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IIT-Bombay Team Wins Red Hat Scholarships Program 2005 -2006

IIT-Bombay Team Wins Red Hat Scholarships Program 2005 -2006

Red Hat has announced the winners of the Red Hat Scholarships 2005 - 2006 program. Red Hat Scholarships is an open source programming competition, conducted jointly by the eKALAVYA open source initiative at IIT Bombay and Red Hat India.

The first place prize of Rs. 2 lakh was given to a two-member team from IIT-Bombay. The second (Rs. 1.5 lakh) and third (Rs. 1 lakh) place were won by all-women teams from the Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune and the Shri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, respectively.

Red Hat said this years scholarships program attracted many high-quality entries from across India, prompting the judges to grant Lord of the Code awards and special awards for meritorious participants, in addition to the traditional first, second and third place prizes. 21 additional teams were given the special awards.

Prof. DB Phatak, Subarao M. Nilekani Chair Professor, Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, said that the improved quality of submissions is an indication of the growing interest in open source among Indian students.

We are happy with the fact that more women have participated in this years program. The student projects received this year are outstanding and will contribute immensely to the global open source community. The freedom to study, modify and distribute the source code has made open source phenomenally popular across the world. In India, open source can play a big role in modernizing the education system by making world-class software and source code available to students and teachers. The eKALAVYA initiative of IIT Bombay and Red Hat are working together to achieve this goal, said Prof. Phatak.

Venkatesh Hariharan, Head - Open Source Affairs at Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. said that open source adoption is growing rapidly across the world and it is imperative that Indian students embrace this trend.

The National Knowledge Commission, headed by Dr. Sam Pitroda recently recommended to the Prime Minister that India must use open source software wherever possible. Open source offers a great alternative to expensive proprietary software and has therefore become popular with the Indian industry. Many e-government projects across India are based on open source. The demand for open source will therefore grow rapidly in India and abroad. The Red Hat Scholarships program encourages excellent open source programming talent by recognizing and rewarding them, said Hariharan.

The Red Hat Scholarships program helps students looking for guidance on software development projects that they must submit as an integral component of their curriculum. As part of this collaborative program, students can sign up online for open source projects, seek advice from mentors in the open source community, find a list of projects they can participate in, download open source software and get information on programming standards and guidelines.

Red Hat said the Red Hat Scholarships 2006-2007 program has been expanded to cover countries in the Indian sub-continent, including Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Bhutan.

Source : http://www.itnewsonline.com/

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