[smc-discuss] Linux scholar skips California opportunity

[Nandaja Varma]

അങ്ങനൊരു ഐറ്റമുണ്ടോ? :P


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think SMC need to give a News Maker of the year award to Our Nandaja :-)
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> Check
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> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=605781552799134&set=a.202747536435873.50382.189968437713783&type=1
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> Linux scholar skips California opportunity
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> http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130926/news-current-affairs/article/linux-scholar-skips-california-opportunity
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> Nandaja Varma could have travelled all the way to California to do a
> course offered by Linux Foundation this December. For she had just won the
> Linux Foundation Training Scholarship in the Whiz Kid category. But she
> would choose to do the course online for she is still a student at NSS
> College of Engineering in Palakkad.
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> Every year, the scholarship programme is offered to five people across the
> world, and Nandaja was the only Indian chosen this year.
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> “I had applied for the Whiz Kid category to do a course in Linux Kernel
> Development or Linux System Administration,” she says. Two others from the
> US, a German and a woman from Uganda, are the other winners, in different
> categories.
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> Nandaja was earlier chosen to develop a project with a USD 5,000 support
> via Swathanthra Malayalam Computing for Google Summer of Code programme.
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> “It must be the packaging work I contributed for
> the Debian community that helped me win this scholarship,” she says.
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> The Linux Foundation website quotes her as saying she will use her Linux
> training scholarship to build her career as a Linux systems administrator
> and to conduct mini workshops to increase interest in Linux, especially
> among girls and women.
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Regards,
Nandaja Varma
http://nandajavarma.wordpress.com
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