Dear hackers,
The GNOME Foundation provides travel sponsorships to individuals that want to attend GUADEC and need financial assistance.
We are happy to announce the Travel Committee is ready to receive applications for sponsorships to attend to GUADEC 2010. This year, GUADEC is being held in the The Hague University in The Hague, Netherlands, from Monday 26th July, until Friday 30th July.
The instructions are detailed at http://wiki.gnome.org/Travel. Please read them carefully …
read moreFinally, the Travel Committee has replied to every request for sponsorship received (positives and negatives). So, if you have not received an email from us yet, do not hesitate in get in touch with us through the email or irc (#travel).
We have booked 16 apartments at Catalina Park, which looks nice, in a good location and still austere. We were told they will enable a special room for …
read moreThe Travel Committee is expected to reply every request for sponsorship in the next two weeks after the deadline. Because the original deadline was April 27, people who applied for sponsorship are worried because they do not have received any email coming from us yet (neither positive or negative).
So, this is just an update of the GUADEC sponsorship process in order to let the people know in which part of …
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The Travel Committee has received 48 sponsorship requests and we have started to processing them. It will be a bit hard, as you may guess and as you may deduce according the following tables:
| General statitics | |
| 19 | Speakers (not confirmed yet) |
| 8 | Google Summer of Code students |
| 30 | Members of GNOME Foundation |
| 1 | Applicant declined his request |
| Requests and funds (in US dollars) | |
| Minimum requested: | $ 59,038.- |
| Maximum requested: | $ 61,101.- |
| Funds available … | |