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What?
The Hitchgathering is a DIY hitchhiking festival that has been organised since 2008. It usually happens in August and sees a bunch of hitchhikers congregate at a different spot in Europe. Usually the bulk of the food is obtained by dumpsterdiving and cooked on the fire; everything else is open to everybody's imagination. Usually there is swimming, music, games, story-telling, workshops... whatever you can come up with! Everybody is welcome without any need to announce your presence or register yourself anywhere beforehand.
The main organisation platform is this wiki page; there is also the Hitchwiki Signal group. Often there are pregatherings (see below) where people can meet beforehand and perhaps already start a caravan towards the main gathering.
Where?
- The Baltics were selected to host the 2025 Hitchgathering.
- The exact location will be announced here. Most of the discussion regarding the location and scouting is currently happening on the Signal/Matrix-group
Communication
- Main organisation platform is this wiki page. Here you can collect/present proposals and use the talk page
- Other communication channels are the mailing list, Signal Group and the Facebook Group.
Please transfer all relevant info to the wiki page.
Pre- and Postgatherings
Some rumours about a potential pregathering at somebody's parents' place have been spread.
Other Information
- See here for all this year's proposals: 2025 Proposals
- Location poll results for this year's European Hitchgathering can be found here
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