This page is a central dump for the organization of the 2015 hitchgathering.
Discussion happens at '''[http://lists.freeactive.net/listinfo.cgi/hitch-freeactive.net the mailing list]'''.
Location for 2015 is going to be near '''[https://www.google.de/maps/place/44%C2%B049%2717.2%22N+4%C2%B045%2720.0%22E/@44.821441,4.755558,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en Saint Laurent du Pape, Ardèche, South-east France]'''. GPS coordinates: '''44.821441, 4.755558'''
We are 15 kilometers from the nearest motorway exit, A7 exit 17 (Loriol) between Valence Sud and Montélimar Nord. We are also 15 km from the service station “Aire de Portes les Valence” on the A7, between Valence Sud and Loriol.
More hints how to get to the gathering on the main page http://hitchgathering.org/ !!
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==DateOn site logistics=====To Do===* Dig shit pits (Really? I remember someone saying that there are dry toilets on site)* Set up a fireplace.* Talk to local businesses about sharing their trash.* Find big cooking pots and gear, bring onsite.* Put up direction signs from the motorway exit.* Check with our hosts whether we can buy some of the food they produce. Otherwise check with surrounding producers (just go to the local market and ask around the stalls). ===To have=== * Shovels (borrow from farm?)* At least 2 big cooking pot(s) at least (borrow from farm?)* Rope* A couple of rolls big plastic bags (not the massive ones, 30-50L is easier to carry out).* Bunch of soap-bars for toilets* Empty plastic bottles (esp. the big ones)* First aid kit* Paper, pens, markers, tape, (black)boards* Food in all sorts. Basic stuff like salt, oil, spices, ==Communication== ===Online=== ====The website==== [http://hitchgathering.org hitchgathering.org] It's a presentation site that is meant to explain the concept to the newcomer and an online window to the outer world. It's secondary purpose is to store the stuff from previous gatherings. Needs graphics. Join [http://lists.freeactive.net/listinfo.cgi/hitch-freeactive.net the mailing list] to help. It's got Piwik and SEO plugin. Anyone feels like optimizing? Any chance we can have it in French too? -- [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]] ([[User talk:Sitarane|talk]]) 23:35, 26 May 2015 (CEST) ====The facebook====There's an [https://www.facebook.com/events/1568866916668980/ event] already. What else? ====BeWelcome==== [http://www.bewelcome.org/activities/1393 Activity] ====Blogs==== List here your favourite travel blogger, Maybe if we tell them, they'll write about it. [http://www.daquiali.com/ Daqui ali]
Historically we have followed a numerology that dictates the next gathering should be on the 1st of August[http://www. This is the last year we can follow that tradition, but that doesn't mean we have to follow itglobestoppeuse.com/ Globestoppeuse]
==Main gathering location proposition=IRL===
There is likely to be many pregatherings scatered around Europe, leading towards the main gathering. We need to find out where that is first before building a network of smaller parties around it.====Stickers====
Already last year the idea was around to have two main gatheringTo put up at HH spots, connected by a kind of rallyon your abandoned signs.. Leipzig and fontpedrouse are about 1600km apart, with most of it being highways. Its a perfect route to do a lot of mileage in little time, two days maybewherever. We could for example start the hitchgathering in leipzig on the first of august, then from the forth to the seventh (so not everyone has to leave Print-at the same time) continue it on the gasstation in between leipzig and fontpedrouse and then open end at the hot pools-home type. The rules of the rally would be this: everyone hitches in We just need a team of twodesign. whenever you meet another team, if possible you have to stop and exchange one team member. -- [[User:Clem|Clem]] ([[User talk:Clem|talk]])
===Leipzig, Germany=Flyers====
I nominate Leipzig because that's where I live and I can do shit Print at home, leave in advancerelevant spot in your city. -- [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]] ([[User talk:Sitarane|talk]])
Leipzig is a 500,000 people town in East-Germany that main attractivity is that it's insanely cheap, there's always good shit going on and it's probably the only city in the world that has ''forests'' inside it. Good place to camp for us.====Press release====
====Pros====* You Something we can camp in spam the city, away from notice, thanks french media with a few weeks before. Needs to be in French. Will be hosted on the insane amount of forest between the neighborhood.* Cheap everything.* Full of punks. Free shops, free kitchen (Vokü), squats, you name itwebsite.
==Archives==Cons====* Bad weather (Even in august, there can be cold and rain, though unlikely)
====Other====* ItYou's a city.The early gatherings were all in cities, and seen as a media event: One hundred hitchikers converge on one place in Europe to show ll find here the content that hitchhiking is safe and good. Starting with Portugal, it has evolved into just meeting up and having a good time, away from civilization. We could go back used to the old paradigmbe on this page, if only for the sake of doing things differentbut lost its relevancy.
* It's in SchengenGood for Schengeners, bad for everyone else.[[Hitchgathering/2015/Location suggestions]]
===Fontpedrouse, France===
See [[:nomad:Free_Hot_Springs#Fontpedrouse|nomadwiki]]. Suggested by Clemens. I Just copied some pieces from the mailinglist and nomadwiki. --[[User:N0id|N0id]] ([[User talk:N0id|talk]]) 18:26, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
* there's plenty of space to free camp (200 people should be fine), fresh drinking water, firewood, ====Pre and a lot of people go there (its a bit like kara dere in this respect, not that many people actually, but also not as big a location). the hot springs should be big enough for about 30 people at a time, but can be extended.Post Gatherings====
* Free camping and fire are no problem, but keep the place clean and take your trashes down to the village with youPost Gathering in Mols (Denmark) 10/08 - 16/08
* there's a local farmers market about 10km away, but not much local dumpster divingLocation :http://udinaturen. its 75km from andorra (mountain roads, a doable one day return hitch if you start early), so people who pass by there can go dumpster some junk food (at least thats what i mainly found there) and buy cheap booze. dk/facilitet/Helgen%C3%A6s--Dragsmur/1514
* when clemens was there a year ago there was some guy camping there since 10months already together with fluctuating community Plenty of rainbow folks. they said that they were in contact with the owner of the landdumpsters around, easy hitchhiking, sea, who lets them stay there for free as long as they make sure that no one litters or trashes the placewind and hopefully sun :D
====Pros====* Camping and fire is not a problem* Hot springs (would be a first [[Category:) ) ====Cons====* Shop / Supplies far away * No dumpster divingHitchgathering]]