From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Gittogether event? Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:58:06 +0200 Message-ID: <48AF0C3E.5060506@op5.se> References: <20080820151031.GD3483@spearce.org> <200808210432.10544.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <20080821144537.GM3483@spearce.org> <200808220536.15746.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <7v7ia9d0of.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080822143407.GE3483@spearce.org> <20080822160008.GN10544@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Junio C Hamano , Christian Couder , "J.H." , Johannes Schindelin , Daniel Barkalow , Sam Vilain , David Symonds , git@vger.kernel.org To: Petr Baudis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 22 20:59:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KWbr2-0007Y7-HB for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:59:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752170AbYHVS6R (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:58:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752152AbYHVS6R (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:58:17 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:57192 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752048AbYHVS6Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:58:16 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC44424B004B; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:02:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.399 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UqjlLTmiJ-MA; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:02:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from clix.int.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.184]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1711B24B0035; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:02:20 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) In-Reply-To: <20080822160008.GN10544@machine.or.cz> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Petr Baudis wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 07:34:07AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >>> If Git-together happens outside of that, I could join. >> I think it would be after that. I doubt we could put it together >> with <30 days of notice. Most people who would want to attend need >> to book travel arrangements. While its possible with 30 days notice >> you can typically get better rates if you have more lead time. > > Also, if this event would indeed be in US, some of the developers would > need to arrange visa, which takes time too (though the time can vary, > reportedly - but 30 days should be enough). > > I'm slightly discouraged by the idea of getting the visa, which is > reportedly exhausting process involving handing over huge amount of > personal information to US government etc. But I might wind up having > to travel to US sooner or later anyway, so I guess it's not a > deal-breaker for me. > I'm not sure where you're from, but quite a few countries who are members of the european union are also member of the visa waiver program and don't need visas to visit the us unless they: * have been suspected of a crime in the past 10 years (not only convicted, suspected is enough) * are first-generation immigrants * could in some really, really far-fetched way be suspected to be related to be connected to one of the several hundred thousand terrorist organizations around the world Check with your american embassy. They're quite friendly, provided you don't call them before american business hours have started. I believe it's something of a conundrum in china and australia, but perhaps the embassies there make special arrangements. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231