[FM Discuss] Reg. publishing visa application procedure as manual

[James Simmons]

Sindhu,

It sounds like you have a bunch of content ready to write. If I was Adam
maybe I'd do things this way:

He knows he'd like to have a book on Free Software Foundations and he knows
that he'd like to have a section that contains your content. He still has
to work out the details of what the rest of the book should be. So why not
create an empty book called "Free Software Foundations", create a section
header called "Organizing Conferences" (or whatever) and let you put your
chapters in it.  The book sprint can come later, and maybe reading your
chapters will get other people thinking about what might go into the book.

That way the book would start out as a slog and wind up as a sprint.

I'd get Adam's permission before doing this, but it seems like a reasonable
thing to do.

James Simmons


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Sindhu S <sindhus at live.in> wrote:

> Sorry, it took me awhile to reply due to the internship ending.
>
> > So, if we can pitch this as a book about foundations then I have already
> > spoken to John Sullivan (FSF CEO) a few months ago in Boston about such a
> > book. So, I think I could bring this conversation up with him again.
>
> Please do.
>
> > I would also be happy writing to the GSoC people, who also need to work
> through visa
> > issues often and have a lot of expertise in this area, and perhaps also
> the
> > Foundations list.
>
> Maybe we could bring out a google form asking for feedback on their
> experiences in obtaining a visa?
>
> . We could approach each avenue and ask for support in the
> > form of:
> > 1. sending people to the sprint
> > 2. a little bit of $ to host the sprint and pay for people that cant pay
> > their way.
> > if this sounds good to you then it would be great if you could write up
> an
> > outline for what you want to cover about visas.
> Awesome!
>
> I'd like to cover the following in the book:
>
> 1. Documents required to submit a visa applications and the
> implications of not-submitting documents in required format or at all
> or unavailability of documents prescribed by an embassy in decisions
> made by the embassy.
> 2. Time frame for preparing to apply for a visa at any embassy. This
> will included the preparation for procuring documents both by the
> individual and on behalf of the event hosting organisation.
> 3. The foolproof unambiguous legal language acceptable for an invite
> given by the event hosting organisation that qualifies a FLOSS
> contributor for a tourist visa.
> 4. Current scenarios to consider before applying for visa from the
> point of view of the applicant's origin country or citizenship status.
> 5. Fool proofing a visa application against rejection by working
> backwards to take precautions against the reasons for rejection listed
> in official rejection letters (I can contribute the official rejection
> letter for a Schengen country)
>
> > I will add this into a
> > larger proposal about a book on free software foundations and then we
> start
> > pitching it around.
> I'd love to help in anyway I can.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Sindhu
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