Hi all. I helps with attendee affair during FUDCon Beijing. So I'd like
to say something.
I think the most important thing is, figure out which is the best visa
type for attendees(travel visa for FUDCon Beijing, since it is not hold
by Red Hat Beijing or other companies so we can not offer invitation
letter for business visa). Then how long it would take for most of the
countries. Leave the attendees enough time. And whether flight
ticket/hotel receipt is needed for applying visa.
Besides, as we talked in fudcon-planning list before, we now know that
it is easy to get visa in some embassies while it is hard with the same
documents(and even within the same country). So if one fails to get visa
while others from the same country get the visa, we'd advise the lucky
guy to offer some information to the one who fails or even ask the guy
to try again in other embassy.
For flight ticket and hotel receipts, as the hotel for FUDCon Beijing is
run by the university, it is hard to offer a hotel receipt in time
before FUDCon. I know someone survived by booking his own hotel for
FUDCon Beijing and use that receipt to apply for visa. After get the
visa he just need to cancel the hotel. This maybe not a good way to do
so, but it helps.
And at last, if the attendee failed in getting the visa, the last but
usual better way maybe ask the attendee to find a local international
travel agency to help. Usually it takes some more money but it would
succeed with more opportunity.
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