BeWelcome News

At least once a year BeVolunteer, the legal organization behind BeWelcome, holds a General Assembly (GA) to review the past and prepare the coming period and to elect a new Board of Directors (BoD). This year the GA will take place from November 8th-9th in Grimbergen, close to Brussels (Belgium). All BeVolunteer members but also all BeWelcome members are welcome to participate in real life or online. You can find more information about the GA in our wiki.   Before the GA the BoD will have…

Hi all,

As preparation for the next software release some work has to be done on the server side which might impede using the site for around an hour on Tuesday, 7th of October starting at 10 pm CET.

If everything works as planned the site should be usuable during that time will access might be slower as usual.

Cheers,
shevek

 PS: 10pm CET means 10am in Honolulu, 4pm in New York, 1:30 am on Wednesday, 8th in Mumbai, and 4am in Hongkong.

The Mont Royal Summer Camp in Traben-Trarback (South-West Germany) has been organized annually since 2007. The 8th edition will take place from 10 September 2014 till 15 September.

Every year about 250 young people, families and older members join up to make this camp unique.

Why not join us? You can find more information and a full programme on the MRSC website or through the BW activity list.

If you are interested in the administrative issues behind BeWelcome, you are welcome to join our next public BoD meeting on September 2nd at 21:30. You can follow the online discussion on our IRC channel http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=BoDpublic, please log in with your BeWelcome username.

Please note that most of the time you will only be able to read the discussion but not participate actively unless directly asked to. You can already check out the agenda, which will still be worked on…

Are you looking for a cool way to spend the first week(s) of August? Why not join hundreds of other travelers who will be hitchhiking to Albania to join the 2014 Hitchgathering!

Want to leave now already? No problem, there are numerous pre-gathering on the road to Albania. Just check the official 2014 Hitchgathering website.

Since there is no fixed agenda, it is up to YOU to make it happen!

So stick out your thumb, bring a tent, your guitar and some stories, and tell us all about it later in our…

While many countries have summer holidays now, the BeVolunteer Board of Directors (BoD) have another public meeting on July 21st at 21:30 CEST on our IRC channel http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=BoDpublic, please log in with your BeWelcome username.

We certainly want to get things done, so you are invited to read what we write, but only write yourself, when asked. You can already get an idea what the meeting will be about in our agenda in the wiki.

Member Simontour has submitted his Master's thesis at the Uppsala University (Sweden) on the subject of Hospitality Exchange Networks. In particular he highlights the struggle between Commodification and Commons.

If you are interested in the way different networks approach the idea of "sharing", you will probably enjoy reading Simon Schöpf's 124-page analysis. A direct download can be found at http://bit.ly/Sevu5K

The thesis is published under a Creative Commons share-a-like license so feel…

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The BeWelcome community of Toulouse is delighted to invite you for the 3rd edition of SeekTheDuck, a free event organized for locals and travelers. Date: 4 - 7 July 2014.

Just like previous years the programme is simple: sharing, enjoying and spreading good vibes.

Locals will be happy to help you discover regional specialities, visit museums, parcs and bars, or organize workshops and participate in fun & games, like the "Easter-bottles Hunt" and a big…

We haven't been idle in the last few weeks, a newsletter is almost ready to be sent out, we have had some informal meetings to solve mostly technical problems and improve the communication between tech teams, BoD and other volunteers.

Our next public BoD meeting is on Thursday, June 12th at 21:00 CEST on http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=BoDpublic. Please log in with your BW-username. Like with previous times the idea is that you can read, what is being discussed, but not write yourself…

Hi all,

somewhat delayed by the server crash a new version of the code driving the web site has just been released. Most of the changes have been done in the (invisible) backend cleaning up code and hopefully offer the volunteers some better tools.

The dev team plans to cleanup more code with the next release while adding some interesting new features for everyone to enjoy.

The effort wouldn't have been possible without the help of some dedicated people like cumbking, tsjoek and leoalone.

Thanks…