Red Hat announces scholarships for Linux enthusiasts

Red Hat India has announced Red Hat Scholarships–The Open

Source Cha-llenge, an education initiative designed to encourage budd-ing open

source software deve-lopers. The program is open to students from engineering

colleges across India and carries scholarships of Rs 10 lakh. The program will

be conducted jointly with the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Tech-nology at

IIT-Bombay.

An eminent panel of renow-ned leaders, including Dr DB Phatak,

founder of the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology at IIT-Bombay, Prof

S Sadagopan, Director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology,

Bangalore, Dire-ctor of Netcore Solutions, Raje-sh Jain and others form the

advisory board for the Red Hat Scholarships.

According to Javed Tapia, Director, Red Hat India, the

objective of Red Hat Scholar-ships is to reach out to Linux enthusiasts in

engineering col-leges across India and encou-rage the adoption of the open

source philosophy.

Open Source is a worl-dwide movement that consists of people

across the world colla-borating over the Inter-net to develop soft-ware. The

software thus developed is us-ually distributed under the General Public License

(GPL) that allows other users to see its code and modify it.

These software programs hold enormous relevance for

developing countries, where software prices are beyond the reach of the common

man.

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