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Daniel Stenberg, author of the ubiquitous URL fetcher cURL and the libcurl multiprotocol file transfer library, and recipient of the 2017 Polheim Prize, has been blocked again from attending a US-based conference. Daniel has written a post in his blog about his two-year odyssey through the byzantine US bureaucracy to try to get permission to attend a work-related conference in California. He has been in the US nine times previously but despite pages of paperwork, hundreds of dollars in fees, and personal visits to the embassy, no dice. As a result the conference will have to move outside the US and probably Canada too if it wants to stay open to the world's top talent.
Earlier on SN:
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(Score: 5, Informative) by choose another one on Sunday July 29 2018, @09:34PM
Equally the conferences have the right to move to other countries if the attendees can't get into US.
If the loss is big enough things will change - White House guarantees that athletes from all countries (must have included Trump-muslim-ban ones) would be allowed in were apparently required to get LA the 2028 olympic games. IOC and other international sporting organisations face this sort of problem all the time - IJF recently suspended events in Tunisia and UAE over the issue, and threatened to cancel the world championships in Morocco last year in order to get some athletes visas.