Dear OOoCon attendees, I would kindly like to remind you, that we will need your registration [1] for the OOoCon in Beijing by the end of this week in order to ensure we will be able to help you to obtain the appropriate visa [2] to enter China.
To speed up the business visa process, you can also send a mail directly to our team member Feng Bingbing aka Flora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Please send the following data: A scan of your passport (full double page with personal date, photo) 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 If you prefer to send this data securely, please contact me in order to use PGP/GnuPG. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/travel.html#registration [2] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoCon_2008_Visa_Procedures 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
