Am Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:27:25 +0300 schrieb Roman Kyrylych :

The German consulate wants to receive some kind of invitation from FrOSCon organizers to give me a visa.

The girl from Business Support Team who is in charge of the visa receiving process sent an email to FrOSCon team last week, but still no reply.

Does anyone know other ways to contact them (phone, mailing list, personal contact)?

I don't know other contact details than those on their website. But RadioTux (http://blog.radiotux.de), the German Linux Radio, regularly interview the organizers. So they could have personal contacts. Maybe you could ask Ingo Ebel or the other people of RadioTux. Their e-mail address is info@radiotux.de. They speak at least German and English. Heiko

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:26, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:27:25 +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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The German consulate wants to receive some kind of invitation from FrOSCon organizers to give me a visa.

The girl from Business Support Team who is in charge of the visa receiving process sent an email to FrOSCon team last week, but still no reply.

Does anyone know other ways to contact them (phone, mailing list, personal contact)?

I would just resent a mail; they might be busy atm. There are usually some guys on #froscon. The contact address for projects is projekte(at)froscon.de. The phone number If found on the website is 0228-9716402

Update: * phone not responding then responding with operator's voice * emails not responding (skip time for vacation, then for illness) * got in contact via IRC * hopefully will get some paper on monday

If there is anything I could do, let me know. (Cant one of us not invite you?)

The order of difficulty is: * visa for conference visiting * tourist visa * visa to another country * personal invite -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:12:46 +0300 Roman Kyrylych wrote:

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:36, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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Update: * phone not responding then responding with operator's voice * emails not responding (skip time for vacation, then for illness) * got in contact via IRC * hopefully will get some paper on monday

More updates: * finally got some reply via email * even got a PDF with an invitation * German embassy demands the original document, signed and stamped * spent a week trying to force FrOSCon team to send it to me, Pierre agreed to even go take it and send by himself ('cause they're so busy) * still no answer * within one day received an invitation from our company's representative in Sweden and sent all required documents to the embassy (they accept faxed invitation) * same day, evening (one hour ago) got a message from FrOSCon team, that they sent the document today (and the deadline for sending document to the embassy was yesterday)

So, why would I ever want to get a German visa for visiting FrOSCon again?

FOSDEM team was so much more quick and helpful.

I'm too tired to be angry.

Aww man. this is really stupid :/ Dieter

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 16:24, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 18:12, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:36, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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Update: * phone not responding then responding with operator's voice * emails not responding (skip time for vacation, then for illness) * got in contact via IRC * hopefully will get some paper on monday

More updates: * finally got some reply via email * even got a PDF with an invitation * German embassy demands the original document, signed and stamped * spent a week trying to force FrOSCon team to send it to me,  Pierre agreed to even go take it and send by himself ('cause they're so busy) * still no answer * within one day received an invitation from our company's representative in Sweden  and sent all required documents to the embassy (they accept faxed invitation) * same day, evening (one hour ago) got a message from FrOSCon team,  that they sent the document today  (and the deadline for sending document to the embassy was yesterday)

Will get Swedish visa this Friday. BTW, the document FrOSCon team said they've sent is still not here...

So, got my passport back today, with a multi-visa for 1 year (!), so I will be able to use it for FOSDEM too!. And also got an envelope with documents from FrOSCon team few minutes ago. Took only 12 days to arrive (although I've asked for express delivery many times). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)