Meeting log

• Visa/Border issues status check with Frank (Hydroxide-20:00:33)
• status of various legal/anecdotal/answers (Hydroxide-20:01:23)
  • LINK: http://meetbot.debian.net/meetbot/debconf-nyc.20090430_0000.html has the minutes from there (Hydroxide-20:01:57)
  • INFO: we had an informative experience with a developer in latin america who got a prompt interview. we ran through the process, prepared an invitation letter that will be a model for a form letter (iriefrank-20:03:54)
  • LINK: http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20090711.031722.344d2351.en.html (Hydroxide-20:07:40)
  • INFO: being in school does not count much for a visa, however, perhaps this can be helped by extra details on course of study from faculty sponsors, etc (MrBeige-20:10:38)
  • INFO: many of our developers are young people, who unfortunately are looked at especially closely by US visa officers (Hydroxide-20:11:02)
• email address for visa stuff (already being discussed) (Hydroxide-20:24:29)
• getting someone to go through the ESTA process as a testcase (iriefrank-20:28:40)
  • INFO: it would be helpful to find someone in a visa waiver country to go through the process early and see how smoothly it goes (iriefrank-20:29:08)
• legal portion of dc9 presentation (iriefrank-20:42:22)
  • ACTION: iriefrank will email Hydroxide with the legal parts of the dc10 presentation by friday, july 17th (Hydroxide-20:49:08)
• website progress (iriefrank-20:50:54)
• SEAS summary email (Hydroxide-21:00:11)
  • INFO: We need two emails to send to the director of corporate and community affairs: (MrBeige-21:00:46)
  • INFO: #1 - description of what DebConf is about (like what we've sent out so far), describing why SEAS should support us (MrBeige-21:01:09)
  • INFO: #2 - a summary to Vlcek describing what support we've already gotten promissed (MrBeige-21:02:10)
  • LINK: http://whiteboard.debian.net/seas-summary_65303d.wb is #1 (MrBeige-21:02:32)
  • LINK: http://whiteboard.debian.net/seas-info_d549e9.wb is #2 (MrBeige-21:02:37)
• Logo selection (Hydroxide-21:03:54)
  • LINK: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/LogoContest (Hydroxide-21:04:52)
  • LINK: http://gotprint.net/g/showStaticPage.do?page=turnaround_time.html (schultmc-21:23:07)

Meeting ended at 21:38:02 UTC.

Action Items

• iriefrank will email Hydroxide with the legal parts of the dc10 presentation by friday, july 17th

Action Items, by person

• Hydroxide
  • iriefrank will email Hydroxide with the legal parts of the dc10 presentation by friday, july 17th
• iriefrank
  • iriefrank will email Hydroxide with the legal parts of the dc10 presentation by friday, july 17th
• UNASSIGNED
  • (none)

People Present (lines said)

• Hydroxide (187)
• iriefrank (64)
• MrBeige (48)
• moray (42)
• schultmc (21)
• bgupta (11)

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