The Linux Professional Institute is a non-profit organization sponsored by the Linux community to offer vendor independent and training neutral certification for Linux system administration.
Welcome to the August edition of the LPI-Newsletter. 1; TechXNY New York http://www.techxny.com Sept 16th to 18th. Linux Expo UK http://www.linuxexpo.co.uk Oct 8 and 9th Wow-Gao Canada http://www.WoW-Gao.com Oct 14th-16th 2; LPI-Brazil becomes an official affiliate. 3; Update on Linux World San Francisco. 4: LPI in Vietnam and Australia. 5: Press release on Desk Top Cert. 6: New Board Members for LPI 7: News Items 8: Creating Members Accounts 9; Surveys 1: LPI attempts to reach the Linux community by attending Linux shows and conferences around the world - in the next few weeks LPI will attend the following conferences; * http://www.techxny.com * The TechXNY conference will take place in New York on September 16th-18th at the Jacob Javitz Centre. Evan Leibovitch, president of LPI will speak on "How to choose an open source license". and LPI will offer discounted exams at the show. See the details posted on the LPI website here; http://www.lpi.org/en/news_item/19 * http://www.linuxexpo.co.uk * The Linux Expo UK 2003 will take place over two days, 8th and 9th October at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London, UK. We hope to enlist the assistance of some of our UK friends to build an LPI affiliate in the UK. If anyone is interested, please join the LPI-UK mailing list - or visit the LPI booth at the expo in October. http://www.lpi.org/en/maillists.html Again, we will offer LPI exams at the show, for a discounted price of 10 UK pounds - details will be posted to the website in the next few weeks. * http://www.WoW-Gao.com * On October 14th to the 16th, the Ultimate Leading Edge IT Conferences and Expos hosted by WowGao will take place at: The Toronto Congress Centre, Toronto, Canada. The events cover topics in the IT and high-tech industries: Web Services/XML, e-enterprise challenges, IT security, mobile/wireless, Linux/open source, IT services/outsourcing, and fund raising needs of the IT industry. Information on the event and registration can be found at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or by phone at (416) 292-0038 ext. 823. 2: On August 29th 2003 LPI-Brazil became an official affiliate of LPI Inc. Our friends in Brazil have created a group that will represent us in that country. Included on their board are representatives of the following; Cyclades Corp. The Linux Community The Brazilian Government 4linux.com.br Conectiva IBM SUCESU, CONIP, Anyone interested in joining the mailing list for LPI-Brasil is invited to participate; http://www.lpi.org/en/maillists.html 3: Linux World San Francisco happened at the beginning of August. It was a busy few days - and LPI had assistance from members of the LPI community who came along to help at the booth. Bradfordlearning.com offered LPI some courseware to give away at the show and the winners were; Anson Kwan from Sunnyvale, California Charles Rutledge from Lilburn, Georgia Thanks to Alex Larson, James Stanger, Jim Lacey, Rajesh Goyal, Chander Kant - for all their help at the booth. LPI offered exam at Linux World, and about 150 candidates took advantage of the offer. We hope to be back at Linux World - New York next January 2004. 4: LPI in Australia and Vietnam Evan Leibovitch, president of LPI, did some traveling in August. Based in Toronto, Canada - he traveled some 12,000 miles to Sydney Australia to meet with Linux Australia and create a dialogue to create an affiliate group 'down under'. Linux Australia was very interested in participating in the LPI community and we hope to meet with them again soon. http://www.linux.org.au >From Australia, Evan traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam - and spoke with various business and government contacts to encourage the use of Linux in that country. 5: Desk Top Certification Initiative At Linux World San Francisco, LPI released it's plans to look into desk top certification. LPI plans to call for volunteers and others to step forward to help develop a desktop certification. Please read the entire press release on the LPI website here; http://www.lpi.org/en/news_item/12 6: LPI welcomes new board members; Christopher 'Duffy' Fron and Torsten Scheck. LPI would like to thank retiring board members Jon 'Maddog' Hall and Chuck Mead. Maddog and Chuck will continue to participate in LPI and we appreciate all they have done to-date to create a strong LPI community. We welcome Duffy Fron who lives and works in New York, USA - and Torsten Scheck who comes from Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Please read the press release on the new board of LPI; http://www.lpi.org/en/news_item/16 7: News Items: Please note our new website is a great resource for information that has been assembled from various press releases. If any one finds info that they think may be of interest to the LPI community, please let us know - and we will post important information to the website. http://www.lpi.org 8: LPI Members Account In the past week we sent a mailing to all our members to ask them to create a members account so that they can check their exam details, address and other details. If anyone has any problems with this procedure, please let us know and we can guide you to create your account. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9; Survey - www.certmag.com/salarysurvey LPI is working with MediaTec Publishing, publishers of Certification Magazine, and several industry partners to prepare an in-depth salary survey to gauge the financial impact of certification and experience on IT professionals. The Litchfield Group, an independent research firm, is collecting the data. All IT professionals who complete the survey will be entered automatically into a drawing for a Palm Pilot and other valuable prizes. You're invited to take part in this confidential survey, which will be an annual effort to track your financial success and will specifically help report on the growth of Linux. We'd like you to take a few minutes and complete the survey questionnaire at www.certmag.com/salarysurvey. The questionnaire must be completed prior to Sept. 14, 2003. Your confidential response will be compiled and the aggregate results reported in the December 2003 issue of Certification Magazine. If there are any questions or problems with the LPI-Newsletter, please let us know. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your interest and support of LPI. -- Wilma Silbermann VP Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 874 4822 _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Lpi-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-announce
