[Foundation-l] Wikimania and visas

[Milos Rancic]

I forgot for Wikimania when I called German Embassy in Belgrade (2005)
and when I had to call machine for 5 times, listen it around 10
minutes and write a couple of pages of requirements. I didn't try to
call US Embassy (2006). (However, it seems that getting visa for Egypt
is not so unreasonable.) Simply, it is not reasonable to spend a month
of work in getting visa for Wikimania. I have a number of other things
to do in my life.

BTW, I am not sure did you see my (mostly) ironic text about this
issue: http://millosh.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/do-we-really-want-to-change-the-world/

On 10/13/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I am working on documentation for Wikimania, and I'm trying to compile
> better statistics for people who have tried and haven't been able to attend
> because they were turned down for or were otherwise unable to get a visa to
> the country where the conference was held.
>
> Theodoranian summarized the situation for Taipei pretty well in a previous
> mail. For Boston, I'm still going through emails and records but my memory
> is that 2 speakers from Brazil couldn't get visas in time, 1 wikimedian from
> India was explicitly rejected, and I know there were others as well.
>
> So please help me out, fellow organizers and attendees -- if you remember
> what happened for 2005, 2006 or 2007 or you attempted to get a visa to come
> to a Wikimania and couldn't, let me know off list.
>
> thanks!
> -- phoebe
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