College students: Help improve Linux, win a ThinkPad
Source: Newsforge
The second IBM Linux Scholar Challenge is accepting registrations through October 31. Finished projects are due by December 13. On January 20, 2003, IBM will announce the winners of 20 ThinkPad laptops, and will offer summer internships at IBM's Linux Technology Center to three of the top winners.
The contest page says, "Once again, IBM is sponsoring the Linux Scholar Challenge contest. If you're a college or university student, you can take the challenge and make improvements to Linux, create usability tools or enhancements, or design Linux applications."
Nancy Brittle, IBM's Worldwide Program Director for Linux in Higher Education, is in charge of the contest, which was held for the first time in 2001. She originally recruited three judges from IBM's Linux crew, but says, "We really needed 100 judges," because last year's Linux Challenge drew a much larger response than IBM expected: 1,462 entries from 64 countries all over the world.
Brittle immediately beefed up the judging staff to accommodate the unanticipated deluge of entries by asking Linux-interested IBM employees to help out, and plenty of them responded. This year there are enough judges already signed up to handle a substantial load -- and more can be called in if needed. IBM apparently has no shortage of employees who are interested in Linux and Open Source.
