BeWelcome News

BeWelcome is driven by its volunteers only! Every volunteer supports BeWelcome with any amount of time they can spend: from 1 hour a month to sometimes 20 hours a week. Any help is welcome and appreciated, there's practically no minimum limit of time someone has to spend volunteering.

There are 2 volunteering groups specifically helping out our members and visitors:

• The New Member BeWelcome Team (NMBWT) welcomes every new member in a personalised way: they explain how our website works, what…

Hi all,

after a month of development a new version of Rox was just deployed to the server.

With it you get a single stop for all your subscriptions and you can temporarily disable all of them with one click (see /forums/subscriptions). At the same time the mail notifications now contain links to disable and unsubscribe from notifications for groups and forum posts.

All messages send through Bewelcome now use a new template.

During signup members now have to select a hosting status directly and…

Did you know we have a budget for organising events in your local community to help spread the ideas of hospitality exchange and BeWelcome in particular?

If you ever wanted to organise a special event on BeWelcome, but were held back because of some costs, this is your chance to get active! We'll pay for the t-shirts, stickers, banners, flyers, rent of a (small) venue (incl. utilities costs), other materials and even part of the food and drinks of the participants! Basically for everything you…

One more time, the BW duck team from Toulouse is inviting everyone to attend a long week-end of festivity, from Friday the 1st of may to Sunday the 3rd.

Happening for the fourth year in a row, Seek the Duck is the longest BeWelcome running event and include lot of different activities:

• local wine testing
• giant BBQ
• Easter omelette
• museum and city tour;
• story telling;
• pic mic

...all the activities are free (except the wine testing, requiring 3€ to cover the costs).

Start packing your stuff, the…

As you can see, we've started a new donation campaign! This year, our donation goal is €1620!

In other good news: after a long procedure, Paypal acknowledged our non-profit status, which means our transaction fees are down to €0,25 + 1,4% (previously a higher basic fee and a higher percentage, dependent on the origin of the donation).

Please consider donating, as the donations guarantee a free (from ads), transparent and independent hospex network.

Hi all,

The dev Team just deployed a new version of the site. We hope you like the new layout for header and footer.

Some small improvements were made to the signup process (the most notable being that new members are redirected to the 'Edit my profile' page on first Login, hopefully creating a lot more filled in profiles).

The get active and donate page were also updated.

This was only possible thanks to OctoberTales who provided the design proposal and was very picky regarding its…

Hello fellow BeWelcome members,

 

it is my pleasure to introduce you to the new volunteering team of BeWelcome called:

New Member BeWelcome Team (NMBWT).

 

Maybe, when you signed up to our community, you were happy that someone of the NMBW team sent you a welcoming message, as the NMBWT started to volunteer for BeWelcome in October 2013 and the team began to greet new members who joined from August onwards. If so, you probably remember the warm feeling it gave you.

BW is probably not a famous…

After a first informal meeting, the new BoD will have its first official meeting on December 4th. The meeting will take place in private, mainly because we first want to get to know each other and because of negative experiences made by previous boards. After that we will announce the outcomes publicly on the BeVolunteer IRC-channel, as far as we can, and will be open for questions and comments by the community on that same channel.

December 4th

19:00 CET - start of the BoD meeting
21:00 CET…

During the General Assembly the new Board of Directors has been elected: 4 out of 6 candidates were chosen to represent BeVolunteer for the next year: duesseldorf (Anja), wind (Johannes), OctoberTales (Sébastien) and amnesiac84 (Lukas).   After the first informal meeting, the fresh Board of Directors (BoD) found consensus in distributing its roles. Our new Executive will be duesseldorf, for she has been a long time member and elected for the BoD with 100% of the votes. The position as Secretary…

...since the last software release. The waiting is over and the latest release is packed with stuff that we (the dev team) hope you like:

• The mail notification software was rewritten. Notification will now be in HTML and (roughly) take the same formatting as the post on the site (be aware that pictures might not be loaded in your mail program as they are internal to the site).
• Messages can now contain formatting. In fact they use the same editor than the rest of the site (except for images).
• The…