[KLUG Members] LPI Training

[Robert G. Brown]

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 13:27:25 -0400, John Bridleman wrote:

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

I am interested in this.

>>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.

One of the critical aspects of this effort is that we can indeed tailor
things to fit the needs of the students. It is also a crucial part of 
KLUG's mission to provide this kind of training.

>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.

Some may hold back, hoping that times and instructors will simply be "produced"
by the more active members of the group. This is not the approach that is being 
taken in organizing this effort. First and foremost, we need people to come
forward to demand this sort of training. Once we see that, the other resources 
will fall into place. Without it, how can we even decide when to have classes?

The answer is that we cannot. First, let's see how many people are interested,
and we can go from there. So don't hold back!


>>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.

Yes, I suspect this s not a driving concern. Let's see the level of interest,
we can get the facilities.

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