Results of the General Assembly

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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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Hospex Party in Brussels on Saturday Nov. 5th

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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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Fixes released

Written by (13 years ago)

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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An update on finances

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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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What makes BeWelcome different?

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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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What is the legal status of BeWelcome ?

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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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Please send important feedback again!

Written by (13 years ago)

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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Every time I used BeWelcome I've met an amazing person

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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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Servas-BeWelcome update

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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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BeWelcome server updates

Written by (14 years ago) 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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