The Linux Foundation has announced a partnership with TransTech Social Enterprises, an LGBTQ talent incubator dedicated to the economic empowerment of the T group, transgender people. The partnership will provide scholarships to promising students to give them more opportunities to get started with software based on Open Source technologies.
In its current form, the partnership provides 50 scholarships per quarter to those who meet the application criteria. Linux Foundation Training & Certification for its part provides a voucher to register for any Linux Foundation eLearning course or exam, such as Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Open.js Node.js Certified Application Developer, and many others. Clyde Seapersed, SVP&GM of the Training and Certification Division, believes that the scholarship will lower the barrier to entry and help hundreds of people start open source careers, as well as inspire more members of the LGBTQ community to choose the IT sector as a field of self-fulfillment.
Source: opennet.ru