[TOS] Does Red Hat or Canonical have any student competitions?

[Mel Chua]

> I mentioned GSoC and the OLPC Contributors program but I think the
> professor's looking for a "competition" rather than a "project".
>   Personally, I also think our students would do better with
> "collaboration" rather than "competition" since (a) you don't "lose" and
> (b) it's open-ended: Students who participate in such efforts go on to
> become professionals who participate in such efforts and end up
> mentoring the current crop of students who go on to become
> professionals...  Ain't recursion grand? ;-)

My suggestion to Kevin (since I couldn't think of any good FOSS 
competitions for his group offhand) was to think about what sort of 
competition he wished existed, then try to get a donor to chip in a 
prize for it. Might be a little too much overhead, though, and too short 
a timeframe...

--Mel