On Oct 22, 2012, at 7:50 PM, Peter Junge wrote: > On 10/23/2012 10:40 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> Sorry for top post but: >> Are there not other Apache EU projects suffering the same effects? > > Indeed, I also considered to sending this information to the ApacheCon list > but the only Chinese names I can discover on the schedule > (http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/) are affiliated with AOO. As well, I'm > also following the ApacheCon list and didn't notice the issue there, except > Chinese AOO committers asking for invitation letters.
Do the AOO committers require invitation letters from The Apache Software Foundation, or the com-com committee? Do these letters need to be addressed to any particular insititution? Germany, China, ... ? Regards, Dave > > Peter > >> >> Louis >> >> On 22 October 2012 22:34, Peter Junge <peter.ju...@gmx.org> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have heard several Chinese speakers who want to present at the ApacheCon >>> EU 2012 are having problems with getting their visa in time. >>> >>> Indeed, the recent situation was very bad because the German embassy doesn't >>> have the resources to handle the strong demand for German visas in China, >>> e.g. they have only two telephone lines to make appointments for submitting >>> visa applications. >>> >>> Just last week the German embassy started to outsource the visa application >>> process to a private agency which will certainly make everything easier, >>> e.g. they are checking each application for completeness and correctness >>> while previously visa applications were declined deliberately without giving >>> any information about what went wrong. >>> >>> The website of the visa agency can be found here: >>> https://cn.tlscontact.com/cnBJS2de/splash.php >>> The service is available in English, Chinese and German. >>> >>> Additional information from the German embassy (in Chinese) can be found >>> here: >>> http://www.china.diplo.de/Vertretung/china/zh/01-service/visa/tls/0-s.html >>> >>> Hope it's not to late. >>> >>> Peter
