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# Create positive media attention for both hitchhiking and hospitality exchange
 
# Create positive media attention for both hitchhiking and hospitality exchange
 
# Have more hitchhiking courses all over the world
 
# Have more hitchhiking courses all over the world
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# Create a useful [[hitchhiking zine]]
  
 
==You want to help?==
 
==You want to help?==

Revision as of 12:49, 26 November 2006

Guaka is seriously thinking of setting up a hitchhiking course in New Zealand, sometime in Summer 2007. Let's gather people and ideas on this wiki who want to help organize. You don't even have to be in New Zealand or going there. You can help with ideas, writing, planning, contacting people, and by improving the wiki pages on the Hitchwiki.

Goals

  1. Get more people to stick out their thumbs
  2. Create positive media attention for both hitchhiking and hospitality exchange
  3. Have more hitchhiking courses all over the world
  4. Create a useful hitchhiking zine

You want to help?

  • Guaka: ideas, wiki, writing
  • amylin: graphics, ideas
  • Joep: graphics, ideas, writing and doing one in holland
Add yourself if you want to help out, give a short overview of what you want to do. And, you don't have to be in New Zealand to help!

Communication

We can communicate through this wiki, but we probably also want to set up an open mailing list. (Using CouchSurfing Groups would be nice, but it would exclude everyone who is not on CouchSurfing.)

Where

You can't really hitchhike easily on the ferries in New Zealand, so there are two main options:

  1. South Island
  2. North Island

Guaka is currently located in Nelson, and there will be some more people at the CouchSurfing Collective who are interested in working on this.

The name

Hitchhiking competitions are fairly common in Eastern Europe, especially in Russia. But the course is going to be less competitive, with more focus on people communicating and improving intercultural understanding. That's why Guaka decided to use the word course:

  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
  2. The ground or path traversed; track; way.
  3. Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Hospitality exchange

We can use existing hospitality exchange networks, CouchSurfing and Hospitality Club, to find people who can offer hitchhikers some food and a place to stay if they didn't make it for the night.

Media

We want to get articles in newspapers and items on TV.