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2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications
The Fedora Scholarship program recognizes one high school senior per year for contributions to the Fedora Project and free software/content in general. The scholarship is a $2,000 USD reward per year over each of the four years the recipient is in college, which is funded by Red Hat's Community Architecture team, as well as travel and lodging to the nearest FUDCon for each year of the scholarship. If you are a student who will be entering college in Fall 2011, you are eligible to apply! The application is extremely simple, and is described in length at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship. Please be sure to read the terms and conditions before applying. The application deadline for this scholarship is February 25, 2011. (Remember -- don't procrastinate just because the deadline is in four months!) -- Ian Weller <ian@ianweller.org> Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- announce mailing list announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce (Log in to post comments)
2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications Posted Oct 28, 2010 21:01 UTC (Thu) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432) [Link]
Ah yes, another way for the privileged to increase their privilege. How sad.
Why not use this money to fund technology training for students from disadvantaged communities? We could even use it to promote Free Software by providing these students with a Linux notebook and internet access.
This is just pouring more money into an inherently broken system, which is going to make the problems of disparity worse.
2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications Posted Oct 31, 2010 12:45 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Er, scholarships are given to allow those *less* privileged to get to go to college. That's the whole point of them.
2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications Posted Nov 1, 2010 4:16 UTC (Mon) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432) [Link]
No, there is not such wording in the scholarship qualifications. Scholarships are not just given out to those who need them, unfortunately.
It's a pretty good bet that if you've been making significant contributions to Fedora before college, you're very privileged. Most people don't have access to the computer resources or training to make that kind of leap.
Until the program is changed to target those most in need, this simply perpetuates a very broken system.
2011 Fedora Scholarship open to applications Posted Nov 4, 2010 20:03 UTC (Thu) by quaid (guest, #26101) [Link]
The reason this money is used this way is because it works. It's similar to internship and student contributing programs (Fedora Students Contributing, Google Summer of Code, etc.) - you get clear value and scalability for the allocated budget. From a business standpoint, where making a stronger open source ecosystem is a basic principle of how you do business, this scholarship program makes perfect sense.
May I suggest that you draw up a vision of a different and new program? You are already partially there. So, rather than redirecting this money to there, you suggest that additional investment be made. I'm sure we'd be interested in any good ideas.
I recommend starting relatively small. A $2000/year scholarship is $8000 invested in the education of someone who has already proven their tendency to contribute to FOSS. Ten underprivileged students receiving a netbook and an Internet connection for N years comes in at $10000. That's a potentially reasonable sum to commit to trying out an idea, and is much easier to see done than a million dollar, all-things-included plan. So, think about developing a program using the same techniques we do with software (the open source way - http://theopensourceway.org/wiki ) - start with a reasonably sized bite to chew, and start increasing the meal as you learn what works.
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