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Competition Fosters Next Generation Of Linux Talent
gollum123 writes "Yahoo reports that about 3,000 students from 75 countries registered for the 2004 IBM Linux Scholar Challenge before registration closed Oct. 31, the largest turnout in the competition's history. This year's winners will be revealed in January at LinuxWorld in Boston. Each entry consists of a 1,200-word essay that can describe the solution to one of 29 Linux-related challenges IBM poses as part of the competition. Entrants, who must be enrolled full time at an accredited university, aren't limited to these challenges and can suggest and solve their own problems. The IBM-provided challenges include asking entrants to identify deficiencies in Linux and propose solutions, describe how to build a high-availability application that would provide failover capability across multiple IBM servers, and improve boot time on a Linux-based IBM ThinkPad."
Scholarship, my lad... scholarship. My new Fantasy site
Each type of writing has it's own requirements and actually changing from one style to other is quite hard. I work currently in management and consulting, the docments in those who area allready quite different in form, but then I do some storywriting on my own time and I do note that regardless of the atttempt to stay away from those two styles they keep creeping in. Reading back at stories I wrote back when I was in university, my stories seemed to have more scholastic language.