Project 888

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HITCHHIKE TO PARIS WITH US

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 amazing event with fellow hitchhikers. We invite you to join this event and have an amazing adventure and a great weekend in Paris. Please sign up for this event and help organising it.

Help out!

The 888 Project seeks to ask all Europeans to hitchhike from all corners of the European continent (whether it is from Belfast, Istanbul, Helsinki or Lisbon) to arrive at the Eiffel Tower - this world-renowned French lighthouse - in Paris on 888, August 8th, 2008.

  • We need you to take part and organize this official European Hitchhiking Event to Paris from every single country in Europe.
  • We need you to succeed and get hitchhiking recognized as a genuine means of transportation.
  • We need you to convince people to hitchhike and pick up hitchhikers.

Help organising! Things to do:

  • Organise a local meeting in your country or city to team up with hitchhikers. Find an invitation you can use here and add your meeting
  • Translate the press-release and spread it.
  • Help organising events in Paris:
    • Finding a bar or restaurant or room large enough so that it can have the potential to welcome close to 100 people (speeches, welcome...). The bar/restaurant or room should not be too far from the Eiffel Tower, which means working out a special deal with the owners to get us cheap drinks.
    • 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 Open Space day


The Program

888 Project logo by Laris(s)a, http://www.laris-s-a.com" (with inspiration from Luis Pacheco)

We Need Help To Organise The Actual888 Weekend

Here's the program so far:

FRIDAY EVENING

  • Meeting at the Eiffel Tower
  • Finding a bar or restaurant or room large enough so that it can have the potential to welcome close to 100 people (speeches, welcome...)
    • The bar/restaurant or room should not be too far from the Eiffel Tower
    • It means working out a special deal with the owners to get us cheap drinks.

SATURDAY

  • Open morning for everybody
  • Find a nice place for WORKSHOPS in the afternoon (the workshops will be closely related to hitchhiking of course)
  • Need to find a bar where we could spend the evening.

SUNDAY

  • Brunch starting at 1pm at Parc des Buttes de Chaumond?

Speeches

  • The Organizers

Once the European hitchhikers will have arrived, the organizers will address the hitchhikers.

Ludovic Hubler
  • Hitchhiking

This address will be followed by the speech of 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 NGOs and organized some international events to create a network between them.

  • The Sustainable Side of the Project

The three organizers are also part of a French association called Nature Propre. The association aims at promoting sustainable development through a certain number of programs and the 888 project is one of the key projects of Nature Propre. Guillaume Mouton and Thomas Chretiennot will deliver a speech about the substainable side attached to the project.

The checkpoint cities

MAP with cities and rings

The goal of the checkpoint cities is to help hitchhikers through their journey through evening meetings and having volunteers on the spot every at dawn. The goal of having several rings is to ensure that we help hitchhikers to progressively get to Paris in all safety.

  • The Morning Volunteers

There will be volunteers helping hitchhikers leave any given city on any given ring on the actual hitchhiking spot at dawn. The volunteers will provide hitchhikers with tips and advice.

  • The Evening Meetings

Every evening, in any given city, there will be an evening meeting. People who do not have any accomodation and find a place to stay. Hitchhikers can exchange good stories and share tips and advice.

Please write down your name next to your city and mention whether you would like to be a morning volunteer or a meeting organizer:

  • If you are a morning volunteer you can then edit the meeting information regarding the actual spot hitchhikers will have to leave from and how to get there.
  • If you are a evening organizer, you can then edit the meeting details once you click on your city

Start on 388...August 3rd, 2008...Ring 1 (2500 to 3000Ks away)

Start on 488...August 4th, 2008...Ring 2 (2000 to 2500Ks away)

Start on 588...August 5th, 2008...Ring 3 (1500 to 2000Ks away)

Start on 688...August 6th, 2008...Ring 4 (1000 to 1500Ks away)

Start on 788...August 7th, 2008...Ring 5 (500 to 1000Ks away)

Start on 888...August 8th, 2008...Ring 6 (less than 500Ks away)

Long-Distance Hitchhiking: Starting from more than 3000ks away

You can of course start your European hitchhiking event from further away than the 6th RING.

You are free to start from wherever you want.

The Documentary Project

Images.jpg


The 888 project community has decided to get together and unite to make a documentary about hitchhiking. Different cameramen will be joining different hitchhikers across their journey:

  • Pascal Dumont will be filmed by Fabrice Renucci and they will hitch from Yerevan,Armenia to Paris, France.
  • Martin Boserup will be filmed by Misha Fournial and they will hitch from Saint Peterburg, Russia to Paris, France

Documentary Project instructions for cameramen

We are also inviting all the people wishing to meet up with hitchhikers from all over the world on August 8th, to participate in this documentary project through any way they would feel like: You can either:

  • Keep a journal
  • Take photos
  • Record with an audio recorder
  • Draw
  • Film

The film project will be a sort of patchwork using all the material that the hitchhikers will bring with them on August 8th.

Help from Paris on 888

Hosting

We need to contact the Paris community in order to host all the Europeans who are coming to Paris on 888

If you cannot find a host through Couchsurfing, Hospitality Club or BeWelcome then:

Please register on the I Need A Place To Stay Sign Up Page if you are looking for a place to stay

Please register on the I Can Host Hitchhikers Sign Up Page if you live in Paris and you are willing to host people.

Call Center

This subgroup was designed to find 2 teams who can work on D-Day- 888- to answer hitchhikers' phonecalls. What these two teams will need to do to help the 8 8 8 project:

  • 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)

Please register on the

I Want To Volunteer For The Call Center Team 1 Sign Up Page or the

I Want To Volunteer For The Call Center Team 2 Sign Up Page if you would like to volunteer in one of our teams.


How to hitchhike out of Paris?

Check the page about Paris to find spots to leave the city.

Alternative resources:

Sign Up Now

Sign Up Page

Contact Us Now

Please feel free to contact us if you wish to bring your help to the project:

Fabrice Renucci- fabrice.renucci [at] hotmail.fr +(33)612871824

Pascal Dumont- dumont_376 [at] hotmail.com

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