Just stopped tonight to read many of the responses before heading back to work. I also wanted to see what debates would take place before I commented.
1. New objectives for LPIC-1/2 This is pretty simple, and basically underway. Take all the current and planned objectives for various, future LPIC-3 developments and "backfill them" into their "basics" at the junior/seasoned admin-level that are required for LPIC-1/2. It's much easier to look at the "top-level" foci for LPIC-3 and then realize what things should already be covered at the "lower-levels" in LPIC-1/2, if they are not covered already. For the most part, I see Matt harping on this (despite him being a Canadian who can't say "about" correctly -- and yes, we Americans really do believe we define everything as "correct" or not** ;). So I don't have any worries/issues there. Objectives drive the tasks which drive the exams. I haven't put my time into any such endeavors other than passing and a few, select moments (nothing recent), so I won't comment any further. If you don't like what you see in the objectives and/or tasks, I'm sure Matt will be all for adding new ones or modifying existing ones which will go into the next rev, which drives the next exam development. And be sure to say something like, "about those objectives" or "about those tasks" and do everything you can to get him to say "about." ;) 2. Mentoring et. al. -- LPI needs to promote/empower Alumni LPI doesn't have the resources to do many things that we would like. At the same time, LPI has the _largest_ base of certified Linux individuals. What LPI needs to do -- and it can be as simple as a web forum and 100% volunteer efforts -- is promote and empower it's Alumni to handle many aspects. One such approach I first proposed at the 2006 April LinuxWorld in Boston (USA) was the "Fedora Ambassadors" approach. Fedora may be heavily biased at its core towards an ultimate commercial endeavor (Red Hat's products -- although that wasn't really any different in the Red Hat Linux days either before the trademark issues and infrastructure changes), but it is very much a very, very active community and project (with a great number of paid developers by Red Hat). And that is the foundation of everything Fedora (as much as Red Hat may be as well). Same deal here, for LPI who is a corporation (even if non-profit). Organize a community-driven, all-volunteer effort with regionalized representatives -- namely Alumni -- to promote, market, organize, train, etc... their local peers. That includes mentors and other SIGs. Total hands-off, except for a centralized communication medium and other things that are largely "hands-off" and nearly "effort-free" for LPI. As far as exam question control issues -- I hope to God everyone actually agreed (at the professional/honor-level) to the NDA when they took the exam. That, combined with professionalism (possibly peer-enforced), is enough IMPO. In fact, this community-driven, all-volunteer effort should be used to identify anyone who would undermine the peer respect for all those who take the exam -- and expose them rather quickly. 3. Recertification Policy I have covered my views in previous blog articles (which may have a few inaccuracies or dated facts). I won't comment further other than to say my views will drive my opinions on recertification, including LPI's: http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2006/12/lpi-reiterates-and-updates.html -- Bryan J Smith, Linux+, LPIC-2, RHCE and 24 WTF? prompting titles Independent Linux author, consultant, trainer and annoyance American Libertarian and capitalist pig of the stinkiest kind (my initials aren't "BS" for nothing ;-) **NOTE: If you can't see the sarcasm/joke there, please don't respond. We Americans aren't that arrogant, we just play such on TV (much to the fact that 75% of Americans don't like their own media ;-) -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thebs413.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
