Interview: Red Hat's open source scholarship challenge (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

NewsForge interviews Venkatesh Hariharan about an open-source scholarship challenge in India. "There is no dearth of IT talent in India, but for a country that churns out thousands of IT students every year, the number of Indian contributors in the open source software (OSS) world is disproportionately low, due in part to a lack of proper mentoring. To encourage more students to go into OSS development, the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology (KReSIT) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay partners with Red Hat for an open source scholarship challenge each year. Participants, mentored by OSS leaders, get the opportunity to work and collaborate to solve a real-world problem, and the winners get a share of the Rs. 10 lakh (about $22,000) prize."

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