Please note announcement below, which may be of interest to some of your membership. Regards, R. <begin> The Annual APRICOT conference is a unique and successful educational forum for Internet builders in the Asia-Pacific region, to learn from their peers and from leaders in the Internet community. Senior practitioners from the Asia Pacific and around the world contribute their time to APRICOT as presenters, teachers and trainers, to produce a non-commercial conference of consistently high-quality. Since 2000, APRICOT has incorporated a Fellowship Program to provide opportunities to developing country personnel to participate in APRICOT. This program provides basic assistance to successful fellows to cover local living and registration expenses associated with attending the conference. For the year 2009, the Award Package has been expanded to cover registration fees for the APRICOT 2009 Workshops in addition to the tutorial and conference. The applicant may also apply funding for 80% of their air travel cost (up to a limit of USD1K) to the event. Please see http://apricot2009.pregi.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&It... <http://apricot2009.pregi.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&It...> for full details. The APRICOT 2009 Fellowship Committee now cordially invite suitable applicants to apply for fellowship funding to participate in APRICOT 2009 in Manila (www.apricot2009.net <http://www.apricot2009.net>). To apply, click http://submission.apricot.net/fellowship/index.php Best regards, Suresh Ramasubramanian on behalf of the APRICOT 2009 Fellowship Committee <end>