1) If you are interested in joining a "Linux System Administration" course in your country in Southern and East Africa or if you are looking for LPI certification, please check our  Course Directory for upcoming training and certification events.

Location

The 2nd LPIC-1 Exam lab will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa on March 5th. This exam lab will be hosted under the ict@innovation project of GIZ and FOSSFA, but will be open to the general public. anyone who is interested in sitting for these exams can contact George Nyambuya, the ict@innovation Africa Coordinator, of Evans Ikua, the FOSS Certification Manager.

The two exams will be at a discounted rate of $95 each, and will be paper based.

Wanted: LPI Trainers of Trainers for the FOSS Certification pillar of the ict@innovation project

Application Deadline is 21^st December, 2010.

ict@innovation's first regional training of trainers course on Linux system administration has taken off in Nairobi. The training which started on Monday, 1st November, brings together about 20 participants from across the East African region, that is Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia.

After a very busy week at the Strathmore University in Nairobi, a small group of 7 African Linux experts made probable History by producing the first LPIC training manual done in Africa, by Africans. In the group was a veteran Linux and Unix Engineer and writer from the UK, Dr Chris Brown.