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

[Sindhu S]

That sounds awesome!!

But I think am technically challenged cause I was unable to figure out how
to create an account to login and create a book. Can someone guide me
please?


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:42 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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