Financial Assistance

Thanks to the support of our sponsors, we have budget set aside for providing financial assistance to PyCon AU speakers and attendees who might otherwise find it difficult to attend.

Financial assistance grants are always either a free conference ticket (at the enthusiast level) or a conference ticket plus additional reimbursed expenses. These expenses can include:

• Flights or other transport to Adelaide
• Accommodation costs
• Other costs associated with attending such as a support worker, child care or a substitute teacher.

Please ask only for what you need in order to be able to attend the conference and highlight any opportunities you would use to save costs, such as finding cheaper accommodation further from the city (public transport provides easy access to the venue).

Application

To apply for financial aid please fill out the application form linked by the button below. Applications will be approved progressively so please apply early and your application may be approved early. If the budget has not been exhausted the application process will be reopened.

To ensure equal consideration, please submit your application by:

• For speakers: Saturday 10 June 2023
• For attendees who are not speaking: Thursday 6 July 2023

Submissions received after these dates may still be considered if there is additional available funding.

Note that if you are not speaking, we will only be able to consider your application if you are travelling from within Australia, or from a location in the Pacific/Oceania region that does not have a more appropriate local PyCon.

Selection criteria

In addition to allocating financial aid on the basis of need, we also take into account how we can get the most benefit for all PyCon AU attendees and the wider community.

In your application please mention if you:

• Are a conference speaker, volunteer or helping in another way to make the conference more awesome.
• Are a member or organiser of a Python or related group and would share your PyCon AU experience with the wider community
• Are a teacher or other educator and attending PyCon AU would benefit your students as well
• Are a maintainer or contributor to an open source project and are planning to help participants in the sprints
• Would be helping PyCon AU achieve our goal of bringing together of a diverse set of backgrounds and perspectives.

Note that these are considered as factors, but they are not a check-list. You do not need to have any of the above to be eligible for financial aid.

We will also consider where you are travelling from. For applicants travelling from outside Australia or the Pacific region, we will prioritise applicants who don’t have access to a closer regional PyCon they can attend.

Reimbursement process

If granted assistance, you will still be expected to organise and purchase travel and accommodation yourself and await reimbursement. You will be given a maximum amount of reimbursement based on the assistance you requested. Once assistance is granted, you can start making bookings and sending us your receipts.

If you have any questions about financial assistance please contact us at contact@pycon.org.au