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

[adam]

well....we dont write books on free, we write them on free software...

i think we can work something about visas into a book but i would 
strongly encourage anyone involved in this to make a book about 'free 
software foundations' and nest it inside that....otherwise we are prone 
to some wicked scope creep


adam



On Thu 28 Mar 2013 10:55:40 AM NZDT, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> Thumbs up for the idea. That manual would be really useful.
>
> My wife is from Nairobi and the way people are treated on the border
> is not equal. I would call it a form of totalitarian racist
> oppression.
>
> I get a visa in two minutes when I land on the Jomo Kenyatta airport.
> The other way around it takes months and then there are all kinds of
> useless interrogations with goons.
>
> Freedom of movement is very close to freedom of information. FLOSS
> goes from technology into social/political issues pretty fast when you
> think about it.
>
>
> 2013/3/26 Sindhu S <sindhus at live.in>:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am Sindhu from Mangalore, India. Until recently, I was only a FLOSS
>> enthusiast and now through the Outreach Program for Women, I am a
>> FLOSS contributor, my contributions have been mainly to GNOME. Being a
>> part of the program gave me an opportunity to attend the Docs Sprint
>> at Brno, Czech Republic. However, my visa application was rejected. It
>> would have been the first time I left the country. I scrambled about
>> asking friends who have traveled abroad previously to attend such
>> events in a bid to understand the rejection I received and collate
>> information about what to do and importantly what NOT to do in the
>> visa application from the internet.
>>
>> Being a documentation intern, I figured it's only the rite of passage
>> for me to document this procedure to help all those who will offered
>> similar opportunities in future and would have to apply for a visa, I
>> wrote http://sindhus.bitbucket.org/docs/gnome-visa/index.html using
>> Mallard (a tool I picked through the internship).
>>
>> I reckon there are many FLOSS enthusiasts out there who would benefit
>> from attending FLOSS events, conferences and unconferences. However, a
>> requisite for doing so in a country other than that of the person's
>> origin would be to apply for a visa. Embassies of foreign countries
>> are governed by rules of their own country rather than administrative
>> rules of the host country where the embassy has its office, hence
>> making detailed information regarding application for visa somewhat
>> inaccessible if the applicant has no friends or family who have
>> traveled abroad before to refer to. The information on the internet so
>> far as I have seen is fragmented and highly country specific.
>>
>> So, I was wondering if this counts for a manual or at least a guide?
>> If so, how can I get it published to flossmanuals.net?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> P.S: My apologies if the post seemed peppered with too much background
>> information. It was essential to explain my inspiration to write the
>> guide :)
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