PyCon offering Financial Assistance for Women to attend

Different tech communities are taking different approaches to addressing the issues around increasing women’s participation. There are many experiments one of them is the Python Community Conference offering Financial Assistance Grant for Women to attend its 2010 conference. The application deadline is tomorrow.

Financial aid for PyCon 2010 has just gotten even better. Because of some very generous donations from the community, we are adding a second grant fund called the Financial Assistance Grant for Women. This fund is geared specifically toward helping women who are interested in using Python in their research, school work, careers or other avenues. It includes help with:

• registration
• tutorials
• lodging
• transportation

The existing Python Software Foundation Grant will continue to be funded at the same level and can provide assistance for:

• registration
• lodging
• transportation

Please see here for details & instructions. The deadline for applications is December 18, 2009.