SAN FRANCISCO, CA- - The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, has announced the recipients of its 2016 Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarships. LiFT provides advanced open source training to existing and aspiring IT professionals from around the world.
This is the sixth year The Linux Foundation has awarded training scholarships. Forty-eight scholarships worth more than $130,000 have been awarded to date to current and aspiring IT professionals who may not otherwise be able to afford specialized training. Scholarship recipients may choose from any Linux Foundation training course and certification exam.
This year, The Linux Foundation received more than 1,000 applications for 14 scholarships. The most popular category once again was SysAdmin Super Star, followed by Linux Newbies and Academic Aces. Applications were received from six continents from applicants ranging in age from 13 to 66, demonstrating the demand for quality open source education across geographies and demographics.
"We hear countless stories from passionate, creative, innovative individuals around the world who want to contribute to open source and their societies," said Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. "Providing scholarships for advanced training helps those individuals who directly benefit from it to then contribute to existing open source projects and even start new ones, as well as pass their knowledge along to their communities. We hope these scholarships serve as a catalyst for helping open source continue to grow and thrive."
The Linux Foundation supports a variety of community initiatives and organizations to help advance free and open source software and increase diversity in technology and the open source community. By providing training and event scholarships, and working with organizations such asWomen Who Code and Goodwill, The Linux Foundation helps to achieve its goal of increasing diversity in technology and the open source community.
