LPI Newsletter March 2004

Hello there,

The March edition of the LPI Newsletter is a little late, but will show you how busy we have been;

1. LPI looks for volunteers
2. Translating the LPI exams
3. LPI-US
4. Volunteer offers resource for LPI candidates
5. LPI-Brazil
6. New Book available in German
7. http://www.desktoplinuxsummit.org
8. LPI's Board of Directors

1. Looking for Volunteers;

The Linux Professional Institute was created with the support of the Linux Community in 1999, to build a certification for Linux System Admins.

LPI continues to ask the community to participate and help out, and once again is asking for support as we create further items and tasks to develop the LPI exams. Please have a look at the attached details which will help you to help us. We thank you in advance for your assistance.

Please read through the following details;

http://www.lpi.org/en/news_item/64

https://www.lpi.org/en/examdev/index.html

https://www.lpi.org/en/examdev/jta/index.html

Our thanks to the lead item writers who are heading up this project;


Monica Orski
John Terpstra
Mark Miller
Mark Lachniet
Tim Writer
Justin Davies


Vagner Farias

2. Translations;

LPI has been translating the Level 1 exams and these will be translated into the following languages;

Chinese,
Spanish
Portuguese
French
German

(At present the exams are available in English and Japanese).

We plan to publish these at all Prometric test sites in 'beta' within the next month, and the cost for these new translated exams will be $75 US. The beta period should be completed within 3 months, and then the exams will be republished at the regular rate for all LPI exams. (Please see the LPI website for regular rates.)

Please note the beta exams will be valid and _will_ count towards your Level 1 certification, and if - for example- you take exam 101 in English and 102 in French, these will count towards a Level 1 certification.

We would like to thank the following community members who assisted us with translations;

Enrique Verdes from Uruguay
Alvaro Aguilera from Uruguay

Bruno Gomes from Brazil
Fernando Lauzon from Brazil

Yann Forget from France
Laurent Crosnier from France
Nicolas Ouedraogo from Switzerland

Chouanyi Dou from China
Ms Li from China

3. LPI-US
CLUB-LUG, NEW ORLEANS, USA
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/44520.html

Our affiliate in the USA is planning an event in New Orleans on May 31st, June 1st and 2nd. The LUG conference is planned to encourage LUG groups and other individuals to get together and encourage, support and discuss the use of Linux and LPI in the USA.

We are pleased to see our affiliate group offering such an event and hope you will all try to attend.

All details can be found on their website;
http://www.lpi-us.org

You will also note the new training partners who have joined LPI-US to support LPI - these can also be found on the LPI-US website;

http://www.kaleidoscope-consulting.com
http://www.touchstonetech.com

We welcome them to the LPI group and hope they will participate with us to grow LPI.

4. New Resource

One of our supporters, Mr Michel Bisson, has created a learning tool that he would like to offer to candidates training to the LPI certification.

He asks that you check his documents which are in Open Office format and are available for you to use;

http://www.linuxint.net/DOCS

Thank-you, Michel, for your work on these documents.

Please let Michel know if you have any comments or would like to help him to continue the work he has started here.

5. LPI-Brazil

Here is the new LPI-Brazil website.
http://www.lpi.org.br

LPI-Brazil has their second sponsor - Impacta Tecnologia.

This is a wonderful success story for LPI-Brazil who have been doing a great job of ensuring LPI is well known in Brazil.

http://www.impacta.com.br

6. New Book available in German

For those of you studying for the LPI exams in Germany, Austria or wherever you need a German resource, please note this new offering that has just been published;

LPI-Level 1
by Linup Front GmbH
ISBN: 3-8266-1449-6
http://lpi-buch.linupfront.de/

7. LPI in SanDiego


http://www.desktoplinuxsummit.org

LPI will offer exams at the Desktop Linux Conference in SanDiego on April 22nd and 23rd.

The cost will be $25 US per exam.

Please check the details here and let me know if you would like to participate;
http://www.lpi.org/en/news_item/63

8. Linux Professional Institute's Board of Directors

LPI would like to recognize the board of directors who play a central role in ensuring LPI is run ethically, efficiently and with good business practices.

Our Board is made up of seven dedicated volunteers - who offer their time, energy and assistance.

Thank-you to;

Jared Buckley of Texas USA
Kara Pritchard of Illinois USA
Torsten Scheck of Heidleburg Germany
Evan Leibovitch of Ontario Canada
Gen Narui of Tokyo Japan
Jim Lacey of California USA


Duffy Fron of New York USA

If you have any questions or concerns - please contact us at; info@lpi.org

Thanks for your support.

Wilma