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LPI Middle East: Linux Essentials in schools in United Arab Emirates
on October 17, 2013LPI-Middle East is presently providing a "train-the-trainer" program for LPI's Linux Essentials program for teachers at four private schools in the United Arab Emirates. LPI's Linux Essentials program prepares secondary (high school) and post-secondary (college/university/vocational) students for...
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Update on European e-Skills: "Quality labels" for IT Certification
on October 10, 2013LPI included within the 50 leading IT certifications of the e-Skills "Quality Labels" Prototype Background: In July, LPI announced that it had become a member of the European e-Skills Association (EeSA). EeSA supports the development of e-skills and digital literacy in Europe in partnership with...
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Free Software For a Small Country: Part Four - Patterns of Software Solutions
on October 3, 2013Now that we have discussed why a “small country” needs Free Software, some ways of getting training, and how to find and organize people around Free and Open Source Software, we can discuss patterns of handling projects with Free Software. Notice I said “patterns” and not “methods” -- they are...
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Free Software For a Small Country: Part Three - Spreading the Love
on June 20, 2013I have been told many times by managers, government officials or educators that “we have no FOSS here”, therefore “nobody knows FOSS”. This is just not true. In every country I have visited: FOSS is there. There are people who know it and use it. Look for them. The people may be in your banks, in...
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Free Software For a Small Country: Part Two - The Training
on June 13, 2013*/ The goal of this series of blogs has been to demonstrate the need for Free and Open Source Software in a developing economy. Now we will talk about how to develop that expertise in FOSS. We may assume that the potential IT people either can or can not program using closed-source computers,...
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Free Software For a Small Country (Part One) - The Reasoning
on June 6, 2013Many times I have been asked to travel to a country to talk to them about Free Software. Sometimes it is at the request of the government of the country and other times by the citizens of the country. Recently I was contacted by a person from a small country who wanted to know if Free Software...
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The Third Language
on May 28, 2013[Warning: Highly biased and opinionated text follows. Faint of heart, please skip.] A short time ago I blogged about how “shell” should be the first language taught, due to its usefulness for systems administration, and its prevalence in *x (Unix, Linux, OS/X, etc.) systems of every type. In...
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Linux Essentials "Train-the-Trainer" Workshop in Southern California
on May 24, 2013From June 3-7th, The Mid-Pacific Information and Communication Technologies Center (MPICT) and the California Community Colleges ICT Collaborative is offering a free "Train-the-Trainer" workshop on Linux Essentials instruction for LPI alumni who are Linux trainers and teachers. The 4.5 day workshop...
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LPI "Behind the Scenes": Skills Standards and the European e-Competence Framework
on May 6, 2013LPI alumni, and the individuals who take our exams, inherently recognize that IT certification is a valuable indicator of technology skills and knowledge. Rare is the IT professional who doesn't hold a number of IT certifications. These certifications indicate to employers, clients and colleagues...
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How may I be of service?
on April 30, 2013*/ Recently I went to a conference of the SCAA, which is an organization that promotes good coffee, and the premier coffee industry. While at the conference for a day, I attended a talk called “Customer Service from the Barista" by Nathaniel May a “Coffee Educator” out of Portland (OR) Roasting...
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