The GNOME Foundation can offer travel sponsorship to individuals who want to attend GUADEC and need financial assistance.
We are happy to announce that the Travel Committee is ready to receive applications for sponsorships to attend to GUADEC 2014. Application deadline: 2014-05-31. Please send in your applications now, do not wait until the deadline. The instructions are detailed at https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel Please read them carefully. Some additional comments: * Any information you send to the Travel Committee will be private. * Asking for sponsorship *does not* guarantee that you will be sponsored. * A good application with good information will be processed faster. * If you are offered help with accommodation, the Travel Committee will book your accommodation. You should state that you need accommodation, and leave the cost blank. * Always choose the most economical option whenever possible. People who need travel sponsorship should look for the best price (i.e. through a service like kayak.com). If the Travel Committee finds a cheaper price, that will be the price considered during the evaluation. * No personal emails. Keep travel-committee CCed on all of your replies. Neglecting to do this will delay your application. * There are direct flights to Strasbourg available, including through budget airlines. Other close airports are Frankfurt (Germany), Charles de Gaulle (Paris) and Baden-Baden (Germany). * If you are a Foundation member, you should mention it in your application. Preference will be given to Foundation members. * If your abstract was accepted to be presented at GUADEC, you should mention it in your application. Preference will be given to people giving presentations at GUADEC. * If you are in the Google Summer of Code program or Outreach Program for Women (as student or mentor) you must mention it in your application. Preference will be given to GSoC or OPW interns and mentors. OPW and GSoC students usually get a percentage of their GUADEC expenses covered by their sponsoring organisation. * The Travel committee should confirm that we have received your application within 2-3 days. After that, we will process them together. So please do not panic (and have any butterflies in your stomach) if we take some time to respond with the status. Regardless of whether your application is accepted or rejected, you will always receive a response. You can find us in the #travel channel at irc.gnome.org. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list