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Monday, March 2, 2009

The Linux Foundation Training

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The Linux server market is poised to reach $50 billion dollars in three years. The embedded, mobile and netbook markets have exploded recently, resulting in rapid expansion of Linux use in companies previously who used proprietary offerings. When a market grows this quickly, the need for well trained developer talent rises just as precipitously. The freelance marketplace Odesk recently found that Linux related jobs surged from 128 in 2006 to 2014 jobs listed in its service in 2009.1 The Linux Foundation is meeting this demand with a new training program that will produce developers with unmatched technical skills.

Built in concert with its Technical Advisory Board (which comprises leading maintainers from the Linux community), the Linux Foundation's Training Program will feature courses taught by many of the actual community developers. With the Linux Foundation's Training program attendees know they are receiving training that is vendor-neutral, technically advanced and built in conjunction with the actual leaders of the Linux development community themselves. The Linux Foundation training classes will give attendees the broad, foundational knowledge and networking needed to thrive in their careers today.

The Linux Foundation Training Program is:

Go there...

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/training

Don

Need a new tech job? Learn Linux - Computerworld Blogs

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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March 2, 2009 - 12:24 P.M.
Need a new tech job? Learn Linux


* TAGS:development, Education, hiring, human resources, job, Linux,
Linux Foundation, open source
* IT TOPICS:Careers, Development, Linux, Open Source, Operating
Systems, Software

I grew up dirt-poor in the middle of West Virginia on my grandparents'
stories of the Great Depression. We're not even close to being that bad
yet. But, when it's you without a job, when you're not able to draw a
paycheck, that's cold comfort. One ray of light in this misery economy
though is that there are still some Linux jobs.

So it is that the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated
to Linux's growth, has announced the Linux Foundation Training Program.
According to the Foundation's press release, "It will kick off with
courses taught at the Linux Foundation's Annual Collaboration Summit
April 8 - 10, 2009 in San Francisco."

The Foundation explains that with the Linux server market predicted "to
reach $50 billion dollars in three years, and the embedded and mobile
Linux markets continue to explode," it's a good time to move your career
to Linux and open source. Citing the freelance marketplace Odesk, the
Foundations reports that the number of Linux-related jobs posted on its
boards has increased more than 1400% since 2006.

Read More...

http://blogs.computerworld.com/need_a_new_tech_job_learn_linux

Don