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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Louis_Su=C3=A1rez=2DPotts?= <lsuarezpotts@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:00:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: [ApacheCon EU] China: Visas to Germany
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Hi

On 22 October 2012 22:50, Peter Junge <peter.junge@gmx.org> wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 10:40 AM, Louis Su=C3=A1rez-Potts wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for top post but:
>> Are there not other Apache EU projects suffering the same effects?
>
>
> Indeed, I also considered to sending this information to the ApacheCon li=
st
> but the only Chinese names I can discover on the schedule
> (http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/) are affiliated with AOO. As well, I'm
> also following the ApacheCon list and didn't notice the issue there, exce=
pt
> Chinese AOO committers asking for invitation letters.
>
> Peter

Okay; thanks. I then really want to press the idea of tele-video/conferenci=
ng.

This technology works. I've experienced it first-hand at least twice,
tho. not from China directly (Brazil, Denmark).

My thinking is that what we really want is to glean what is being presented=
.

Alternatively, there are what seem to be free televideo/group
conferencing services, like Uberconference. But as at least soem of
the presenters are coming from a big company with Internet power (in
this case, IBM), that can possibly offer some obvious options.

Like the right technology.

Louis

>
>
>>
>> Louis
>>
>> On 22 October 2012 22:34, Peter Junge <peter.junge@gmx.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have heard several Chinese speakers who want to present at the
>>> ApacheCon
>>> EU 2012 are having problems with getting their visa in time.
>>>
>>> Indeed, the recent situation was very bad because the German embassy
>>> doesn't
>>> have the resources to handle the strong demand for German visas in Chin=
a,
>>> e.g. they have only two telephone lines to make appointments for
>>> submitting
>>> visa applications.
>>>
>>> Just last week the German embassy started to outsource the visa
>>> application
>>> process to a private agency which will certainly make everything easier=
,
>>> e.g. they are checking each application for completeness and correctnes=
s
>>> while previously visa applications were declined deliberately without
>>> giving
>>> any information about what went wrong.
>>>
>>> The website of the visa agency can be found here:
>>> https://cn.tlscontact.com/cnBJS2de/splash.php
>>> The service is available in English, Chinese and German.
>>>
>>> Additional information from the German embassy (in Chinese) can be foun=
d
>>> here:
>>>
>>> http://www.china.diplo.de/Vertretung/china/zh/01-service/visa/tls/0-s.h=
tml
>>>
>>> Hope it's not to late.
>>>
>>> Peter