[clue-cert] Course and training designing

[Crawford Rainwater]

Since I recall the original goal of this group was along the lines of Linux certification and training, I wanted to bounce off a few ideas for feedback from the group here.

I am putting together some course tracks along the lines of the following certifications:
- LPIC-1 + Ubuntu Certified Professional
- LPIC-1 + RHCT/RHCE
- LPIC-1 + Novell Linux Certified Professional/Administrator/Engineer (Novell changes the name a bit here)

All of the above could go for a Linux+ as well, though I will admit this exams is Linux + hardware oriented (mine way back when was 40% Linux, 60% hardware).

The LPIC-1 would be two classes, each a week a piece.  The "+ xyz" part would be potentially a three day class specific for that distribution.  The idea in mind here is that one has the bases of Linux administration in general via the LPIC-1 classes, and the third class is focus specific to Ubuntu, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora, and/or SuSE/OpenSuSE.

If people are wondering "why these particular distributions" well that is simple.  There are only certifications out there for these distributions which all three are also what I would classify as "commercially supported" versus "community supported" (Ubuntu is a cross over of both with Canoncial providing the commercial support for reference).  The LPIC-1 is still "general" or "distribution neutral".

The classes would be classroom with lab oriented, though I am looking into perhaps a "video learning" via the internet angle as well.  Since all of the above certifications are designed to have had "hands on" experience to pass them, it is fitting for the prior teaching style, with the latter perhaps for that distribution specific portion.

Thoughts, comments, questions, etc. are welcomed here.  I will state I am looking for input on such tracks from a training point of view.  This is not to be a discussion of "my distro is better than your distro" or certification flame either. ;-)

Thanks in advance.

--- Crawford

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