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=== Organizing the event === | === Organizing the event === | ||
+ | ====Communication==== | ||
* All communications about the gathering happen on the email list ([email protected]) and in the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/hitchgathering/ Facebook group] | * All communications about the gathering happen on the email list ([email protected]) and in the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/hitchgathering/ Facebook group] | ||
* If you are not on the list, register in [http://hitchgathering.org hitchgathering.org] or directly through the [http://lists.freeactive.net/listinfo.cgi/hitch-freeactive.net listserver] | * If you are not on the list, register in [http://hitchgathering.org hitchgathering.org] or directly through the [http://lists.freeactive.net/listinfo.cgi/hitch-freeactive.net listserver] | ||
− | * Feel free to edit the wiki page for [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Hitchgathering/2014 Hitchgathering 2014] and add your suggestion for a place! | + | * Feel free to edit the wiki page for [http://hitchwiki.org/en/Hitchgathering/2014 Hitchgathering 2014] and add your suggestion for a place! |
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+ | ==== Location ==== | ||
+ | Each year the same challenge: where? While it's easy to think of many beautiful countries around Europe where it would be nice to gather, exact practical location is really all we need. It could be next to the sea, or not. We've gathered in city parks, mountains, at countryside farm, sea sides... | ||
+ | We'd need a committed group of (3-10) people who will make it happen. | ||
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+ | =====Checklist===== | ||
+ | * Is it a hidden paradise? | ||
+ | * Free camping place for 100+ people to put up their tents and be loud all night. | ||
+ | * Do we need a permission and is it easy to get without having anybody really responsible/organizing the event? | ||
+ | * Is it possible to stay hidden enough? Do locals mind? In Slovakia we were kicked out from 3 locations before we finally found good one (and that was the best one). Sometimes camping for 3 people is just fine, while for 100+ it's a problem. Private lands (such as the farm in Lithuania) are great if we can get permission. Also locations where there was a festival prior to us are great, since they might have all the permissions/facilities there already. Sometimes bold enough places with enough people are just fine — such as "200 hippies camping under eiffel tower for two nights", what could've they done to us? | ||
+ | * Is it possible to make open fire? (No trees too nearby, running water nearby, laws?) | ||
+ | * Is it okay to dig multiple shitpits nearby for like 200+ people? | ||
+ | * Did you just found a herding place for cows and they weren't there when you checked it, but appear first morning?? (Slovakia). | ||
+ | * Food? Nearby dumpster diving locations are very nice but not necessary. Any kind of small village shop in hitchable/walkable 4km or so distance is fine. | ||
+ | * Drinkable water? Check if there are abandoned wells, springs or a shop nearby. | ||
+ | * River, pond or lake nearby enough for washing. Fantastic to have it just next to us, okay to have 2-3km away. | ||
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+ | ==== Time ==== | ||
+ | Early August, typically at first weekend. People will arrive some days earlier and many stay for like 1-2 weeks. New people keep coming and going during these two weeks. Festival sort of fades in and fades out, most busiest days having over 100 people at once. | ||
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+ | Each year somebody suggests if the main event could be moved to June/July. Each time we come again to same conclusion: early August is the most optimal for all the students/working people to have a hitching trip. There will be smaller pre- and post-gatherings happening all the summer. | ||
=== Past events === | === Past events === |
Revision as of 20:31, 18 March 2014
Hitchgathering is the name of a series of international hitchhiking gatherings held in Europe and Northern America since 2008.
Contents
Organizing the event
Communication
- All communications about the gathering happen on the email list ([email protected]) and in the Facebook group
- If you are not on the list, register in hitchgathering.org or directly through the listserver
- Feel free to edit the wiki page for Hitchgathering 2014 and add your suggestion for a place!
Location
Each year the same challenge: where? While it's easy to think of many beautiful countries around Europe where it would be nice to gather, exact practical location is really all we need. It could be next to the sea, or not. We've gathered in city parks, mountains, at countryside farm, sea sides... We'd need a committed group of (3-10) people who will make it happen.
Checklist
- Is it a hidden paradise?
- Free camping place for 100+ people to put up their tents and be loud all night.
- Do we need a permission and is it easy to get without having anybody really responsible/organizing the event?
- Is it possible to stay hidden enough? Do locals mind? In Slovakia we were kicked out from 3 locations before we finally found good one (and that was the best one). Sometimes camping for 3 people is just fine, while for 100+ it's a problem. Private lands (such as the farm in Lithuania) are great if we can get permission. Also locations where there was a festival prior to us are great, since they might have all the permissions/facilities there already. Sometimes bold enough places with enough people are just fine — such as "200 hippies camping under eiffel tower for two nights", what could've they done to us?
- Is it possible to make open fire? (No trees too nearby, running water nearby, laws?)
- Is it okay to dig multiple shitpits nearby for like 200+ people?
- Did you just found a herding place for cows and they weren't there when you checked it, but appear first morning?? (Slovakia).
- Food? Nearby dumpster diving locations are very nice but not necessary. Any kind of small village shop in hitchable/walkable 4km or so distance is fine.
- Drinkable water? Check if there are abandoned wells, springs or a shop nearby.
- River, pond or lake nearby enough for washing. Fantastic to have it just next to us, okay to have 2-3km away.
Time
Early August, typically at first weekend. People will arrive some days earlier and many stay for like 1-2 weeks. New people keep coming and going during these two weeks. Festival sort of fades in and fades out, most busiest days having over 100 people at once.
Each year somebody suggests if the main event could be moved to June/July. Each time we come again to same conclusion: early August is the most optimal for all the students/working people to have a hitching trip. There will be smaller pre- and post-gatherings happening all the summer.
Past events
- Project-888, european hitchhiking gathering in Paris, France on August 8, 2008.
- 789-Festival, european hitchhiking gathering in Odesa, Ukraine on August 7, 2009.
- 6810 hitchgathering, european hitchhiking gathering in Sines, Portugal on August 6, 2010.
- North-American hitchgathering in Boulder, Colorado on August 21, 2010.
- North American Gathering 2011
- 5-8-11 in Kara Dere, Bulgaria on August 5 2011
- Hitchgathering 4-8-12 was held in Lithuania.
- Hitchgathering 5-8-13 was held in Slovakia.
Future events
- 2014 North American Hitchgathering Location Voting in Progress here.
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