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...
== Hitchhike to Paris on 888, August 8th, 2008...08/08/2008...888 ==On the 8th of 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 [[The History of the project 888 |sign up]] for this event and [[Project 888/Volunteer|help]]organising it.
There was the "TOKYO" hitchhiking sign that that two hitchhikers drew to go back from Rotterdam to Lille... T
here 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 cities ]]== Coordinate! ==
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:
-BARCELONA (1037k)
-BILBAO (831k)
<div style="border: 1px dotted blue; padding:5px; margin-GENOVA (920k)left: 20px; margin-right:auto; width: 500px;">* Participate to make the first European Hitchhiking Week a success!* Get hitchhiking recognized as a real means of transportation!* Inspire other people to hitchhike!* Have drivers pick up hitchhikers! * Share your skills with others and inspire!</div>
-HAMBURG (890k)[[File:080808poster.jpg|thumb|right|234px|HITCHHIKE TO PARIS]]
-LEEDS (784k)
-LIVERPOOL (820k)
-MILANO (835k)
-PRAGUE '''Things to do:'''* 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 location (1047kyour home, your host's home, 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.php?title=Project_888/Meetings&action=edit add] your meeting''. * Translate the [[project 888/Press|press-release]] and ''spread'' it.* Help organising events in Paris:** read [http://www.couchsurfing.com/group_read.html?gid=199&post=1285236 this e-mail]** Find a nice open spot for the Saturday where we can meet and exchange workshops** Think of what you would like to learn and share on Saturday during the [[Project 888/Workshops|Open Space]] day''' ''Check the [[Project 888/Volunteer]] pages for coordination and to see how you can help making 888 a success !'' '''* Design/ read the [[Project 888/Newsletter|latest newsletters]]
== The Program ==[[File:logo888.jpg|thumb|left|234px|888 Project logo by Laris(s)a, http://www.laris-s-SALZBURG a.com" (985kwith inspiration from Luis Pacheco)]]Here's the program so far:
[[Starting from more than 1000ks away]]'''FRIDAY EVENING'''
You can * Meeting under/ in front of course start your European hitchhiking event from further away than the checkpoint citiesEiffel Tower until late (you know how we will look like), [http://turl.ca/888 here]You are free * Meet, exchange stories and play [[Project 888/Games|Games]]* Move to start from wherever you wanta camp-ground or host.
[[Help from Paris on 888: Hosting ]]'''SATURDAY'''
This subgroup seeks * [[Project 888/Workshops|Open-Space Day]] starting at 11:00. Theme: "How to get together all the assistance we need in order live a nomad-life". On hitchhiking, sustainable travel and hospitality exchange, with games, workshops, skill-sharing and knowledge exchange. Place yet to host all be determined, possibly [http://turl.ca/888 here], same place as the Europeans who are coming to ParisFriday meet-up.
[[Help From Paris on 888: Call Center ]]'''SUNDAY'''
This subgroup was designed to find 2 teams who can work on D-Day- 888* Brunch starting at 1pm at Parc des Buttes de Chaumond (?), or same place as the Friday meet- to answer hitchhikers' phonecalls.What these two teams will need to do to help the 8 8 8 project:up?
-Have a landline phone number -Be at home on the 8.8.8 throughout the whole day and evening -Know the hitchhiking spots on a circumference of 200 ks around Paris -Know the Paris transportation system so that the hitchhikers who are lost can easily reach the Palais de Tokyo -Have a list of people who can host (they do not necessarily need to be on C.S. on H.C.- we will establish this list and send it to the two teams)== Speeches ==
These 'speeches'/ workshops will form an integral part of the [[Art Project 1: "Hitchhiking" exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo on 8 8 8 888/Workshops|open space day]]on Saturday (in progress).
Inspired by the hitchhiking spirit?* The 8 8 8 project primarily seeks to get hitchhiking recognized as an authentic means of transportation.OrganizersIn order to reach this goal we also need artists to give way to their inspiration...You can NOW submit your paintingOnce the European hitchhikers will have arrived, patchwork, sculpture or photo-- in relation to hitchhiking--to the Palais de Tokyo!The exhibition organizers will be launched on the arrival of address the hitchhikers...on 8 8 8...
[[Art Project 2File: "ludo.jpg|right|thumb|234px|Ludovic Hubler]]* Hitchhiking" artwork made This address will be followed by the speech of photos [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 our drivers ]]NGOs and organized some international events to create a network between them.
* The ConceptSustainable Side of the ProjectA French association called [http://www.nature-Each hitchhiker can feel free to take photos propre.org Nature Propre] supports the projectThe association aims at promoting sustainable development through a certain number of each programs and the 888 project is one of their drivers... -Once they arrive to the Palais de Tokyo, we will upload them unto a computer..key projects of Nature Propre. -We Guillaume Mouton and Thomas Chretiennot will then print them out on deliver a given format..speech about the substainable side attached to the project.
== The Goalcheckpoint cities ==
-Create We are hitching from different locations, see here an artwork that fits on overview of the first piece [[Project 888/Cities]], categorized according to distance from Paris. In some of lawn located south the cities we hold [[Project 888/Meetings]] in the week towards the 8th of the Eiffel TowerAugust.
Sign up in the cities you depart form or arrive. You can use the [[How to hitchhike out of ParisProject 888/Cities]]-page. '''We also [http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=9367 discuss] different routes.'''
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.8 8 8- The Film ==
[[ContactFile: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 DumondFabrice Renucci- renucci.fabrice [at] gmail.com+(33)678627985 [[User:Robino|Robino]]
Fabrice Renucci[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]]