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This page is a central dump for the organization of the 2015 hitchgathering.
 
This page is a central dump for the organization of the 2015 hitchgathering.
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Discussion happens at '''[http://lists.freeactive.net/listinfo.cgi/hitch-freeactive.net the mailing list]'''.
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Location for 2015 is going to be near '''[https://www.google.de/maps/place/44%C2%B049%2717.2%22N+4%C2%B045%2720.0%22E/@44.821441,4.755558,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en Saint Laurent du Pape, Ardèche, South-east France]'''. GPS coordinates: '''44.821441, 4.755558'''
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We are 15 kilometers from the nearest motorway exit, A7 exit 17 (Loriol) between Valence Sud and Montélimar Nord. We are also 15 km from the service station “Aire de Portes les Valence” on the A7, between Valence Sud and Loriol.
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More hints how to get to the gathering on the main page http://hitchgathering.org/ !!
  
 
'''This is a wiki. You see something that's wrong, edit. You think something is missing, edit.'''
 
'''This is a wiki. You see something that's wrong, edit. You think something is missing, edit.'''
  
==Date==
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==On site logistics==
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===To Do===
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* Dig shit pits (Really? I remember someone saying that there are dry toilets on site)
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* Set up a fireplace.
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* Talk to local businesses about sharing their trash.
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* Find big cooking pots and gear, bring onsite.
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* Put up direction signs from the motorway exit.
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* Check with our hosts whether we can buy some of the food they produce. Otherwise check with surrounding producers (just go to the local market and ask around the stalls).
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===To have===
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* Shovels (borrow from farm?)
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* At least 2 big cooking pot(s) at least (borrow from farm?)
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* Rope
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* A couple of rolls big plastic bags (not the massive ones, 30-50L is easier to carry out).
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* Bunch of soap-bars for toilets
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* Empty plastic bottles (esp. the big ones)
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* First aid kit
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* Paper, pens, markers, tape, (black)boards
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* Food in all sorts. Basic stuff like salt, oil, spices,
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==Communication==
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===Online===
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====The website====
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[http://hitchgathering.org hitchgathering.org]
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It's a presentation site that is meant to explain the concept to the newcomer and an online window to the outer world. It's secondary purpose is to store the stuff from previous gatherings.
  
Historically we have followed a numerology that dictates the next gathering should be on the 1st of August. This is the last year we can follow that tradition, but that doesn't mean we have to follow it.
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Needs graphics. Join [http://lists.freeactive.net/listinfo.cgi/hitch-freeactive.net the mailing list] to help.
  
==Main gathering location proposition==
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It's got Piwik and SEO plugin. Anyone feels like optimizing?
  
There is likely to be many pregatherings scatered around Europe, leading towards the main gathering. We need to find out where that is first before building a network of smaller parties around it.
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Any chance we can have it in French too? -- [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]] ([[User talk:Sitarane|talk]]) 23:35, 26 May 2015 (CEST)
  
Already last year the idea was around to have two main gathering, connected by a kind of rally. Leipzig and fontpedrouse are about 1600km apart, with most of it being highways. Its a perfect route to do a lot of mileage in little time, two days maybe. We could for example start the hitchgathering in leipzig on the first of august, then from the forth to the seventh (so not everyone has to leave at the same time) continue it on the gasstation in between leipzig and fontpedrouse and then open end at the hot pools. The rules of the rally would be this: everyone hitches in a team of two. whenever you meet another team, if possible you have to stop and exchange one team member. -- [[User:Clem|Clem]] ([[User talk:Clem|talk]])
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====The facebook====
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There's an [https://www.facebook.com/events/1568866916668980/ event] already. What else?
  
===Leipzig, Germany===
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====BeWelcome====
  
I nominate Leipzig because that's where I live and I can do shit in advance. -- [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]] ([[User talk:Sitarane|talk]])
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[http://www.bewelcome.org/activities/1393 Activity]
  
Leipzig is a 500,000 people town in East-Germany that main attractivity is that it's insanely cheap, there's always good shit going on and it's probably the only city in the world that has ''forests'' inside it. Good place to camp for us.
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====Blogs====
  
====Pros====
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List here your favourite travel blogger, Maybe if we tell them, they'll write about it.
* You can camp in the city, away from notice, thanks to the insane amount of forest between the neighborhood.
 
* Cheap everything.
 
* Full of punks. Free shops, free kitchen (Vokü), squats, you name it.
 
  
====Cons====
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[http://www.daquiali.com/ Daqui ali]
* Bad weather (Even in august, there can be cold and rain, though unlikely)
 
  
====Other====
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[http://www.globestoppeuse.com/ Globestoppeuse]
* It's a city.
 
The early gatherings were all in cities, and seen as a media event: One hundred hitchikers converge on one place in Europe to show that hitchhiking is safe and good. Starting with Portugal, it has evolved into just meeting up and having a good time, away from civilization. We could go back to the old paradigm, if only for the sake of doing things different.
 
  
* It's in Schengen
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===IRL===
Good for Schengeners, bad for everyone else.
 
  
===Fontpedrouse, France===
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====Stickers====
See [[:nomad:Free_Hot_Springs#Fontpedrouse|nomadwiki]]. Suggested by Clemens. I Just copied some pieces from the mailinglist and nomadwiki. --[[User:N0id|N0id]] ([[User talk:N0id|talk]]) 18:26, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 
  
* there's plenty of space to free camp (200 people should be fine), fresh drinking water, firewood, and a lot of people go there (its a bit like kara dere in this respect, not that many people actually, but also not as big a location). the hot springs should be big enough for about 30 people at a time, but can be extended.
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To put up at HH spots, on your abandoned signs... wherever. Print-at-home type. We just need a design.
  
* Free camping and fire are no problem, but keep the place clean and take your trashes down to the village with you
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====Flyers====
  
* there's a local farmers market about 10km away, but not much local dumpster diving. its 75km from andorra (mountain roads, a doable one day return hitch if you start early), so people who pass by there can go dumpster some junk food (at least thats what i mainly found there) and buy cheap booze.
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Print at home, leave in relevant spot in your city.
  
* when clemens was there a year ago there was some guy camping there since 10months already together with fluctuating community of rainbow folks. they said that they were in contact with the owner of the land, who lets them stay there for free as long as they make sure that no one litters or trashes the place
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====Press release====
  
====Pros====
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Something we can spam the french media with a few weeks before. Needs to be in French. Will be hosted on the website.
* Camping and fire is not a problem
 
* Hot springs (would be a first :) )
 
====Cons====
 
* Shop / Supplies far away
 
* No dumpster diving
 
  
===Ardèche, South-east France (+ Grenoble ?)===
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==Archives==
  
Suggested by lapouceuse
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You'll find here the content that used to be on this page, but lost its relevancy.
  
The spot would be perfect to spend some good time among us, organize workshops, prepare ourselves for some public actions that we could organize in grenoble, a medium-size town where we could move just afterwards. Read below for more details.
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[[Hitchgathering/2015/Location suggestions]]
  
The place is a collective farm in south-east france, 20K from valence
 
(south of lyon). About 15 people live there together, growing fruits and
 
veggies, baking bread, making goat cheese for themselves and for
 
supporting local struggles.
 
  
I know them relatively well, I spent 3 weeks down there and since then
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====Pre and Post Gatherings====
we met quite regularly for some political actions and activities.
 
The place where they live is quite lost in the hills (not a good spot
 
for a gathering), but they own some fields in the valley closeby where
 
their main economic activities take place ; there are more or less 2-3ha
 
cultivated with apple trees, cereals and veggies, and a bigger "wild"
 
area (that's where we could camp).
 
  
====LOGISTICS====
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Post Gathering in Mols (Denmark) 10/08 - 16/08
* I would say that 2-300 tents could easily fit, possibly more. They use
 
to host events pretty often down there, and most of the logistical
 
issues could be easily worked out :
 
* Water : there'a 1ton tank that we can fill before the gathering with
 
drinkable water (and refill if needed)
 
* Electricity : small connection available, for charging cell phones but not much more
 
* Toilets : 2 dry toilets are already built and available
 
* Collective spaces : they could lend us 2 big tents (12x5m), that in
 
case of rain could become our collectif spaces.
 
* As far as food is concerned, some scouting is needed for finding good
 
dumpsterdiving spots ; there should also be a way to get some organic
 
fruit&veggies from them in exchange for work (needs to be discussed).
 
* The location is pretty nice, it's close to a small river with a
 
beautiful stony beach where I already took many nice baths : )
 
* The closest neighbours are quite faraway, we shouldn't have any
 
problems about noise.
 
* About the date, 1/8/15 would be perfect, because at the beginning of
 
september the whole place (except the cultivated areas) gets regularely
 
inondated.
 
* To get there by hitchhiking is quite simple, it's some 20k away from
 
the A7, one of the biggest french highways (lyon-marseille), and people
 
are cool, it's one of the most alternative regions in france.
 
  
Since logistics should go quite fast, organizing the gathering in
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Location :
this place would allow us, if we want to, to have more energy left for
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http://udinaturen.dk/facilitet/Helgen%C3%A6s--Dragsmur/1514
preparing actions/workshops - or just having a more relaxed everyday
 
life : )
 
  
====Grenoble====
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Plenty of dumpsters around, easy hitchhiking, sea, wind and hopefully sun :D
  
One more point, if - as suggested - we want to organize some actions in
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[[Category:Hitchgathering]]
town, Grenoble is 100K far, it's a pretty alternative medium-size
 
student town, surrounded by beautiful mountains, with one of the biggest
 
squat scenes in france. I lived there 3 months and I would say that it
 
could be pretty easy to find local partners for actions, and that
 
finding places for the night wouldn't be a problem.
 

Latest revision as of 11:09, 7 August 2017

This page is a central dump for the organization of the 2015 hitchgathering.

Discussion happens at the mailing list.

Location for 2015 is going to be near Saint Laurent du Pape, Ardèche, South-east France. GPS coordinates: 44.821441, 4.755558

We are 15 kilometers from the nearest motorway exit, A7 exit 17 (Loriol) between Valence Sud and Montélimar Nord. We are also 15 km from the service station “Aire de Portes les Valence” on the A7, between Valence Sud and Loriol.

More hints how to get to the gathering on the main page http://hitchgathering.org/ !!

This is a wiki. You see something that's wrong, edit. You think something is missing, edit.

On site logistics

To Do

  • Dig shit pits (Really? I remember someone saying that there are dry toilets on site)
  • Set up a fireplace.
  • Talk to local businesses about sharing their trash.
  • Find big cooking pots and gear, bring onsite.
  • Put up direction signs from the motorway exit.
  • Check with our hosts whether we can buy some of the food they produce. Otherwise check with surrounding producers (just go to the local market and ask around the stalls).

To have

  • Shovels (borrow from farm?)
  • At least 2 big cooking pot(s) at least (borrow from farm?)
  • Rope
  • A couple of rolls big plastic bags (not the massive ones, 30-50L is easier to carry out).
  • Bunch of soap-bars for toilets
  • Empty plastic bottles (esp. the big ones)
  • First aid kit
  • Paper, pens, markers, tape, (black)boards
  • Food in all sorts. Basic stuff like salt, oil, spices,

Communication

Online

The website

hitchgathering.org

It's a presentation site that is meant to explain the concept to the newcomer and an online window to the outer world. It's secondary purpose is to store the stuff from previous gatherings.

Needs graphics. Join the mailing list to help.

It's got Piwik and SEO plugin. Anyone feels like optimizing?

Any chance we can have it in French too? -- Sitarane (talk) 23:35, 26 May 2015 (CEST)

The facebook

There's an event already. What else?

BeWelcome

Activity

Blogs

List here your favourite travel blogger, Maybe if we tell them, they'll write about it.

Daqui ali

Globestoppeuse

IRL

Stickers

To put up at HH spots, on your abandoned signs... wherever. Print-at-home type. We just need a design.

Flyers

Print at home, leave in relevant spot in your city.

Press release

Something we can spam the french media with a few weeks before. Needs to be in French. Will be hosted on the website.

Archives

You'll find here the content that used to be on this page, but lost its relevancy.

Hitchgathering/2015/Location suggestions


Pre and Post Gatherings

Post Gathering in Mols (Denmark) 10/08 - 16/08

Location : http://udinaturen.dk/facilitet/Helgen%C3%A6s--Dragsmur/1514

Plenty of dumpsters around, easy hitchhiking, sea, wind and hopefully sun :D