Nancy Joyce On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 8:17 PM Gavin McDonald <gmcdonald-...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi All Contributors and Committers, > > This is a first reminder email that travel > assistance applications for ApacheCon NA 2022 are now open! > > We will be supporting ApacheCon North America in New Orleans, Louisiana, > on October 3rd through 6th, 2022. > > TAC exists to help those that would like to attend ApacheCon events, but > are unable to do so for financial reasons. This year, We are supporting > both committers and non-committers involved with projects at the > Apache Software Foundation, or open source projects in general. > > For more info on this year's applications and qualifying criteria, please > visit the TAC website at http://www.apache.org/travel/ > Applications are open and will close on the 1st of July 2022. > > Important: Applicants have until the closing date above to submit their > applications (which should contain as much supporting material as required > to efficiently and accurately process their request), this will enable TAC > to announce successful awards shortly afterwards. > > As usual, TAC expects to deal with a range of applications from a diverse > range of backgrounds. We therefore encourage (as always) anyone thinking > about sending in an application to do so ASAP. > > Why should you attend as a TAC recipient? We encourage you to read stories > from > past recipients at https://apache.org/travel/stories/ . Also note that > previous TAC recipients have gone on to become Committers, PMC Members, ASF > Members, Directors of the ASF Board and Infrastructure Staff members. > Others have gone from Committer to full time Open Source Developers! > > How far can you go! - Let TAC help get you there. >