Pune students win Lord of the Code contest

HYDERABAD: Red Hat India, the Linux and open source solutions provider, has announced the winners of the 2004-05 the 'Lord of the Code' contest.

Thirty-three students bagged the Red Hat Scholarships Awards. Amit Yadav, Pranay Pramod, Narender Kumar and Nishant Kumar of the Pune-based Army Institute of Technology won the contest, an education initiative designed to encourage budding open source software developers.

The award-winning project was the Virtual Private Server, which provides multiple virtual hosting environments on same physical server.

The contest, jointly conducted with Kanwal Rekhi School of Information

Technology at IIT Bombay, was opened to students across India.

Following the award ceremony, Red Hat also announced the launch of a new Red Hat Scholarships program for 2005-2006.

The Octave-Gtk project of Ramasamy C, Muthiah A, Hemant Kumar and R Saravana Manickam won the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli the second prize.

Octave-Gtk aims to bring the full-featured toolkit like GTK to GNU Octave, to make scientific computing tools with a GUI front end scripted from Octave itself.

A.K. Karthikeyan, O. Ratna Srikanth, K. Karthikbabu and Vamshi Krishna Sadhu of Scient Institute of Engineering & Technology came third. Their project, the College Information System, can be used in a college/university setting to impart technology teaching and handling various management activities.