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As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging women to excel in computing and technology, we are pleased to announce another Google travel and conference grant to encourage more female computer scientists to attend and participate in conferences.
WWW 2009 conference and travel grant, 22-24 April, Madrid, Spain
We are offering 2 grants as follows:
• free student passport registration for the main conference and the satellite workshops (20-24 April). Accommodation not included.
• 300 euros for travel costs (given to the recipients at the event)
Closing date 20 February 2009.
Full details here
Best wishes
Google Events Team
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After JAOO I subscribed to the Google events mailing list for Europe. Today I got an email with an interesting proposal. And I thought that some of you might be interested in it as well, so here it is.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:46:25 +0100 [01/07/2009 05:46:25 PM CET]
From: Alison Cutler
Subject: Conference and Travel Grants for Women – ECIR and Eurosys
You are receiving this email because you signed up on our technical talk mailing list and indicated that you were interested in Women in Technology. If you would like to be removed please email europe-events@google.com.
Hello!
As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging women to excel in computing and technology, we are pleased to announce two travel and conference grants for forthcoming events to encourage more female computer scientists to attend and participate in conferences
ECIR 2009 conference and travel grant, 6-9 April, Toulouse, France
We are offering 2 grants as follows:
* Free registration for the main conference. Accommodation not included.
* 300 euros for travel costs (given to the recipients at the event)
Full details here
Eurosys09 conference and travel grant, 30 March to 3 April, Nuremberg, Germany
We are offering 2 grants as follows:
* Free registration for the conference (including the workshops on 31 March). Accommodation not included.
* 300 euros for travel costs (given to the recipients at the event)
Full details here
Best wishes
Google Events Team
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The above terms reflect a potential business arrangement, are provided solely as a
basis for further discussion, and are not intended to be and do not constitute a
legally binding obligation. No legally binding obligations will be created, implied,
or inferred until an agreement in final form is executed in writing by all parties involved.
Thanks, CafeSWA, for this link:
A recent survey from 22 October, 2008, on women in ICT in Belgium filled in by 1413 women en 19 men.
The original post: She Goes ICT
I copied this from an email I received, because I thought you might all be interested.
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Dear JAOO-lovers,
We feel that the conference needs a new name. People new to the conference think that it is a Java[tm] conference; but as you know: JAOO is about much more than that.
We have thought long and hard about what to call it – if not JAOO; but nothing good has come up. So – why not ask some of the smartest people we know: everybody who’s been to JAOO.
To get the thing going, we have set up a PRIZE of DKK 25.000 to a winning proposal, plus free tickets to any upcoming [JAOO] conference to the 10 best proposals.
*GUIDELINES FOR THE NAME*
- A good word that relates to key topics at JAOO is a plus (architecture, methods, technology, software trends, …)
- Alternatively it could be a good short constructed word that has nothing to do with anything.
- If a Google search for the name gives very few hits, then it is a plus.
- We will eventually need the .com domain, so it is nice if it is free.
*RULES ARE SIMPLE*
- send proposals by email to jaoo@jaoo.dk and make sure to CC a
trusted friend when you send us the proposal.
- We reserve the right to not use any incoming proposals.
- The competition *CLOSES DECEMBER 22 2008*
- The winners will be contacted directly and announced at blog.jaoo.dk before the end of January.
- We need to get the .com domain for the winning proposal. You can ensure this by acquiring the domain, and then transfer it to us if we choose your proposal. We provide no money-back guarantee here if you register domains we do not use.
- Alternatively, if you propose to us the winning name without having the .com domain, we will still give you the prize money minus expenses to acquire the domain.
We look forward to hear from you.
The JAOO-team
