BTW, I really hope the company can pay for GUADEC. I'm not sure we can pay both the salaries and the ticket costs while Samsung Iran is suggesting barter, Shell Iran is still discussing with their Dutch lawyers about legal implications of them using an Iranian distro instead of the Red Hat 9 they use now, and we are losing government contracts we are most eligible to because of people thinking Open Source is the same as public domain.
That's the main reason we haven't yet bothered with asking for invitation letters.