Opportunities/Travel Grants

Financial Aid by conferences
The following conferences offer financial aid for participants to attend.

PyCon US
Large conference in North America centered around the Python language.


 * Link: PyCon US website
 * Financial Aid Policy: Link (This link changes every year)

ForwardJS
JavaScript conference in winter in San Francisco.


 * Link: ForwardJS
 * Financial aid application: Link (will be different for future years)

Strange Loop
Multi-track conference with particular attention to programming languages and distributed systems.


 * Link: Strange Loop
 * Financial Aid information: Information on diversity scholarships

Clojure/West
Clojure conference on the West Coast in the Spring


 * Link & Grant information

AdaCamp
Series of conferences focused on increasing women's participation in open source.


 * Link: AdaCamp
 * Financial Aid: It can be applied for via the application page for each AdaCamp.

Grace Hopper Conference
The largest gathering of women technologists.


 * Link: Website
 * Financial aid page: Link
 * Note: Travel grants are available only for faculty and students.

LibrePlanet

 * Link: LibrePlanet
 * Travel scholarships: LibrePlanet 2015 scholarships

PyCon Australia

 * Link: PyCon-Au
 * Travel grants: PyCon Australia 2014 grants page

Grad Cohort Workshop

 * Link: Grad Cohort Workshop
 * Note: The participants for the workshop will be chosen on some pre-determined basis.
 * Eligibility criteria: Women students in their first, second or third year of graduate school in computer science and engineering or a closely related field, who are studying at a US or Canadian institution.

Data Mining Workshop

 * Link: BPDM

MesosCon

 * Link: MesosCon
 * Travel scholarships: MesosCon 2015 scholarships

Financial Aid for conference attendance by organizations
The following organizations offer aid to participants for attending conferences.

Wikimedia Foundation

 * Link: Wikimedia Foundation Grants
 * Note: The trip should be in alliance with the WIkimedia movement.

Google

 * Link: Google Travel and Conference Grants
 * Note: This is reserved for only some specific conferences. For conferences in North America, you are required to be an American citizen.