[Year 12 IPM] Open Source Skills in Demand

[Peter Ruwoldt (Wrk)]

Donna - can I please copy and paste this into an IT teachers forum we 
have in in SA
Peter

Donna Benjamin wrote:

>http://www.theage.com.au/news/chatroom/scruffy-geeks-on-the-outer/2005/10/10/1128796456004.html
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>Open source boom
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>A little factoid that many may not be aware of is that despite our
>massive IT balance of trade deficit, this country is the place to be
>when it comes to open source development. Believe it or not, Australia
>has more open source developers per head of capita than anywhere else.
>Open source development projects with esoteric sounding names such as
>Samba, Mambo, Squid, Lams and Moodle, plus better-known projects such as
>Apache, OpenOffice.org, Gnome, KDE, and MySQL, have Australian
>developers in prominent roles.
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>According to Pia Waugh, the vice-president of open source developers'
>body Linux Australia, the vibrancy of the local scene is such that we're
>gaining a reputation for being an open source offshore outsourcing
>destination. But the problem is, with local companies and, lately,
>government agencies, looking to implement open source solutions, the
>pool of human resources to do the grunt work is drying up.
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>"I know of IT companies that have been looking for people with open
>source skills for three months," says Ms Waugh, who is also a key
>adviser for the conference program of the LinuxWorld expo in Sydney next
>year. "It's not so much a shortage of developers but a shortage of
>implementers and support people. The three main certifications that are
>in demand are Red Hat, Novell and LPI, which is vendor neutral.
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>"This kind of demand represents a massive opportunity for graduates and
>for universities to run the courses."
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