Hi Torsten, On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:27:16PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote: > 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?
I have spoken to someone in a position to know, and getting some letters from companies and universities that sponsor or host the conference, explaining that this is a legitimate technical conference to which they will also send people, and saying that the visa applicants will also contribute useful things to the conference, will probably help a lot with getting visas issued. We will work on this, and generally explore the ways to ease the visa situation. It's certainly necessary to tackle this if a DebConf in NYC is to be a success. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
