[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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