Hitchhike {{888}}<!--<kaltura-widget size='M' align='R' kwid='ZDZsdTAyOWpoY3w2ODF8NjgxMDB8UGFyaXMgTWF0Y2ggUmVwb3J0fHhyNW5yazRuMDh8NTlhYTFiMWRmZQ==' />--><div style="border: 1px dotted blue; padding:5px; margin-left: 75px; margin-right:auto; width: 500px;">* The gathering was a great success, and next year will see a sequel to Paris it: [[789]]. * Check out the post-888 [[Project 888/Newsletter|newsletter]] * Fill in your [[888/Evaluation|888-Evaluation]]* Read the [[888/Reports|reports]] from participants / Write your own* 8/8/8 over 150 hitchhikers arrived; and more are still on 888...08082008..their way* 7/8/8 It's happening! 20 hitchers arrived 1 day ahead of time.Just imagine 8/8/8</div>
We need you to organize and take part in this European Hitchhiking Event.
We need you to succeed and get hitchhiking to be recognized as a genuine means of transportation.
We need you to create together the official European Hitchiking Day.
Hitchhike to Paris on 888...08082008...
==The History Hitchhike to Paris on 888, August 8th, 2008...08/08/2008...888 ==On the 8th of the August over a hundred people (and counting) will join up to hitchhike to Paris from different places around Europe and further. Join this event with fellow hitchhikers, for an amazing adventure and a great weekend in Paris. Show up, and [[project 888 |sign up]] for this event and [[Project==888/Volunteer|help]] organising it.
There was the "[[Tokyo|TOKYO]]" hitchhiking sign that that two hitchhikers drew to go back from Rotterdam to Lille...
There were the free plane tickets to "Tokyo" that Erik Van Loon offered to the two hitchhikers.
But they called him back too late...
But N-O-W: the "Tokyo" project got bigger...and bigger...
We need you all to organize a hitchhiking race to the "Palais de Tokyo" (located in Paris) from every single country in Europe.
Let's organize the official "European Hitchhiking Day" together!
Why organizing a hitchhiking race to Tokyo (the Palais de Tokyo in Paris)?
We need you to show to [[File:888_signs.jpg|thumb|240px|left|A small collection of the [[Paris]] [[signs]] for the world that hitchhiking is a safe [[Project 888]] where over 150 hitchhikers gathered and fun social means camped in front of transportationthe Eiffel Tower.]] == Meet-Up ==We welcome the Paris community to host us hitchhikers, coming to Paris on 888.Please come to Champs de Mars [http://turl.ca/888 here] and join in to welcome us!
We will gather in front of the Eiffel Tower, at this [http://turl.ca/888 exact location]: from anytime during the day until around 23:00 (or later even maybe). We are still calling for adventurous hosts from Paris to show up and spontaneously host all of us - but you might want to bring your tent!
==The checkpoint citiesCoordinate! ==
Hitchhikers who wish __TOC__The '''888 Project''' seeks to ask you to hitchhike from all corners of Europe and beyond (whether from [[Belfast]], [[Istanbul]], [[Helsinki]] or [[Lisbon]]) to participate arrive at the Eiffel Tower - this world-renowned French lighthouse - in [[Paris]] on 888, August 8th, 2008. Participate in our race the first European Hitchhiking Week and who Day and take part in the open space day on Saturday: "How to live further away than the checkpoint citiesa nomad-life", can start from those on 080808hitchhiking, sustainable travel and hospitality exchange, with games, workshops, skill-sharing and knowledge exchange. Contact us if you would like to be a city organizer for any of the following cities:
* [[Amsterdam]] (1037k)
* [[Bilbao]] (831k)
* [[Genova]] (920k)
* [[Hamburg]] (890k)
* [[Leeds]] (784k)
* [[Liverpool]] (820k)
* [[Milano]] (835k)
* [[Prague]] (1047k)
* [[Salzburg]](985k)
=== Starting from more than 1000ks away===
You can of course start your <div style="border: 1px dotted blue; padding:5px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right:auto; width: 500px;">* Participate to make the first European Hitchhiking Week a success!* Get hitchhiking event from further away than the checkpoint cities.recognized as a real means of transportation!You are free * Inspire other people to start from wherever you want.hitchhike!* Have drivers pick up hitchhikers! * Share your skills with others and inspire!</div>
==Help from Paris on 888[[File: Hosting==080808poster.jpg|thumb|right|234px|HITCHHIKE TO PARIS]]
This subgroup seeks to get together all the assistance we need in order to host all the Europeans who are coming to Paris.
==Help From Paris on 888: Call Center==
This subgroup was designed to find 2 teams who can work on D-Day- 888- to answer hitchhikers' phonecalls.
What these two teams will need to do to help the 8 8 8 project:
'''Things to do:'''* Have Organise a local [[Project 888/Meetings|Project 888 Meeting]] in your country or city to team up with hitchhikers. Use an [[project 888/Meetings|invitation]], and adapt it to your local context, organise a landline phone number -Be at location (your home, your host's home on the 8, a local bar, etc), invite other people through your favourite [[Finding accommodation#Hospitality exchange networks|hospitality exchange]] community, etc, and ''[http://www.hitchwiki.org/en/index.8php?title=Project_888/Meetings&action=edit add] your meeting''.8 throughout * Translate the whole day [[project 888/Press|press-release]] and evening ''spread'' it.* Know the hitchhiking spots on a circumference of 200 ks around Help organising events in Paris :* Know * read [http://www.couchsurfing.com/group_read.html?gid=199&post=1285236 this e-mail]** Find a nice open spot for the Paris transportation system so that the hitchhikers who are lost Saturday where we can easily reach the Palais de Tokyo meet and exchange workshops* Have a list * Think of people who can host (they do not necessarily need what you would like to be learn and share on C.S. on H.C.Saturday during the [[Project 888/Workshops|Open Space]] day* we will establish this list ''' ''Check the [[Project 888/Volunteer]] pages for coordination and send it to see how you can help making 888 a success !'' '''* Design/ read the two teams)[[Project 888/Newsletter|latest newsletters]]
==Art The Program ==[[File:logo888.jpg|thumb|left|234px|888 Project 1logo by Laris(s)a, http: //www.laris-s-a.com"Hitchhiking" exhibition at (with inspiration from Luis Pacheco)]]Here's the Palais de Tokyo on 8 8 8 ==program so far:
===Inspired by the hitchhiking spirit?===The 8 8 8 project primarily seeks to get hitchhiking recognized as an authentic means of transportation.In order to reach this goal we also need artists to give way to their inspiration...You can NOW submit your painting, patchwork, sculpture or photo-- in relation to hitchhiking--to the Palais de Tokyo!The exhibition will be launched on the arrival of the hitchhikers...on 8 8 8...'''FRIDAY EVENING'''
==Art * Meeting under/ in front of the Eiffel Tower until late (you know how we will look like), [http://turl.ca/888 here]* Meet, exchange stories and play [[Project 2: "Hitchhiking" artwork made of photos of our drivers==888/Games|Games]]* Move to a camp-ground or host.
===The Concept===*Each hitchhiker can feel free to take photos of each of their drivers... *Once they arrive to the Palais de Tokyo, we will upload them unto a computer... *We will then print them out on a given format...'''SATURDAY'''
===The Goal===* [[Project 888/Workshops|Open-Space Day]] starting at 11:00. Theme: "How to live a nomad-life". On hitchhiking, sustainable travel and hospitality exchange, with games, workshops, skill-sharing and knowledge exchange. Place yet to be determined, possibly [http://turl.ca/888 here], same place as the Friday meet-up.
Create an artwork that fits on the first piece of lawn located south of the Eiffel Tower.'''SUNDAY'''
==How to hitchhike out of Paris==* Brunch starting at 1pm at Parc des Buttes de Chaumond (?), or same place as the Friday meet-up?
This subgroup was designed to help hitchhikers to leave Paris with their thumb up! We need your help to post all the spots available to get out of Paris.== Speeches ==
See These 'speeches'/ workshops will form an integral part of the [[ParisProject 888/Workshops|open space day]]on Saturday (in progress).
==Contact==* The OrganizersOnce the European hitchhikers will have arrived, the organizers will address the hitchhikers.
[[File:ludo.jpg|right|thumb|234px|Ludovic Hubler]]
* Hitchhiking
This address will be followed by the speech of [http://ludovichubler.com Ludovic Hubler] (a Frenchman who has just come back from a five-year hitchhiking journey around the world.
During his trip, Ludovic organized conferences in more than 200 schools, met a large number of NGOs and organized some international events to create a network between them.
* The Sustainable Side of the Project
A French association called [http://www.nature-propre.org Nature Propre] supports the project
The association aims at promoting sustainable development through a certain number of programs and the 888 project is one of the key projects of Nature Propre.
Guillaume Mouton and Thomas Chretiennot will deliver a speech about the substainable side attached to the project.
== The checkpoint cities ==
We are hitching from different locations, see here an overview of the [[Project 888/Cities]], categorized according to distance from Paris. In some of the cities we hold [[Project 888/Meetings]] in the week towards the 8th of August.
Sign up in the cities you depart form or arrive. You can use the [[Project 888/Cities]]-page. '''We also [http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=9367 discuss] different routes.'''
== Paris 8 8 8- The Film ==
[[File:images.jpg|left|thumb|234px|]]
Early August 2008. Radek, Pascal, Martin and Lily
embarked on a hitchhiking adventure to Paris. One common goal united them:
to arrive under the Eiffel Tower on August 8th to be part of the first European
Hitchhiking Week.
Martin, [the Suit] decided to dress up to increase
his chances from Copenhagen. Radek, [the Philosopher] opted for
starting from Spanish country roads to embrace mother nature and escape the
smells of large motorways. Pascal, [the all worked out Quebequois], resolved
to hitch rides all the way from Asia to make it a little bit more
interesting. Lily, [the first-timer] hoped she would not become the
prey of some ill-intentioned male counterparts .
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sufvptk_5lI Trailer]
* [http://no-comment.dk/_Blog/paris More information]
== How to hitchhike out of Paris? ==
Check the page about [[Paris]] to find spots to leave the city.
Alternative resources:
* [http://www.hitchbase.com/ergebnisse.php?LANG=ger&abfrage%5Bstartort%5D=169 Hitchbase]
* [http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/HHGTE.html Bernd Wechner]
* [http://www.bugeurope.com/paris/gta.html Bug Europe]
* [http://www.routard.com/guide_voyage_page/26/emplacements_strategiques.htm Routard]
* http://hitching.free.fr/autostop/wakka.php?wiki=EnglishVersion
* http://home.wanadoo.nl/agghanebbah/navigator/france/paris/paris000.htm
== Sign Up Now ==
[[Project 888|Sign Up Page]]
== Contact Us Now ==
[[File:8888.jpg|thumb|right|300px|early logo sketch]]
Please feel free to contact us if you wish to bring your help to the project:
Pascal Dumond Fabrice Renucci- dumont_376 renucci.fabrice [at] hotmailgmail.com+(33)678627985 [[User:Robino|Robino]] Dieuwke [[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]]
Fabrice Renucci - fabrice.renucci [at[fr:Projet 888]][[Category:Hitchgathering]] hotmail.fr