On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:24:35PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 03:59:01PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:41:54PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > In the case of those people denied visas, were they sponsored? Did they > > > have financial losses and was it possible to compensate them? > > > I don't think DebConf10 sponsored those fees in that situation - but I > > really don't remember. However, the economics of Portland are different > > enough from those of NYC, and 2013-2014 different enough from 2008-2010, > > that any decision on how to handle visa fees for their bid will not depend > > on what DC10 did. As for what they decide... I'm not on the Portland bid > > team and will not speak for them. :) > > I would not regard that as a "Portland" decision. The funds for any visa > sponsorship should come from the DebConf coffers, and use of money for this > purpose should be agreed with the DebConf team as a whole - possibly even as > a requirement of the Committee's acceptance of the Portland bid.
Good point. I'm also currently on hiatus from other DebConf roles due to being busy, so I still will defer to those who are doing the work here. :) In DC10 I don't think I was on the travel sponsorship team, so my memory of what happened there shouldn't be considered reliable, let alone binding on DC14. > I also think the $14 ESTA processing fee for citizens of visa waiver > countries should not be reimbursed. One other note about ESTA - it's valid for unlimited VWP trips over the 2-year duration, so if a VWP citizen has a recent-enough ESTA approval on their current passport, such as for a work trip or a prior tech conference/summit, they wouldn't need to pay the fee again. (There are other cases where they need to pay the fee for a new ESTA, but it's rare. https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/1126/~/esta---length-of-approval has the specifics.) - Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
