[tdf-announce] Travel bursaries for LibOCon

Dear Community,

this is to inform you about travel bursaries for the LibreOffice Conference.

We are trying to enable as many contributors as possible to join us in 
Berlin, to meet their community friends, to listen to exciting lectures, 
and to work on the future of the best free office suite, LibreOffice.

Unfortunately, we are a rather young foundation, depending on donations, 
with a budget of currently 20.000 € for the rest of the year. [1] 
Therefore, we are right now working hard on getting sponsors for our 
conference, and expect large parts of their donations to go into the 
travel funding budget. As of today, while there are several interested 
sponsors, no contracts have been signed yet, so we cannot estimate the 
concrete amount of money available.

Nontheless, we strongly recommend that all interested participants book 
their trip and hotel already now, as prices tend to grow massively over 
time. Waiting for a funding confirmation might eventually lead to travel 
fees we can't cover anymore.

Be aware that we cannot make any guarantees about travel funding as of 
today, so if you book, take into account that you have to cover all 
costs on your own. We give our best, however, to make things clear as 
soon as possible.

A possible travel funding is primarily dedicated to get those to Berlin 
who otherwise would not be able to attend, and who are contributors to 
our community, like conference speakers, project members, and 
organizers. If you have any other means to join the conference, like 
sponsoring via your employer, a local association, or paying out of your 
own pocket, we ask you to take advantage of this and try it out before, 
to enable those in need to be funded.

TDF already has a travel policy in place [2], and we expect that the 
notion will be very similar. Based on the experience from previous 
years, we are most likely to cap the individual funding per eligible 
person, so that an economic travel and economic stay in the hotel during 
the days of the LibOCon can be covered. In case there are much more 
requests than available money, travel funding might only be granted 
partially, to at least cover parts of everyone's expenses.

Legal disclaimer: Be advised there is no legal obligation from our side 
to pay any travel funding. It is a sole decision of the board, and 
depends on available financial means.

We hope to be able to see all of you in Berlin, and help those who 
cannot afford on their own to get there - we're working hard on that 
every day, and will share any news we have!

On behalf of the organizers
Florian


[1] 
http://www.mail-archive.com/board-discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg02451.html

[2] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Travel

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