[CS-FSLUG] Fw: LPI Announces HP Sponsorship of LPI-German

[Josiah Ritchie]

I thought this might be an interesting tidbit of news for our group. Once
of these days I'm going to get my LPI certs. :-)

JSR/

Begin forwarded message:

Date: 30 Sep 2004 09:26:34 UT
From: Scott Lamberton <scottl at lpi.org>
To: lpi-announce at lpi.org
Subject: LPI Announces HP Sponsorship of LPI-German


LINUX PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES HEWLETT-PACKARD EDUCATION SERVICES
SPONSORSHIP

(Kassel, Germany: September 17, 2004) The Linux Professional Institute
(LPI), the premier Linux certification organization world wide
(http://www.lpi.org), together with its affiliate LPI-German, announced
that
Hewlett-Packard Education Services had become its most recent sponsor.
Hewlett-Packard Germany was providing the sponsorship to LPI international
to assist with LPI-German marketing and business development activities in
Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

¨Hewlett Packard International has been a long time supporter of the Linux
Professional Institute and this additional sponsorship from its corporate
headquarters in Germany further demonstrates that company?s commitment to
the Linux community and to Linux professionalism,¨ said Evan Leibovitch,
President of LPI.

HP Education Services (HPES) Germany has been training IT-Professionals
successfully for now over 30 years with an annual volume of over 250.000
satisfied customers. Backed by this experience HPES is also focusing on the
development of new premier-level seminars in the evolving technology
fields,
delivering industry strength content using innovative and effective
educational methods. HP Seminars are taught only on HP hardware, with the
latest SAN and Networking Technologies readily at hand where the curriculum
requires it. Instructors are required to measure up to high standards and
are usually long-standing professionals with 10+ years experience in the
UNIX/Linux area.  For HPES Linux Seminars in preparation for LPI refer to
http://www.hp.com/de/hpeducation.

Lorenz Kuhlee, HP Training Program Manager, said upon completion of the
sponsorship:  ¨HPES recognizes the significant contribution LPI-German has
made to the promotion of Linux professionalism within the European
continent
specifically through the advancement of Linux certification. Since our
customers traditionally demand to be educated to a high standard that they
can apply and demonstrate in their jobs, backing LPI in the Linux sector is
only a natural step for HP Education Services.¨  For further information on
the HPES sponsorship of LPI see the HP media release at:
http://dev.lpi.org:8080/twiki/pub/Operations/MediaReleases/HP-LPISponsorshipEnglish.pdf


Kuhlee noted that since LPI-German was formally incorporated in February of
this year the organization has been very active in the open source
community
developing contacts with training organizations, book publishers, and
governments.

LPI-German President, Reiner Brandt, spoke enthusiastically of the
sponsorship and that the timing of the sponsorship was fortunate:
¨LPI-German has been developing a number of initiatives to further
capitalize on our role as the fastest growing affiliate within the LPI
community. The resources provided by this sponsorship will enable us to
move
forward much faster with our programs, particularly those aimed at
organizations involved in IT training.¨

LPI's certification program has delivered over 55,000 certification exams
globally since the program?s inception in 2000 and supports an affiliate
network on all five continents worldwide including Brazil, Bulgaria,
Jamaica, United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, Australia and
China, with an additional affiliate now being developed in South Africa.

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About Linux Professional Institute:

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) develops professional certification
for the Linux operating system independent of software vendors or training
providers. Established as an international non-profit organization in 1999
by the Linux community, LPI develops accessible, internationally-recognized
certification programs which have earned the respect of vendors, employers
and administrators. LPI's activities involve hundreds of volunteers and
professionals throughout the world in many different capacities, and the
group encourages active public involvement through mailing lists and its
website at www.lpi.org. LPI's multi-level program of exams is administered
globally through Pearson VUE and Prometric testing centers. LPI's major
financial sponsors are Platinum Sponsors IBM (NYSE:IBM), Linuxcare,
Maxspeed, SGI (NYSE:SGI), SuSE Linux AG and TurboLinux as well as Gold
Sponsors Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP) , Wave
Technologies and Linux Magazine.

About LPI-German:

LPI-German is the LPI affiliate for the Linux and Open Source community in
Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. LPI-German assists LPI in the
development
and translation of independent, internationally recognized qualification
standards for Linux. In addition, the organization undertakes public
education and consulting activities to promote Linux, Open source and Free
Software for the German speaking community. The founding members of the
LPI-German include LPI Inc., SuSE Linux, Live Linux Association, the
Austrian Institute for Economic Development, GFN Training GmbH,
Future-Weiterbildung GmbH, Oliver Rath, comsign-holding GmbH, and GECO AG.

Contact Information:

LPI-German:
Reiner Brandt
Vorsitzender
+49 561 80 700-50
brandt at lpi-german.de

Linux Professional Institute:
Scott Lamberton
Director of Communications
+1-416-666-1574
scottl at lpi.org

Lorenz Kuhlee
Training Program Manager
Education Services
Hewlett-Packard GmbH
+49 (6172) 16-1793
lorenz.kuhlee at hp.com
www.hp.com/de
www.hp.com/de/hpeducationeter

HP Education Services LPI Sponsorship Media Release:
http://dev.lpi.org:8080/twiki/pub/Operations/MediaReleases/HP-LPISponsorshipEnglish.pdf