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Two Three major pieces were produced: A short 789 movie by Mitch and , a couple of 6.8.10 logo designs by Sandraand a poster/flyer by Heather. We brainstormed many ideas for promotion and you can help with new ideas on the coordination forum of the website.
We also decided to have a monthly IRC meeting (IRC server: freenode / Channel: #hitchhiking). The next one is scheduled for Sunday 28th March at 19:00 (Berlin time). If you don't have a IRC client, you can join from your browser here
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* Coordination Team: http://groups.google.com/group/789-coordination
==March April 2010== During the weekend of the 13th and 14th of March, a handful of hitchhikers met up in Berlin to kick off the coordination of the next European Hitchhiking Gathering. This newsletter is here to tell you what happenedhappend during the last month.
===Our goals===
At the meeting we soon attacked the big question that was on the tip of everyone's tongues: WHERE?
After various discussions, we agreed to follow the result of the online on-line location polling at the gathering website. If no support(logistical, locational, etc.) was to be found after one month, the choice would fall subsequently the next on the list until a suitable location with the required support was located.
After polling closed it was determined that, if everything goes well, we'll meet you on the 6th of August 2010 in '''Portugal''': The End of Europe.
Currently we are connected with local hitchhikers in Portugal who are actively in search for a meeting place. If you also have connections in Portugal, don't hesitate to contact the coordination teams in the hitchgathering forums. A necessary passage to Portugal is Spain(aka: the Gorilla in the room) and the general impression is that this country is in need of a lot of hitchhiking promotion.
Thus:
We also invite all hitchhikers to converge in Barcelona on Sunday 01/08/10August 1st, 2010. Monday, the 2nd, will be our day reach out to the people and media. Afterwards we'll leave the city and all meet again on 06/08/10 "''Somewhere in Portugal"'', where we can spend the weekend together, with all such worldly concerns many hundreds of kilometres and another country away. There's not even any need to meet in large centres as in previous years.
===Money Money Money===
The previous editions of the festival were realized with almost no budget, the rest paid for by the volunteers. After a long(and painful) discussion, we reached a sort of consensus to stay away from any official sponsorship or public funds. We have good hope that the various hitchhiking clubs of Europe will provide us with some financial support, as has been done for previous gatherings.
===Promotion===
===Coordination===
Our main coordination tool is now the hitchgathering website. For an ongoing list of updated features please refer to the wiki pages.
===Translations===
The content of the website is translatable in as many language as we want, which means "so many languages as we have a translator for". If you know a language, you can translate any content on the site by clicking the "translate" tab on top. You need to be logged in.
