[email protected] is there for this. We also have [email protected] , [email protected] and http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada (if you can't follow any of those list and is brasilian I don't know what else they can be ;) ) _____ *Béria Lima* <http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.* On 1 November 2011 20:29, Mateus Nobre <[email protected]> wrote: > For me it's easy. But it could catch someone by surprise and this > someone may not have the visa. And take a U.S. visa in six months in some > countries is really hard.... > > > _____________________ > MateusNobre > > *MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects > (+55) 85 88393509 > 30440865 > * > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:26:02 +0000 > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue > > How that can be possible if the answers to scholarship applications are > made in January - March? I would suggest to - If you applied for the > scholarship - send a mail to the USA embassy scheduling the request for > visa. If takes at least 3 months, will be done only in Feb (if you request > now - December is a dead month in Brazil) and by them, you will have a > result for your application. > _____ > *Béria Lima* > <http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484 > > *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter > livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que > estamos a fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.* > > > On 1 November 2011 20:20, Mateus Nobre <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html#countries > > Hello everyone, > > As you know in 2012, United States will held Wikimania at Washington D.C.! > Yeah. > > But make a Wikimania in U.S.A. have some problems, you probably know it > but I wanna clarify to you. > > U.S. just dispense visas to thirty-six nations. All of the dozens left > over need a visa to enter in. > > Last year I was selected to attend Wikimania 2011 at Haifa* (the best > moments ever in my life, btw, would love to support Washington too, ops :D) > * and WMF contacted me six months before. > In this ''six months before'' have one problem. > > In Brazil (not only, but in the most countries that need the visa) we take > 3 months to schedule (and get some free time - it's vacation in Brazil and > the people wanna travel) the visit to U.S. Embassy to require the visa. > When we requite the visa, we take more 3~~4 months to receive the answer of > Embassy. Over 6 months. And half per cent of the visas are denied. We could > appeal, and would take more two months. > > It would be the biggest problem ever in a Wikimania organization. And > happens in a really lot of countries which need a visa to enter in U.S.A. > > I suggest to announce to the people who live in that countries early. > Earliest as possible. Maybe 8 or 9 months before... Take a visa to US > really isn't easy. > > What do you think? > > _____________________ > MateusNobre > *Wikimedia Brasil - MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects > (+55) 85 88393509 > 30440865 > * > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > > > _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > Press *ENTER* to look up in Wiktionary or *CTRL+ENTER* to look up in Wikipedia
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