Here's a hitch

The Linux Foundation now has a travel fund for developers who need to attend technical conferences but can't make it on their own. The fund is open to "elite community developers with a proven track record of open source development achievement and who don’t otherwise have access to funding for attending technical events". In other words, it's "for the rock stars of the open source world", as Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, puts it.

They cover travel to "LF Collaboration Summits, the Linux Foundation’s Japan Symposiums, the Kernel Summit, Ottawa Linux Symposium, Linux.conf.au, desktop conferences such as Guadec and Akademy and other technical conferences where true collaboration takes place". More pointedly, they "do not offer sponsorships to trade shows or non technical conferences".

If this is for you, or if you wish it were, visit http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Travelfund