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 [1]

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.