On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:43:13AM -0700, Mariano Cecowski wrote: > Osama, I'm afraid your view is very self-centric.
Maybe it isn't. Maybe it's also what the people at ar (and probably at fa/id/ms) think. > We Southamericans have a really hard time getting into USA; and I'm > sure many couldn't go to that Wikimania because of visa problems. Good to know, but it isn't about the US here and I don't think we should be discussing this right now right here. > many couldn't go to Thailand because because of economic > reasons. For that there is a scholarship. The economic reason isn't something to take too seriously for one host because, as far I know, many of us won't be able to go anywhere outside their country without the scholarship. > And some didn't go to Egypt because of religious > issues. Refusing to visit a place for religious reasons is personal-dependent. > There is always something that will prevent some people to > assist to a Wikimania; that's why we rotate the host! Right, but it's only an issue if that's true for so many people for meaningful reasons. When it was in Egypt I was told that half of the attendees were Arabs. They *want* to come so they shouldn't be ignored. > I can't believe people complaining about getting the visa in their > passports that will later prevent them to visit an Arab country; 20 > bucks and an hour standing in line and you have a new one!! (unless > you live in Cuba, or Northern Korea). I dunno about this. Yaroslav was talking about losing the passport. -- Osama Khalid English-to-Arabic translator and programmer. http://osamak.wordpress.com | http://tinyogg.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l