Contents
Organizers
Team of people ready to take responsibility on the ground:
- Name | contact details | special contribution/interests
Volunteer-forum
Pre-meetings
City, country
Other meetings, events
Make a map. Example from last year: see map.
To Do
- 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
Website work
Ready made articles
Find in the link below some material to help you talk to the media entities and stuff like that.
Old articles
Practicalities
Workshops
Suggest in the forum.
Web-presence
Things to do:
- Update main website: HitchGathering.org
- Create a Facebook event.
- Create marketing threads in suitable Couchsurfing groups such as these:
- Remind people about the gathering on these threads every now and then.
- Create Couchsurfing activity/event.
- Create an announcement in BeWelcome forum. Example from last year: Announcement
- Bump it up every now and then.
- Use Twitter if you know how.
- hashtag could be #hitchgathering
- Send direct invitations to national hitchhiking clubs
Miscellaneous
After-meetings
- Suggest where to go after the Hitchgathering