Well, besides the tangents this conversation went into, did anyone reach
for the UK government to get their official position? Some people are
waiting on that to decide whether or not to apply for scholarships...
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Ellie Young <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Ellie Young
eyoung(a)wikimedia.org
On Jan 19, 2014, at 8:49 AM, Tobias <church.of.emacs.ml(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
On 01/13/2014 02:13 AM, Ellie Young wrote:
And while we are on this subject, I want to
reiterate that we expect
individuals to cover their own visa expenses as well as contacting the
British Consulate on their own or through a visa service in their home
country. The UK accepts applications for visas 90 days prior to the
expected date of entering the UK (applying before doesn't do any good.)
Incidentally, why do Wikimedia scholarships not cover or at least assist
with the expenses of getting a visa?
We in fact do handle requests for financial assistance for VISA
application fees on a case by case basis. We are still expecitng people to
cover, but if circumstances are so dire financially we will assist.
It seems that the people affected by this are (on
average) the ones who
need the support of a scholarship the most in order to be able to attend
Wikimania. If the UK is discriminating against our contributors'
nationalities, we might not be able to do much about it (although we
definitely should try to). But at the very least we can help with the
financial discrepancy.
-- Tobias
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