LPI Report on LinuxWorld Boston

From the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Press Release on
LinuxWorld Boston ...

"LPI at LinuxWorld Boston, April 3-6, 2006 ...

LPI's delegation was led by Jim Lacey, President and CEO and includedthe following LPI staff: Larry McArthur, Area Operations Manager for North America and Asia Pacific; James Stanger, Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Council; Matt Rice, Director of Product Development; Glenn McKnight, Director of Operations; and Scott Lamberton, Director of Communications. Board member Gen Narui also attended the conference and brought an eleven person contingent of LPI-Japan staff, board members and LPIC-2 alumni (see below) ...

Advisory Council meetings:

The semi-annual LPI advisory council meeting was held at the conference and for the first time was split into two meetings: a Strategic Advisory Council (SAC) for discussions on business initiatives and a Technical Advisory Council (TAC) for discussions on product development and certification exams.

In addition to the LPI staff and Board members listed above the following people participated in the Strategic Advisory Council meeting on Wednesday, April 5th at 8:00
a.m.:

* Brian Osborn, Linux Magazine
* Debra Williams-Cauley, Prentice-Hall
* Andy Oram, O'Reilly
* Don Marti, SpikeSource
* Ross Brunson, Novell
* Bryan Smith, IEEE
* Ian Shields, IBM
* Faber Fedor, NJ LUG
* Kevin Dankwardt, IFOSS
* Tobin McGinnis, IFOSS
* Toshiji Tanaka, LPI-Japan
* Shinji Takazawa, SGI-Japan
* Chieko Takahashi NEC and LPI-Japan Board member
* Dr. Haruhisa Ishida, LPI-Japan Board member

The meeting featured presentations from Jim Lacey on LPI's future direction and from Larry McArthur on LPI's "Regional Enablement Initiative". Discussions following
the meeting focused on possible initiatives with LPI alumni.

The Technical Advisory Council meeting was held on Thursday morning and in addition to LPI staff and board members listed above included the following participants:

* Ross Brunson, Novell
* Ian Shields, IBM
* David Allen, Computer Resources Consulting
* Bryan Smith, IEEE
* Jim Nasby, Pervasive/MySQL
* Faber Fedor, NJ LUG
* Kevin Dankwardt, IFOSS
* Tobin McGinnis, IFOSS
* Ricardo Strusberg, ISEIT
* Clark W. Alexander, New England Institute of Technology
* Toshiji Tanaka, LPI-Japan
* Shinji Takazawa, SGI-Japan
* Chieko Takahashi NEC and LPI-Japan Board member
* Dr. Haruhisa Ishida, LPI-Japan Board member

The meeting largely focused on discussions initiated by Matthew Rice, Director of Product Development on plans around the upcoming development of a Level 3 certification."