[KLUG Members] LPI Training

[John Bridleman]

* Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I would be interested in pursuing the certification.

Excellent. Thanks.

> An advantage (and challenge?) of doing it ourselves is that we can tailor
> what we do to the differing levels of knowledge of our membership (and draw
> on those differing levels for presentations?).

Advantage. Yes, that's what I'd call it. We will be able to make it work for us. Without getting into to many details, I want everyone that takes our little training to come out of it able to take the LPI with confidence.

That's the broad goal. I'm not going to get bogged down in specifics until we can get commitments from enough people to take the training to make it happen. Once we have enough people I have no doubt we'll be able to find instructors.

> A drawback of doing it ourselves is lack of classroom equipment. Since most
> everyone working on this would have Linux boxes at home, this would probably
> only be a challenge in working on networking/server stuff. But these days
> maybe everyone has enough of a home network that that too wouldn't be a
> problem. And some of the $1100 they are saving people could use to buy an
> extra box or two...?

Again, we'll worry about that when the time comes.

> Re the GRCC program, I would be curious to know how this program relates to
> their regular course offerings. It's interesting that this seems to be a
> project of the college marketers rather than the CIS dept. And the price
> doesn't seem to reflect community college course prices.  (A one-semester
> course at KVCC currently costs about $160 for three credit hours--ca 45
> classroom hours.)

For what it's worth, I think your correct.
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org