Hi, could we cool down a bit, please, and try to solve the actual problems?
Security and border staff is unfriendly even at the Paris airport for example but I wouldn't refuse to attend a Debconf there. (I just try to avoid Paris as a transit airport.) And you find fingerprint sensors on more and more borders like the airports in Japan and European's Schengen countries will follow soon, too. I think we have to live with that if we still want to travel around the world. There might be ways to ease getting an US visa. Last year we had the Opendocument workshop in Berlin. We could convince a politician (the german foreign minister) to become the patron of the workshop. The people from the ministry send the names of the participants to the embassies and told them that they are taking part in an important international conference. That helped getting visas and getting them in time. Maybe something like that is possible for Debconf, too? Cheers, Torsten -- http://twerner.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
