Unless you come from a potentially problematic country (for example one which doesn't have diplomatic relations with Israel, or just one which is rather exotic for incoming tourism), the printout of the automated mail you got from us should be fine, and even that shouldn't be necessary. It's just something you can show during the security questioning, which normally occurs only on El Al flights.

We prepared personalized "formal" letters of invitation upon request for quite a few people. However I'm rather disinclined to prepare more and more of them. If you are from the USA or the EU or other Western countries I really think they're not necessary.

These things are really a matter of chance - I heard the one attendee from Czech Republic had a few problems (everything is fine, nothing serious), while the South Americans went through everything without any problem at all.

Please seriously consider if you really need them before asking for such personalized letters (requests please send to one of the OTRS queues).


Harel Cain
Wikimania 2011 local team



On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 20:08, Deryck Chan <deryckchan@gmail.com> wrote:

...and how many copies of each!

On Jul 30, 2011 1:07 AM, "Laura James" <ljames@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the great advice - yes, please do let us know which document
> would be the most helpful to print. And any other tips! :-)
> Thank you,
> Laura
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Kim Bruning <kim@bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 07:49:31PM +0900, KIZU Naoko wrote:
>> > Hi from Tel Aviv suburb.
>> >
>> > I strongly recommend to follow Manuel. Also the letter from the
>> > organizing team may help.
>> >
>> > At security check in AMS I met difficulty , since then I left all the
>> > copy of registration team and also had no copy.
>>
>> > document on my registration to the confenrence or a document from WMF.
>>
>> Hmm, good point, what document would be handiest to print out? (I'll check
>> my mail)
>>
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>> gpg (www.gnupg.org) Fingerprint for key FEF9DD72
>> 5ED6 E215 73EE AD84 E03A 01C5 94AC 7B0E FEF9 DD72
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