I'm truly sorry for your experience Horst. We live in a different world post 9/11. I live in a rural area so I'm not usually affected by it, but your email brought it all back.<br><br>I wasn't implying that you folks overseas ~should~ have come. I'm just a relative newbie, and thought that there would be someone in the US with more experience and knowledge to give a talk. After all WX will be there, and it's not nearly as nice a product.
<br><br>Kerri<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/11/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Horst Herb</b> <<a href="mailto:subscriptions@gnumed.net">subscriptions@gnumed.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Saturday 12 January 2008, David Boddie wrote:<br>> Some people are able to travel further than others - I'm happy to travel to<br>> EuroPython and PyCon UK to give talks, but less comfortable with a long<br>> distance trip to the US.
<br>I believe that in the current political climate many of us non-US residents<br>are rather reluctant to travel to conferences in the USA anyway. I used to go<br>to 3-5 medical conferences in the US per year, plus a few FOSS related
<br>conferences (eg O'Reillys, even presented there once), but ceased this<br>completely some 5 years ago.<br><br>Last time I visited I didn't feel welcome at all, the customs officers were<br>exceedingly rude and hostile - and I am a respectable MD with permanent US
<br>visa, no criminal records, no extremist affiliations, near-native English<br>speaking, Australian permanent resident, German descendence; makes you wonder<br>how they would treat people looking "less American" than I do.
<br><br>I wonder how many academics and uppermost white collar workers are prepared to<br>be treated as criminals "until proven otherwise" just for the sake of<br>attending a conference<br><br>Horst<br><br>--<br>
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