https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support

If you want to speak or volunteer at a conference, and you need some help with costs, check out our Participation Support program. It offers participation support to Wikimedia community members, i.e. volunteers contributing to Wikimedia projects such as MediaWiki, for non-Wikimedia events.

Participation support is reimbursement covering travel, accommodation and incidental expenses as necessary, in relation with participating in (as distinct from merely attending) an event or activity.

So, for example, you could apply for Participation Support if you wanted to:

* help staff the open source booth[0] at the Grace Hopper conference, October 3-6 [1] * present a poster at Grace Hopper India in December (call closes September 15th [2]) * speak at the Strata Conference in February (call for talks closes Sept 30 [3])

If you need ideas for talks, check out the Presentations archive on wikitech.wikimedia.org[4], and to see what conferences are coming up, I like the LWN calendar[5].

[0] http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/ghc12fossbooth [1] http://gracehopper.org/2012/ [2] http://gracehopper.org.in/2012/participate/call-for-participation-poster-ses... [3] http://strataconf.com/strata2013/ [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Presentations [5] https://lwn.net/Calendar/