Hitchgathering/2012

General

Latest News

• In Kara Dere the date for Hitchgathering 2012 main event was decided: 4 August 2012
  • 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.

Promotion: DIY!

There are endless possibilities to spread the word about the hitchgathering. For example:

• 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)
• Invent a new slogan for this year! http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Hitchgathering/2011/Slogan&action=edit

Location suggestions

Discussion

Since the second most popular destination was Berlin in the 2011 vote, the participants of the Magdeburg pre-meeting all agreed to suggest Berlin already as a destination. Here are the reasons for this proposal:

• I think that after going for three years to challenging destinations, most people will agree it'd be nice to try a central, easy and popular place in Europe.
• 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.
• 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.
• Democracy sucks --Sitarane.mp

About the dates:

• 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 --N0id 15:24, 2 April 2011 (CEST)

How about 12/12/12 in Finland (in -12 celsius)? :) --Astikain 00:43, 27 July 2011 (CEST)