Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 19:14:53 -0500
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To: lpi-announce@lpi.org
Subject: LPI-News February 2001

 
 Hello and welcome to LPI-News for February 2001.
 
 In this newsletter:
 
  * Prosoft and LPI Join Forces
  * LPI Job Analysis Survey
  * LWE Report
  * Paris Linux Expo Report
  * LPI Certified Hiring Practices
  * Russian LPI Efforts
  * Bulk LPI Testing Vouchers
  * Sponsors in the spotlight
 
 PROSOFT TRAINING AND LPI JOIN FORCES;
 
 Prosoft Training has announced that they will retire their Linux
 Certified Administrator certification program and begin to use LPI's
 certification exams instead. Prosoft will be focusing on developing
 courseware to prepare for LPI exams, and continue their Certified
 Internet Webmaster (CIW) program.
 
 "We are pleased to support LPI's significant efforts to establish a
 strong vendor-neutral Linux certification program. As a charter
 sponsor of LPI, we recognize and support the needs for Linux training
 and certification among Internet professionals," said Jerry Baird,
 ProsoftTraining.com CEO.
 "We believe that support of the LPI certification complements our
 industry leading vendor-neutral certification for Internet
 professionals."
 
 ProsoftTraining.com and LPI will convert all Linux Certified
 Administrator
 (LCA) recipients' credentials to the LPI certification program, giving
 these
 recipients automatic credit toward the LPI 101 entry-level
certification
 examination.
 
 ProsoftTraining.com will immediately retire its Linux Certified
 Administrator exam and the associated credential, while continuing to
 develop and courseware preparatory to the LPI exams. Prosoft's flagship
 certification program, Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW), already
 includes extensive material on Linux.  CIW courses cover such topics
 as server administration, security, integration with Microsoft
 Windows servers, and Web site development.
 
 LPI JOB ANALYSIS SURVEY (JAS):
 
 The survey for LPI Level 2 exams is underway! We've had a great
 response so far, but we're still eager to hear from any senior
 Linux admins who haven't taken the survey yet.
 
 One lucky admin will win 2 vouchers to take the Level 2 LPI exams
 when the are completed, so be sure to take the survey if you haven't
 already. You can find the LPIC-2 survey at:
 http://www.lpi.org/cgi-bin/jass.py
 
 REPORT FROM THE NEW YORK LINUXWORLD EXPO - Jan 31 - Feb 2nd 2001
 
 Julie Thornton our marketing director was at this show and reported;
 
 "The LPI booth in the was in a terrific position at the front end of
 .org row.  We had a great deal of help from Kara and Steven Pritchard,
 who were in the booth several hours of every day, as well as a handful
 of other volunteers who we appreciate very much for their time.
 
 Attendees ranged from LPI Alumni to folks who were just checking out
 
 "this Linux thing."  We were grateful to have a donated computer with
 connectivity to the LPI website, which allowed us to recruit
 participants in the Job Task Analysis Survey at
 http://www.lpi.org/cgi-bin/jass.py  A few media representatives spoke
 with Dan York about the program, and we look forward to articles
 appearing over the next several weeks which call attention to the LPI
 program.
 
 Trade shows like LinuxWorld are a great opportunity to build awareness
 of the Linux Certification program LPI has developed, and we are
pleased
 to participate with the help of our volunteers.  LPI will be exhibiting
 at CeBit in Hanover, Germany March 22 - 26 in Hall 3, Stand C57, Booth
 C01 and we would be grateful for anyone interested in volunteering in
 the booth!"
 
 REPORT FROM THE PARIS LINUX EXPO - Feb 1st and 2nd
 
 Jerry Crick is one of our volunteers from the UK who helps with website
 maintenance, and he volunteered to go to the Paris show, and offer
 information on LPI for us. It looks like he had a good time, and the
 show was successful in many ways - according to Jerry;
 
 "we had a good trip visiting places like the Louvre, Musee
 d'Orsy, Arc de Triumph and Notre Dame as well as having several good
 meals"  - sounds like he was working hard;)
 
 "I spoke to several people interested in taking the exams and
 understanding
 how the LPI certificate would benefit their careers.  It is clear that
 many Europeans are v. keen on the Linux movement and approach -
 
 We need to say a bit more about the benefits of LPI exams
 to those who potentially will become certified -
 how it is better to get a cert which is cross distro and lasts forever
 unlike some others!  The issue of how relevant an old certificate is -
 came up and I pointed out that nobody would expect to hire
 someone with an outdated cert and no recent experience."
 
 Thanks Jerry, for speaking for us at this event.
 
 If anyone else is interested in helping out at any conferences or
shows,
 please contact us - info@lpi.org or wilma@lpi.org
 
 We hope you had an opportunity to visit LPI at one of the booths, in
 New York, Amsterdam or Paris.  If not, we will be in Hanover in March
 and Chicago and Singapore in April 2001, we hope to see you there! -
 for details see http://www.lpi.org/i-events.html
 
 LPI CERTIFIED HIRING PRACTICES:
 
 We are looking to our friends and volunteers, our advisory council and
 supporters to help put in place a hiring practice at their company
which
 will require any new Linux system admin. hires be LPI certified.
 If you can assist in this program it would be greatly appreciated.
 If your human resources department need any information, please have
 them contact us at info@lpi.org or wilma@lpi.org.
 
 RUSSIAN LPI EFFORT:
 
 We have been contacted by some interested parties in Russia. They
 would like to participate in our program, and have started to build
 the website in Russian - we look forward to lots more input from them.
 
 We also need to remind people that should you wish to put together
 some kind of formal (or informal) proposal to have LPI in another
 country, we are building some documents to help you go forward;
 please contact Greg, our International Committee chair
 Greg@ausit.com or myself
 wilma@lpi.org.
 
 GETTING BULK LPI TESTING VOUCHERS:
 
 Should anyone decide they want their whole team to take our exams,
 it might be of interest to know we have basic discounts for bulk
 purchases. (Payment to be made in advance.)
 
 If you purchase 1 - 49 vouchers the price is $100 per voucher
 If you purchase 50 - 99 vouchers the price is $95 per voucher (5%
 discount)
 If you purchase 100 or more the price is $90 per voucher (10% discount)
 
 These prices are valid for English exams only.
 Japanese exams are priced in yen.
 
 LPI CERTIFICATES:
 
 We now have 238 graduates of our Level One program. Congratulations to
 you all! Thanks for your support of LPI Certification, we hope you'll
 continue to be a part of LPI and assist us as we build Level 2.
 
 We have sent out certificates to all graduates who have passed both
 exams by the end of the year 2000.
 January graduates will receive their certificate within 2 or 3 weeks.
 
 Please purchase one of our cute and fuzzy Elpiks - LPI's mascot.
 http://www.LinuxMall.com/shop/02033
 Purchases of Elpik will assist LPI - as some of the funds are funnelled
 back to LPI.
 
 To those of you who have assisted with LPI in the past, thanks so much.
 
 Linux Journal was one of our first sponsors, and is still helping us on
 a regular basis - thanks Linux Journal.
 Check this months Linux Journal to see our ad.
 
 With-out our volunteers and friends, we would not be here.
 
 Stay in touch with LPI - http://www.lpi.org/i-maillists.html
 
 Thanks for all your support!
 
 Wilma Silbermann
 Executive Assistant
 wilma@lpi.org
 905 874 4822
 
 
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