Red Hat Announces 2016 Women in Open Source Award Winners
Jessica McKellar from Dropbox and Preeti Murthy, Carnegie Mellon
University graduate student, recognized for open source contributions
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT 2016 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's
leading provider of open source solutions, today announced Jessica
McKellar, director of engineering and chief of staff to the vice
president of engineering at Dropbox, and Preeti Murthy, a graduate
student at Carnegie Mellon University, are the 2016 Women in Open Source
Award winners. Both will be recognized today during the morning keynote
activities at Red
Hat Summit, which has been taking place in San Francisco this week.
Red Hat launched the Women in Open Source Awards in 2015 to honor women
who make important contributions to open source projects and
communities, or those making innovative use of open source methodology.
Nominations for this year's awards were accepted for two categories:
academic (those currently enrolled in a college or university) and
community (those working or volunteering on projects related to open
source). Finalists were determined based on nomination criteria, with
the public voting to determine the winners.
McKellar, who was recognized in the community category, is the director
of engineering and chief of staff to the vice president of engineering
at Dropbox. She started contributing to open source as an intern at
VMware before becoming a kernel engineer at Ksplice, and has been
involved in open source software development for seven years. McKellar
was a co-founder and vice president of engineering at Zulip, which was
later acquired by Dropbox. She created an introduction to Python video
course for O'Reilly Media, created and taught popular Boston Python
workshops for women, and organized the world's largest Python user
group. McKellar delivered a keynote at PyCon 2014 on the importance of
programming education for young children, and she ran a Python
development sprint for new women contributors in San Francisco.
Murthy, who was recognized in the academic category, has been an open
source contributor for more than three years and is pursuing a master’s
degree in electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon
University. As an undergraduate, she worked on the Mono open source
cross-compiler project as part of her thesis, and was actively involved
in the Linux users group. Murthy joined IBM's Linux Technology Center
soon after earning her bachelor's degree, where she worked for three
years as a Linux kernel developer. Her contributions to the open source
community include code, documentation, tutorials, open content, and
other communication.
In addition to their technical contributions, both McKellar and Murthy
have mentored and advocated for new open source contributors.
The winners will each receive a $2,500 stipend with suggested use to
support open source projects or efforts. In addition, they will be
featured on Opensource.com
and given the opportunity to speak at a future Red Hat Women’s
Leadership Community event.
Supporting Quotes
DeLisa Alexander, executive vice president and chief people officer,
Red Hat
“On behalf of Red Hat, I want to congratulate Jessica and Preeti on
being recognized as 2016 Women in Open Source Award winners. Their
contributions and dedication to open source are impactful and will be
inspiring to future generations. I commend them both for their technical
contributions and their outreach efforts.”
Jessica McKellar, director of engineering and chief of staff to the
VP of engineering, Dropbox
“I’m honored to be receiving this award as an acknowledgment of my
dedication to open source. I’m passionate about empowering others to
learn more about programming, and hope this inspires other women to
step-up and learn more about open source.”
Preeti Murthy, master’s degree candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
“I'm so excited to be selected for this year’s Women in Open Source
Award. I believe that open source is where the best and most exciting
software development is taking place, and I’ll continue to share this
belief with my peers. Thank you to Red Hat for this recognition.”
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