LPI-News May and June 2004

1;  New Courseware for LPI Level 2 certification exams.
2;  Re-write of the exams and new ventures
3;  LPI will attend events around the world
4;  Translated exams
5;  LPI Bulgaria
6;  LPI in India
7;  New approved training material (LATM)

1.
http://snow.nl/l.html
Here is a new resource for those of you preparing for the Level 2 
certification.

Snow.nl have been supporters of LPI for some time, and have created this 
free resource
over the past few months.  Joost Helberg helped to develop this 
resource, and sends
these comments;

"  The resource published on our web-site, anyone can read it.
http://snow.nl/dist/lpic2index.publicwebsite.html
Snow sells Unix Services and wants to recruit the best Unix people in the
Netherlands.  We've endorsed LPI since the very beginning and think that
certifying LPIC-1 and 2 is a very good way to ensure quality of our 
services as well
as employees."

LPI would like to thank Snow.nl for their continued support and 
encouragement.

2.
Ongoing re-write of the exams & looking for input on the new "Core 
Linux" project.

Please join the exam development mailing list if you have any technical
knowledge and you would be interested in helping - ideas, exam items or 
job tasks are
requested on Level 1, 2 or 3 and we have a new project to be developed  
known as the
Core Linux project, (this is shown on our site as Linux Concepts).
https://www.lpi.org/en/examdev/index.html

LPI needs  a Project lead and editor for this new area of development - 
please contact
Kara Pritchard (our exam dev. director) for more details if you are 
interested in helping out.
kara@lpi.org

These supporters of LPI came together during a weekend of exam 
development in St Louis
Missouri - and are helping to create new items and ideas for the LPI 
exams. We thank them sincerely for their time and creativity.

Bruno Gomes Pessanha from Rio de Janeiro
D.Bogziatzoules (Taki) from Munich Germany
Bryan Smith from California
Steve Poe from Florida
Richard Fifarek from Colorado

3. Here are some the events and locations that LPI will be attending in 
the next
few months;

*In June LPI's president, Evan Leibovitch will be in Japan,
http://lpi.or.jp/

*Malaysia and Singapore and will visit some of  LPI's training partners;
http://lintraining.com/module/database/viewby.php?uid=49&value=3

*Linux World San Francisco - August 2004
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO04A
Our annual attendance in San Francisco will see LPI staff actively
engaged in conducting an Exam Lab, trade show booth  and an advisory 
committee.

*Portland, Oregon - July 2004
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2004/

*Jamaica Linux Users Group - July 2004
http://www.jalug.org/events/lpiexamjuly10

If you are attending any of the above events, we would be pleased to see 
you
and encourage you to come and say hello to the LPI representatives at each
event.  Exam labs will be conducted in most of these locations.

LPI -German also participated in the recent Linux Tag in Karlsruhe 
Germany .
http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/index.html
http://www.lpi.org/da/news_item/72

4.
Translated exams -
A quick reminder.  LPI has recently translated the Level 1 exams into;
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and German.
We are looking for candidates to take these translated exams at a 25% 
discount
until Sept 30th 2004 at any Prometric testing site around the world.

Please use the code "25beta" when registering at www.prometric.com for 
these
exams in the above mentioned languages.
When registering for the exam please read the payment information page 
carefully,
it will show you where to input the code to receive the 25% discount.

In the translated exams, you will be able to access the English versions 
of the questions.
When you take the exam, please include any feedback that will improve 
our translations.

These exams are valid for certification.

5.
LPI Bulgaria

Under the umbrella organization of Free Software Association - LPI 
Bulgaria is helping create awareness
of LPI in Eastern Europe.
Some interesting news from Bulgaria - regarding use of Linux in the 
government arena.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/48329

_Bulgarian members of Parliament and Internet Society Bulgaria chairman 
file a case
at the Bulgarian Competition Protection Commission in Sofia against 
Microsoft Bulgaria
and Microsoft Corp, USA._

The members of the Bulgarian Parliament Ivan Ivanov and MP m.d.Stoicho 
Katsarov
signed today, June 16th, 2004 a letter to the Competition Protection 
Commission in Sofia
with 4 points questioning Microsoft practices and business behaviour.
Letter is also signed by Veni Markovski, chairman of the Internet 
Society in Bulgaria.

For more information;
In French - MP Ivan Ivanov - ivanov.in@box.bol.bt
In English - Veni Markovski - veni@veni.com

6.  LPI goes to India in August 2004

Passage to India
Glenn McKnight will be traveling to three cities in India:

Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore where he will participating with a 
Novell/SUSE
roadshow conducting proctor training, exam labs and seminars. This will 
be LPI's first formal entry into the Indian subcontinent during the 
height of
Indian summer which is known to reach temperatures of over 45 degrees 
centigrade. We hope to heat up the Linux market in India with a cost 
effective exam labs.

More information will be available next month as Novell and LPI create a 
detailed
itinerary of the roadshow.

7.   LPI Approved Training Material.

LPI-German in co-operation with SerNet.de will offer the opportunity
for courseware providers to have their product put through rigorous
evaluation and approval.

Recently one more company put their courseware through an approval 
process through SerNet;

We congratulate LinUpFront GmbH for having their product approved.
http://www.linupfront.de haiko.mueller@linupfront.de

Linupfront.de offers their courseware in German only at this point.

LPI approved materials are available in English at this site;
http://www.lpi.org/en/latm.html

We thank you for your support of LPI.
Let us know if you have comments or questions.

Wilma Silbermann
VP Operations
wilma@lpi.org
905 874 4822

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