Not sure if you have noticed but for the past few weeks there has been a new banner ad on the left side of this site. This is my attempts to help increase awareness and provide people with a little more visibility into the vCommunity Trust organization vCommunity Trust is a non profit organization whose main goal is to provide free training to the general public as well as financial assistance to to those who need to help them obtain technological certifications.
Now I’ve heard of vCommunity Trust before but didn’t know a lot about them but after meeting and getting to talk for a little bit with one of the founders, Paul Valentino (blog/twitter) at VMworld this year I thought I would try and help the cause where I could. vCommunity Trust currently has a couple of programs in action right now outlined below, for more information or to determine eligibility for either program you can find more here.
The vCommunity Trust Certification and Training Program for vProfessionals
The vCommunity Trust Certification and Training Program’s goal is to provide at least four students per year from around the globe with the training requirements to pass the VCP exam and to provide the vouchers required to pay for both the training and the certification exam. As the program, volunteer support, and corporate sponsorship expands we would like to extend this program to include training and certification in additional areas including but not limited to Operating Systems, Security, Storage, and Networking related certifications. The goal is to make training for datacenter technologies available to those who would not normally have the opportunity and who truly desire a technical education.
The vCommunity Trust Datacenter Training for Public Schools Program
Help us to help your community! The vCommunity Trust Datacenter Training for Public Schools Program is aimed at providing datacenter training labs to public schools around the globe whether it be onsite, remote or a combination of the two. All donations to support this program will be handled at a regional level through the support of local volunteers and businesses. Donors will have the option of choosing the region they would like to allocate their donated resources to. For the purposes of this program a region is defined as a State, Province, or the equivalent. The goal is to coordinate the delivery and storage of equipment donations for this program through volunteers from each regions local technical user group/s. This program depends upon support from local individuals and businesses in every part of the world and is their opportunity to help educate their own communities without requiring them to obtain IRS designation as a public charity – a savings of approximately one year in effort.
Aside from just the programs there is a ton of training, guides and slides available to the general public for free. Again, you can find these over at the vCommunity Trust site. I encourage everyone to visit the site and learn more about what they are offering. And if you are looking for some assistants and you qualify for one of the programs get your name in and apply, you never know and they are currently looking for students. If you think you can do more to help out via lesson wise, spend some time and put something together they would love to have it. And of course with any non profit organization donations are always welcome, this helps to keep great organizations such as these up and running and they are always appreciated.
