British university students are being offered cash incentives to write open source software - and the first beneficiary is a Python programmer from Swansea.
The UK Free Software Network (UKFSN), a small Hertfordshire-based internet service provider, has announced it will use its profits to form a fund benefitting students developing software that can be modified by its end users.
Andrew Price, a second-year BSc Computer Science student at Swansea University, is the first person to be selected under the so-called "Profits" programme. The 24-year-old has been awarded £4,680, intended as an encouragement to further code software under the philosophy of the increasingly popular free software movement.