IBM is announcing a Linux Scholar Challenge that will 
encourage student use of Linux to help the open source 
community. The objectives of this contest will be to 
promote the use of Linux worldwide by students in 
colleges and universities, solve real-world Linux 
issues, and educate students on open source environments 
and how to make improvements.

Applicants must complete the online registration by 
October 15 at the Linux Challenge web site:
  http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?
on=c3362linux/challenge

The contest will end on November 30 and winners will be 
announced on December 14. Students must be enrolled full-
time in a two- or four-year accredited college or 
university.

For this contest, students will select a Linux project 
from a list of twenty-one proposed projects; or propose 
one of their own. They will need to describe their 
objectives, methodology, research and results in a three-
page paper; and submit it for evaluation.

Winners will receive one of 25 IBM Thinkpads Three 
qualified winners will be offered Summer 2002 
internships at IBM's Linux Technology Center. The 
university with the highest average score of student 
entries (with a minimum of 10 entries), with get their
choice of a 16-node Linux Cluster, or entry-level 
zSeries Linux server

IBM is strongly committed to the open source and open 
standards direction and has made significant investments 
to support our commitment. For more information about 
this contest, goto:
  http://isource.ibm.com/cgi-bin/goto?
on=c3362linux/challenge

-swf

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