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Carnegie-Mellon freshman gets first Fedora scholarship

By | August 18, 2008, 9:29am PDT

Summary: Zhou is an active member of the Red Hat Fedora community, working on the group’s web site and infrastructure. He has also worked on localizing the project Web site.

Carnegie Mellon tartan logoIncoming freshman Ricky Zhou of Carnegie-Mellon University (go Tartans)  is the first winner of a Fedora Scholarship, funded by Red Hat.

Zhou is an active member of the Red Hat Fedora community, working on the group’s web site and infrastructure. He has also worked on localizing the project Web site.

In addition to getting money for college Zhou wins a trip to the project’s annual development conference, FUDcon.

There is a FUDcon scheduled for the Czech Republic next month. I suspect RedHat is actually sending him to the December conference in Boston.

The scholarship project is a win-win-win. You raise the profile of major open source projects, you honor contributors when they’re approaching career decisions, and you win scads of free publicity.

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Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for 30 years, a tech freelancer since 1983.

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Dana Blankenhorn has been a journalist, writer and part-time futurist for over 30 years.

At the present moment I run only a personal blog in addition to my ZDNet open source blog.

DanaBlankenhorn.Com has the subtitle The War Against Oil. In the past I have used it to write about political history, e-commerce, personal matters, some ideas related to open source, and The World of Always On, which is the idea of using sensors, motes and RFID to turn WiFi links into platforms for applications which live in the air.

My IRA account at Schwab holds a few tech shares, most notably some Intel and Applied Materials, but there are no open source companies in it. I don’t even own any CBS stock.

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Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for nearly 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the Interactive Age Daily for CMP Media, and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age's "NetMarketing" supplement, and dozens of other publications over the years.

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DanaBlankenhorn 18th Aug 2008
I've been writing it with the hyphen for years. So Carnegie finally beat Mellon, eh?
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genericman Updated - 18th Aug 2008
Congratulations, Ricky!

Dana, as a proud alumnus, I wanted you to know that the university's official name is "Carnegie Mellon University." The hyphen was removed many years ago.
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I've been writing it with the hyphen for years. So Carnegie finally beat Mellon, eh?

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