higher education scholarships for open source or BSD?
Royce Williams
royce at tycho.org
Sat Mar 21 13:39:46 UTC 2015
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 03/20/15 17:49, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> On 20 March 2015 at 10:50, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
>>> Anyone heard of any university/college scholarships for studies or
>>> community involvement related to open source or BSD?
>>
>> http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-09-21-SFU-open-source-software-engagement-award.html
>
> Indeed, I created this because I wanted to contribute to both open source
> software and my alma mater, and nothing of the sort existed yet.
>
> If anyone wants to replicate this, I'd suggest following my example of
> picking an individual institution -- universities and colleges are always
> happy to take your money and they'll help to find students to award the
> money to.
>
> I happen to be on the committee which hands out my award, but I don't
> participate in the adjudication for obvious reasons; I did however draft
> the terms of reference which guide the committee in their deliberations.
> I'm happy to discuss this and/or share the terms of reference if anyone
> is interested.
Could you redact anything sensitive, and post your entire terms of
reference? Perhaps as a link from the original page?
They could be a great blueprint.
Royce
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