[FM Discuss] Reg. publishing visa application procedure as manual
adam
adam at flossmanuals.net
Wed May 15 16:15:42 PDT 2013
very cool :)
On Tue 16 Apr 2013 05:24:05 AM NZST, Sindhu S wrote:
> Great! Thank you, am on it :)
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:57 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> <mailto: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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