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Business Wire<br>
6.2.11<br>
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<b>The Fedora Project Recognizes Student Contributor with Fedora
Scholarship</b>
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<p class="bwalignc"> <i>Ricky Elrod Named Fourth Annual
Scholarship Recipient for Work Within Free and Open Source
Software</i> </p>
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<p>RALEIGH, N.C.--The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT)
sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today
announced that Ricky Elrod is the recipient of the 2011 Fedora
Scholarship, a program now in its fourth year. The Fedora
Scholarship program recognizes college and university-bound
students across the globe for their contributions to free software
and the Fedora Project. Elrod has spent significant time working
within Fedora’s Infrastructure Team, a group of volunteers that
manage the servers and applications that run Fedora. He was
selected from an impressive applicant pool and plans to continue
his education at the University of Akron this fall and major in
Computer Science<b>.</b> </p>
<p> Fedora is built by a worldwide community of people and is
inclusive for anyone to join and contribute across multiple
functions from content writers, designers and marketers to
translators, web developers and system administrators. Fedora and
Red Hat are committed to fostering the talent of young
contributors and aim to encourage students to gain hands-on
experience with open source software and lead in the creation and
spread of free code and content. </p>
<p> "We are very pleased to be awarding the Fedora Scholarship to
Ricky this year," said Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader at Red
Hat. "His contributions to the Fedora Infrastructure Team have
made a positive impact to help everything from our project website
and wiki to the package builder and update manager run smoothly.
We thank Ricky for his numerous contributions and look forward to
his continued work with Fedora as he attends university and
pursues his degree.” </p>
<p> Fedora Scholarship applicants are evaluated on criteria
including the quality of contributions made to Fedora and other
free software projects, references provided by Fedora community
members, the amount of time the applicant has been contributing to
Fedora and the overall quality of the application. Recipients are
awarded a scholarship to be applied toward tuition for the
student's college or university education. Fedora Scholarship
winners also receive funding for travel and lodging at the Fedora
User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) nearest to their location
for each year of the scholarship. </p>
<p> “I would like to say a huge ‘thank you’ to the Fedora
Infrastructure team and the Fedora Project as a whole, for showing
me, and many people like me, that open source software is easy to
contribute to from any level of experience,” said Elrod. “Thank
you to all who make Fedora the great project that it is, and the
great project that it will continue to be.” </p>
<p> The 2012 application window will open in fall 2011. For more
information, visit <a target="_blank"
href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&div=bfahacajje&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffedoraproject.org%2Fwiki%2FScholarship&esheet=6745495&lan=en-US&anchor=https%3A%2F%2Ffedoraproject.org%2Fwiki%2FScholarship&index=1&md5=8bfdf9d7e1912b48bbf924a24ec9eab7">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship</a>.
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<p> For more information on the Fedora Project, please visit <a
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