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[[User:Guaka|Guaka]] is seriously thinking of setting up a [[hitchhiking race]] in [[New Zealand]]''This never happened, sometime in Summer 2007. Letbut it's gather people and ideas on this wiki who want to help organizehere. It might inspire someone someday. You don't even have Feel free to be in New Zealand or going there. You can help with ideas copy and by writingpaste. ''

==Goals==----* Create positive media attention for both[[File:Elsa amylin kiwi experience.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Experience Kiwi hitchhiking!]]** Hitchhiking [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] is seriously thinking of setting up a '''hitchhiking course in [[New Zealand]]''', sometime in Summer 2007. Let's gather people and** Hospitality exchange* Get more ideas on this wiki who want to help organize. You don't even have to be in [[New Zealand]] or going there. You can help with ideas, writing, planning, contacting people to stick out their thumbs* Have more hitchhiking races all over , and by improving the wiki pages on the worldHitchwiki.

==You want to help?Goals ==* [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]: ideas, wiki, writing# Get more people to stick out their thumbs# Create positive media attention for both hitchhiking and hospitality exchange# Have more hitchhiking courses all over the world* # Create a useful [[amylinHitchhiking Zine]]: graphics, ideas* ''you?''and useful information for others who want to organize Hitch courses.

:''Add yourself if you == You want to help out? ==* [[User:Guaka|Guaka]]: ideas, wiki, writing, hitching* [[User:Amylin|amylin]]: graphics, ideas, hitching* [[:couchsurfing:JOEPIE84|Joep]]: graphics, ideas, writing and doing one in [[Netherlands|Holland]]* [[:couchsurfing:ANU*|Anu]]: hitching-virgin and soon-to-be NZ resident, give a short overview so perfect test-dummy for the project. Also capable of what you want to dosome writing and techie things. And* [[User:Luna1|Luna1]]: ideas, writing, remember the Golden Days of hitching in NZ* [[User:Zac Stewart|Zac]]: ideas, writing, anything else, you doncan't have to be do any hitching in New Zealand to NZ :(* [[User:Salman|Salman]]: promotion via digihitch, ideas, coding help!''

==Communication==We can communicate through this wiki:''Add yourself if you want to help out, but we probably also give a short overview of what you want to set up an open mailing listdo.(Using CouchSurfing Groups would And, you don't have to be nice, but it would exclude everyone who is not on CouchSurfing.)in [[New Zealand]] to help!''

== Communication ==[[New Zealand hitch course - call for participation]] We can communicate through this wiki, but Guaka also set up an open mailing list: [mailto:[email protected] [email protected]] You can join it on http://groups.google.com/group/hitchcourse/about?hl=en<!-- (Using CouchSurfing Groups would be nice, but it would exclude everyone who is not on CouchSurfing.) --> ==Where==

=== Nelson - Nelson ===Around South Island, starting in Nelson. == When ==A weekend in Southern Hemisphere Summer. Probably in March. == The name ==Hitchhiking ''competitions'' are fairly common in [[Eastern Europe]], especially in [[Russia]]. But the ''course'' is going to be less competitive, with more focus on people communicating and improving intercultural understanding. That's why Guaka decided to use the word '''course''':# The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.# The ground or path traversed; track; way.# Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.::''from [http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=gcide&Query=course The Collaborative International Dictionary of English]'' ==Hospitality exchange==We can use existing hospitality exchange networks, CouchSurfing and , Hospitality Club, WWOOFing farms, to find people who can offer hitchhikers some food and /or a place to stay if they didn't make it for the night.

==Media==

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