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==Ambraziškiai==
  
==General==
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http://www.hitchgathering.org
  
=== Latest News ===
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The 2012 European Hitch Gathering will be in Ambraziškiai, near Molėtai, Lithuania. The date is still Saturday 4 August 2012.
*In Kara Dere the date for Hitchgathering 2012 main event was decided: Saturday 4 August 2012
 
*Submit your suggestions for the main event NOW!
 
**We want to decide the location as early as possible to leave time for actual organizing of the event.
 
**Please, formulate as solid proposal as possible: venue, team, partners, program suggestions etc.
 
  
=== Organisation & Discussion ===
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Map: http://goo.gl/maps/FnBJg
'''Key points to consider'''
 
*Team of people on the ground (and online helpers) is maybe even more critical for the success of the event than the actual location.
 
*It was suggested that the main event would be a culmination point for a series of mini-meetings around Europe that could be well-prepared and organized during June and July prior to the main event. This would allow a bigger participation, more promotion, longer travels together and, of course, a wider reach.
 
  
'''Questions to answer:'''
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In the village there's a shop (we'll inform them so they can prepare a bit).
*Is the point of hitchgathering still to popularize hitchhiking?
 
**<small>Of course it is... but it's not the main goal. The main goal's still to have a Hitchhiker's Gathering, I believe :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 00:10, 22 September 2011 (CEST)</small>
 
**(place your answer here)
 
*If so, should we aim to make a (much) larger, accessible (easy-to-reach) event?
 
**(place your answer here)
 
*If so, should we change the concept somehow?
 
**<small>I think, one basic question will arise about money, because if we want to make a "big thing" out of it, then it will be more likely that some costs are involved. But actually, I would prefer to do it as much without money as possible. I definitivly would like to keep that part of the concept and see what else we can do to have a big gathering.--[[User:Lisa und Clemens|Lisa und Clemens]] 23:54, 22 September 2011 (CEST)</small>
 
**(place your answer here)
 
*(place your question here)
 
  
'''Suggestions:'''
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== Photos from the gathering ==
*Have one main event (4-8-12)
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[https://www.dropbox.com/sh/es1ik05n8t5ct3b/rNG5ydpkpp Collection at Dropbox]
**(place your comment here)
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:People! Dropbox is nonfree! [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]]
*Have a series of smaller events leading to that (May, June, July)
 
**<small>''Some'' would be nice - but I'd vote for not having too many. Both for fear of splitting the one big main gathering where ''everybody'' is going to be into several smaller ones, and also because people might end up running after the events, trying to catch more than they can, always missing them by a bit due to the incalculability (what an awesome word) of hitchhiking or other unfortunate stuff like that. I say '''keep the pre-meetings''', but '''promote''' and especially '''organise''' them better (for example by deciding them well before the gathering and putting them on the offical flyer), which should mainly comprise some kind of gathering grounds, I believe. Food sucks, after all. So... find enthusiastic local organisers (Germany would be plentiful of those, I think), kick their butts a little bit (a.k.a. help them to self-organise) and fire up the promotion. :-)--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 00:19, 22 September 2011 (CEST)</small>
 
**(place your comment here)
 
*Have a "Kara Dere -like" event right after the main event
 
**<small>What is a Kara Dere-like event?...--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 00:11, 22 September 2011 (CEST)</small>
 
**<small>A rather small one, in a romantic and remote place with few people that all come to know each other during the event.--[[User:Lisa und Clemens|Lisa und Clemens]] 23:54, 22 September 2011 (CEST)</small>
 
**(place your comment here)
 
*Taking previous comments into account, what if we would '''1)''' have a few well-organized pre-meetings in June/July, then '''2)''' meet in free [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przystanek_Woodstock Woodstock festival] 2-4 August in Poland, and then '''3)''' decide together where to go for the after meeting.
 
**(place your comment here)
 
*(place your suggestion here)
 
**(place your comment here)
 
  
==Location suggestions for 4-8-12==
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[http://ubuntuone.com/7D9eK4ie7OgekSY5U0sz0S Julien and Ruta's photos]
  
===Somewhere near [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]===
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==Visa info==
*After four years of challenging destinations, it'd be nice to try a central, easy and popular place in Europe.
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Lithuania is part of European Union and most people don't need a visa. If you are from outside EU, it's different from country to country. Share what you know about each below.
  
====Organizers====
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==Organizers==
 
Team of people ready to take responsibility on the ground:
 
Team of people ready to take responsibility on the ground:
*Name | contact details | special contribution/interests
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* Name | contact details | special contribution/interests
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* [[User:Mikael|Mikael]] (Vilnius)
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* Tuchkus (Kaunas HH club)
  
Willing online helpers:
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* See [http://hitchwiki.org/community/hitchgathering/contact/ contact] for more.
*Tomi Astikainen | tomi(at)mindyourelephant.org | writing --[[User:Astikain|Astikain]] 13:39, 21 September 2011 (CEST)
 
*Name | contact details | special contribution/interests
 
*[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] | find out via my talk :-) | writing, thinking as much as I will be able to from the road --[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 00:25, 22 September 2011 (CEST)
 
  
====Pros====
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Online:
*A lot of hitchhikers nearby e.g. in [[France]], [[Netherlands]], [[Poland]] and - naturally - in [[Germany]] could form the basis for a VERY big main event.
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* Richard (rdoc101)
**A central location like this would allow the national hitchhiking clubs to cooperate in creating the event.
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* Jona / [[User:N0id|n0id]] --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 17:08, 7 June 2012 (CEST)
**Would be easy to get together a team on the ground (5-8 people in Berlin), who would take care of the preparations throughout the whole year, not just a couple of weeks before the event.
 
*Affordable.
 
*Possible partner organization: [http://www.kulturkosmos.de Kulturkosmos], organizer of the [http://www.fusion-festival.de/ Fusion Festival]
 
**(Thilo will approach them once we have a solid proposal)
 
  
====Cons====
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===Volunteer-forum===
*By the time it's August, some HC hitchhikers could potentially be faaar away from Germany already.
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*[http://hitchwiki.org/community/hitchgathering/forums/topic/volunteers/ Forum in hitchgathering.org]
  
=== [[Scandinavia]] ===
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==Pre-meetings==
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Assemble and organize [http://hitchwiki.org/community/hitchgathering/forums/forum/pre-gatherings-2012/ on the forum]. Then post details here.
  
*We've had West (Portugal), Central (Paris) and East (Odessa & Kara Dere) - it might be time to move it North! :-)
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===City, country===
  
====Organizers====
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==Other meetings, events==
Team of people ready to take responsibility on the ground:
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Almost everywhere, [https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=201032197447491944329.0004c137ff46438e384a6 see map].
*Name | contact details | special contribution/interests
 
  
Willing online helpers:
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==To Do==
*[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] | find out via my talk :-) | writing, thinking as much as I will be able to from the road --[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 00:25, 22 September 2011 (CEST)
 
*Name | contact details | special contribution/interests
 
  
====Pros====
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Be the change you want to see in the world --Einstein
*Plentiful space, awesome camping possibilites
 
*A place that would ''thrive'' with hitch-hikers once we promote it a little bit (believes [[User:Zenit|Zenit]]).
 
*Accessible - the ferries from Germany to Denmark and from Denmark to Sweden are absolutely hitcheable
 
*Moose!!
 
  
====Cons====
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* Tell your friends
*Not cheap (but good to Dumpster Dive, better than Bulgaria) - expensive alcohol
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* Tell hitchhikers you meet on the road
*Mosquitoes in the summer time & sometimes changeable weather (but all in all usually nice and predictable along the East coast in the summer).
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* Write cardboards with hitchgathering.org, the place and date (and maybe more) and place them at popular hitchhiking spots ... be creative and use your colorful markers!
 
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* Draw your own flyers :)
===Valle di Luna, Capo Testa - Santa Teresa Gallura, [[Sardegna]], [[Italy]]===
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* Spread the word around hitchhiking clubs and websites in your country/your language
[[File:CapoTesta-pjt1.jpg|thumb|right]]
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* Post on your hitchhiking / travel / nomad blog or website about the gathering
An amazing valley between skull rocks on a beautiful beach in Sardegna. There is a permanent, but changing hippie community living in the valley in caves and tents. Maybe we could join for some days. There is enough space. I will upload a photo soon.
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* Tell your favorite hitchhiking / travel / nomad blog author to write about it
Links:
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* Organize a pre-meeting (can be early like May/June/July to raise attention and connect people)
*[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capo_Testa Wikipedia Link (german only)]
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* Translate a ready-made article in your local language and offer it to newspapers
*[http://www.traumziel-sardinien.com/teresa.html Another one]
 
 
 
====Organizers====
 
Team of people ready to take responsibility on the ground:
 
*Name | contact details | special contribution/interests
 
 
 
Willing online helpers:
 
 
 
*[[User:Quarim|Quarim]] | |
 
 
 
====Pros====
 
* Just a beautiful place and a free living community
 
* Central Europe
 
* Sardegna is hitchhiking friendly
 
* food is very tasty
 
 
 
====Cons====
 
* A lot tourists hiking there in summer.
 
* Hitch or take the ferry, plane or a boat.
 
* Don't know if the hippie community there likes it when 100 hitchhikers come.
 
* Officially there is a "no camping" restriction
 
 
 
 
 
==Pre-meetings==
 
 
 
===City, country===
 
 
 
==After-meetings==
 
  
===City, country===
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===Flyers===
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<gallery>
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Image:EruopeanhitchgatheringapWWW.jpg
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Image:Flyer_draft_4.jpg
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Image:Flyer_draft_8.jpg
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Image:Flyer draft 9.jpg
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</gallery>
  
==TO DO==
 
 
===Misc===
 
===Misc===
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*Tell the village shop we're coming in force. They need to put their garbage outside :D someone that speaks LT put their name here, merci.
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** Youp, we'll call, no problem! - [[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 15:14, 17 July 2012 (CEST)
  
 
===Website work===
 
===Website work===
 
====Translation====
 
====Translation====
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We can create content simply under /lt/ etc pages, or create multiple websites under WP. I recommend that we don't translate everything, but rather create "about" page in multiple languages - would be useful in future years, too. - [[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 01:40, 17 July 2012 (CEST)
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:How do we do that? [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]] 13:55, 17 July 2012 (CEST)
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::You can go to [http://hitchwiki.org/community/hitchgathering/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page edit pages here] and see the stuff under "language"? Just add new pages in languages and add whatever content you feel like should be translated. ;-) At least short what/when/where. You can translate [http://hitchwiki.org/community/hitchgathering/press/ press] and/or [http://hitchwiki.org/community/hitchgathering/about/ about] pages. Currently Tomi/Astikain, Julien/Sitarane, Mikael, Jona/N0id, Ralf/Platschi, Kasper/Guaka can edit pages. [http://hitchwiki.org/community/hitchgathering/contact/ Send me] your hitchwiki account if you wish to be able to edit stuff, or just edit to the wiki and I'll add it later to the site. -[[User:Mikael|Mikael]] 15:19, 17 July 2012 (CEST)
  
====Other====
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===General communication===
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* sent an invitation to the polish hitchhiking clubs - n0id will do it soon, but if you're faster go ahead --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 14:14, 16 July 2012 (CEST)
  
===General communication===
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====Ready made articles====
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Find in the link below some material to help you talk to the media entities and stuff like that.
  
====Social media====
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[[Hitchgathering/2012/News|Media talk]]
  
====Media presence====
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====Last year's articles====
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*[http://hitchwiki.org/en/Hitchgathering/2011/news#News_Story_.28long.29_-_April_2011 Good stuff promoting Hitchgathering 2011]
  
===Art===
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===Practicalities===
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* Getting big cooking pots to the spot (being organized on the mailing list).
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Being done by Bea and [[User:Mikael|Mikael]]
  
 
===Workshops===
 
===Workshops===
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Being organized [http://hitchwiki.org/community/hitchgathering/forums/forum/workshops-2012/ in the forum]. Write details here.
  
===Practicalities on the ground===
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===Web-presence===
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*Main website: [http://www.hitchgathering.org HitchGathering.org]
  
==Being done==
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*Facefuck event: [https://www.facebook.com/events/389721054421301/ Hitchgathering 2012 in Facebook]
===Practicalities===
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*Threads in Couchsurfing.org groups (I know, it's an evil corporation led by Satan and his minions but here goes anyways):
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**[http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=19&post=12603296 Backpackers]
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**[http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=9367&post=12603215 European Hitchhiking Gathering]
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**[http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=12&post=12238196 Hitchhikers - earlier post]
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**[http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=12&post=12603246 Hitchhikers - later post]
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**[http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=24&post=12603230 Alternative Ways of Living and Consuming]
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**[http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=232&post=12603313 Lithuania]
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(If you could comment on these threads every now and then they wouldn't be lost before the event. Thanks! --[[User:Astikain|Astikain]] 00:25, 17 July 2012 (CEST))
  
===Art===
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*Couchsurfing activity/event thing: [http://www.couchsurfing.org/activity/view/9LTUGU/hitchgathering-2012 Hitchgathering 2012]
  
==Contact==
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*On BeWelcome forum[http://www.bewelcome.org/forums/s2546-The_hitchhiking_family_is_proud_to_annouce____Hitchgathering_2012 Announcement]
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(shamelessly bump it every now and then) --[[User:nottelling|Youllneverfindme]]
  
==Visa info==
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*Need a #hashtag suggest below
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<nowiki>#hitchgathering too long</nowiki>
  
==Web-presence==
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<nowiki>#thumbing</nowiki>
  
==Promotion: DIY!==
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<nowiki>#4812</nowiki>
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:I like that, can be combine with other tags #hitchhiking... [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]] 13:55, 17 July 2012 (CEST)
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::Wait, it returns a lot of junk, very bad [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]] 13:55, 17 July 2012 (CEST)
  
There are endless possibilities to spread the word about the hitchgathering. For example:
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<nowiki>#hitch4812</nowiki>
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:I like the one above. --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 14:15, 16 July 2012 (CEST)
  
* Tell your friends
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<nowiki>#hh4812</nowiki>
* Tell hitchhikers you meet on the road
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:+1 [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]] 13:55, 17 July 2012 (CEST)
* Write cardboards with hitchgathering.org, the place and date (and maybe more) and place them at popular hitchhiking spots ... be creative and use your colorful markers!
 
* Draw your own flyers :)
 
* Spread the word around hitchhiking clubs and websites in your country/your language
 
* Post on your hitchhiking / travel / nomad blog or website about the gathering
 
* Tell your favorite hitchhiking / travel / nomad blog author to write about it
 
* Organize a pre-meeting (can be early like May/June/July to raise attention and connect people)
 
* Invent a new slogan for this year! http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Hitchgathering/2011/Slogan&action=edit
 
  
==Done==
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<nowiki>#4812hh</nowiki>
*Date 4-8-12 was set already in Kara Dere. Yay!
 
  
== Old but still relevant discussion points ==
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<nowiki>#hitchgath?</nowiki>
  
*A lot of energy is spent discussing the destination. Having the destination set more than one year in advance allows to concentrate on other issue, given the limited volunteer-hours we dispose of.
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==After-meetings==
*In the previous installments, we only have a consensus on the destination a few month before the event, leading to many shortcomings in the organisation.
 
:*<small>I think in Kara Dere everything was just perfect. Even though I left well before the "end".--[[User:Zenit|Zenit]] 00:14, 22 September 2011 (CEST)</small>
 
*Democracy sucks --[[User:Sitarane.mp|Sitarane.mp]]
 
  
About the dates:
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===City, country===
*Last week end of April is a 5-day-weekend for most of Europe (the 1st of May is holyday in most countries and it falls on a Tuesday).
 
** I think that is to early - in my opinion May is NOT the beginning of summer (as in: the free time I have during summer which I use to travel) and I guess most people still have to work in May/June before they start bumming around --[[User:N0id|N0id]] 15:24, 2 April 2011 (CEST)
 
*The issue with the date has always been that people would love to have it earlier in order to travel more with the people they meet in the gathering. However, different countries have different times for the last exams, and to respect this it kinda has to be in August. But no worries, we were thinking in Kara Dere that we could have a series of shorter events (that we now call pre-meetings) that would lead to the main event, have them properly organized and fixed early enough for the whole summer, so that the early birds can meet each other already in May, June, July if they wish... and at the same time this caravan of love will gather more and more people to the actual main event.
 
**Learning from the past years' experience, we've spent too much time debating the dates and locations. Now people wanted to have solid proposals for the locations coming in early enough, decide on the main event soon, and collect a bunch of people to start organizing it much much earlier. Also, it was discussed whether we should change the concept a little bit and try to have a much bigger event on a central location, and then this Kara Dere type of love-filled small event right after it.
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 14:51, 18 August 2012

Ambraziškiai

http://www.hitchgathering.org

The 2012 European Hitch Gathering will be in Ambraziškiai, near Molėtai, Lithuania. The date is still Saturday 4 August 2012.

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/FnBJg

In the village there's a shop (we'll inform them so they can prepare a bit).

Photos from the gathering

Collection at Dropbox

People! Dropbox is nonfree! Sitarane

Julien and Ruta's photos

Visa info

Lithuania is part of European Union and most people don't need a visa. If you are from outside EU, it's different from country to country. Share what you know about each below.

Organizers

Team of people ready to take responsibility on the ground:

  • Name | contact details | special contribution/interests
  • Mikael (Vilnius)
  • Tuchkus (Kaunas HH club)

Online:

  • Richard (rdoc101)
  • Jona / n0id --N0id 17:08, 7 June 2012 (CEST)

Volunteer-forum

Pre-meetings

Assemble and organize on the forum. Then post details here.

City, country

Other meetings, events

Almost everywhere, see map.

To Do

Be the change you want to see in the world --Einstein

  • Tell your friends
  • Tell hitchhikers you meet on the road
  • Write cardboards with hitchgathering.org, the place and date (and maybe more) and place them at popular hitchhiking spots ... be creative and use your colorful markers!
  • Draw your own flyers :)
  • Spread the word around hitchhiking clubs and websites in your country/your language
  • Post on your hitchhiking / travel / nomad blog or website about the gathering
  • Tell your favorite hitchhiking / travel / nomad blog author to write about it
  • Organize a pre-meeting (can be early like May/June/July to raise attention and connect people)
  • Translate a ready-made article in your local language and offer it to newspapers

Flyers

Misc

  • Tell the village shop we're coming in force. They need to put their garbage outside :D someone that speaks LT put their name here, merci.
    • Youp, we'll call, no problem! - Mikael 15:14, 17 July 2012 (CEST)

Website work

Translation

We can create content simply under /lt/ etc pages, or create multiple websites under WP. I recommend that we don't translate everything, but rather create "about" page in multiple languages - would be useful in future years, too. - Mikael 01:40, 17 July 2012 (CEST)

How do we do that? Sitarane 13:55, 17 July 2012 (CEST)
You can go to edit pages here and see the stuff under "language"? Just add new pages in languages and add whatever content you feel like should be translated. ;-) At least short what/when/where. You can translate press and/or about pages. Currently Tomi/Astikain, Julien/Sitarane, Mikael, Jona/N0id, Ralf/Platschi, Kasper/Guaka can edit pages. Send me your hitchwiki account if you wish to be able to edit stuff, or just edit to the wiki and I'll add it later to the site. -Mikael 15:19, 17 July 2012 (CEST)

General communication

  • sent an invitation to the polish hitchhiking clubs - n0id will do it soon, but if you're faster go ahead --N0id 14:14, 16 July 2012 (CEST)

Ready made articles

Find in the link below some material to help you talk to the media entities and stuff like that.

Media talk

Last year's articles

Practicalities

  • Getting big cooking pots to the spot (being organized on the mailing list).

Being done by Bea and Mikael

Workshops

Being organized in the forum. Write details here.

Web-presence

(If you could comment on these threads every now and then they wouldn't be lost before the event. Thanks! --Astikain 00:25, 17 July 2012 (CEST))

(shamelessly bump it every now and then) --Youllneverfindme

  • Need a #hashtag suggest below

#hitchgathering too long

#thumbing

#4812

I like that, can be combine with other tags #hitchhiking... Sitarane 13:55, 17 July 2012 (CEST)
Wait, it returns a lot of junk, very bad Sitarane 13:55, 17 July 2012 (CEST)

#hitch4812

I like the one above. --N0id 14:15, 16 July 2012 (CEST)

#hh4812

+1 Sitarane 13:55, 17 July 2012 (CEST)

#4812hh

#hitchgath?

After-meetings

City, country