Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Italy is GrUSP’s Media Partner for the 2022 season of events

GrUSP, born in 2003 as an association of IT professionals focused on the PHP programming language,has broadened its horizons over the years to a more expansive panorama that today covers all the salient aspects of web development. GrUSP is spreading best practices and success stories with an increasingly wide range of events.

LPI has decided to establish a dedicated Media Partnership with GrUSP for all events in the 2022-2023 season. In addition, LPI supports three of the main events as a sponsor.

Daniele Cirio, ITA-IRE-UK Account Executive of Linux Professional Institute for Italy, said:

“We have already worked in the past together with GrUSP as a Media Partner on some of its events: for example, Incontro DevOps Italia. With the grip of the pandemic that seems, finally, to be loosening, we have decided with pleasure to generalize the Media Partnership to the whole series of events in 2022 and to scale up to sponsoring three of the events.

If it is true that GrUSP and its events series year after year represent ’the reference point in Italy for good practices in the world of web development’, it is equally true that, on the one hand, more and more web development passes through Open Source technologies, philosophies, and practices, that more and more web infrastructures are built on Linux. On LPI’s part, we have recognized this contiguity by dedicating our most recent exam, the Web Development Essentials, to the wide landscape of Web Development. Therefore, we are thrilled to share with GrUSP our communication channels and be sponsors of the events we have identified as the closest to LPI’s mission.”

Michela Bertaina, Community & Event Manager at GrUSP, added:

“We are happy to be able to continue this partnership with LPI, with which we share the attention and closeness to the open source world. The main objective of GrUSP has always been to provide training and professional development opportunities, presenting high-quality content in contexts that we want to make more accessible, inclusive, and attentive to diversity.

We work every day to make the world of development a welcoming environment where everyone can feel comfortable and express themselves freely. We believe that through meeting and confronting people from different backgrounds, we can fully grow both personally and professionally. 

To put these values into practice, we have a scholarship program that supports members of underrepresented groups in the tech world and those who cannot afford the cost of events. We can pursue this and other initiatives through our dedicated diversity and inclusion fund. We are also constantly working to improve the accessibility of our events (both in-person and online) to ensure that every attendee has the best possible experience.”

The events sponsored by the Linux Professional Institute

Incontro DevOps Italia: March 18, 2022. Bologna and online. Event in Italian. (LPI’s Media Partnership and Silver Sponsorship). Now in its tenth edition, Incontro DevOps Italia is the largest Italian conference dedicated to topics such as Continuous Delivery, Cloud, Microservices, Automation, Testing, Big Data, Containers, Data Center Operating Systems, Software Operability and many more. The event is a day of professional training with intermediate and advanced level presentations, allowing participants to update their skills and meet the community.

Cssday Italia: April 1, 2022. Faenza and online. Event in Italian. (LPI’s Media Partnership and Gold Sponsorship). This is the only Italian conference about CSS, one of the most powerful but underrated tools of the new web renaissance. The conference is a training and conversation event for those involved in web design and development, where intermediate and advanced level presentations, case studies, and practical applications will be presented.

Later in 2022, Containerday: October 28, 2022. Bologna and online. Event in Italian. (LPI’s Media Partnership and Silver Sponsorship). This is the leading Italian conference is dedicated exclusively to containerization and virtualization technologies and associated best practices in an environment where Docker, Kubernetes, and virtualization technologies are radically changing the world of IT infrastructures.

The benefits of the Media Partnership for the Linux and Open Source communities

The LPI Community will benefit from a discount on the ticket to attend Incontro DevOps Italia, cssday Italia and Containerday Italia. The discount code is:

community_LPI

Meanwhile, all attendees at all the GrUSP events in 2022 will benefit from a 30% discount on a Linux Professional Institute exam.

All the other GrUSP events supported with a Media Partnership by the Linux Professional Institute

We conclude this press release with the complete list of GrUSP events and webinars during the upcoming year. We, along with GrUSP, look forward to seeing you at them, and to follow them until December!

• Accessibility in Tech Jobs, March 10, 2022. Online, Event in Italian. Free of charge.
• Introduction to Kubernetes for Software Engineers/Developers, March 17, 2022. Bologna, Italy, and online, Event in Italian. Workshop.
• Designing and Building Serverless Applications with AWS, March 17, 2022. Bologna, Italy, Event in Italian. Workshop.
• PHP day PUG Edition, April 7, 2022. Online. Event in English. Free. 
• Typography with CSS, 11-12-13 April 2022. Online. Event in Italian. Workshop. 
• jsday, April 21-22. Verona and online. Event in English.
• phpday, May, 20-21. Verona and online. Event in English.