This may be the first time any of you see of this topic. If it is successful, we’ll be offering it again in the future.
First some background. With a little urging from Tim Inkpen (who has gotten involved with the OTI), Andrea Vieira and I will be presenting a rapid get up to speed course for people who wish to get their LPIC-Level 1 certification. The initial offering starts June 18th and yesterday (I was over there to attend a session on how to bid on government contracts) there was 1 seat available in a class of 25. If anyone is interested, you should try to sign up right away.
This is a first cut, so I expect there will be a few rough edges as it is a massive amount of data to cover and if you don’t have prior Linux experience (Unix will help a lot), you probably will not pass.
This will only cover the first of two exams, the “101” exam. Depending on the turnout, we will push to get a 102 course ready as well.
We are expecting 10-15 Monday evenings to cover the material that we are presenting and there will be an expectation of the attendees to spend 5-15 hours per week practicing (work experience will count :) ). We are also hoping to use the education portal at The Kuzink Business Incubator to provide additional information, practice sessions and a Q&A forum as well as coordinating some skype based chats.
Interestingly enough, the purpose of the SAGE organization is to promote System Administration as a profession and I’ve been running the local for almost 10 years now. This is the first course I have put on for this, so I’m hoping this is the start of many more.
More information can be found on the course page.