https://fosdem.org/2013/news/2012-11-01-cfp/
FOSDEM is an open source conference in Brussels, February 2-3 2013. Wikimedians who want to give a talk there are eligible for Participation Support subsidies:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support
I encourage you to submit a talk, to the main conference or the devrooms, about MediaWiki, your work on bots, legal/licensing issues, mobile, our use of MySQL or PHP, or other relevant topics. I can help you develop a talk proposal. Deadlines are coming up in December.