Re: certification [was: Re: [Fsfe-uk] Intro and a request for information]

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-11-14 12:05:54 +0000 Graham Seaman <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> http://www.ecdl-linux.de/
> German, can't understand enough to follow what's going on there - I 
> have seen 
> complaints in English that all that's available in reality in Germany 
> is 
> still MS based. Can anyone read this? [...]

Yes, although it's not very easy for me. It was ECDL on SuSE 8.0, KDE 
3 and StarOffice 6, started in 2002. Looks like it might build on a 
smaller trial. I am not sure if it is still running (site's 
Last-Modified is 2002, although there is news on the page form 
2003...), or what their findings have been. It's run by DLGI who seem 
to be a (the?) German ECDL agent and their head is one of the six 
ECDL-Foundation directors.

I think the complaints you have seen might be correct: as far as I 
understand it, the ECDL Linux site lists 10 test centres, while the 
main ecdl.de site lists 879 test centres.

> Does anyone know what's going on in other European countries - or 
> even 
> better, anything going on here? [...]

If you want, you might get more answers from posting that question to 
schoolforge (address anyone?) or address@hidden lists.

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