BeWelcome News

Recently we experience an unsual number of new members, that's great! So first of all: BeWelcome, I'm happy to have you here. As a lot of questions naturally come up to a newbies mind, someone had the idea to explain some of the important things in the community news, so here we go: I'm no lawyer, but I'll try to explain the basic legal setup of BeWelcome.

BeWelcome isn't owned by anyone and I think that's a good thing. The software and content (except private data off course) is open source…

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For the past few weeks we have had some problems with the server that hosts the feedback messages and forwards them to our ticket-managing system. We have now solved this problem by temporarily forwarding the feedback to a 'normal' e-mail address, but unfortunately we can't get hold of older feedback there.

So please send us your feedback once more and we will try and handle it this time :)

Sorry for this inconvenience!!!

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Since the BeWelcome / Open CouchSurfing workshop during Project 888 in Paris 2008, I haven't couchsurfed on any of my subsequent travels. And every time I looked for a place to crash on BeWelcome, I have met an amazing person.

I mostly travel by hitchhiking and for the magic of the things that happen when you let go. So just two hours before hitching out from Amsterdam to Istanbul, I got a text message from a Berlin friend offering a free train ticket for Vienna-Budapest. And she even was in…

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Monday there was a meeting between the Servas-to-BeWelcome project members. It involved two members of the BW board of directors (including me), one BW coder and three Servas coordinators (including the president of Servas International).

The topic was the general roadmap for the project. A draft had been submitted a few days earlier by one Servas coordinator and we were going to discuss it and take it to a complete state. Most of the items of the roadmap were pretty trivial and were quickly…

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It's been stated a couple of times on the forum and possibly written about in some forum posts: BeWelcome is relocating it's test server to one of it's members (Tobixen - many thanks!). In connection with this, you might experience some problems if you try to reach the old BV wiki or the trac pages (if you're trying to put in a bug report). Things should be up and running within a day or two again, though - so please, don't worry too much if you see some pages broken, they should be fixed again…

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Blog it!

14 years ago
Share your travel experiences through your personal blog at BeWelcome! Link your blog posts to trips. How? Have a look!

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Has the BeWelcome community rewarded you with unique travel experiences, open doors and hearts last year? Then please consider a small donation to the project so that even more people can share inspiring moments in 2010!

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Verification increases the security on BeWelcome, by making sure that members use their real name and real street address on BeWelcome.

It is done by members for members and it is completely free of charge. Basically, you can verify you next host/guest. Just go on their profile and click on  "Verify member" and follow the steps.

If you're interested in how it works, follow this link.

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The registration for Budapest Winter Camp is finally open! Don't miss out on a great opportunity to spend New Year's Eve visiting the beautiful city of Budapest with scores of other travellers from all over the world!

Read more and ask you questions here.

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There will be an informal BeWelcome (un)conference in Antwerp from the 23rd to the 24th of January. It is the second time we do this (in Antwerp at least) and open to anyone happy to help with the project ...

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