Forwarding on behalf of the ASF's Travel Assistance Committee. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
"Gavin McDonald" <ga...@16degrees.com.au> wrote on 06/06/2011 04:03:24 AM: > The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) is > now accepting applications for ApacheCon North America 2011, 7-11 November > in Vancouver BC, Canada. > > The TAC is seeking individuals from the Apache community at-large --users, > developers, educators, students, Committers, and Members-- who would like to > attend ApacheCon, but need some financial support in order to be able to get > there. There are limited places available, and all applicants will be scored > on their individual merit. > > Financial assistance is available to cover flights/trains, accommodation and > entrance fees either in part or in full, depending on circumstances. > However, the support available for those attending only the BarCamp (7-8 > November) is less than that for those attending the entire event (Conference > + BarCamp 7-11 November). The Travel Assistance Committee aims to support > all official ASF events, including cross-project activities; as such, it may > be prudent for those in Asia and Europe to wait for an event geographically > closer to them. > > More information can be found at http://www.apache.org/travel/index.html > including a link to the online application and detailed instructions for > submitting. > > Applications will close on 8 July 2011 at 22:00 BST (UTC/GMT +1). > > We wish good luck to all those who will apply, and thank you in advance for > tweeting, blogging, and otherwise spreading the word. > > Regards, > The Travel Assistance Committee