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SUMMARY:LPI at MoodleMoot Mexico 2026
DESCRIPTION:November 11-12\, 2026\nFES Acatlán\, UNAM\, Naucalpan de Juárez\, Mexico\n\nLinux Professional Institute (LPI) will take part in MoodleMoot Mexico 2026\, the Mexican edition of the MoodleMoot conferences held by the Moodle community around the world. The event takes place on November 11 and 12\, 2026\, at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). \nThe event is organized by Emprove México\, an LPI Partner\, together with FES Acatlán\, UNAM\, and offers both in-person and virtual access. \nAbout MoodleMoot Mexico 2026\nMoodleMoot Mexico brings together educators\, developers\, IT professionals\, institutions and technology leaders to share knowledge\, experience and best practices around Moodle and the wider open source ecosystem. Across two days of talks\, workshops and networking\, participants explore Moodle\, Linux\, cloud technologies\, software development\, cybersecurity and the other open technologies behind modern digital learning. \nThe event is organized by Emprove México together with FES Acatlán\, UNAM\, and offers both in-person and virtual access. \nLPI at MoodleMoot Mexico\, 20% Exam Discount\nHernán Pachas Magallanes of Linux Professional Institute will present at MoodleMoot Mexico 2026\, bringing the perspective of Linux and open source careers to an audience that builds and runs learning platforms every day. \nThe connection is a natural one. Moodle is open source software that relies on Linux\, PHP\, databases\, cloud infrastructure and sound security practice: the same skills LPI certifications are designed to validate. For the educators in the room\, that means a recognized path from teaching with open technologies to teaching open technologies. For the IT professionals\, it means a vendor-neutral way to show the skills they already use. \nAttendees receive a 20% discount on LPI exams. Each event shares it in its own way\, through its newsletter\, the printed event program or on site\, and the organizers can point you to it. If you still need help\, just <href=”mailto:events@lpi.org”>contact us. \nFocus and Audience\nMoodleMoot Mexico 2026 expects around 500 attendees\, including: \n\nIT professionals working with open source\nTeachers and professors from educational institutions\nBusiness professionals\nGovernment officials and public administration\n\nThe event also serves a wider purpose: strengthening the open source community in Mexico and Latin America by connecting education and technology professionals and encouraging technical skills and open standards. \nLinks\n\nEvent website: MoodleMoot Mexico 2026 []\nLPI certifications: the LPI certification catalog [https://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/]
URL:https://www.lpi.org/event/moodlemoot-mex-26/
LOCATION:FES Acatlán\, UNAM\, Naucalpan de Juárez\, Mexico\, Naucalpan de Juárez\, Mexico
CATEGORIES:Events where you can meet LPI,Event in Latin America,LPI Media Partnership Support
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261113T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261114T170000
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SUMMARY:SFSCON 2026: Take LPI Exams for Free
DESCRIPTION:Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is proud to participate in SFSCON 2026\, one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on free software\, taking place November 13–14 in Bolzano\, Italy. \nLPI will hold paper-based exams during the conference at NOI Techpark. With the support of the conference\, the exams can be taken free of charge. All candidates must register in advance. \nSeats are limited and available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nPBT Exam Sessions at SFSCON 2026\nTwo paper-based exam sessions will take place in the Auditorium (A2) at NOI Techpark on November 13. Each session is limited to 55 seats\, providing 110 exam seats in total. Details about the exam times will be announced later. \nConference and exam registration are separate. A free SFSCON ticket gives attendees access to the conference\, while an exam seat must be booked separately. Conference registration is open through the SFSCON ticket portal. \nExam registration is now open\, and the registration details are provided below. \nCandidates can take the following LPI certification exams: \n\nLinux Essentials\, Web Development Essentials\, Security Essentials\, and Open Source Essentials.\nProfessional-level certification exams (LPIC-1\, LPIC-2\, LPIC-3\, DevOps Tools Engineer\, BSD Specialist)\n\nTalk: Linux in Schools and Universities\nWerner Fischer\, Transfer Manager at Thomas-Krenn.AG and a member of the LPI Board of Directors\, will give a talk on how schools and universities can integrate Linux into their curricula. \nMore talks from the Education track are available on the SFSCON 2026 program page. \nAbout SFSCON\nSFSCON\, the South Tyrol Free Software Conference\, is an international event that brings together developers\, decision-makers\, public administrations\, companies\, and digital innovators from Europe and beyond. Held annually in Bolzano\, South Tyrol\, the conference focuses on software freedom\, innovation\, digital sovereignty\, and sustainable development. \nSFSCON was founded in 2001 on the initiative of the Linux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan (LUGBZ). Since 2005\, it has been organized and promoted by NOI Techpark\, South Tyrol’s innovation and research district. The conference welcomes more than 1\,000 attendees each year. \n \nAbout NOI Techpark \nNOI Techpark is South Tyrol’s innovation district\, where companies\, research institutes\, and the university work together on sustainable development. Operated by the public company NOI Spa\, it is located in Bolzano on the site of a former aluminum factory\, with a second campus in Brunico. \nIts work covers four technology areas: Green\, including energy systems\, sustainable buildings\, and water technologies; Food and Health; Digital\, including IoT\, the Open Data Hub\, and artificial intelligence; and Automation\, covering manufacturing\, mobility\, and agri-automation. \nExam registration is now closed.
URL:https://www.lpi.org/event/sfscon-26/
LOCATION:NOI Techpark\, Via Alessandro Volta 13/A\, Bolzano\, 39100\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Events where you can meet LPI,Other events,Event in Europe,LPI Media Partnership Support
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SUMMARY:LPI Media Partner of Wild & Wired WV 2.0
DESCRIPTION:November 14\, 2026\nGSU Ballroom\, University of Charleston\, Charleston\, West Virginia\, USA\n\nLinux Professional Institute (LPI) is proud to be Media Partner of Wild & Wired WV 2.0\, West Virginia’s Linux and open source festival\, held at the University of Charleston on Saturday\, November 14\, 2026. \nAbout Wild & Wired WV\nNow in its second year\, Wild & Wired WV is a free\, community-centered festival that brings students\, families and tech enthusiasts together around Linux\, self-hosting\, open source and digital sovereignty. The festival runs from 10 AM to 6 PM\, and every attendee takes home a Linux disc. \n20% Discount on LPI Certifications\nWild & Wired WV 2.0 attendees receive a 20% discount on one LPI certification exam\, shared by the organizers. For a first encounter with Linux\, it is a concrete next step: a globally recognized\, vendor-neutral credential to aim for. \nFocus and Audience\nMany of the students attending are at the start of their careers\, and the festival is open to the wider public as well. That mix is the point: a day where curiosity about Linux and self-hosting can turn into a skill\, and a skill into a path. \nLPI as Media Partner\nDigital sovereignty starts with people who can run their own systems. A festival that sends every attendee home with a Linux disc is building exactly those people\, one install at a time\, and that is why LPI supports Wild & Wired WV. \nAbout the Organizer\nWild & Wired WV is organized at the University of Charleston by Brett White\, computer science faculty member. \nLinks\n\nWild & Wired WV: the festival website\nUniversity of Charleston: the university events calendar\nLPI certifications: the LPI certification catalog
URL:https://www.lpi.org/event/wild-wired-26/
LOCATION:GSU Ballroom\, University of Charleston\, Charleston\, West Virginia\, USA\, University of Charleston\, Charleston\, Charleston\, VA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event in North America,LPI Media Partnership Support
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123
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SUMMARY:LPI Media Partner of EOCON 2026 and EyesOpenCTF 2026
DESCRIPTION:November 14-22\, 2026\nHotel ONOMO\, Douala\, Cameroon\, and online\n\nLinux Professional Institute (LPI) is proud to be Media Partner of EOCON 2026\, the 7th edition of the international convention dedicated to cybersecurity\, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies\, and of EyesOpenCTF 2026\, the free 48-hour international cybersecurity competition at its heart. \nOne Week\, Three Moments\nEOCON 2026 is bilingual\, in French and English\, and hybrid by design. The program runs across one week: \n\nNovember 14: the on-site conference at Hotel ONOMO in Douala\, with keynotes\, talks\, panels\, workshops and networking\nNovember 16-19: live online sessions in French and English\, open to participants anywhere\, with attendance counting toward the event certificate and CPE credits\nNovember 20-22: EyesOpenCTF 2026\, 48 hours of online competition\n\nAccess is free through the EOCON Community Pass\, and EyesOpenCTF is free to enter. \n20% Discount on LPI Certifications\nEOCON 2026 and EyesOpenCTF 2026 participants receive a 20% discount on one LPI certification exam. The discount is shared with participants by the organizers. \nFor a community built on practical skills\, it is a natural next step: a week of hands-on security work\, followed by a globally recognized\, vendor-neutral credential that proves it. \nEyesOpenCTF 2026\nLaunched as Central Africa’s first cybersecurity competition\, EyesOpenCTF is today the region’s largest open-access cybersecurity competition. From November 20 to 22\, participants compete online across more than 40 challenges in 8 disciplines: Web Security\, Binary Exploitation\, Digital Forensics\, Cryptography\, Log Analysis\, AI Security\, Reverse Engineering and OSINT. Around 500 competitors are expected\, from beginners to advanced practitioners. \nFocus and Audience\nThe 2026 program focuses on practical cybersecurity\, AI\, emerging threats\, infrastructure\, AppSec\, digital forensics\, cloud\, resilience\, talent development and the future of Africa’s digital ecosystem. EOCON expects around 200 participants on site in Douala and 1\,000 online. \nThe audience brings together cybersecurity professionals\, SOC analysts\, pentesters\, developers\, cloud and infrastructure practitioners\, students\, researchers\, executives\, employers and international technical communities. \nLPI as Media Partner\nLinux and open source run through every discipline of a modern CTF\, from exploitation and forensics to log analysis and reverse engineering. That is why EOCON and EyesOpenCTF speak directly to the LPI community\, and why LPI supports them: practical security skills\, open access\, and a strong connection between Africa and the global cybersecurity ecosystem. \nAbout EOCON\nEOCON is a bilingual\, hybrid international convention connecting cybersecurity professionals\, technology companies\, decision-makers\, students and technical communities around cybersecurity\, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. It is organized by the EyesOpen Security Association and Services ExamBoot\, under the motto “Where Africa secures the future.” \nLinks\n\nEvent website: EOCON 2026\nFree registration: EOCON 2026 registration\nProgram: the EOCON 2026 program\nLPI certifications: the LPI certification catalog
URL:https://www.lpi.org/event/eocon-26/
LOCATION:Karnataka
CATEGORIES:Other events,Event in Africa,Webinar,LPI Media Partnership Support
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SUMMARY:LPI Media Partner of the Latin American LibreOffice Congress 2026
DESCRIPTION:November 27-28\, 2026\nUniversidad Luterana Salvadoreña\, San Salvador\, El Salvador\n\nLinux Professional Institute (LPI) is proud to be Media Partner of the 7th Congreso Latinoamericano de LibreOffice\, the annual gathering of the LibreOffice community across Latin America\, held for the first time in El Salvador on November 27 and 28\, 2026. \nAbout the Congress\nThe seventh edition is organized by the Universidad Luterana Salvadoreña together with the Latin American community of the LibreOffice Project. The program brings together talks\, workshops\, tutorials on the LibreOffice applications\, and mentoring on how to contribute to the project and help the community grow\, with speakers from El Salvador\, Mexico\, Spain\, Brazil and France. \nThe event is open to the public and expects around 400 participants. \n20% Discount on LPI Certifications\nParticipants in the Congreso Latinoamericano de LibreOffice 2026 receive a 20% discount on one LPI certification exam\, shared by the organizers. \nFor a community built on contribution rather than credentials\, the discount is not a change of direction: it is a way to make the skills already in use visible to employers\, in a form recognized worldwide and tied to no vendor. \nFocus and Audience\nThe Congress gathers open source IT professionals\, teachers and professors\, students and recent graduates\, and open source enthusiasts from across Latin America. \nHosting the seventh edition in El Salvador for the first time matters in itself. A regional community conference that moves between countries carries knowledge\, contacts and confidence into places that rarely host events of this kind\, which is exactly the ground LPI wants to support. \nLPI as Media Partner\nLibreOffice is one of the clearest demonstrations of what free software delivers in daily use: a complete\, open document suite that belongs to its community rather than to a vendor. The skills around it\, the Linux systems it runs on\, the infrastructure that serves it\, the practices that keep documents open and portable\, are the skills LPI exists to validate. \nSupporting this Congress is also support for digital sovereignty in Latin America\, and for the people who make it practical rather than theoretical. \nLinks\n\nEvent website: 7° Congreso Latinoamericano de LibreOffice\nLibreOffice: the LibreOffice website\nLPI certifications: the LPI certification catalog
URL:https://www.lpi.org/event/latin-american-libreoffice-congress-26/
LOCATION:Universidad Luterana Salvadoreña\, San Salvador\, El Salvador\, San Salvador\, El Salvador
CATEGORIES:Other events,Event in Latin America,LPI Media Partnership Support
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SUMMARY:LPI Media Partner of National Quantum Fest 2026
DESCRIPTION:December 3-4\, 2026\nSri Siddhartha Institute of Technology\, Tumakuru\, Karnataka\, India\n\nLinux Professional Institute (LPI) is proud to be Media Partner of National Quantum Fest 2026\, a national-level quantum festival hosted by the Quantum & AI Research Cell (QARC) at Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology (SSIT)\, about 70 km from Bengaluru. \nAbout National Quantum Fest 2026\nAt the center of the festival is an on-campus quantum hackathon\, with tracks in quantum\, AI\, software and GPU\, and teams free to work across them. Alongside the hackathon\, the program includes expert talks\, hands-on workshops and sponsor showcases\, leading to a grand finale on campus. The organizers expect hundreds of students to take part. SSIT has hosted state-level and national-level events and hackathons before\, including Technodea\, Saamarthya and Webathon. \nRegistration is not open yet. Interested participants can leave their details on the festival website to be notified when it opens. \n20% Discount on LPI Certifications\nEvery National Quantum Fest 2026 participant receives a 20% discount on one LPI certification exam\, shared by the organizers. Participants can also prepare with the LPI Learning Materials\, freely available online. \nFocus and Audience\nThe festival is built for students working at the meeting point of quantum computing\, AI and software development. Qiskit\, the main framework of the quantum track\, is open source\, and the environments students use to run it are built on the same open source foundations as the rest of modern computing\, Linux among them. \nLPI as Media Partner\nQuantum computing does not replace classical computing; it works alongside it. The students who will build quantum applications will also run the systems around them\, and those systems are open. That is why LPI supports National Quantum Fest: a new generation of developers learning\, from the start\, on open foundations. \nAbout QARC\nThe Quantum & AI Research Cell (QARC) is part of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology\, Tumakuru. Its founder and president is Mohammed Owais. \nLinks\n\nNational Quantum Fest 2026: the festival website\nHackathon: the National Quantum Fest hackathon page\nLPI Learning Materials: the LPI Learning Materials portal\nLPI certifications: the LPI certification catalog
URL:https://www.lpi.org/event/national-quantum-fest-26/
LOCATION:Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology\, Tumakuru\, Karnataka\, India\, Tumakuru\, Karnataka\, India
CATEGORIES:Event in Asia,LPI Media Partnership Support
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SUMMARY:LPI Media Partner of OpsJam 2027 at UC Irvine
DESCRIPTION:January 16-17\, 2027\nUniversity of California\, Irvine\, California\, United States\n\nLinux Professional Institute (LPI) is proud to serve as Media Partner for OpsJam 2027\, an infrastructure-focused hackathon hosted by the Anteater Linux User Group (ALUG@UCI) at the University of California\, Irvine. \nBuild\, Break\, Scale\nOpsJam brings together students from universities across the region to build\, break\, and scale real infrastructure over a single weekend. Alongside the core build sprint\, participants can attend workshops and join social events with other students working in DevOps\, orchestration\, monitoring\, and systems engineering. \n20% Discount on LPI Certifications\nOpsJam 2027 participants receive a 20% discount on LPI certification exams. This exclusive offer allows students to validate their Linux and open source skills with globally recognized credentials before entering the job market. \nWhy Infrastructure Skills Matter\nLinux sits underneath the vast majority of modern infrastructure\, from cloud platforms to container orchestration to monitoring stacks. Hackathons like OpsJam give students something a lecture cannot: the experience of standing up systems under time pressure\, watching them fail\, and fixing them. That is precisely the skill set employers look for\, and precisely what vendor-neutral certification is designed to validate. \nAbout ALUG@UCI\nThe Anteater Linux User Group is UC Irvine’s community for Linux and open source: a hands-on\, peer-driven group where students build real-world skills in DevOps\, self-hosting\, and systems administration while working on projects together. ALUG@UCI meets weekly during term\, runs an installfest and LAN party each quarter\, and maintains its own Git infrastructure and community projects. \nOpsJam is the group’s flagship event\, extending that hands-on culture to students across universities. \nGet Involved\nStudents interested in Linux and open source can join ALUG@UCI’s Discord community and explore their open project repositories. Applications for OpsJam 2027 open through the event website. \nALUG@UCI is currently welcoming sponsors and partners for OpsJam 2027. Organizations interested in supporting student infrastructure talent can find details on the event website. \n\nEvent website: OpsJam 2027\nALUG@UCI: Anteater Linux User Group
URL:https://www.lpi.org/event/opsjam-26/
LOCATION:University of California\, Irvine\, Irvine\, Irvine\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event in North America,LPI Media Partnership Support
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