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November Newsletter
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- Must have someone on-site
The project need to have some consistence for the first issue of the magazine "Random Roads"
The Newsletter itself
This newsletter is targeted at participants of the 888 project and/or to people that showed interest in 789 project. It deals mainly with planning the event. Input from everyone is welcome.
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When was your last hitchhiking trip? Looking forward to yet the next!? Try this winter... Spend new year somewhere completely random, maybe even with your driver! Hitching is really easy in winter: no hitching queues, people don't like to leave hitchers standing in the cold, and why wait until spring or summer?
It also gets you into gear for the next hitchhiking week in Europe, taking place on 789, the 7th of August 2009. According to the latest polls, it is going to be the Ukraine. We invite you to cast your vote and share us your opinion.
- what we need for a location to be chosen - proposed form of going further/
The vote on the forum / Reaching a consensus
There's already a vote going on on the forum. We feel like this vote should not be binding but rather consultative. The best would be to reach a consensus through discussion and keep the vote for last resort (if we can't agree).
So we keep the voting open as a permanent opinion survey (you can edit your vote). For now 29 people gave their voice to the voting already, most of them voted for Ukraine, mainly Odessa. So it looks like it'll be Ukraine, but if you're convinced that another place is so much better, make yourself heard.
Local welcome
One particularly sensible point is: how the local citizenry and administration feel towards us. If the third most popular choice shows to have a really cool mayor that wants nothing more than a crowd of hitch-hikers, then we believe we should go for them.
For that, we need support from the local communities. It would be a good idea to contact the local people with whatever tool available in the, say top 6 cities, and see if they can find an arrangement with the people they elected.
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Happy hitching!
