Re: Re: [seul-edu] Another threat

["Paul Sutton" <psutton@uklinux.net>]

Not quite what you may be looking for but in the UK we have ECDL European
Computer Driving Licence,  normally this is done using Office,  however
there are a few people offering the course cheap and giving away star office
5.2 in order for people to complete the course at home,  As star office is
free.

Regarding certification,  At one time Linux had none, then the community got
together and created a certification programme,  perhaps this is what needs
to happen here,  I am sure that the USA must have equivelents of CLAIT
(database, spreadsheets and word processing), and IBT 2 which covers the
same as clait, but also includes producing charts and then a document which
integrates the previous 4,  ECDL is a bit more advanced as it also includes
presentation. So I think it's going to have to be a community thing.  Then
eventually someone will catch on and offer sponsorship or something,  I
would guess that it could really be part of LPI as a module,  partly because
as a sys admin you need to give user support this perhaps should include
using office software.

Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Pollingue" <kpolling@bellsouth.net>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [seul-edu] Another threat


> http://suned.sun.com/US/wlc/wlcstaroffice_live.html
>
> Sun offers training for StarOffice 5.2 and 5.1. Some courses are web
based, and of these some are free, others cost - $40.00 ~ $250.00 (for a
training "bundle"). I did not read all of the info in detail, but I seem to
remember that Sun has a certification after finishing the required courses.
I will try to verify this.
>
> Based on the info at the OpenOffice website, they do not offer any
training or certification.
> ============================================================
> From: Matt Drew <mdrew@redhat.com>
> Date: 2002/05/14 Tue AM 08:58:33 EDT
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Another threat
>
> Kevin,
>
> <snip>
> Does anyone know if there is an OpenOffice or StarOffice certification?
>
> Matt
>
>