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To:	 lpi-announce@lpi.org
Subject: LPI-News November 2001
Date:	 Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:45:06 -0500

Hello and welcome to the LPI-News for the month of November 2001.

This month is particularly exciting as we publish our Level 2 exams,
and mark another milestone in our growth.

Check the articles posted here, and if you have any questions or 
comments, please let us know - info@lpi.org 

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1. LEVEL 2 AVAILABLE !
2. Level 2 Beta
3. Linux Journal award
4. The Japanese Market
5. Linux World, Frankfurt - Comdex, Las Vegas - ALS, California
6. Volunteers of the Month
7. Objectives for Level 1 and 2


1.   LEVEL 2 IS NOW AVAILABLE AT ALL VUE LOCATIONS.

LPI has now developed the second level of exams and these are now 
published. Details on this process can be found here; 
http://www.lpi.org/c-process.html

Now that the exams are Live and available at all Vue locations, you 
can take both Level 1 exams (101 and 102) and both Level 2 exams
(201 and 202) - http://www.vue.com/lpi
Each exam is $100 US.

Please ensure you have passed both the Level 1 exams - anyone taking
the Level 2 first, will have their Level 2 certificate held, until
Level 1 is completed.

2.   LEVEL 2 BETA IS OVER!

Beta Results are available, and are being e-mailed to candidates.  
Any candidates who passed the Level 2 exams, and are already Level 1 
certified, will receive a Level 2 certificate within the next few
weeks.  

Congratulations to all Level 2 graduates.



3.   Linux Journal Award.

Linux Journal this month posted their awards list and Linux Professional
Institute was recognized for their work in certification.

Linux Journal has awarded LPI the 2001 Editor's Choice for 
"Best Training and Certification".  

See the December issue of Linux Journal for details.

http://www2.linuxjournal.com/cgi-bin/frames.pl/index.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/advertising/Press/ec_winners01.html

Thanks, Linux Journal for this prestigious award.
http://www.linuxjournal.com


4.  LPI-Japan - Level 2

The Japanese translation of Level 2 is almost complete.  We hope to
release the translated Level 2 to the Japanese market within the 
next few days.

We are also looking at other translations, and hope to offer other
translated exams some time later next year.


5.   LPI at Comdex, ALS, and LinuxWorld Frankfurt.

It has been a busy month for LPI going to the shows in Las Vegas,
California and Frankfurt.  We thank those who came to help out at the
various shows, and to those who came by the booths to say hello and 
speak to our representatives.   If anyone has any questions from these
shows - please don't hesitate to contact us;   info@lpi.org

The next locations to meet LPI in person;  Linux World-New York,
and Cebit in Hannover, Germany.

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
http://www.hfusa.com/cebit/


6.   Volunteers of the month;

As a non-profit organization, we are always looking for assistance
at shows and spreading the word about LPI.  Every month we like to
mention some of our volunteers and thank them sincerely for their
assistance. 

This month we are pleased to recognize Florian Kalhammer and Martin
Krafft for ably assisting Torsten Scheck at the Frankfurt show.

Martin F. Krafft is a computer science student, who is active at 
the lpi-discuss mailing list.

(Anyone else interested in joining us on the discuss mailing list?
http://www.lpi.org/i-maillists.html )

And;

Florian Kalhammer who published this LPI study guide he had created 
for his students, in Germany.
http://www.linux-praxis.de


7. Finally - a reminder to those of you looking for the objectives
for Level 1 exams and Level 2 exams.

The objectives are now available for exams LPI-101 and LPI-102, and
also LPI-201 and LPI-202.

http://www.lpi.org/p-index.html

For training to these objectives please look at these URLs;

http://www.lintraining.com

details of books and other training ideas are here;
http://www.lpi.org/c-preparation.html


Thanks to all our friends and LPI supporters;

Wilma Silbermann
Executive Assistant
wilma@lpi.org
905 874 4822
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