BeWelcome News

The General Assembly (GA) of BeVolunteer will this year be held in Venice (Italy) on November 5th and 6th (Saturday + Sunday).

The General Assembly can be attended by anyone who's interested, but to be able to vote one should be a member of BeVolunteer.

More information on the GA will follow

We would like to introduce you to some of our volunteers. Every one of them decided at one point to spend a little bit of time to help BeWelcome, making this the greatest non-profit, volunteer driven hospitality network out there!

Our sixth interview is with mountx who is volunteering in the Forum Moderators Team.

Why did you join BeWelcome?

Like most people, probably, I joined by accident. I first started hosting back in the mists of time, using a website – really little more than a…

On the 20th, 21st and 22nd of May, BeWelcome members have gathered in Toulouse to party for the so-called Fête du canard (Duck Fest). You could hear the quack-quacks all the weekend long! Locals and travelers have shared amazing moments around different activities. The local community is waiting for you next year to enjoy again these good times!

More pictures can be found here

We would like to introduce you to some of our volunteers. Every one of them decided at one point to spend a little bit of time to help BeWelcome, making this the greatest non-profit, volunteer driven hospitality network out there!

Our sixth interview is with Jesus82 who is volunteering in the Redesign Team.

Why did you join BeWelcome?

I joined one year ago as I was planning a trip to Norway. I started reading about the problems in CS (I had not been very active there for a while so I didn't…

Since this week the option to make your profile public has been disabled. We noticed an influx in fake accounts this year, creating profiles just to show links with or without a cloud of words. We suspect that bots create those accounts to be indexed by search engines and therefore create more credibility and visibility by those engines.

That's why the Board of Directors recently decided it would be good to see if the amount of fake accounts decreases when disabling the option for profile pages…

Those who closely follow our statistics page might have seen a sudden drop in the number of (new) members. You might wonder how the amount of new daily members can be a negative number: it's the sum of all who've joined and who's membership has been suspended or removed.

Every year BeWelcome sends out an e-mail to all who've not logged in for over a year. These members are asked to login once more to show they're still interested. By not logging in, the status is changed to 'inactive', and those…

We would like to introduce you to some of our volunteers. Every one of them decided at one point to spend a little bit of time to help BeWelcome, making this the greatest non-profit, volunteer driven hospitality network out there!

Our fifth interview is with ivers0n who is volunteering in the Translation Team.

Why did you join BeWelcome?

This is probably a very common story. I was a member of a similar website and I wasn't thrilled with the direction it was taking, until one day someone…

Toulouse locals are glad to invite you from 20th to 22nd of May 2016, in ze pînk city to the 5th edition of Seek The Duck, a BeWelcome gathering for locals and travellers.

Throughout the week-end, there will be picnics, pub crawls, barbecues, various games, treasure hunts and all.

Discover the whole program here: http://www.bewelcome.org/activities/1557

See you there!

We would like to introduce you to some of our volunteers. Every one of them decided at one point to spend a little bit of time to help BeWelcome, making this the greatest non-profit, volunteer driven hospitality network out there!

Our fourth interview is with Fhina, who is volunteering on the New Member BeWelcome Team, Safety Team and the Support Team.

Why did you become a member of BeWelcome?

As so many other members I'm a refugee from CS. I felt betrayed by the community and decided to…

Thanks to swift actions from our volunteers, the problems we've had with the Hotmail servers is now solved. This means everyone should be able to receive e-mail notifications again.

Manage your notifications
If you want to manage your notifications, please do so by telling us in stead of telling your e-mail provider to block our messages or send them directly to your spam folder.

You can change newsletter settings (important system notifications excluded) or subscriptions to forum / group /…