BeWelcome News

One more time, the BW duck team from Toulouse is inviting everyone to attend a long week-end of festivity, from Friday the 1st of may to Sunday the 3rd.

Happening for the fourth year in a row, Seek the Duck is the longest BeWelcome running event and include lot of different activities:

• local wine testing
• giant BBQ
• Easter omelette
• museum and city tour;
• story telling;
• pic mic

...all the activities are free (except the wine testing, requiring 3€ to cover the costs).

Start packing your stuff, the…

As you can see, we've started a new donation campaign! This year, our donation goal is €1620!

In other good news: after a long procedure, Paypal acknowledged our non-profit status, which means our transaction fees are down to €0,25 + 1,4% (previously a higher basic fee and a higher percentage, dependent on the origin of the donation).

Please consider donating, as the donations guarantee a free (from ads), transparent and independent hospex network.

Hi all,

The dev Team just deployed a new version of the site. We hope you like the new layout for header and footer.

Some small improvements were made to the signup process (the most notable being that new members are redirected to the 'Edit my profile' page on first Login, hopefully creating a lot more filled in profiles).

The get active and donate page were also updated.

This was only possible thanks to OctoberTales who provided the design proposal and was very picky regarding its…

Hello fellow BeWelcome members,

 

it is my pleasure to introduce you to the new volunteering team of BeWelcome called:

New Member BeWelcome Team (NMBWT).

 

Maybe, when you signed up to our community, you were happy that someone of the NMBW team sent you a welcoming message, as the NMBWT started to volunteer for BeWelcome in October 2013 and the team began to greet new members who joined from August onwards. If so, you probably remember the warm feeling it gave you.

BW is probably not a famous…

After a first informal meeting, the new BoD will have its first official meeting on December 4th. The meeting will take place in private, mainly because we first want to get to know each other and because of negative experiences made by previous boards. After that we will announce the outcomes publicly on the BeVolunteer IRC-channel, as far as we can, and will be open for questions and comments by the community on that same channel.

December 4th

19:00 CET - start of the BoD meeting
21:00 CET…

During the General Assembly the new Board of Directors has been elected: 4 out of 6 candidates were chosen to represent BeVolunteer for the next year: duesseldorf (Anja), wind (Johannes), OctoberTales (Sébastien) and amnesiac84 (Lukas).   After the first informal meeting, the fresh Board of Directors (BoD) found consensus in distributing its roles. Our new Executive will be duesseldorf, for she has been a long time member and elected for the BoD with 100% of the votes. The position as Secretary…

...since the last software release. The waiting is over and the latest release is packed with stuff that we (the dev team) hope you like:

• The mail notification software was rewritten. Notification will now be in HTML and (roughly) take the same formatting as the post on the site (be aware that pictures might not be loaded in your mail program as they are internal to the site).
• Messages can now contain formatting. In fact they use the same editor than the rest of the site (except for images).
• The…

At least once a year BeVolunteer, the legal organization behind BeWelcome, holds a General Assembly (GA) to review the past and prepare the coming period and to elect a new Board of Directors (BoD). This year the GA will take place from November 8th-9th in Grimbergen, close to Brussels (Belgium). All BeVolunteer members but also all BeWelcome members are welcome to participate in real life or online. You can find more information about the GA in our wiki.   Before the GA the BoD will have…

Hi all,

As preparation for the next software release some work has to be done on the server side which might impede using the site for around an hour on Tuesday, 7th of October starting at 10 pm CET.

If everything works as planned the site should be usuable during that time will access might be slower as usual.

Cheers,
shevek

 PS: 10pm CET means 10am in Honolulu, 4pm in New York, 1:30 am on Wednesday, 8th in Mumbai, and 4am in Hongkong.

The Mont Royal Summer Camp in Traben-Trarback (South-West Germany) has been organized annually since 2007. The 8th edition will take place from 10 September 2014 till 15 September.

Every year about 250 young people, families and older members join up to make this camp unique.

Why not join us? You can find more information and a full programme on the MRSC website or through the BW activity list.