The Linux Professional Institute (known as LPI) is a non-profit
organization sponsored by the Linux Community to offer certification;
http://www.lpi.org/a-sponsors
Welcome to the July issue of the LPI News - here are some highlights
and things happening at LPI:
1: LPI Offers Free Exams at Linux World - San Francisco in August 2002.
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
2: LPI T-Shirts available from Linux Central; http://linuxcentral.com/
3: Reminder on the 'Members Account';
http://www.lpi.org/members/index.html
4: Prometric rolls out Level 2 Exams this month; http://www.2test.com
5: Certification articles of interest.
6: Training Ideas
6A: New Resources
7: LPI-Japan and the Volunteer of the Month; Hamano-San
8: The International Mailing List; http://www.lpi.org/i-maillists.html
9: Report from China
10: Statistics on Exams Taken in 2002
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1; http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
LPI Offers Free Exams at Linux World - San Francisco in August 2002.
LPI will offer the following exams at Linux World in San Francisco;
Exam LPI-101 and Exam LPI-201.
If you are interested in taking either of these exams - please come to:
Room 120 of the Moscone Center at
10 AM or 2PM on August 12th, 13th or 14th.
If you take and pass exam 101 - you can then take exam 102 at a Vue
testing site to complete the certification and receive a certificate
from LPI.
If you wish to take the exam 201 - you must already have completed the
Level 1 and then you may take 201 at Linux World, and complete the
L2 exam 202 at a Vue or Prometric testing site.
You should come prepared with an LPI registration number which you can
get from our new members log-in site;
https://www.lpi.org/register.html
Please let us know when you would like to take the exam, write to me at;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2; LPI-Tshirts;
Purchase an LPI Tshirt! Available through Linux Central;
http://linuxcentral.com/
http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=G000-090
http://linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=G000-091
These shirts show the LPI Logo on the front breast pocket area, and
the Elpic penguin on the back. (The picture on the Linux Central
site does not show the actual look of the T-shirt).
Please show your pride in your certification and help support LPI
by purchasing a Tshirt.
3; Members Account.
Reminder - you now have access to the database, to check your scores,
change your address, e-mail or phone number.
Please log on to this site and fill in the details from your score
report.....if you have questions, don't hesitate to contact us at;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://www.lpi.org/createAccount.html
Anyone interested in taking the exam should go to this site to
create their LPI number to use for registration at Vue or Prometric
testing sites.
https://www.lpi.org/register.html
Registration procedures can be found at this page of the website;
http://www.lpi.org/c-registration.html
4; Prometric roll-out.
LPI has now published the Level 2 exams with Prometric
in both English and Japanese.
http://www.2test.com
Level 1 exams will be available at Prometric within the next month or
so.
(LPI also offers all the Level 1 and 2 exams with Vue
http://www.vue.com/lpi)
5; Linux Articles
Last month we asked you to send in articles on LPI, or Linux
certification articles being written and we were sent a couple of
sites that show LPI gaining support around the world;
There are interesting comments regarding LPI in the 'Certification News'
published by IT World.
http://www.itworld.com/newsletters
There is a great article in the 'Computing Canada' magazine discussing
the need for Linux certification (partiuclarly LPI) and implementation
of Linux.
http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=49250
If you find an article mentioning LPI or certification in Linux,
please pass it along to us through the mailing lists;
http://www.lpi.org/i-maillists
or directly to us at; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6; Training:
Training Ideas for the LPI exams are available on this page of the
website;
http://www.lpi.org/c-preparation.html
LPI is a training neutral organization dedicated to the idea that
candidates should have the widest possible choice in training,
so please ensure you look into all types of training before you make
your decision. There are classes, web-based training ideas, course-
ware, books.
6A;
As mentioned previously, there is a new site for LPI study here;
http://lpic.org/
There is also new commercial software available at
http://www.bosun.com.
7; LPI-Japan
LPI-Japan is a very energetic affiliate organization dedicated to
helping LPI grow and become the Linux standard for certification in
Japan.
They are very successful, mostly because they have wonderful people
helping them to go forward. They arranged for the LPI exams to be
translated into Japanese, and help to ensure LPI is well known all
around Japan.
Ninomiya Mizue is the office administrator and ensures everything
gets done. If anyone wishes to contact LPI-Japan, please e-mail
Ninomiya at;
Thanks Ninomiya for all you do to keep LPI-J running.
Hamano-San;
Our Volunteer for the Month of July also comes from LPI-Japan;
Hamano-San has participated with LPI-Japan for some time, and
should be recognized for the part he has played;
"He has helped us very much," says Ninomiya Mizue
"and we thank him for all his time and effort."
8; International MailingList
We are always looking for volunteers around the world who will help
LPI grow - if you are interested in helping, please let us know;
Contact Greg Wright in Australia who is the Chairman of the
International mailinglist;
http://www.lpi.org/i-maillists.html
Or contact Greg directly at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
9; LPI in China
Evan Liebovitch (LPI board member) had the opportunity to go to China
to talk about LPI in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
"The Chinese are very interested in LPI" says Evan, "they like the
neutrality and volunteer involvement and we hope to set some kind of
affilitate there. IBM has offered to help with translation."
10; Statistics of Exams taken January to June 2002;
In Europe MiddleEast and Africa 1,294
In Asia and the Pacific area (except Japan) 1,538
In The Americas 823
In Japan 1,591
Finally;
If any one is interested in helping out at the LPI booth in
LinuxWorld in San Francisco, (Aug 12, 13, 14)we'd appreciate it;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
Wilma Silbermann
Executive Assistant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
905 874 4822
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