OpenSource Certificates

[Don Davie]

Good Morning Belinda,

Does your company offer discount/bulk rates for schools?  I have 10 inner
city students that have been selected for a project where we receive pentium
3 pc's (450's to 900's) and refurbish with Ubuntu and distribute to
community based organizations.  These students have little to no experience
besides the basic end users but have been chosen with their dedication and
drive to learn.  I kept the pilot program at 10 students as its a manageable
number and we have chosen Ubuntu as the OS.  But beyond the super basics I
would like a solid lesson curriculum to teach a basic linux/ubuntu.  Do you
have something basic/introduction course?  This project is not geared
towards getting them certified just introduced and familiar with the
software.  I am hoping this will introduce them into a lucrative carer
(better then Mc Donalds :)

Thank you

Lt. Don E. Davie

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Belinda Lopez
<belinda.lopez at canonical.com>wrote:

> Jeffrey,
>   sounds like a great project!  As Matthew pointed to, Canonical currently
> offers the Ubuntu 199 Ubuntu Certified Professional exam.  The exam and
> training materials are currently being revamped and will be available soon.
> Starting May 1, the new exam will be available at any Pearson/Vue or
> Prometric training centers.  LPI has also updated their LPI 101/102 exams as
> of April 1.  Depending on what type of certification you need, these
> programs may fit your purposes.  The new UCP and 199 exam cover desktop
> deployment but not anything with Edubuntu.  While you do not need to take
> any formal training to sit for the exams, the new UCP classroom course is
> being offered through our training partners and we will be offering an
> eLearning version of the course starting this summer.
>
> Please feel free to contact me directly for any further information.
>
> regards,
>
> Belinda Lopez
>
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> Matthew Lye wrote:
>
> Canonical have a training program <http://www.ubuntu.com/training> that
> provides accreditation. You should try and contact Billy Cina or Belinda
> Lopez and see if they can provide what you are after.
>
> -Matthew Lye
>
>
>
>   On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Jeffrey,
>>
>> I'm currently working (or, more accurately, procrastinating) on my
>> LPIC Level 1 certification. Linux Professional Institute certification
>> is pretty intense, though; it's intended for people with a couple of
>> years experience working as a Linux administrator.
>>
>> Perhaps you might take look at CompTIA's range of certifications; the
>> Linux+ one, perhaps, could be prepared for in a high school
>> environment.
>>
>> What sort of content are you teaching? What's the name of the class?
>>
>> Simón
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jeffrey Miller <jeff at socorro.k12.nm.us>
>> wrote:
>> > I have been asked by our WIA coordinator to develop a computer course
>> > on building OpenSource computers.  The hang up is we need some type of
>> > certification.  Have you any knowledge of said certifications?  I
>> > checked it out online and there are only a few.  My visions is to
>> > build Edubuntu boxes with our WIA students this summer and then
>> > distribute the boxes to local agencies like the senior center and
>> > such.  Then, mayhaps, the city would hire at least one of our students
>> > to maintain said boxes.  However, the feds in charge of WIA like to
>> > have a piece of paper to hand the students upon completion of the
>> > course work.  Any ideas?
>> >
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