On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 08:09 +1100, Pia Waugh wrote:
Hi Judy,
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Hi all,This is a great idea and I would love to see it take shape!What is at stake is to agree on courseware &examining body.Thx
It doesn't need to be any _one_ courseware examining body. I think if we encouraged training and certs in general and perhaps create a list of appropriate ones and leave it up to the very capable individual teams to decide what is best for them. A short list of the top of my head:
General computer use training: - INGOTS
Technical training: - LPI (Linux Professional Institute - vendor neutral) - RHCE (Red Hat) - NCLE (Suse training)
What else?
Here in the UK, the ingots are being actively used by some members of the Open-Source Consortium (http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/) and we have spoken about possibly developing an "access" course (think of it as LPI 0.5) to help people get into open-source. I am a keen believer in teaching a skills set, not an application, and it is with this in mind that we are gearing ourselves to team up with organisations around the world that share our beliefs about FLOSS to further the adoption of FLOSS in schools. I've just written a blog post about the fact that the Gov. IT advisor for schools has just released a report saying that vista and office 2007 are not fit for purpose (it's at http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/) and that open-source should be considered as an alternative where appropriate. Is there a way in which the OSC and SFD could help each other out on this one? M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew@truthisfreedom.org.uk Please use ISO Approved file formats (.odt/.ods/.odp/.odg/.pdf) for attachments. If you wish to convert legacy Microsoft documents to these formats, please use Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/)