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Thirteen people showed up physically, all of them had hitchhiked from the 4 corners of Europe, except two that came by car and we will keep their identity secret to protect their life :) . One was very present on VoIP, from Australia, many others showed up online, by email, or even by telephone. Anja and Tau ('''ADD LINKS TO PROFILES ON THE WEBSITE''') hosted the event in their home.
==Our goals==
The meeting happened without much preparation and when we met, we were left to find what to start with...
*To stimulate the community of hitchhikers.
*To have a good time doing that, travelling and meeting old and new friends.
==The destination==
We soon attacked the big question that was on everyone's mouth: WHERE?
There was already a vote going on on the website, and it was a bit unclear what we were supposed to do with the results. The main issue discussed was:
*Is the result of the vote representative of the wish of the community?
*Are we, as a small group, mandated to decide against the vote?
We finally decided to push the vote forward, close it on the second day of the meeting at 14:00, and follow whatever the result would be. Even if the result gives a destination where we have no contact and no hitchhiking clubs to help. And if no support can be found in one month, to go for the second or the third on the list.
Sure enough, it's one of those that won. If everything goes well, we'll meet you on the 6th of August 2010 in '''Portugal'''. The End of Europe.
One really nice scenario was suggested: Spain allegedly needs a lot of promotion for hitchhiking. And, given the shape of the land, almost all the hitchhikers will have to go through Barcelona. So we thought about the following scheme:
Everyone converges on Barcelona for Sunday 01/08/10. On Monday, we all stay in Barcelona and reach out to the people and the media. On Tuesday, we all leave the city, possibly through different routes and all meet again on 06/08/10 "Somewhere in Portugal", where we can spend the week end together, with all the mediatic bullshit behind us. We don't even need to meet in a big city, like we did in Odessa or Paris.
==Money money money==
The previous editions of the festival were realized with almost no budget. And the "almost" was paid for by the volunteers. Which we felt wasn't really fair, as they already donate time and energy. [http://hitchgathering.org/users/korn Korn] came up with a plan to get a budget for the European Union that would not only remove the financial burden from the hitchhikers that help with the organization, but would allow us to things that were out of our reach before.
After long (and painful) discussion, we reached a sort of consensus to stay away from that money. We have good hope that the various hitchhiking clubs of Europe would provide us with some financial support. Like [http://lasophiste.com/ La Sophiste] or [http://www.hitchhiking.lt/ Kelia Vis] that have already given support to the previous editions.
==Promotion==
During that meeting two major pieces were produced: A [http://hitchgathering.org/node/153 789 short movie] from [http://hitchgathering.org/users/terrehappy Mitch] and a couple of [http://hitchgathering.org/logos-and-artwork-gathering 6.8.10 logo designs] by [http://hitchgathering.org/users/sandra-sunshine Sandra]. We brainstormed many ideas for promotion and you can help with new ideas on the [http://hitchgathering.org/forums/coordination coordination forum].
==Coordination==
Funding from EU
What we didn't do
