<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div><br>You need to establish evidence that the visa will be approved.  A single applicant (rather than two) confirmed by a high-level contact in the French government might be the best way.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>We'll talk with the organizer and see if he has any contact with the French government, aside that we know there is no guarantee that it will be granted neither is there any that it'll not be granted.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-"><div></div></span><div>Speak to them about the above legal question too -- it is possible they have high-level contacts within the French govt, to provide the highest level of assurance that a particular visa will be approved.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>We'll talk with the organizer and see if he has any contact with the French government.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><span class="gmail-"><div><br></div></span><div>How specifically will attendee(s) document their contributions, in a more permanent/global way -- whether via published photos, videos, ASLO, <a href="http://scratch.mit.edu" target="_blank">http://scratch.mit.edu</a> and/or a formal report?<br><br>(Most grant proposals of almost any kind require the applicant to specify what kinds of community documentation will result from the trip...not just social media, but that could be one part of it!)<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This was in an email i received from the Scratch2017bdx committee  <br><br><div><b>HAL</b></div><div>If your proposal has an accompanying paper or 
poster that you wish to add to the academic archives, our partner INRIA 
can publish it in a Scratch2017BDX section at HAL. <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">HAL is an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields. </span>For this, please fill out the form at <a href="http://scratch2017bdx.org/en/hal" target="_blank">scratch2017bdx.org/en/hal</a><br><br></div><div>If that helps.<br></div><div><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><span class="gmail-"><div> </div></span><div>Can you provide a rough estimate for this in USD?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They want to share the responsibility with Sugar Labs, they already have a budget for the event but every money is virtual at the moment, they are working it out. So they'd love to pay half of the bill that's an estimated 1500euros($1681.12), but working the figures out the bill goes past that. <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br>
<a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/<wbr>listinfo/iaep</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
<table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
        <tr>
        <td style="width:55px;padding-top:13px"><a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon" target="_blank"><img src="https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif" alt="" width="46" height="29" style="width: 46px; height: 29px;"></a></td>
                <td style="width:470px;padding-top:12px;color:#41424e;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">Virus-free. <a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link" target="_blank" style="color:#4453ea">www.avast.com</a>
                </td>
        </tr>
</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div>