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When was your last hitchhiking hitch-hiking trip? Looking forward to yet the next!? Try this winter in [[Europespring]]! Hitching can be relatively easy in [[winterEurope]]: ! Weather gets better (by periods), days get longer, no hitching queuesneed to wake up sooo early, people don't like to leave hitchers standing in the cold, uncertain weather... and why wait for summertimein the first place?

It also gets you into gear for the next hitchhiking hitch-hiking week in Europe, taking place on 789, the '''7th of August 2009'''. According to The poll on the latest polls, with 34 people voting already, almost 50% location was massively in favour of the votes are for Ukraine, mainly Odessa. We invite you to cast <i>your</i> vote and to share your opinion. You can vote on the forum, to be found at [http://hitchwikiUkraine.org/forum/?q=content/789 hitchwiki/forum]

<strong>Website and discussion forum</strong><br />For communication, we have set up There is a website web domain at http://the789project.eu. You can also find here the Right now it's hosting a draft website that main job is to redirect to our coordination forum . As soon as possible, it should be our main PR portal. All it takes is a Drupal/CSS artist with all discussionssome time on his hands. It also manages the newsletter you now received. Anyone can now subscribe or de-subscribeWe need YOU.

<strong>Deciding the locationCoordination</strong><br />In Paris at However controversial that might be, a Google group was created to concentrate the coordination for the 888festival. You'll find it over <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/789-event we agreed coordination">there</a>. Anyone can join and everyone is invited to. <strong>Getting in touch with the community</strong><br />Of course, we want need to be in close touch with the hitch-hiking community in Ukraine and local community in Odessa. Some of us have contacted the <a kind href="http://elba.org.ua/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5532">Elba</a> Ukrainian hitch-hiker's gathering that will take place 24th to 26th of welcoming group April and ran into a cold war. Check that can facilitate <a href="http://elba.org.ua/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5532">forum post</a location, and possibly arrange communication with local authorities and press>. The hospex (ie. So far we have not succeeded very well in making good contacts in the UkraineCS) community of Odessa has given a warmer welcome. We will therefore have hope to put more effort find some support in getting organising the festival hand in touch hand with the right people and continue to discuss the location. Join if you care! Alsolocal authorities, if you are think that another place is so as much better, make yourself heardas possible of course.

789 needs a good storyline, a sentence that grabs the attention immediately, one that is easy to remember and great to use. When we were in Paris for the European Hitchhiking Day at "8/8/8/ Paris wants you for a nomadic date", thinking about the next slogan .Having a good catch-phrase for 7/8/9.789 is not sooo important, all we came up with was, "789 but that's the road is mine". Obviously kind of really fun brainstorming that slogan will never hold. So we came up with an additional 35 so far, feel free love to add yours and share your opiniondo. Check [[789/Slogan]] <strong>New website - css-geeks wanted!</strong><br />A new website is up for 789. It is based on Drupal and has a crazy amount of options, it can basically look like however we want it. Potentially we can change the whole layout, plus it offers possibilities for blogs, forum, photos, a special entry page, and so on. Check http://the789project.eu

To make things work <strong>Odessa calling</strong><br />789 doesn't need to be over organised. On the other hand, some stuff can be done between now and a couple of days before the event, that will save us a lot of troubles when we are looking for css-designers 're there and people who don't want to care about troubles. You can help out with text, ideas, and so on. Feel free the festival to drop be a note greater success by joining the discussion on the [coordination channels. Namely: The <a href="http://hitchwiki.org/forumen/?q789">hitchwiki page</a> and the <a href=forums"http://groups.google.com/group/789-road-mine forum]coordination">coordination group</a>. Right now we have around 7 people more or less involved in the organisation. It'd be great if the 150 of 888 would join.Wouldn't it?