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

[Sindhu S]

Great! Thank you, am on it :)

Cheers!


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:57 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sindhu,
>
> It's this website:
>
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/
>
> Click on Register in the left column.  That will take you to a form that
> lets you create an account, which is like every other account you've ever
> created except it needs you real full name for copyright purposes.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Sindhu S <sindhus at live.in> wrote:
>
>> 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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