On 02/05/17 18:02, Carl Karsten wrote: > I have plenty of fist hand experience with Canadian boarder guards. > > Summary: The less you say the better. You are attending a Linux > conference. the end. > > You are not "working" with or for it or anything that might sound like > work. "volunteering" is work. If you hint that you might help out the > reg desk, it is their job to get things evaluated by the labor dept that > understands the labor market etc and that takes a minimum of 3 days. > As long as you don't leave the country with a bag of money they don't > care what you did at the conference. > > My wife spoke at PyCon in Montreal. That fact got her a round of > questions, mostly "are you being paid to speak?" - I would avoid > saying anything other than "attending." >
This is a lot more hassle than what people experience traveling in Europe these days. Is it relatively worse now post-Trump or in relation to any other factors? Is there any helpful way this could be put on the web site? > DebConf is not the droids they are looking for. > > If pressed for details, I would not lie. > So if they ask "what do you think of border guards who take up your time and don't pay for it", assert your right to silence? _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
