BeWelcome News

Dear BeWelcome members,

once again we reached November and we are planning the final steps of preparing our yearly General Assembly (GA) weekend (20/21 of November) of BeVolunteer - the organization who runs BeWelcome.

Traditionally we come together Friday night and get to know each other and welcome new faces. Second time in a row we only can meet online. But this is a great opportunity for you to grab your favorite drink or snack and join our online hangout with fellow BeWelcome volunteers and…

Hi everybody,

Roughly 3 months have passed since the last release, so time for an update.

• The most obvious change will only become visible when the next newsletter is sent: You can now unsubscribe from the newsletter directly from your mail program and it might even contain an image in the future :)
• At the same time the newsletter archive got an overhaul and looks cleaner now.
• In all places where a location search is used it now returns the result list localized into the UI language if possible.
• …

It takes only four weeks to set up an international conference on Hospitality Exchange (HospEx)! This achievement is impressive.
For the first time in history several of the bigger hospitality exchange networks come together in a virtual conference this saturday: 

May 8th 2021, starting at 17.30 CEST /  8 PDT

The program will be published soon here:

https://hospexsummit.org/

The highly interesting discussions will range from topics like: "Paywalls - blessing or curse?" and "Would it make sense to…

BeWelcome received a donation of 5000 Euro - the highest donation so far! 

The anonymous donor is a long time BeWelcome member and in the past he also was a very valuable volunteer.

The Board of Directors wants to thank the donor for this generous donation!

Johannes

BV Executive

Dear Members,

Just to share with you this great news - BeWelcome page is now (since the recent release 2 weeks ago) available in a new language - Galego (Galician). Are you from Galicia, Spain - or maybe speak/ are interested in this language for different purposes? Go ahead and pick it from the language drop down at the bottom of the BW page.

Very special thanks should go to Jorganes - translation volunteer, who made the translation very quickly!!!

Do you see your language missing, or maybe not…

We, the volunteers of BeWelcome, hope you are well and staying safe. 

Here comes a long list of smaller or bigger improvements to our platform since our last update in January 2021. 

Find Members (locations): 

• Searching for gender other now works as expected (but unfortunately only for the first page; just set the number of shown items to 100 in the search options if that isn't enough for you)

Activities: 

• Cancelled activities no longer show up in the widget on the landing page.
• You can report…

We, the volunteers of BeWelcome, hope you are well and staying safe. 

Here comes a long list of smaller or bigger improvements to our platform since our last update in October 2020. 

Find Members (locations): 

• The drop downs now all have default values to avoid a layout problem. All search options should work now as well as ordering.
• Because of the decreased activity with Covid the default has been increased to display profiles which have logged in up to two years ago. You can change this setting…

新年快乐   恭喜发财

Bonne année et bonne santé à tous

Feliz año nuevo

Frohes Neues Jahr und einen guten Rutsch

Ik wens je een gelukkig nieuwjaar

Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku

Hae a guid new year   Lang may yer lum reek

Καλή χρονιά

Bon Any Nou

Feliz ano novo

If your language is missing, feel free to add it in the comments.

Johannes - wind
Board of Directors Executive

Did you know that there is a quite nice and active Telegram group open for all members of BeWelcome?

https://t.me/joinchat/V7mwrLYV_64gX2N2

There is only one condition to join: Anyone is asked to provide a link to his / her BeWelcome profile. 

This chat group has been opened by InspectorBrain some weeks ago - and is has already more than 35 members. But please note: It is not an official communication channel of BeWelcome but a place to talk about traveling, hosting, the lack of it during Covid…

Dear BeWelcome members,

BeVolunteer - the registered non-profit association behind BeWelcome - has elected the official Board of Directors (BoD).

Executive: Johannes - wind
Vice Executive and Team Coordinator: Manuel - crumbking
Secretary: Krystyna - corazondeviaje
Treasurer: Frank - thorgal67
Vice Treasurer and Project Manager: Stefan - daydreamer1969

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Thank you to our amazing community!

We want to thank our BeWelcome community for their invaluable contributions – BeWelcome would not exist without…