BeWelcome News

Good morning Bewelcome !

How about visiting Toulouse under the sign of the Duck over a bright (long) week-end, from Wednesday the 9th of May to Sunday the 13th ?
A lot of entertaining activities organized by toulousian hosts will take place. They include tasty meals, a bunch of nice little gigs, a big barbecue, an international picnic, a pub-crawl, and much more to be discovered in the detailed programm !

An official webpage has been created, where you’ll find the detailed program or information…

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Hi everyone,

this release cycle was somewhat shaken by two events: First the database had some inconsistencies in geographical data and then we had a single spammer sending thousands of messages and more than a hundred profile comments within hours after sign-up.

This led to the following changes which were released last night:

  • Added tight limit on number of messages a new member can send (5 per hour, 15 per day) - this limit is temporary and will be lifted as soon as better logic is in place…

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First of all, a happy Gregorian new year to you! :)

Yes, it's a Monday, and yes, we have just released some BeWelcome goodness. The most important changes:

  • See comment replies on profile comments pages
  • Added Delete and Spam button when reading a message
  • Fixed a bug that hid dozens of new members in the member approval tool
  • No more captcha for new members when sending messages, we will add other ways of preventing message abuse soon
  • Fixed more bugs in the address update form

See 8 more changes…

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Another Release Monday, another announcement. We are getting some routine going here - niiice! New today:

  • Allowing new, not approved members (Pending status) to send messages to other users - this is actually quite a big change - see below..
  • Greatly improved usability of profile edit page
  • Fixed "mark as spam" functionality in messages - now we are notified again
  • Added email notification for new profile comment or update
  • Added number of user photos to left-hand navigation on profile page

Also…

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Good news, it's Release Monday! I'm happy to announce that we just pushed out an update to the site. Here is what's new today:

Profile page:

  • Increased profile picture size and added zoom - on popular demand, yeah!
  • Fixed "Show all pictures" link in latest pictures box
  • Fixed bug causing age being hidden for all users

Your personal welcome page (after login):

  • Added user picture thumbnail at top left to encourage people to upload their photo
  • Added RSS feed icon and links to comments for community…

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In the beginning of November we held the annual General Assembly (GA) of BeVolunteer, the legal organisation behind BeWelcome. During this meeting we dealt with some official tasks like electing a new Board of Directors, approving the financial statement of the previous year and agreeing on the budget for the following year.

Full details on the minutes of the GA and all the voting results can be found on our wiki. If you are interested in becoming a member of BeVolunteer you can find all…

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On November 5 & 6 the annual General Assembly (GA) of BeVolunteer will take place in Grimbergen near Brussels, Belgium. Traditionally this GA is accompanied by a BW party/meeting, and this year is not different.

So if you happen to be in the neighbourhood of Brussels, you are more than welcome to join us on Saturday November 5th between 8 and 8.30 pm in Café Monk (42 rue Sainte-Catherine, 1000 Brussels).

 Afterwards we might go to a free DJ concert (SoundBits : GaBLé + BRNS + DJ tbc) at the…

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I'm proud to announce that I just made some changes to the BeWelcome site by our phantastic software development team available to the public. Here is what changed with today's release:

  • Removed checkboxes for "Accept spam policy" and "Attach profile picture" from message sending dialogue
  • Added link to group at the top of group forum post
  • Fixed extra empty lines appearing when editing forum posts
  • Fixed developer links at bottom right of page: revision links to gitorious, better bug report…

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Hello to all and a warm "BeWelcome" to our new members!

I'm Matthias, a long time member of hospitality exchange networks and right now the treasurer of BeVolunteer, the french organisation legally running BeWelcome. I'm preparing the financial report for the general assembly of BV in early November and drafting the budget for 2012. You'll find details on BeWelcome as soon as it's approved by the GA and available.

But before I like to give you an overview on how we're doing financially…

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Couchsurfing has been going through a lot of changes lately. So we thought it's a good idea to explain the idea behind BeWelcome better. Thomas Goorden, volunteer for BeWelcome and current chairman of BeVolunteer (the legal entity behind BeWelcome), tries to do just that in a short video:

http://vimeo.com/bewelcome/thomas-goorden-why-bewelcome-is-different

Thomas' statement hopefully gives you an idea of how BeWelcome is different. We believe you as a member should shape its future. In the end…

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