[Scale-planning] Volunteer with ADHD denied visa waiver to attend SCaLE and help with the olpc2.0 booth!

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Sat Feb 25 01:23:15 UTC 2017


Heck, I've got ADD, and I know a googler with it.

joel.rubin at latimes.com
james.queally at latimes.com
might be interested, they wrote
https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-iran-return-lax-20170201-story,amp.html
On Feb 24, 2017 4:29 PM, "Caryl Bigenho" <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

> That's a great idea! Now, the question is how to do that?  Call the NY
> Times?  Maybe the LA Times (since the destination is LA). I wonder what
> proof we need... I'm sure the young man involved would be happy to help
> out. I also have his TSA-TRIP redress number and an email from him asking
> for help.
>
>
> Right now we are working on getting his privacy waiver paperwork to Diane
> Feinstein before 5 pm tonight.
>
>
>
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> *From:* Scale-planning <scale-planning-bounces at lists.linuxfests.org> on
> behalf of Sean McCabe <mccabester at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 24, 2017 4:17:05 PM
> *To:* SCALE Planning List
> *Cc:* Adam Holt; Tim Moody
> *Subject:* Re: [Scale-planning] Volunteer with ADHD denied visa waiver to
> attend SCaLE and help with the olpc2.0 booth!
>
> So, if this is true and you have proof. The NY Times, among every news
> outlet in the world would love to write a story on this.
>
> Sean
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks...
>>
>>
>> We may have lost one of our booth volunteers who was to fly in from
>> England next week. It seems that his visa waiver was denied because he
>> marked on his application that he has ADHD!
>>
>>
>> Can you imagine! How many programmers, hackers, etc have ADHD???!!!  We
>> are trying to get Sen. Diane Feinstein to help with this, but he may not be
>> able to come. I wonder if others from outside the US will run into similar
>> hitches???
>>
>>
>> Caryl
>>
>>
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