Dear OOo community,
firstly, I want to thank you for your feedback. A lot of people have
registered themselves this week. We also found out, that a lot of spam
filters in Western countries seem to trash mails from Chinese mail
servers by default. Flora is now using a gmail account to get in touch
with you.
HOWEVER, I still have to pressurize the business visa process. This
autumn a lot of conferences are hosted in Beijing, hence the people
doing the paperwork at the public administrations are quite busy. To
really speed up, it would be desirable if we can bypass the
registration. Hence, I would like to ask you to send the data, that we
need for the business visa paperwork directly.
These data are:
Full Name of attendee
Postal address
Nationality
Profession
Passport Number
Applying Visa from which country
Entering China from which country
Delivery address for the invitation letter (if not postal address)
E-Mail address
OOo user name (optional)
Please send the data either to:
Feng Bingbing aka Flora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
or me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If you do not like to send these data by email, please get in touch with
Flora. She will provide a fax number, telephone number or whatever you
prefer to get your data to us.
The most important thing is to start the paperwork for the invitation
letters now, it doesn't matter if you really using it in the end.
Best regards,
Peter
Peter Junge wrote:
Dear OOo community,
everyone who wants to attend the OOoCon in Beijing November 5th to 7th
2008, please read this completely and carefully. Others can stop reading
here. Please excuse the wide cross-posting, but I have to make sure
everyone is getting my message.
This years' OpenOffice.org Conference is a special challenge for the
organizational team, because we have to help about 200 (maybe more) OOo
contributors from all over the globe to enter China with an appropriate
visa and care about their accommodation by booking affordable hotel
rooms. For this reason we want to kindly remind you, that we cannot
accomplish our mission successfully, if anyone comes at us last minute.
Consequently, we have to set deadlines for the availability of our help
offers. Please visit the OOoCon website ASAP and complete your
registration:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/travel.html#registration
One note, we prefer early registrations over providing accurate travel
dates etc.
We cannot guarantee to successfully complete the paperwork for your
business visa, if your registrations is completed later than September
21st. After this date, you may still be able to help yourself, by
applying for a tourist visa. Nonetheless, please help our team members
by acting *NOW*. Wang Shanshan aka Phoebe and Feng Bingbing aka Flora
are spending an enormous effort to help potential OOoCon attendees. They
are sending emails to anyone who completed the registration, but they
are getting frustrated and worried right now. The reason is, that not
too many people are replying to them. Please be so kind to answer their
mails ASAP. It doesn't matter if you do not know your exact travel dates
right now, even if your attendance is not 100% sure yet, but it's very
important to get in touch with Phoebe and Flora in order to issue an
invitation letter for you. This can be started right now for everyone,
uncertainties about your travel plans can be clarified later. If you do
not need the help of our team, just send an according reply.
If you need our help for a hotel reservation, please complete the OOoCon
registration latest by September 26. After this date, we will not be
able to guarantee the discounted prices for hotel rooms, please refer:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/hotels.html
The normal hotel prices are more than double of our offers.
After your registration, it will take several days for us to get in
touch with you. If we did not get in touch with you in the week after
you have completed your registration, please feel free to send me an
email at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I am sure, I will get several of those
requests because I can already see a number of invalid email addresses
being submitted to the database. I takes only minutes to complete the
registration, please do it carefully.
Best regards,
Peter
--
Peter Junge
OpenOffice.org Annual Conference
Beijing 2008
Organizational Team
I want *YOU* to come to Beijing!
Please help us and register *NOW* for the OOoCon 2008:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/travel.html#registration
OOoCon website:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/index.html
Conference Program:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme.html
Visa information:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoCon_2008_Visa_Procedures
Travel information:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoCon_2008_Who_Where_When
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