The ict@innovation programme would like to inform all ict@innovation trainers that we have opportunities for support to attend the Idlelo5 Conference in Abuja which will be taking place between 19^th and 23^rd March 2012.

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We are proud to announce to this community that training on LPI Certification has already started at Bugema University. We started January 30th and Match 19th 2012 will be our grand passing-out of the first Linux-Certified professionals according to our training schedule.

This training is conducted at Bugema University Kampala Campus every Mondays at 4:30 pm to 8:00pm.

Target group and enrollment procedure for this first training

The catholic University of Easter Africa is launching its first LPIC-1 training schedule on 12th February 2012.
This is a follow-up to the Linux Pre-certification training that  the we conducted in December 2011 which was organized to demystify Linux.
So far we have 15 students registered to start.
Our goal with this program is to ensure that all students undertaking Computer Science at the university undergo LPIC-1 training and at least 20% become LPIC-1 certified.

Following the Linux training that took place in august 2011, We decided to start the LPIC-1 training in Catholic University of Eastern Africa as soon as possible.
However to start the course we saw the need to first have a introductory course expose our students. WE called the course, Linux Pre-certification. The students after undertaking the course were supposed to sit for an exam and after passing would get a certificate  issued by the LPA-Kenya.

Location

The event was hosted at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and the idea was to prepare the students for the LPI trainings and therefore the course was to give them a feel of what to expect. The students were trained on the basics of linux and later they sat for an exam.
The total number of the students who registered for the course were 83 but 49 sat for the final exam at the end of the training.

The Catholic University of Eastern Africa conducted a Linux Pre- certification this was majorly to prepare the students for the LPI certifications. The students under went a basic training on linux and later sat for the exam. The total number that had enrolled for the course was 83, but 49 students sat for the exam at the end of the training.

As part of national roll out of LPI training following the LToT training I attended in Nairobi in November 2011, we managed to conduct first LPI training at ICT4TD learning centre. The going has been tough as most of interested trainees lack necessary funds to pay for the cost because most of them are college graduates. As a result we started with a group of four trainees.

Batch II of LPI preparation classes for LPI 101 has started in Dar es Salaam at InCo Technologies (T) Ltd executive Lab.
4 students registered this round (see  a pic attached)
A number is a bit low so we are planning to have a yearly schedule to allow interested individual to plan in advance to attend these trainings.

Happy New Year to all of you.

Its been a very hot entry into 2012, from Kampala, and the heat could not have been multiplied by the excitement that comes with knowing Africa's premier FOSS gathering - IDLELO - is round the corner.
Its a great time, as my last experience ushered me into the world of Linux and FOSS on the continent, paving the way for what has now become my life and bread - Linux Systems Administration, Training, and Advocacy.

Location

This is the 1st Community Exam Lab for 2012 in Kenya. All LPI exams will be offered and this will be a Paper Based Testing exam lab.