BeWelcome News

On Tuesday 23rd from 18:00 CET onward, we'll migrate to a new website!

There will probably be some downtime in the evening of April 23rd and we hope it will not last longer than a few hours. After that, if everything goes according to plan, everyone can use the new website.

Make sure to have other means of communication with your hosts and guests in that time frame and please check your spam folder in the next weeks, since our e-mail traffic could be sent to your spam for some reason.

See you on…

You might have noticed that the donation bar is now visible on the landing page after you log into BeWelcome. As a non-profit, BeWelcome works with the smallest budget possible. This is only possible, thanks to the time and skills donated by our volunteers.... which come from you, our community.

BeWelcome needs about 2000 Euros to cover its expenses this year. Despite a community of more than 115.000 members, BeWelcome been a non-profit since its launch in 2007.  While it has no offices or paid…

BeWelcome will take part in an event in Rennes: To those who are in Brittanny, Rennes, France: If you have time on saturday March 16 you might want to attend a debate in the afternoon. The association „Adventures at the End of the World“ (http://www.abmrennes.eu/) organises a discussion about free hospitality of travelers in France and around the world. They asked BeWelcome to take part in this event – and our member Isaac2 volunteered to represent BeWelcome :)

It is part of the travelers…

The BoD likes to thank all volunteers, especially those who have been helping on making the new website a (soon) reality!

Thank you developers and designers for your great effort in making the website work, solving bugs and make it look nice!
Thank you system admin(s) for laying the foundation on our servers and prepare the migration!
Thank you testers for your endless patience with the many errors and bugs and for thoroughly combing through the new website!
Thank you communication team members for…

BeWelcome has an exciting redesign currently in development. We now need more testers to make sure we aren't missing anything due to the large range of browsers used by members.

If you would like to try the new site before anyone else, or to contribute to the development of technical aspects of BeWelcome (also for future developments), please join the [[https://www.bewelcome.org/groups/62 testing group]], and introduce yourself. Make sure to follow best practice when identifying…

BeVolunteer - the registered non-profit association behind BeWelcome - has (like every year) elected a new Board of Directors (BoD).

One member will guarantee the continuity of the former and the new Board:

https://www.bewelcome.org/members/thorgal67

Two members of former BoDs are in the new board again:

https://www.bewelcome.org/members/sammiekong

https://www.bewelcome.org/members/amnesiac84

And these four active volunteers are first-time members of the Board: 

https://www.bewelcome.org/member…

This post is going to be in German - as it is about a wonderful hospitality exchange radio report made by a journalist in North Germany - which is also in German.

Auf NDR Info hat die Journalistin Christiane Zwick eine schöne Sendung gemacht: "Mein Sofa, Dein Bett - Couchsurfing in Norddeutschland" heißt ihre knapp 25minütige Reportage. Sie wurde gestern ausgestrahlt und ist in der Mediathek zu finden:

https://www.ndr.de/info/sendungen/forum_am_sonntag/Mein-Sofa-dein-Bett,sendung791246.html

Zwar…

Unfortunately the last code update aimed at enhancing the mobile editing experience broke editing of messages and forum posts instead. Thanks to everybody reporting this the situation is now resolved and this is most likely the first post in the community news ever written on a mobile device :)

The formating option are a bit limited in comparison to a desktop but you can still use bold, italic, underline and numbered lists. Of course you can add links as well.

Please note that you need to tap…

The preparations for the next General Assembly (GA) of BeVolunteer are under way.

Please save the date: November 17th/18th, 2018
This year we will leave the European continent for the first time - and go to England … just in time before the Brexit happens ;)

We have been offered a free room for our meeting by Space4 @ Outlandish - this cooperative web agency will sponsor our two days meeting in London! HOORAYYYY! 
(and many thanks to the cool and super friendly Outlandish team for making this…

Not longer than eight weeks BeWelcome ago asked its members for donations. Now the 2000 Euro goal has already been reached. This is the shortest donation campaign I can remember. A BIIIIG "Thank you" to everybody who donated money to enable us to pay for the costs like servers, obligatory insurances etc.
Please: Next time you will see the donation bar on the front page (which will be in the beginning of next year) please consider donating yourself ;)

And if you do not have any money to spare…