[LinuxUsers] Linux Foundation announces training

[Roger E. Rustad, Jr]

http://tinyurl.com/cnnbmn

Linux Foundation Announces Training Program to Meet Increasing Demand 
for Linux Talent

Program kicks at Annual Collaboration Summit, provides advanced courses 
taught by leading community developers

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2, 2009 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit 
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today 
announced the Linux Foundation Training Program, which will kick off 
with courses taught at the Linux Foundation’s Annual Collaboration 
Summit April 8 - 10, 2009 in San Francisco.

While the Linux server market is predicted to reach $50 billion dollars 
in three years, and the embedded and mobile Linux markets continue to 
explode, the picture is less rosy in other corners of the IT market. 
Developers are being laid off, and many are looking to careers in the 
Linux and open source sector. The freelance marketplace Odesk 
(www.odesk.org) recently reported that the number of Linux-related jobs 
posted on its boards has increased more than 1400% since 2006. The Linux 
Foundation’s Training Program will help meet this demand for industry, 
and provide the tools for a new generation of programmers.

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. The Linux Foundation’s Training program will be 
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 Training Program will debut with the following classes:
• Essential Linux Device Driver Development Skills
• Creating Applications for Linux
• Kernel Debugging and Performance

Students who register for these first Program offerings will get an 
automatic attendee pass for the Collaboration Summit. For more
details, please visit the Training Program Website.

“We’ve received consistent feedback from companies worldwide that the 
rising number of Linux deployments is putting new demands on a talent 
pool that needs more Linux-related developers,” said Jim Zemlin, 
executive director at the Linux Foundation. “We believe the Linux 
Foundation can provide a vendor-neutral forum in which students can 
learn from the community’s most influential contributors in order to 
drive their careers in more lucrative directions.”

The Training Program will consist of in-person courses at the Linux 
Foundation’s events, including its Collaboration Summit, End User Summit 
and LinuxCon, in-person classes in cities around the United States 
(dates to be announced) and onsite, custom courses for companies that 
want to ensure their developer core remains current. Graduates of the 
Program will gain access to resources at the Linux Foundation, which 
will provide students networking opportunities with the developer and 
vendor community through a variety of its events and activities.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering 
the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the 
work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux 
and open source companies and developers from around the world. The 
Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing 
unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully 
compete with closed platforms. For more information, please visit 
www.linux-foundation.org.

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