Hi Srinivasa and GUADEC organizers, What is your suggestion for Ubuntu Kylin's visa letter? They can only apply for business visa and not a speaker/foundation member.
Thanks, emily 2015-05-17 22:35 GMT+08:00 Emily Chen <[email protected]>: > Hi Srinivasa, > > Thanks for the information. > > The request is from Ubuntu Kylin team leader, there are three people from > Ubuntu Kylin are planning to attend GUADEC. Ubuntu Kylin is one of the > most popular Linux distribution in China, they are thinking about engage > more with GNOME/GTK core developers. They are interested in sponsorship, > but they would like to participate in GUADEC this year first. > > They are not GNOME foundation members, neither speakers yet. I asked him > to try tourist visa but they can only go aboard for business. Ubuntu Kylin > is a project between Canonical and China National University of Defense > Technology(NUDT), NUDT is a key university under the Ministry of National > Defense. So they only can apply for business visa. > > Srinivasa, what would you suggest to do? If you need more information, > feel free to contact me and I am happy to provide more information. > > Thanks, > Emily > > > > > 2015-05-15 18:36 GMT+08:00 Srinivasa Ragavan <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Emily, >> >> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Oliver Propst <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Emily Chen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> People from China is asking for invitation letter to attend GUADEC, it >> >> usually take weeks to get visa to European. >> >> >> >> Who is helping on the GUADEC visa letter ? >> > >> > If I understand things correctly Srinivasa Ragavan [1] [2] have agreed >> > to coordinate Visa Letters. We in the local team should probably do >> > more efforts in reaching out him about this. >> >> Yes, I volunteered to prepare/send visa invitation to the attendees. >> >> > >> > Can also mention that the CEO of FFKP, the organization in Sweden that >> > will act as a legal organizer of the conference (if the foundation >> > board agrees to the terms and sign a contract) have agreed to the sign >> > the Visa Letters. >> >> I haven't yet got in touch with the Sweden organisation, for the >> signature approval or format approvals. Ill start that asap. >> >> > >> > Thanks Emily for paying attention to the situation around the Visa >> > Letters, we will hopefully have more updates to share soon. >> > >> > Note that on the last local team meetings Visa Letters have been a >> > standing agenda item so news about Visa Letters is made public when we >> > publish the meeting notes, which we do on the GUADEC 2015 wiki [3]. >> >> Basically the process last time was: >> >> If you are approved by travel-committee for sponsorship or if you are >> a foundation member or an accepted speaker, you will be issued a >> invitation letter. For all other exceptions the board needs to vote >> (+4) on it. >> >> I prepare 2 documents: >> 1. Visa invitation letter with the digital signature of the CEO of the >> Sweden organization >> 2. For people who are sponsored by GNOME foundation, sponsorship >> document with the digital signature of the Foundation President. >> >> This was the process followed last time and AFAICS sure this holds >> good this time too. >> >> Thanks, >> -Srini. >> >> > >> > 1 https://wiki.gnome.org/SrinivasaRagavan >> > 2 https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2015/Team >> > 3 https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2015 >> > -- >> > -mvh Oliver Propst >> > _______________________________________________ >> > guadec-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list >> > >
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