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<H1><font color="maroon">Two Years Ago - the birth of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI)</font></H1>
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<H4>By <a href="mailto:dan@lpi.org">Dan York</a></H4>
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<h2 align=center>Two Years Ago...</h2>
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<p>Two years ago, in the October 1998 Linux Gazette, there appeared a brief
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<a href="../issue33/york.html">article</a> that started part of a process
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underway that I do not believe any of us had any idea would go as far as it has.
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<p>As I mentioned in my <a href="../issue46/york.html">article last
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October</a>, my original article outlined the reasons why I felt
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a professional certification program would benefit Linux. It concluded with
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several questions and asked how I could join in the discussion:
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<p><i>If you agree that a certification program can be beneficial for the
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growth of Linux, how do we as a community go about addressing the points I
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made above about creating a certification program? Do we create another
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mailing-list or newsgroup? (Does such a group or list already exist? If so, I
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have so far failed to find it.) Do we meet at a conference? </i>...
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<p>...<i>I don't necessarily have the answers - but I would like to participate
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in the discussion. If someone can suggest the appropriate forum in which this
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discussion should take place (or is currently taking place!), please let me
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know. </i>
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</blockquote>
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<p>Two years ago, we had no idea that what we were beginning would become the
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<a href="http://www.lpi.org/">Linux Professional Institute</a>. We had no
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clue of the <a href="http://www.lpi.org/a-advisory.html">tremendous support
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we would receive</a> not only from members of the Linux community, but also
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from the larger IT, training and publishing communities. Nor did we know
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of the <a href="http://www.lpi.org/a-sponsors.html">significant financial
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support</a> we would receive. We had no idea how incredibly expensive
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all of this would be to pull of. Nor did we know how significantly LPI
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would change some of our lives.
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<p>And yet... two years later, we have deployed the two exams of
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<a href="http://www.lpi.org/p-index.html">Level 1.</a> As I write this,
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the exams are <a href="http://www.lpi.org/waiting/">completing</a> the final
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stages of the <a href="http://www.lpi.org/p-development.html">incredibly
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long and comprehensive process</a> that is involved with our efforts. And
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our approach of <i>NOT</i> endorsing or approving any single way of
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preparing for our exams has paid off with
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<a href="http://www.lpi.org/c-preparation.html"><b>many</b> different ways for people to prepare for our exams</a>.
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<p>There are so many people to thank that it is next to impossible to even
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<i>begin</i> to list them all. We have tried with web pages thanking
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people who have assisted us in <a href="http://www.lpi.org/thanks99.html">
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1999</a> and <a href="http://www.lpi.org/thanks00.html">2000</a>, but even
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those lists fall short. I would refer you to the articles listed below
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to understand both what we have gone through and also who should be thanked.
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We have been <i>extremely</i> grateful for all the support of people within
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the Linux community and also within the larger IT world. We would also
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thank the <a href="/">Linux Gazette</a> for providing the forum that helped
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launch our effort and continued to help get our message out. They, and so
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many other Linux magazines, journals and web sites have been instrumental
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in helping the world learn about our program.
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<p>LPI began with a fairly simple idea - if there <i>is</i> to be certification
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for Linux, which the larger IT and training industry pretty much determined
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would be inevitable, then that certification <i>should be controlled by the
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actual Linux professionals working with the operating system</i> and not
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by any one Linux vendor or any publishers or training/courseware providers.
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Furthermore, candidates should have <a href="http://www.lpi.org/c-preparation.html">the freedom to choose how they prepare</a> for the exams, including the
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option of not taking any classes at all and simply studying the
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<a href="http://www.lpi.org/p-index.html">exam objectives</a>.
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The exams should be <a href="http://www.lpi.org/c-registration.html">available
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globally</a> and as inexpensively as possible, and should use
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<a href="http://www.lpi.org/p-development.html">standard industry practices</a>
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to ensure that the exams are legally defensible, statistically-valid and able
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to stand equal or better than other existing IT certifications.
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<p>It's been a very long road with plenty of joyous moments and plenty of
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rough spots. But working together, we have done it! Yes, there is still a
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long way yet to go, and there is much ahead for us to do. There are
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<i>many</i> more challenges ahead, and we will need the active support
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and participation of <i>many</i> more people to meet those challenges
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(please contact Wilma Silbermann <<a href="mailto:wilma@lpi.org">
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wilma@lpi.org</a>> if you would like to volunteer). We will need
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<a href="http://www.lpi.org/i-jobs.html">help</a> in many different
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areas... we will need new people providing leadership... we will need
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<a href="http://www.lpi.org/i-sponsorship.html">new financial sponsors</a>...
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we will need more people to write and speak about LPI. But based on what
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I have seen in the past two years, I am more confident than ever that we
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<i>will</i> continue to build LPI to be a premier certification program.
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<p>Yet on this October day, I believe we should
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take this moment to pause, sit back and appreciate all that has been done by
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so many different people. We thank everyone who has been involved for
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your past and continued support and look forward to continuing to work with
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you all to move this program on to even greater heights!
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<p>And so much of it began here, with <a href="../issue33/york.html">a little
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article</a> and, <i>most importantly</i>, all of the people who responded
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back to say that they, <i>too</i>, wanted to help...
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<h4><a name="Previous"><a name="Previous1">Previous</a> ``Linux
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Certification'' Columns</a></h4>
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<p><b>by Dan York</b><br>
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<a href="../issue33/york.html">Linux Certification Part #1, October 1998</a>
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<br>
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<a href="../issue34/york.html">Linux Certification Part #2, November 1998</a>
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<br>
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<a href="../issue35/york.html">Linux Certification Part #3, December 1998</a>
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<br>
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<a href="../issue37/york.html">Linux Certification Part #4, February 1999</a>
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<br>
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<a href="../issue40/york.html">Linux Certification Part #5, Mid-April 1999</a>
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<br>
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<a href="../issue43/york.html">Linux Certification Part #6, July 1999</a>
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<br>
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<a href="../issue46/york.html">Linux Certification Part #7, October 1999</a>
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<br>
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<p><b>by Ray Ferrari</b><br>
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<a href="../issue50/ferrari.html">Linux Certification Part #8, February 2000</a>
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<br>
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<a href="../issue54/ferrari.html">Linux Certification Part #9, June 2000</a>
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<br>
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<a href="../issue57/ferrari.html">Linux Certification Part #10, September 2000</a>
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Copyright © 2000, Dan York<BR>
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Published in Issue 58 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, October 2000</H5>
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