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LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on December 1st - 2nd, 2007 in South Bay(CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.

"The reason that the Russian announcement is funny boils down to the perception over the years that Russia equates to totalitarianism, whilst here in America we're all about Freedom and innovation. Yet our educational system -- the very underpinnings of how we're growing out future technological talent, is based upon the inversion of what one..."

Russian OS is to be installed on every school computer in Russia by 2009. Furthermore, every pupil will get the opportunity to operate the applied software produced in Russia, Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication stated at a press conference. Experts and market participants consider the terms within which software is to be developed quite reasonable. According to Mr. Reiman, that might significantly reduce Russian dependence on foreign software.

Russian Ministry of Finance approved RUR 3 bln financing from state budget for software on school computers. 1,9 bln from that would be spent on patented software, like Microsoft's and Adobe's products (developers are to bid in August).

Ars Technica were at aKademy 2007, where they took a look at the Intel classmate PC running Mandriva Linux.

In terms of educational value, there are at least two critical issues to be addressed in thinking through these policies, issues that raise powerful barriers to the long-term effectiveness of any kind of 1/1 or similar strategy. And the issues in question are not just the responsibility of those who are leading the way with such policies and projects.

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the premier Linux certification organization worldwide, announced new LPI Approved Training Partners (LPI-ATP) in Africa, Europe and Latin America. This includes the first LPI training partners in France, Greece, the Ivory Coast, Peru, and Tanzania.

Nation’s eighth-largest district turns to open-source software to extend computers to every student. Looking for a cost-effective way to deliver portable computing to every student, the San Diego Unified School District is installing machines with desktop Linux and other open-source software. In turning to open source, San Diego joins a growing number of school systems aiming to extend computing resources affordably to more users.

Sure you have been hearing about Sakai, the open source collaboration and learning environment, but you've probably also heard that campuses that have implemented Sakai have huge IT budget and lots of staff. So you haven't tried it yet, and you wonder why you should. Why go through the hassle and expense? After all, it's just an "open-source" version of the CMS you already use, right?

Wrong.

Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported late last week that the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to introduce the open-source operating system Linux for use within classrooms across the country in the near future. According to an investigation conducted in the spring of last year, there are currently over 400,000 computers at schools in Japan running on either Windows 98 or Windows Me, systems no longer supported by the software manufacturer Microsoft.

Carnegie Mellon West's Software Management program is built on the university's existing software engineering curriculum, the school explained, but adds a business and organizational component that "breaks with tradition by giving students the broader perspective needed to collaborate with and lead the global, distributed teams that are defining next-generation software organizations."