of the LPIC-3 exams before they go inactive. This will extend your LPIC-2 by 5 years, per usual. 2. Join LPI as a member. Your certifications' active dates will be extended by the length of your membership with PDUs only being required over the next 3 years _if_ you want to renew your membership 3 years from now (and you haven't retaken LPIC-2 or earned an LPIC-3). 3. Let your certs go inactive. At some point in the future, you can 'reactivate' them by submitting some PDUs from the prior 12 months (the only time we look backwards) and join LPI as a member. Your membership and certifications' active dates then progress as in #2 above. Here's some additional info about the membership program, too: https://www.lpi.org/member/program Take care, --matt > Thank you in advance! > > Kind regards, > Vicente J. Jiménez Miras > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 5:29 PM G. Matthew Rice via lpi-examdev < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Sergio, >> >> Yes, this version will be available all year. >> >> Also, if you're solely interested in maintaining your >> certification's active date, membership is an option: >> https://www.lpi.org/blog/2020/09/25/benefits-becoming-lpi-member >> and would cost less than retaking exams. >> >> Take care, >> --matt >> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:02 PM Sergio Belkin via lpi-examdev < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I'd like to renew my certs this year. I'd want to know if current >>> objectives (as in >>> https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-2_Objectives_V4.5#Overview_of_Tasks) >>> will be valid during 2022. >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> -- >>> -- >>> Sergio Belkin >>> LPIC-2 Certified - http://www.lpi.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lpi-examdev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev >> >> >> >> -- >> G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> gpg id: >> 0x17CF9077 >> Executive Director, Linux Professional Institute >> _______________________________________________ >> lpi-examdev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev > > > > -- > "Llegará el dia en el que no sabré decir nada con certeza si no lo busco > en Google." > -- Vicente J. Jiménez (2 Nov 2004) -- > -- G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> gpg id: 0x17CF9077 Executive Director, Linux Professional Institute
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