From:	 lpi-announce-bounce@lpi.org
To:	 lpi-announce@lpi.org
Subject: LPI-News, December 2001
Date:	 Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:59:23 -0500

Hello and welcome to another LPI News.

LPI would like to wish you all a very happy holiday season and a 
happy New Year !

Here are some items of interest from LPI for the month of December.


1. Completing Level 1.  http://www.lpi.org/p-index.html
2. Level 1 update.
3. Level 2 exams in Japanese.
4. News from LPI-Japan 
5. LPI in Italy - Ernesto Ferrari
6. Exam Translations
7. Linux World N.Y.  http://www.linuxworldexpo.com
8. Sponsor of the month - IBM
9. Registration of LPI's logo.
10. Volunteer of the month - Jennifer Heldenbrand 

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1. Completing Level 1.

We have many exam takers out there who have completed and passed exam
101, but have not completed their designation.
You must now take exam 102 to complete the Level 1 certification,and
become LPIC-1.
Then you will receive the certificate from LPI, and have use of 
the LPIC-1 logo for your resume or business card.

Please consider completing the Level 1 requirements and becoming 
LPIC-1.
The cost for all LPI exams is $100 US, 
and all exams are available through any of the 2,800 Vue locations 
worldwide;
http://www.vue.com/lpi


2. Level 1 Update.

As you are aware our exam development director, Kara Pritchard and
her team have recently completed Level 2 exams.  They now have the
new task of completing the Level 1 update.
Kara says development is moving quickly, and within just a matter
of weeks they are already finalizing the new Level 1 objectives. 
She, along with LPI's psychometrician Alan Mead, are currently 
identifying the items within the Level 1 exams which are affected
by the update and will soon assign contractors and LPI community
members to update the Level 1 exam content. To participate in this
process, visit the new objective development pages at:

http://www.lpi.org/cgi-bin/poms.py?examscreen=1

You can also participate by subscribing to the lpi-examdev mailing 
list by sending an email to "listar@lpi.org" with "subscribe
lpi-examdev" in the SUBJECT of your email.


3. Level 2 Exams now in Japanese.

We now have both Level 1 and Level 2 exams available in Japanese.
We hope all our LPIC-1 graduates in Japan will now take the 
opportunity to become LPIC-2.


4. News from LPI-Japan 

LPI-Japan has some interesting pieces of information to let you know
about;

First, NEC Soft Ltd. joined LPI-Japan as the 12th Platinum Sponsor.

Other Platinum Sponsors are:
Fujitsu
Hitachi, Ltd., Software Division
IBM Japan, Ltd.
Leading Edge Co., Ltd.
Laser5 Co., Ltd.
Linux Academy
Miracle Linux Co.
NEC Co.
PA Co., Ltd.
SGI Japan, Ltd.
Turbolinux Japan, K.K.



Chuck Mead (President of LPI) went to Japan to give a speech 
at Linux West (Osaka, Japan) and to discuss LPI-Japan's plans.

LPI-J has a new office and has moved to "Linux Building" with 2 new 
full time employees - Mr. Konno Hidetaka and Ninomita Mizue.


5. LPI in Italy;
http://trieste.linux.it/eventi/linuxday-2001/documenti/ 

Ernesto Ferrari volunteered his time to talk about LPI at a Linux 
event in Trieste, Italy.
I interviewed him on what happened during his day. 

"There were 200 persons, 150 circa have been listening to my talk.
All the talks were recorded on video and streamed on-line in real time 
multicast, obviously through Linux-based technology.
There were two different ''paths'', one informative and the other 
technical. Slides from both the paths and their talks are now on-line 
at http://trieste.linux.it/eventi/linuxday-2001/documenti/
 
> who was it geared to (new interested people or
> those with lots of experience)?

The two paths were geared to newbies and already skilled technicians.
My talk has been followed by exponents of the two worlds: most of them 
were new intersted people, in particular operators of the training 
market intersted in Linux. I've already been contacted by a no-profit 
company that offer professional courses payed with national founds; 
They'd like to offer Linux training but wanted an International 
recognized Certification Program to give strenght to their students, 
and so came at Linux Day in Trieste to listen to what LPI was and what 
was going on.
At the same time there were quite a good number of technicians, 
professionists, who wanted to know more about a way to see recognized 
their skills on Linux, and newbies intersted in a learning path.


> what other companies were there ?

There were also SuSE Italia, Yacme, an Italian company offering Linux 
services and Prosa (http://www.prosa.it/), which is an historical 
Italian Linux company: They had been the first to offer Linux services 
in Italy and are very good in embedded Linux systems, always working 
with and for free software.

>  any other interesting items to mention ?

The talks streamed in real-time were quite impressive: The guys at 
Trieste LUG were very skilled and very good in organizing everything.
I've received a very positive feedback on LPI from people, and as I 
wrote before the first important requests for an LPI-Italy "agency" 
have already come to my inbox.

Thanks Ernesto !



6. Further Exam Translations.

This message was received from Greg Wright, who is the chair of 
the International Mailinglist. 
He has already officially set up LPI-Australia, and is interested 
in hearing from the Linux community regarding translations; 

greg@ausit.com 

Here is his message;

"LPI has been working on possible solutions and methods which could
lower cost for interested groups to take part in exam
translations. 
As many of you know LPI takes great care of it's IP so that the 
program value is not lowered.
This is a delicate process which requires oversight by LPI, and LPI
is calling for interested groups and business leaders in all regions 
to put forward indications of interest as we have now found ways 
that should allow us to bypass what has to date been a prohibitive 
cost in many regions, to a level that should pose little objection. 
As always LPI is driven by leaders in the community and the leading 
businesses in this space. 
This message is written to all of our 
volunteers, sponsors and businesses that have an interest in Linux.

LPI is willing to work with groups which should include as many 
interested Linux businesses (or relative business) to enable them 
to drive this initiative further.
Discussions can be held by invitation to a mail list or by contacting
our
Offices, the International Co-ordinator is also available to answer
e-mails or attend calls if required. "

FAQ     http://www.lpi.org/international_faq.html

Guide  http://www.lpi.org/affiliate_guidelines.html


7. Linux World - New York.       http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/

LPI will be at LW - New York on January 30th, 31st and Feb 1st.
Thanks to IDG for their help to be at the show;
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
Please stop in at the LPI booth to say hello, and if you would like
to help out at the booth, just let me know. Write to me at;
wilma@lpi.org

We will have an advisory council meeting in New York.
The advisory council is made up of Linux Community participants who
help LPI with their plans, and suggest how LPI should go forward, and
are generally our main supporters.

At this time of the year especially, we would like to thank our advisory
council under the leadership of James Stanger of Prosoft Training
http://www.prosofttraining.com/
who is currently the chairman of the advisory council.  
Without the advisory council we would not be able to function
effectively.

http://www.lpi.org/a-advisory.html


With the help of IBM, we plan to offer LPI certification exam 101 at 
the show, at a fraction of the cost.
Keep an eye on our website for more details on this plan;
http://www.lpi.org



8. Sponsor in the spotlight.    IBM

This month we are giving the sponsor in the spotlight honour to
IBM for all their help.  With the assistance of Duffy Frone, and all 
our friends at IBM - we hope to offer testing at the Linux World show.

IBM has been supportive from the very beginning of LPI's journey, 
(they were one of LPI Inc's first platinum sponsors)
and we thank them sincerely.

http://www.ibm.com/


9. Logo and name registration.

LPI Inc. is pleased to let you know the Linux Professional Institute 
name and logo have now been legally registered in Japan - these legal 
processes are lengthy, so it is a pleasure to see this finally 
come to a successful conclusion. 



10. Volunteer of the month.   Jennifer Heldenbrand

Every month we take a moment to thank the people in the Linux 
community who have made a difference and helped LPI.
  
Jennifer Heldenbrand of Caldera is our volunteer of the month for 
December 2001.

Jennifer works at Caldera and has supported LPI for many months.
We would like to thank Jennifer for helping us make decisions and
giving us many thoughts, ideas and suggestions to go forward.

http://www.caldera.com


Again, our sincere good wishes for a healthy and happy New Year.

Thanks for your support and interest in LPI.

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