Details on travel grant program for those who need travel funding support
For those who have difficulties raising fund for travel to host city(or country) for attending UbuCon Asia, The Committee provides travel grant for selected applicants.
Travel grant application is now open and you may submit one if you need funding from us. If you’re submitting application as a proposal submitter(speaker), make sure to submit by deadline of call for proposals.
Please note that since our budget is always limited, we won’t be able to approve application from everyone. We’ll be accepting in order with our own priority.
So, Depending on your Ubuntu and FOSS community involvement, Your contribution on UbuCon Asia(this event), and other factors, We may approve full or partial grant or reject your application.
For that, We recommend you to check if you can also raise travel funding through other ways such as but not limited to:
If you are employed, You may ask your employer if they can fund your travel.
If you are a student, You may ask your school, college or university if they can fund your travel.
You can look for some foundations or institue that runs travel grant program who would like to attend conferences.
While fund for travel grant comes from sponsorships from corporates and ticket fees income,
We often found it’s not enough to sponsor travel of enough number of participants especially those who contributes a lot to the event such as event organizers and speakers.
Thus, we encourage individuals like you to contribute to our event fund by donating amount of money you want.
Your financial contributions will enable us to gather more diverse people from Ubuntu and FOSS Community across Asia which is one of our important goals.
To apreciate your finaicial contribution, Your name will be featured on “Become a patron” page.
Frequently asked questions
I have submitted a session proposal, If my proposal got selected do i get my travel sponsored from the committee automatically?
No, If you haven’t applied for travel grant separately, Then we don’t provide any travel grant for you.
I haven’t submitted any session proposal or none of my proposal submission were selected. But during the event, one of speakers invited me to speak together. Do you now provide me travel grant?
No, As you haven’t applied for travel grant in advance, We don’t provide any travel grant for you.
I’m one of the UbuCon Asia organiers, Do i get my travel sponsored from the committee automatically?
No, Organizers (including from the global team and UbuCon Asia Committee) are also subject to apply for travel grant application in order to get travel sponsored.
I have wrote a mail(or sent a message) to UbuCon Asia Committee then asked them to sponsor my travel. Will they sponsor my travel to UbuCon Asia?
No, Please make sure to follow the application process that can be found on “How to apply” section of this page. We never review your personal request or appeal through other communications.
