The Great LinTraining Cleanout - So the article is up and several replies have come in already. I'm going to send it to a couple of mailing lists in hopes of getting a larger team. Would really like 10 or so folks to help make it go quickly.

LinTraining - Even as I talk about the data growing stale, more entries keep coming in. The latest ones are for:

• Idonesia
• UK
• Hong Kong

Also had two submissions from the UK for courseware, including the Linux Training Materials Project, an effort to make available free courseware. Sounds interesting from communicating with the folks there.

Dave Whitinger also has some cool ideas about improving the site's codebase that should be VERY interesting if we decide to go ahead with them.

Open Source Weekend and the Business of Open Source Software - So today was the culmination of the Open Source Weekend and specifically the "Business of Open Source Software" conference. Dave Edwards and his team from OCLUG did a great job organizing it all. I heard that there were something on the order of 250 people at each of the Linuxfest events and there were somewhere around 150 at the speech and panel today. I was the emcee for the afternoon events (speech and panel) and quite enjoyed it.

Martin Fink, VP and CTO for Business Critical Systems from HP was the speaker and then was one of the six panelists. He has written a book called "The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source" (Get it from Chapters, Amazon, or other book stores). At a quick glance, it seems like just the book that would have been nice to have, say, two years ago! But then again, it may not have been able to been written then. It's really focused on Linux from the business point of view.

I'll post more comments here as I read it.

The panel discussion was quite good... reps from Sun, IBM, Postgres, OEOne and the Canadian government. Enjoyable session for me... I hope it was for the attendees as well.

LPI and SAGE investigating combined membership - Now here's an interesting idea... after you become LPI-certified you will get some type of membership in SAGE. Could be interesting...

LPI and UnitedLinux - Just a brief mention at ZDNet, but it was announced that LPI and UniteLinux will work together to create a certification program for UnitedLinux. There is more info on UL's site. I'm glad to see this happened as their was some concern for a while that they would go their own way and create yet another cert program. Kudos to folks on both sides for working it out.

The Chloe Journals - The poor little girl has a bad cold and fever... she still seems in great spirits and is still extremely active, but it's just heart-wrenching to see her sick.