#debconf-nyc Meeting

Meeting started by Hydroxide at 20:00:07 UTC. (full logs)
20:00:33 Topic: Visa/Border issues status check with Frank
20:01:23 Topic: status of various legal/anecdotal/answers
20:01:57 LINKHydroxidehttp://meetbot.debian.net/meetbot/debconf-nyc.20090430_0000.html has the minutes from there
20:03:54 INFOiriefrankwe 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
20:07:40 LINKHydroxidehttp://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20090711.031722.344d2351.en.html
20:10:38 INFOMrBeigebeing 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
20:11:02 INFOHydroxidemany of our developers are young people, who unfortunately are looked at especially closely by US visa officers
20:24:29 Topic: email address for visa stuff (already being discussed)
20:28:40 Topic: getting someone to go through the ESTA process as a testcase
20:29:08 INFOiriefrankit would be helpful to find someone in a visa waiver country to go through the process early and see how smoothly it goes
20:42:22 Topic: legal portion of dc9 presentation
20:49:08 ACTIONHydroxideiriefrank will email Hydroxide with the legal parts of the dc10 presentation by friday, july 17th
20:50:54 Topic: website progress
21:00:11 Topic: SEAS summary email
21:00:46 INFOMrBeigeWe need two emails to send to the director of corporate and community affairs:
21:01:09 INFOMrBeige#1 - description of what DebConf is about (like what we've sent out so far), describing why SEAS should support us
21:02:10 INFOMrBeige#2 - a summary to Vlcek describing what support we've already gotten promissed
21:02:32 LINKMrBeigehttp://whiteboard.debian.net/seas-summary_65303d.wb is #1
21:02:37 LINKMrBeigehttp://whiteboard.debian.net/seas-info_d549e9.wb is #2
21:03:54 Topic: Logo selection
21:04:52 LINKHydroxidehttp://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/LogoContest
21:23:07 LINKschultmchttp://gotprint.net/g/showStaticPage.do?page=turnaround_time.html
Meeting ended at 21:38:02 UTC. (full logs)


Action Items
  1. iriefrank will email Hydroxide with the legal parts of the dc10 presentation by friday, july 17th

Action Items, by person
  1. Hydroxide
    1. iriefrank will email Hydroxide with the legal parts of the dc10 presentation by friday, july 17th
  2. iriefrank
    1. iriefrank will email Hydroxide with the legal parts of the dc10 presentation by friday, july 17th
  3. UNASSIGNED
    1. (none)

People Present (lines said):
  1. Hydroxide (187)
  2. iriefrank (64)
  3. MrBeige (48)
  4. moray (42)
  5. schultmc (21)
  6. bgupta (11)

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