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Biketour 2012

2012-02-27T12:37:54Z

Moritz: /* Where to publicize it */

==Overview==

[[Overview 2012]]

[[Organization Call-out 2012]]

[[Call-out 2012]]

+ Why are we touring by bicycle? +

# Because it will be a crazy awesome adventure.
# We want to influence by example: if we can travel hundreds of km from one place to the next hauling loads of gear, surely you can manage to ride your bike to go grocery shopping a few km down the road!
# The revolution will be pedal powered.

==Winter meeting==

[[Wintermeeting 2012]]

This year the winter meeting will be held in Cerbere on the French side of the Spain/France border. For more info click [[Wintermeeting 2012|here]].

==The route==
[[Route 2012]]

This years tour begins in Spain and finishes in Italy. The theme is degrowth and we are now searching for projects and actions to visit and participate in this summer.

[http://g.co/maps/82enr Here] is a google map where we are starting to collect route ideas, please add any; places, projects, action camps, ecovillages, contacts which we could visit along the way.

==Propaganda==
[[BT 2012 advertising material]] - Let's keep a track of flyers, the booklet, design (put all links for propaganda materials on this wikipage)

==BT 2012 workshop==

Last year in Italy we held a workshop by a lake which looked as the past present and future of biketour, find the [[BT 2012 workshop notes]] here.

==Money from past years==
500€ from last year with Helene, R&D bank details given

310.70€ with Alice in cash (460.70€ minus 150€ used to pay the translator)

==Links==
[[Links 2012]]

== Needs Translation ==
This texts needs to be translated for the website into key languages (of countries we are passing on - French, Catalan, Castellano, Italian):
* [[Welcome Text 2012]]
* [[Route Text 2012]]
* [[Participation guidelines]]
* [[Organization Call-out 2012]]

== Where to publicize it ==
* http://www.mapmyride.com/events/edit/
* http://pt.indymedia.org/node/add/newswire
* http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php?function=publish
* https://madrid.indymedia.org/node/add/event
* https://publish.indymedia.org/earth/servlet/OpenMir?do=opensession&sessiontype=content
* http://movecommons.org/preview/
* http://biciosxs.prouespeculacio.org/categorias/viajes
* http://carbusters.org/

==Degrowth Conference in Venice==
There is a big Degrowth conference from 19th-23rd September 2012, Research and Degrowth here in Barcelona are involved with organising this and it has been proposed that this is the final destination of the tour. We aim to find a camp outside of town to unite us rather than scattering through the city. We would link with the conference with some kind of action and negotiate free entry for BT participants for part of the conference.

[http://www.venezia2012.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DEGROWTH-CONFERENCE-VENICE-short1.pdf Here] is the latest conference information available in english.

Route 2010

2010-07-13T08:14:21Z

Moritz: /* ENGLAND AGAIN */

= Overview =
The Ecotopia Biketour will move from Northern England, through France, Belgium, (maybe the Netherlands briefly) and Germany. [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=118042301261299956345.00048202c943d91616145&t=h&z=6 See the rough route on googlemaps] It will be about 1600km long, which is shorter than last year's and we'll take a little more time to do it (a bit over two months). (Hopefully it's an improvement...ah, don't you love learning from lessons!)

Places + events + dates we are planning for so far:

===ENGLAND:===

'''Pre-Biketour week''' a few events happening in London that you might want to come along to if you arrive in London before Friday:

General meeting place and 'home' for us in the week is the arts organisation that Mark works at: Artsadmin, Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1 6AB
*Map and directions at http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/toynbeestudios/
*Going on all week is the Interference project http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/education/project.php?id=299 which has a fixed group so we can't join in, but there are extra things going on in connection to it that we can take part in, especially the evenings and on Friday.
*At Artsadmin there are free showers (and there's a cafe but it's a bit expensive)

Sunday 20 June
*Laura and Wouter arrive in London to stay with Mark and have a nice time in London, finish a million last things for organising BT 2010, do some t-shirt, flyer, sticker and patch printing and get our equipment together!

Monday 21 June
*1800 - Climate Camp London action in central London - Bloody Oil! Drum it Out! http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/get-involved/local-groups/london

Tuesday 22 June
*1900-2100 - free workshop on Twitter for activists -The Tweet Smell of Success http://just-do-it.org.uk/twitter-training-for-activists

Wednesday 23 June
*Daytime - some of us might be going to near Heathrow Airport to meet Grow Heathrow http://www.transitionheathrow.com/grow-heathrow
*Evening - meeting about BT 2010 budget, and maybe a cinema night at the Ratstar

Thursday 24 June
*Daytime - maybe a lot of people are arriving today - come to Artsadmin to meet up in the Brick Room and find out what jobs we need you to do!
*1900-2200 - free Interference activist artist film night in the Theatre at Artsadmin with food and drink.
*Go to our sleeping place in Camberwell together - The Ratstar, 298-300 Camberwell Road, London SE5 0DL - 6km from Artsadmin

Friday 25 June - '''the day that Ecotopia Biketour 2010 really starts!'''
*Daytime - taking part in the last day of Artsadmin's Interference project, building our own portable rocket stove, screenprinting t-shirts and flags, and fixing up our bikes with some visiting mechanics.
*1800 London Critical Mass! meet at the South Bank, under Waterloo Bridge southern end, 4km from Artsadmin and the Ratstar. Critical mass gathers from 1800 but usually doesn't leave until 1900 so don't worry if you're running late.
*Go to the Ratstar

Saturday 26 June
*Quick group meeting to organise food and travel, introductions, clarify what we're doing today and in the next few days.
*1000 first group leaves the Ratstar to go to Kings Cross station.
*We are travelling on 3 different trains in groups of 5 from London Kings Cross to Darlington leaving at 1130, 1200 and 1600
*We are arriving at Darlington station between 1400 and 1830, and will be met be people from the Darlington Cycle Campaign http://bikedarlington.blogspot.com/ and Darlington Friends of the Earth http://darlingtonfoe.blogspot.com/ who will cycle the 10km with us to our first sleeping place Clow Beck Eco Centre http://www.clervaux.org.uk/index.php?s=farm&a=68&p=main, where we will cook for ourselves and watch the film 'Beauty and the Bike'. http://www.bikebeauty.org/
*If you can afford it, please pay the cost of 19GBP for your train ticket, we have some funding to pay for some of these tickets, but not all of them. (To be discussed on the tour)

Sunday 27 June - Darlington to Botton Village (near Danby) 55km

Monday 28 June - Botton to York - 65km - '''a big day of cycling with a big hill at the start'''
*Sleeping place in York: St Barnabas Church Hall, details to follow
*Monday night TCCC pub crawl

Tuesday 29 June - York
*participate in the "Open day" at the Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX [http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]
*Carfree film night

Wednesday 30 June - York
*Biketour Consensus Decision Making workshop led by Seeds for Change [http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/] 1000-1700
*Possible TCCC boat trip in the evening

Thursday 1 - York-Pontefract - 50km
*We will cycle through 'Megawatt Valley' where three of the biggest coal fired power stations in the UK sit near each other. The largest, Drax Power station provide 7% of the UK's electricity and is the UK's single largest emitter of carbon dioxide, and the highest estimated emitter of Nitrogen Oxide in the European Union.

Friday 2 July - Pontefract to Leeds - 40km

Saturday 3 July - Leeds
*Workshop day, led by us: What on earth is this "climate justice"? ; Vegan cooking ; Bicycle maintenance & repair ; open to more (feel free to prepare something of 1 hour!)

Sunday 4 July - Leeds-Sheffield - 60km - '''a big day of cycling going from one big city to another through a fairly urban area'''

Monday 5 July - Sheffield-Wincle (near Buxton) - 55km

Tuesday 6 July - Wincle-Whitchurch - 65km

Wednesday 7 July - Whitchurch-Huntington Lane Camp (near Telford) - 40km

Thursday 8 & Friday 9 July - Huntington Lane Camp [http://defendhuntingtonlane.wordpress.com/]
*rest days, or optional visit by train to Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales [http://www.cat.org.uk/], or action around the Huntington Lane camp

Saturday 10 July - Huntington Lane-Leintwardine, Craven Arms - 50km

Sunday 11 July - Leintwardine-Canon Frome Court (near Hereford) - 50km

===WALES===

Mon 12 July - Canon Frome-Abergavenny - 55km
*staying at Abergavenny Gaia Coach Institute - [http://www.gaiacoach.co.uk/], Llwyn Ffranc Farm, Llanfihangel Crucorney, NP7 8EN (4 miles north of Abergavenny) Directions here [http://www.gaiacoach.co.uk/about_gaia_coach/find_us.phtml]

Tues 13 July - Abergavenny
*rest day, including some helping on the organic farm

Weds 14 July - Abergavenny-Merthyr Tydfil - 35km

Thurs 15 July - Merthyr Tydfil-Usk - 50km

===ENGLAND AGAIN===

Fri 16 July - Usk-Bristol - 45km

Sat 17 July & Sun 18 July - Bristol
In Bristol we are staying at a squat, you can find us here: The Factory, 2-8 Cave street, st pauls,
Bristol Bs2 8ru
*Day of visits to local projects/organisations in Bristol including Southmead Carnival

Mon 19 July - Bristol-Pewsey - 70km - '''a fairly big day - a long distance but completely flat with an easy route'''

Tues 20 July - Pewsey-Northdown Orchard - 55km

Weds 21 July - Northdown-Havant - 55km

Thurs 22 July - Havant-Portsmouth Harbour 15km & Portsmouth-Le Havre by ferry
*Arrive at ferry port at 0700, ferry leaves Portsmouth 0830, arrives Le Have 1245. This is the only ferry that day, we cannot miss it!
*We already have 20 cheap tickets at 16 GBP each for cyclists on this ferry - these will be taken by the first 20 people to register.After these might not be space for any more cyclists or you might have to pay more or take a different ferry, so register as soon as possible!
*We will probably ask you to pay us back for your ticket if you can afford it, we have some funding to pay for some of these tickets, but not all of them. (To be discussed on the tour)

===FRANCE===

* 22nd July - 1st August Camp Action Climat (french climate camp [http://www.campclimat.org]) Le Havre, France.

* Dieppe (?) something to do with nuclear!

* 6-7 August - Ruisseauville "A petits pas" [http://www.apetitspas.net] Environmental education, eco-construction

* 8 August (?) Landrethun le Nord, eco-construction "Le Chenelet"

* 9-11 August - Calais No Borders camp

* 12 August - Herzeele

===BELGIUM===

*13th August - Alveringham or Keiem, Belgium (camping on a biological farm)

*14th August - De Haan (camping on a biological farm)

* 15th August - Oostende. Paulusfeesten and climate events: continuing the "Big Ask" for a climate law, we'll have a critical mass, play "climate monopoly" on the beach, have a mass dance lesson, concert with Cold Cut as part of the "Energy Union Tour".

*16th August - oostende - Gent (Staying in Merelbeke). 65km

* 17th August - Gent. Critical mass + presentations/workshops: Who wants to organise this?

* 18th August - somewhere south-west of Brussels

(? possible) *19th - 21st August - Nethen - Permaculture festival www.festivalpermaculture.be

*22nd August - 35km - Linter - a workshop in the afternoon/evening with Pieter, a trainer in Conscious Connected Breathing, coming from Hamburg, Germany.

===NETHERLANDS===

(?maybe earlier) *23rd August - 55km - staying somewhere in the netherlands near Maastricht / Sittard / Geleen & meeting up with dutch people to cycle to the klimacamp!

=== GERMANY ===

* 24th August - 55km - We will arrive to the klima camp in Borschemich-Erkelenz, Germany!! [http:/www.klimacamp2010.de/ Klima Camp]

* 25th August - 60km - Bike-action around the coal mine + party at the klimacamp

* 26th + 27th August - workshop and action-preparation days

* 28th August - mass action day for the Klimacamp

* 29th August - Packing up the camp / A biketour evaluation on our successes, concrete suggestions on improvements and planning for next year's tour

* 30th Erkelenz-Cologne - 50km

* 31st Cologne - an ecotopia biketour 20th anniversary reunion party !

===Activist/Ecologist Events in north-western europe, summer 2010 ===

How did we come to this proposal? We decided to evaluate all events, camps and gatherings together, instead of automatically going to an Ecotopia gathering now. After lots of broad brainstorming and discussion, and an amazing compilation of activist events near the general route proposals, we came up with what you can see above. See the larger list of possible events here: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Possible_Activist_Events_for_BT2010. Please add anything else that you hear about! The list can also be seen on an open edit google map at http://bit.ly/ceNwc6

= How to get to BT 2010 =

=== UK ===

BT will be taking place in the UK from the evening of Friday 25th June until the morning of Thursday 22nd July but if you come a bit earlier it should be okay, just let us know.

How to get to the UK (please add your own knowledge and advice here) and also see the information on the [[FAQ]] page:

By train:
*Some advice on taking bikes on trains between the UK and other European countries here: http://www.seat61.com/bike-by-train.htm The information is mostly suitable to people coming from the UK, but just read it the other way round!
*If you are coming via Germany you could use the very cheap tickets - Schönes-Wochenend-Ticket (with which groups of five person can travell everywhere within Germany only on Saturday or Sunday for 37 €, no fast trains: EC, ICE) and London-Spezial (from any town in Germany to London for 49 € with ICE and Eurostar, can be booked online here: http://www.bahn.de/p/view/angebot/international/london-spezial.shtml, if you need help with the translation, ask Moritz).
*Some information about taking your bike on Eurostar: you can either carry it onto the train - but it needs to be inside a 'bike bag' (which you could make yourself) - or you can pay extra to have the bike transported separately (25 GBP, don't know Euros price), usually on the same train.
*For advice on taking bikes on other trains in Europe it's worth sending an email to the Biketour list to ask the experts there. [[Contact]]
*Taking bikes on trains in the UK is very complicated because we have a stupid system of around 25 different companies running different trains in different parts of the country, and each one has different rules about how you can take your bike on the train (sometimes it's free, sometimes you pay, sometimes you must make a reservation, etc.) This page http://www.atob.org.uk/Bike_Rail.html has the best explanation of each company's current rules.
*Booking tickets on UK trains can be done on lots of websites. This is the main one but is limited and sometimes doesn't show you the cheapest tickets: http://www.thetrainline.com/ A better website for ticket buying is http://www.eastcoast.co.uk/ which has tickets from all over the UK (I think) but gives good prices for trains between London and Yorkshire.
*On Saturday 26th June we have cheap tickets for 15 people and 15 bicycles to travel from London to Yorkshire by train leaving on 3 different trains between 1100 and 1600. If you aren't one of the first 15 people to register, or you are travelling on a different day you need to book another tickets. Contact us if you don't know what to do.
*In Germany, International bike tickets cost 10 Euros and are valid for most trains in Europe. http://www.bahn.de/p/view/service/fahrrad/mitnahme/preise_fahrradmitnahme.shtml

By boat:
*Mark has done some price research on all the possible route to France, Belgium & Netherlands http://bit.ly/dzeFXJ The cheapest ferries are the ones from Dover, and tickets get more expensive further away.
*Sometimes it is possible to 'hitchhike' ferries by having your bike put onto a lorry and travelling on the ferry with that lorry but you need to have time for this.
*There is the "rail and sail" offer from STena line that goes between amsterdam/ rotterdam/ any station in NL and London via Harwich. Trip including train and ferry costs from 39 Euros one way, if you book at least 14 days in advance. http://www.stenaline.nl/en/ferry/london/ Don't try to look at the dutch train companies' website, it's utter crap and doesn't even show this connection...
*You can easily count on £25 - £30 from most ferry ports to london by train and a wee bit extra for your bike depending on which train company you travel with. So the Eurostar might be cheaper.

By bus/coach:
*Bringing a bicycle by international coach is not easy, although Mark and Elissa managed to take their bikes in large cardboard boxes from London to Vienna by Eurolines coach to start the 2004 tour. This was a coach company from Slovakia, maybe that made it easier.
*Taking bikes on buses and coaches in the UK is almost impossible, don't plan to do this.

Cycles in London:
*It might be possible to get hold of a bicycle in London or somewhere else in the UK - contact us if you are planning to do this. You should allow yourself time to organise this, and be aware that the organisers already have a lot of responsibilities before the tour starts.

General notes
*Any more ideas how to come to the tour? mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

=Route questions for the rest of Europe=

Who would like to take on the over-view of Belgium ? Laura has it at the moment, but she's going to be on the whole tour, so it might not be so great for it to be just her, since she won't be particularly contactable.

:: For Belgium, google fietsroutenetwork or see http://www.fietsnet.be/routeplanner/ with 18000 km of bikeroutes in Belgium. And I'll ask around in my Maastricht web for Dutch contacts as it seems bt will go through south of limburg - Daniël.

= Route Ideas 2011=

Ideas for 2011 include baltic states, belarus, ukraine, switzerland, italy, greece...If you have ideas for 2011, however crazy, or if you are interested in being a regional or international co-ordinator, please do so on the bt-org or biketour lists, or write to info[at]ecotopiabiketour.net
It's really helpful (for themselves) for people interested in being co-ordinators next year, to join the tour for at least a week this year!
Also contact us if you're interested in doing an EVS (European Voluntary Service) project as the ecotopia biketour.

Route 2010

2010-06-07T10:01:48Z

Moritz: /* UK */

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2010-05-15T14:00:36Z

Moritz:

Auf geht’s!

Mach mit bei der Ecotopia Biketour 2010 - Der Radtour für Klimagerechtigkeit in Westeuropa!

Wir brauchen uns keine Sorgen zu machen, um Vulkanaschewolken die uns in die Quere kommen könnten - statt dessen schwingen wir uns auf die Räder und fahren von England nach Köln – Los geht´s in North Yorkshire, via Oxford, Bristol, Caen, Le Havre, Calais, Ostende und Brüssel. Mehr als 2 Monate lang, vom 25. Juni bis zum 31. August 2010, über 1700 Radkilometer hinweg konzentrieren wir uns dabei auf ein Thema: Klimagerechtigkeit.

<-Hier geht’s direkt zur Anmeldung ->

Die Ecotopia Biketour ist keine vorgekaute und durchorganisierte Radrundreise, auf der wir einfach so durch hübsche Panoramen strampeln, sondern eine selbstorganisierte Umweltkampagne voller Aktionen! Unterwegs werden wir Gruppen und Initiativen darin unterstützen, sich gegen mächtige Industrie-Interessen durchzusetzen; wir werden unseren Beitrag leisten die Mythen der Atomkraftlobby zu entlarven und mischen uns mit direkten Aktionen in die Diskussion um die Öl- und Kohleindustrie ein; wir werden Alternativen zu Autobahnerweiterungen aufzeigen und den Wandel zur autofreien Gesellschaft unterstützen! Was dabei herauskommt, wenn wir den Klimaschutz den Herrschenden überlassen, haben wir in Kopenhagen gesehen. Deshalb müssen wir den Schutz des Klimas in die eigenen Hände nehmen. Dabei organisieren wir uns auf eben jene Art und Weise mit der unserer Meinung nach auch die globalen Themen behandelt werden müssen – mit Entscheidungsfindung auf Konsensbasis, wo jeder/m Betroffene/r Gehör geschenkt wird. Jede Woche wird es Workshops und Diskussionen geben aber natürlich werden auch Spass, Spiele und Gemeinschaftsleben nicht zu kurz kommen. Es warten einige Höhepunkte auf uns: die World Carfree Conference in York (www.worldcarfree.net/conference) gleich am Anfang, das französische Klimacamp (campclimat.org) im Juli und das deutsche (www.klimacamp2010.de) im August. Und während der gesamten Tour werden wir Gruppen treffen, die nachhaltige Entwicklung in ihre Hände nehmen: es selber machen, sähen und ernten, etwa in Form von Permakultur oder mit erneuerbaren Energien, die Recyceln, was nicht wiederbenutzt werden kann, die der Natur langfristig Schutzräume bieten ... aber natürlich wird auch das kreative Chaos nicht ausbleiben – denn die Ecotopia Biketour ist das, was wir daraus machen!

Wenn du...

- um die 50 km pro Tag radfahren kannst und mit dem einen oder anderen Regentag fertig wirst
- dich für Umweltthemen und soziale Gerechtigkeit interessierst und findest, dass da ein paar Aktionen nötig sind
- gern im Konsens mitentscheidest, auf englisch und manchmal auch nach einem langen Tag auf dem Rad
- kein Problem damit hast dir mit anderen internationalen Freiwilligen die täglich anfallenden Aufgaben zu teilen (Dinge wie Essen kochen, Fahrradanhänger ziehen, den Abwasch erledigne oder ein Auge drauf zu haben, dass wir die Schlafplätze aufgeräumt verlassen)

...dann komm vorbei und fahr mit!

*[Wie das geht findest du hier heraus]*

Dazu solltest du dir als erstes Prinzipien und Idee der Fahrradtour durchlesen und dann das Anmeldeformular ausfüllen:

http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net/join-us/registration

Wenn Du nicht aus dem Schengenraum oder der UK kommst, musst du klären, ob du ein Visum brauchst für einen der beiden Visaräume. Falls ja dann wende dich als bald als möglich an uns, damit wir sagen können, wie wir dir helfen können, dein Visum zu beantragen.

Der tägliche Teilnahmebeitrag liegt zwischen 4 und 8 € - wenn du dich in einer ökonomisch guten Situation befindest, auch gerne mehr. Das sollte reichen, um für alles aufzukommen: Die Organisation der Tour, all die Veranstaltungen unterwegs, Aktionen & Workshops, 3 vegetarische Mahlzeiten pro Tag und jede Nacht einen Platz für unsere Zelte.
Wenn du von Anfang an dabei sein willst: Wir treffen uns am Freitag Morgen, den 25. Juni in London. Am Abend nehmen wir Teil an einer Critical Mass in London. Falls Du in London lebst und uns helfen willst, es gäbe noch einiges vorzubereiten – z.B. ein Banner für die CM, Siebdruck für Biketour T-Shirts, lecker Essen … wende Dich vertrauensvoll an uns.
Am Samstag, den 26.6. reisen wir dann gemeinsam Richtung Norden um dort diejenigen zu treffen, die aus allen Richtungen dem Treck aus der Hauptstadt entgegenkommen. Zum ersten Mal gemeinsam radfahren werden wir am Samstag Nachmittag in North Yorkshire. Den genauen Startort geben wir bekannt, sobald wir einen geeigneten ersten Schafplatz gefunden haben – irgendwo 60 Meilen nördlich von York.
Du kannst Dich uns dann auch irgendwo, irgendwann on the road anschließen, aber bitte kündige dich vorher an, damit wir wissen, wann wir mit dir rechnen können. Die Route kristallisiert sich von Tag zu Tag deutlicher heraus.

Wir hätten noch eine Menge zu sagen, wie mensch sich auf die Biketour vorbereiten und bei der Vorbereitung helfen kann, schließlich ist es eine selbstorganisierte Tour und alles, was von zu Hause schon erledigt wurde, müssen wir während der Tour nicht mehr organisieren. Aber um die Einladung in einer angenehmen Länge zu halten verweisen wir an diesem Punkt auf unsere Website: www.ecotopiabiketour.net. Und wenn Du dann noch Fragen hast, nur zu! Du findest uns auch auf Facebook und kannst auch in Form von Twitter einen heißen Draht zu uns halten. Noch schöner wäre es allerdings wir würden uns draußen, auf der Straße treffen!

vive la velorution
Laura und Moritz
die diesjährigen internationalen KoordinatorInnen
info@ecotopiabiketour.net

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2010-05-15T13:46:17Z

Moritz:

Auf geht’s!

Mach mit bei der Ecotopia Biketour 2010 - Der Radtour für Klimagerechtigkeit in Westeuropa!

Wir brauchen uns keine Sorgen zu machen, um Vulkanaschewolken die uns in die Quere kommen könnten - statt dessen schwingen wir uns auf die Räder und fahren von England nach Köln – Los geht´s in North Yorkshire, via Oxford, Bristol, Caen, Le Havre, Calais, Ostende und Brüssel. Mehr als 2 Monate lang, vom 25. Juni bis zum 31. August 2010, über 1700 Radkilometer hinweg konzentrieren wir uns dabei auf ein Thema: Klimagerechtigkeit.

<-Hier geht’s direkt zur Anmeldung ->

Die Ecotopia Biketour ist keine vorgekaute und durchorganisierte Radrundreise, auf der wir einfach so durch hübsche Panoramen strampeln, sondern eine selbstorganisierte Umweltkampagne voller Aktionen! Unterwegs werden wir Gruppen und Initiativen darin unterstützen, sich gegen mächtige Industrie-Interessen durchzusetzen; wir werden unseren Beitrag leisten die Mythen der Atomkraftlobby zu entlarven und mischen uns mit direkten Aktionen in die Diskussion um die Öl- und Kohleindustrie ein; wir werden Alternativen zu Autobahnerweiterungen aufzeigen und den Wandel zur autofreien Gesellschaft unterstützen! Was dabei herauskommt, wenn wir den Klimaschutz den Herrschenden überlassen, haben wir in Kopenhagen gesehen. Deshalb müssen wir den Schutz des Klimas in die eigenen Hände nehmen. Dabei organisieren wir uns auf eben jene Art und Weise mit der unserer Meinung nach auch die globalen Themen behandelt werden müssen – mit Entscheidungsfindung auf Konsensbasis, wo jeder/m Betroffene/r Gehör geschenkt wird. Jede Woche wird es Workshops und Diskussionen geben aber natürlich werden auch Spass, Spiele und Gemeinschaftsleben nicht zu kurz kommen. Es warten einige Höhepunkte auf uns: die World Carfree Conference in York gleich am Anfang, das französische Klimacamp im Juli und das deutsche im August. Und während der gesamten Tour werden wir Gruppen treffen, die nachhaltige Entwicklung in ihre Hände nehmen: es selber machen, sähen und ernten, etwa in Form von Permakultur oder mit erneuerbaren Energien, die Recyceln, was nicht wiederbenutzt werden kann, die der Natur langfristig Schutzräume bieten ... aber natürlich wird auch das kreative Chaos nicht ausbleiben – denn die Ecotopia Biketour ist das, was wir daraus machen!

Wenn du...

- um die 50 km pro Tag radfahren kannst und mit dem einen oder anderen Regentag fertig wirst
- dich für Umweltthemen und soziale Gerechtigkeit interessierst und findest, dass da ein paar Aktionen nötig sind
- gern im Konsens mitentscheidest, auf englisch und manchmal auch nach einem langen Tag auf dem Rad
- kein Problem damit hast dir mit anderen internationalen Freiwilligen die täglich anfallenden Aufgaben zu teilen (Dinge wie Essen kochen, Fahrradanhänger ziehen, den Abwasch erledigne oder ein Auge drauf zu haben, dass wir die Schlafplätze aufgeräumt verlassen)

...dann komm vorbei und fahr mit!

*[Wie das geht findest du hier heraus]*

Dazu solltest du dir als erstes Prinzipien und Idee der Fahrradtour durchlesen und dann das Anmeldeformular ausfüllen:

http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net/join-us/registration

Wenn Du nicht aus dem Schengenraum oder der UK kommst, musst du klären, ob du ein Visum brauchst für einen der beiden Visaräume. Falls ja dann wende dich als bald als möglich an uns, damit wir sagen können, wie wir dir helfen können, dein Visum zu beantragen.

Der tägliche Teilnahmebeitrag liegt zwischen 4 und 8 € - wenn du dich in einer ökonomisch guten Situation befindest, auch gerne mehr. Das sollte reichen, um für alles aufzukommen: Die Organisation der Tour, all die Veranstaltungen unterwegs, Aktionen & Workshops, 3 vegetarische Mahlzeiten pro Tag und jede Nacht einen Platz für unsere Zelte.
Wenn du von Anfang an dabei sein willst: Wir treffen uns am Freitag Morgen, den 25. Juni in London. Am Abend nehmen wir Teil an einer Critical Mass in London. Falls Du in London lebst und uns helfen willst, es gäbe noch einiges vorzubereiten – z.B. ein Banner für die CM, Siebdruck für Biketour T-Shirts, lecker Essen … wende Dich vertrauensvoll an uns.
Am Samstag, den 26.6. reisen wir dann gemeinsam Richtung Norden um dort diejenigen zu treffen, die aus allen Richtungen dem Treck aus der Hauptstadt entgegenkommen. Zum ersten Mal gemeinsam radfahren werden wir am Samstag Nachmittag in North Yorkshire. Den genauen Startort geben wir bekannt, sobald wir einen geeigneten ersten Schafplatz gefunden haben – irgendwo 60 Meilen nördlich von York.
Du kannst Dich uns dann auch irgendwo, irgendwann on the road anschließen, aber bitte kündige dich vorher an, damit wir wissen, wann wir mit dir rechnen können. Die Route kristallisiert sich von Tag zu Tag deutlicher heraus.

Wir hätten noch eine Menge zu sagen, wie mensch sich auf die Biketour vorbereiten und bei der Vorbereitung helfen kann, schließlich ist es eine selbstorganisierte Tour und alles, was von zu Hause schon erledigt wurde, müssen wir während der Tour nicht mehr organisieren. Aber um die Einladung in einer angenehmen Länge zu halten verweisen wir an diesem Punkt auf unsere Website: www.ecotopiabiketour.net. Und wenn Du dann noch Fragen hast, nur zu! Du findest uns auch auf Facebook und kannst auch in Form von Twitter einen heißen Draht zu uns halten. Noch schöner wäre es allerdings wir würden uns draußen, auf der Straße treffen!

vive la velorution
Laura und Moritz
die diesjährigen internationalen KoordinatorInnen
info@ecotopiabiketour.net

Join bt text in german

2010-05-15T13:45:35Z

Moritz:

Auf geht’s!

Mach mit bei der Ecotopia Biketour 2010 - Der Radtour für Klimagerechtigkeit in Westeuropa!

Wir brauchen uns keine Sorgen zu machen, um Vulkanaschewolken die uns in die Quere kommen könnten - statt dessen schwingen wir uns auf die Räder und fahren von England nach Köln – Los geht´s in North Yorkshire, via Oxford, Bristol, Caen, Le Havre, Calais, Ostende und Brüssel. Mehr als 2 Monate lang, vom 25. Juni bis zum 31. August 2010, über 1700 Radkilometer hinweg konzentrieren wir uns dabei auf ein Thema: Klimagerechtigkeit.

<-Hier geht’s direkt zur Anmeldung ->

Die Ecotopia Biketour ist keine vorgekaute und durchorganisierte Radrundreise, auf der wir einfach so durch hübsche Panoramen strampeln, sondern eine selbstorganisierte Umweltkampagne voller Aktionen! Unterwegs werden wir Gruppen und Initiativen darin unterstützen, sich gegen mächtige Industrie-Interessen durchzusetzen; wir werden unseren Beitrag leisten die Mythen der Atomkraftlobby zu entlarven und mischen uns mit direkten Aktionen in die Diskussion um die Öl- und Kohleindustrie ein; wir werden Alternativen zu Autobahnerweiterungen aufzeigen und den Wandel zur autofreien Gesellschaft unterstützen! Was dabei herauskommt, wenn wir den Klimaschutz den Herrschenden überlassen, haben wir in Kopenhagen gesehen. Deshalb müssen wir den Schutz des Klimas in die eigenen Hände nehmen. Dabei organisieren wir uns auf eben jene Art und Weise mit der unserer Meinung nach auch die globalen Themen behandelt werden müssen – mit Entscheidungsfindung auf Konsensbasis, wo jeder/m Betroffene/r Gehör geschenkt wird. Jede Woche wird es Workshops und Diskussionen geben aber natürlich werden auch Spass, Spiele und Gemeinschaftsleben nicht zu kurz kommen. Es warten einige Höhepunkte auf uns: die World Carfree Conference in York gleich am Anfang, das französische Klimacamp im Juli und das deutsche im August. Und während der gesamten Tour werden wir Gruppen treffen, die nachhaltige Entwicklung in ihre Hände nehmen: es selber machen, sähen und ernten, etwa in Form von Permakultur oder mit erneuerbaren Energien, die Recyceln, was nicht wiederbenutzt werden kann, die der Natur langfristig Schutzräume bieten ... aber natürlich wird auch das kreative Chaos nicht ausbleiben – denn die Ecotopia Biketour ist das, was wir daraus machen!

Wenn du...

- um die 50 km pro Tag radfahren kannst und mit dem einen oder anderen Regentag fertig wirst
- dich für Umweltthemen und soziale Gerechtigkeit interessierst und findest, dass da ein paar Aktionen nötig sind
- gern im Konsens mitentscheidest, auf englisch und manchmal auch nach einem langen Tag auf dem Rad
- kein Problem damit hast dir mit anderen internationalen Freiwilligen die täglich anfallenden Aufgaben zu teilen (Dinge wie Essen kochen, Fahrradanhänger ziehen, den Abwasch erledigne oder ein Auge drauf zu haben, dass wir die Schlafplätze aufgeräumt verlassen)

...dann komm vorbei und fahr mit!

*[Wie das geht findest du hier heraus]*

Dazu solltest du dir als erstes Prinzipien und Idee der Fahrradtour durchlesen und dann das Anmeldeformular ausfüllen:

http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net/join-us/registration

Wenn Du nicht aus dem Schengenraum oder der UK kommst, musst du klären, ob du ein Visum brauchst für einen der beiden Visaräume. Falls ja dann wende dich als bald als möglich an uns, damit wir sagen können, wie wir dir helfen können, dein Visum zu beantragen.

Der tägliche Teilnahmebeitrag liegt zwischen 4 und 8 € - wenn du dich in einer ökonomisch guten Situation befindest, auch gerne mehr. Das sollte reichen, um für alles aufzukommen: Die Organisation der Tour, all die Veranstaltungen unterwegs, Aktionen & Workshops, 3 vegetarische Mahlzeiten pro Tag und jede Nacht einen Platz für unsere Zelte.
Wenn du von Anfang an dabei sein willst: Wir treffen uns am Freitag Morgen, den 25. Juni in London. Am Abend nehmen wir Teil an einer Critical Mass in London. Falls Du in London lebst und uns helfen willst, es gäbe noch einiges vorzubereiten – z.B. ein Banner für die CM, Siebdruck für Biketour T-Shirts, lecker Essen … wende Dich vertrauensvoll an uns.
Am Samstag, den 26.6. reisen wir dann gemeinsam Richtung Norden um dort diejenigen zu treffen, die aus allen Richtungen dem Treck aus der Hauptstadt entgegenkommen. Zum ersten Mal gemeinsam radfahren werden wir am Samstag Nachmittag in North Yorkshire. Den genauen Startort geben wir bekannt, sobald wir einen geeigneten ersten Schafplatz gefunden haben – irgendwo 60 Meilen nördlich von York.
Du kannst Dich uns dann auch irgendwo, irgendwann on the road anschließen, aber bitte kündige dich vorher an, damit wir wissen, wann wir mit dir rechnen können. Die Route kristallisiert sich von Tag zu Tag deutlicher heraus.

Wir hätten noch eine Menge zu sagen, wie mensch sich auf die Biketour vorbereiten und bei der Vorbereitung helfen kann, schließlich ist es eine selbstorganisierte Tour und alles, was von zu Hause schon erledigt wurde, müssen wir während der Tour nicht mehr organisieren. Aber um die Einladung in einer angenehmen Länge zu halten verweisen wir an diesem Punkt auf unsere Website: www.ecotopiabiketour.net. Und wenn Du dann noch Fragen hast, nur zu! Du findest uns auch auf Facebook und kannst auch in Form vo Twitter einen heißen Draht zu uns halten. Noch schöner wäre es allerdings wir würden uns draußen, auf der Straße treffen!

vive la velorution
Laura und Moritz
die diesjährigen internationalen KoordinatorInnen
info@ecotopiabiketour.net

Join bt text in german

2010-05-15T13:34:16Z

Moritz:

Auf geht’s!

Mach mit bei der Ecotopia Biketour 2010 - Der Radtour für Klimagerechtigkeit in Westeuropa!

Wir brauchen uns keine Sorgen zu machen, um Vulkanaschewolken die uns in die Quere kommen könnten - statt dessen schwingen wir uns auf die Räder und fahren von England nach Köln – Los geht´s in North Yorkshire, via Oxford, Bristol, Caen, Le Havre, Calais, Ostende und Brüssel. Mehr als 2 Monate lang, vom 25. Juni bis zum 31. August 2010, über 1700 Radkilometer hinweg konzentrieren wir uns dabei auf ein Thema: Klimagerechtigkeit.

<-Hier geht’s direkt zur Anmeldung ->

Die Ecotopia Biketour ist keine vorgekaute und durchorganisierte Radrundreise, auf der wir einfach so durch hübsche Panoramen strampeln, sondern eine selbstorganisierte Umweltkampagne voller Aktionen! Unterwegs werden wir Gruppen und Initativen darin unterstützen, sich gegen mächtige Industrie-Interessen durchzusetzen; wir werden unseren Beitrag leisten die Mythen der Atomkraftlobby zu entlarven und mischen uns mit direkten Aktionen in die Diskussion um die Öl- und Kohleindustrie ein; wir werden Alternativen zu Autobahnerweiterungen aufzeigen und den Wandel zur autofreien Gesellschaft unterstützen! Was dabei herauskommt, wenn wir den Klimaschutz den Herrschenden überlassen, haben wir in Kopenhagen gesehen. Deshalb müssen wir den Schutz des Klimas in die eigenen Hände nehmen. Dabei organisieren wir uns auf eben jene Art und Weise mit der unserer Meinung nach auch die globalen Themen behandelt werden müssen – mit Entscheidungsfindung auf Konsensbasis, wo jeder/m Betroffene/r Gehör geschenkt wird. Jede Woche wird es Workshops und Diskussionen geben aber natürlich werden auch Spass, Spiele und Gemeinschaftsleben nicht zu kurz kommen. Es warten einige Höhepunkte auf uns: die World Carfree Conference in York gleich am Anfang, das französische Klimacamp im Juli und das deutsche im August. Und während der gesammten Tour werden wir Gruppen treffen, die nachhaltige Entwicklung in ihre Hände nehmen: es selber machen, sähen und ernten, etwa in Form von Permakultur oder mit erneuerbaren Energien, die Recyceln, was nicht wiederbenutzt werden kann, die der Natur langfristig Schutzräume bieten ... aber natürlich wird auch das kreative Chaos nicht ausbleiben – denn die Ecotopia Biketour ist das, was wir daraus machen!

Wenn du...

- um die 50 km pro Tag radfahren kannst und mit dem einen oder anderen Regentag fertig wirst
- dich für Umweltthemen und soziale Gerechtigkeit interessierst und findest, dass da ein paar Aktionen nötig sind
- gern im Konsens mitentscheidest, auf englisch und manchmal auch nach einem langen Tag auf dem Rad
- kein Problem damit hast dir mit anderen interantionalen Freiwilligen die täglich anfallenden Aufgaben zu teilen (Dinge wie Essen kochen, Fahrradanhänger ziehen, den Abwasch erledigne oder ein Auge drauf zu haben, dass wir die Schlafpätze aufgeräumt verlassen)

...dann komm vorbei und fahr mit!

*[Wie das geht findest du hier heraus]*

Dazu solltest du dir als erstes Prinzipien und Idee der Fahrradtour durchlesen und dann das Anmeldeformular ausfüllen:

http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net/join-us/registration

Wenn Du nicht aus dem Schengenraum oder der UK kommst, musst du klären, ob du ein Visum brauchst für einen der beiden Visaräume. Falls ja dann wende dich als bald als möglich an uns, damit wir sagen können, wie wir dir helfen können, dein Visum zu beantragen.

Der tägliche Teilnahmebeitrag liegt zwischen 4 und 8 € - wenn du dich in einer ökonomisch guten Situation befindest, auch gerne mehr. Das sollte reichen, um für alles aufzukommen: Die Organisation der Tour, all die Veranstaltungen unterwegs, Aktionen & Workshops, 3 vegetarische Mahlzeiten pro Tag und jede Nacht einen Platz für unsere Zelte.
Wenn du von Anfang an dabei sein willst: Wir treffen uns am Freitag Morgen, den 25. Juni in London. Am Abend nehmen wir Teil an einer Critical Mass in London. Falls Du in London lebst und uns helfen willst, es gäbe noch einiges vorzubereiten – z.B. ein Banner für die CM, Siebdruck für Biketour-T-Shirts, lecker Essen … wende Dich vertrauensvoll an uns.
Am Samstag, den 26.6. reisen wir dann gemeinsam Richtung Norden um dort diejenigen zu treffen, die aus allen Richtungen dem Treck aus der Hauptstadt entgegenkommen. Zum ersten Mal gemeinsam Radfahren werden wir am Samstag Nachmittag in North Yorkshire. Den genauen Startort geben wir bekannt, sobald wir einen geeigneten ersten Schafplatz gefunden haben – irgentwo 60 Meilen nördich von York.
Du kannst Dich uns dann auch irgendwo, irgendwann on the road anschliessen, aber bitte kündige Dich vorher an, damit wir wissen, wann wir mit dir rechnen können. Die Route kristalisiert sich von Tag zu Tag deutlicher heraus.

Wir hätten noch ne Menge zu sagen, wie mensch sich auf die Biketour vorbereiten kann und wie mensch bei der Vorbereitung helfen kann, schliesslich ist es eine selbstorganisierte Tour und alles, was von zu Hause schon erledigt wurde, müssen wir während der Tour nicht mehr organisieren. Aber um die Einladung in einer angenehmen Länge zu halten verweisen wir an diesem Punkt auf unsere Website: www.ecotopiabiketour.net. Und wenn Du dann noch Fragen hast, nur zu! Du findest uns auch auf Facebook und kannst auch in Form vo Twitter einen heißen Draht zu uns halten. Noch schöner wäre es allerdings wir würden uns draußen, auf der Strasse treffen!

vive la velorution
Laura und Moritz
die diesjährigen internationalen KoordinatorInnen
info@ecotopiabiketour.net

Join bt text in german

2010-05-15T13:32:19Z

Moritz:

Auf geht’s!

Mach mit bei der Ecotopia Biketour 2010 - Der Radtour für Klimagerechtigkeit in Westeuropa!

Wir brauchen uns keine Sorgen zu machen, um Vulkanaschewolken die uns in die Quere kommen könnten - statt dessen schwingen wir uns auf die Räder und fahren von England nach Köln – Los geht´s in North Yorkshire, via Oxford, Bristol, Caen, Le Havre, Calais, Ostende und Brüssel. Mehr als 2 Monate lang, vom 25. Juni bis zum 31. August 2010, über 1700 Radkilometer hinweg konzentrieren wir uns dabei auf ein Thema: Klimagerechtigkeit.

<-Hier geht’s direkt zur Anmeldung ->

Die Ecotopia Biketour ist keine vorgekaute und durchorganisierte Radrundreise, auf der wir einfach so durch hübsche Panoramen strampeln, sondern eine selbstorganisierte Umweltkampagne voller Aktionen! Unterwegs werden wir Gruppen und Initativen darin unterstützen, sich gegen mächtige Industrie-Interessen durchzusetzen; wir werden unseren Beitrag leisten die Mythen der Atomkraftlobby zu entlarven und mischen uns mit direkten Aktionen in die Diskussion um die Öl- und Kohleindustrie ein; wir werden Alternativen zu Autobahnerweiterungen aufzeigen und den Wandel zur autofreien Gesellschaft unterstützen! Was dabei herauskommt, wenn wir den Klimaschutz den Herrschenden überlassen, haben wir in Kopenhagen gesehen. Deshalb müssen wir den Schutz des Klimas in die eigenen Hände nehmen. Dabei organisieren wir uns auf eben jene Art und Weise mit der unserer Meinung nach auch die globalen Themen behandelt werden müssen – mit Entscheidungsfindung auf Konsensbasis, wo jeder/m Betroffene/r Gehör geschenkt wird. Jede Woche wird es Workshops und Diskussionen geben aber natürlich werden auch Spass, Spiele und Gemeinschaftsleben nicht zu kurz kommen. Es warten einige Höhepunkte auf uns: die World Carfree Conference in York gleich am Anfang, das französische Klimacamp im Juli und das deutsche im August. Und während der gesammten Tour werden wir Gruppen treffen, die nachhaltige Entwicklung in ihre Hände nehmen: es selber machen, sähen und ernten, etwa in Form von Permakultur oder mit erneuerbaren Energien, die Recyceln, was nicht wiederbenutzt werden kann, die der Natur langfristig Schutzräume bieten ... aber natürlich wird auch das kreative Chaos nicht ausbleiben – denn die Ecotopia Biketour ist das, was wir daraus machen!

Wenn du...

- um die 50 km pro Tag radfahren kannst und mit dem einen oder anderen Regentag fertig wirst
- dich für Umweltthemen und soziale Gerechtigkeit interessierst und findest, dass da ein paar Aktionen nötig sind
- gern im Konsens mitentscheidest, auf englisch und manchmal auch nach einem langen Tag auf dem Rad
- kein Problem damit hast dir mit anderen interantionalen Freiwilligen die täglich anfallenden Aufgaben zu teilen (Dinge wie Essen kochen, Fahrradanhänger ziehen, den Abwasch erledigne oder ein Auge drauf zu haben, dass wir die Schlafpätze aufgeräumt verlassen)

...dann komm vorbei und fahr mit!

*[Wie das geht findest du hier heraus]*

Als erstes liest Du Dir Idee und Form der Biketour auf unserer Website durch und füllst dann das Anmeldeformular aus:

http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net/join-us/registration

Wenn Du nicht aus dem Schengenraum oder der UK kommst, musst du klären, ob du ein Visum brauchst für einen der beiden Visaräume. Falls ja dann wende dich als bald als möglich an uns, damit wir sagen können, wie wir dir helfen können, dein Visum zu beantragen.

Der tägliche Teilnahmebeitrag liegt zwischen 4 und 8 € - wenn du dich in einer ökonomisch guten Situation befindest, auch gerne mehr. Das sollte reichen, um für alles aufzukommen: Die Organisation der Tour, all die Veranstaltungen unterwegs, Aktionen & Workshops, 3 vegetarische Mahlzeiten pro Tag und jede Nacht einen Platz für unsere Zelte.
Wenn du von Anfang an dabei sein willst: Wir treffen uns am Freitag Morgen, den 25. Juni in London. Am Abend nehmen wir Teil an einer Critical Mass in London. Falls Du in London lebst und uns helfen willst, es gäbe noch einiges vorzubereiten – z.B. ein Banner für die CM, Siebdruck für Biketour-T-Shirts, lecker Essen … wende Dich vertrauensvoll an uns.
Am Samstag, den 26.6. reisen wir dann gemeinsam Richtung Norden um dort diejenigen zu treffen, die aus allen Richtungen dem Treck aus der Hauptstadt entgegenkommen. Zum ersten Mal gemeinsam Radfahren werden wir am Samstag Nachmittag in North Yorkshire. Den genauen Startort geben wir bekannt, sobald wir einen geeigneten ersten Schafplatz gefunden haben – irgentwo 60 Meilen nördich von York.
Du kannst Dich uns dann auch irgendwo, irgendwann on the road anschliessen, aber bitte kündige Dich vorher an, damit wir wissen, wann wir mit dir rechnen können. Die Route kristalisiert sich von Tag zu Tag deutlicher heraus.

Wir hätten noch ne Menge zu sagen, wie mensch sich auf die Biketour vorbereiten kann und wie mensch bei der Vorbereitung helfen kann, schliesslich ist es eine selbstorganisierte Tour und alles, was von zu Hause schon erledigt wurde, müssen wir während der Tour nicht mehr organisieren. Aber um die Einladung in einer angenehmen Länge zu halten verweisen wir an diesem Punkt auf unsere Website: www.ecotopiabiketour.net. Und wenn Du dann noch Fragen hast, nur zu! Du findest uns auch auf Facebook und kannst auch in Form vo Twitter einen heißen Draht zu uns halten. Noch schöner wäre es allerdings wir würden uns draußen, auf der Strasse treffen!

vive la velorution
Laura und Moritz
die diesjährigen internationalen KoordinatorInnen
info@ecotopiabiketour.net

Main Page

2010-05-13T11:05:06Z

Moritz: /* Tasks */

(''nb: to edit the wiki, you need to [[Special:Userlogin|login]] with your account. if you dont have one, you make it [[Special:Userlogin|here]])''

==Welcome to the wiki of the ecotopia biketour==

===Information===
*[[What is bt]]?
*[[Frequently asked questions]]
*[[Route]]
*[[Map]]
*How to [[join]]

=== Organizing 2010 ecotopia biketour ===
This is a self-organized tour!

No club, no ngo, no political party. Just some people following an idea - since 1990!

In 2010 we are planning to start in the UK at the end of June, go to the [http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/ Towards Carfree Cities Conference], then onto the [http://www.campclimat.org/ Camp Action Climat] in France at the end of July, and finally through Belgium, the Netherlands & Germany in August.

We are searching for people who want to join BT 2010 and take part in its organisation - see '''[[organise BT 2010]]''' how far we got already and where u can help!

There is an explanation on [[what bt is]] and how to [[organise biketour]] and collected some nice [[ideas]] about improving BT.<br>

Right now we are also working on the [[website]]. And where the hell is our [[stuff]]?<br>

====Tasks====

'''IMPORTANT''' What we really need at the moment are following persons:
1 national co-ordinator in Germany
1 co-ordinator in the Netherlands
1 person in flenish Belgium, maybe even 2 (BT will be there for around one week)

we have quite a lot of job opportunities :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

* You can help us on-line!!! We do need help with moving pages from our old wikis and websites - have a look down to [[#Archive|archive]] - to this wiki. Also the [[website]] needs editing.

* Wiki organization
* Take care of moving old texts to here
* You can learn on [[How to edit Wiki]] for contributing
* Link this orphan pages: [[Special:Lonelypages]]

==Last years' tours==

===2009===
In 2009 we cycled from Macedonia to Croatia through Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here you find the traversed [[route 2009|route]], [[Links_BT_2009_-_Balkans|the links]] and the [[Meeting_minutes/Felt_the_heat|final evaluation]], a sort of lessons learned.

===2008===
*[[lessons learned]]
*[[checklist for national/local organisers]]
*[[checklist for international organisers]]

===2007===
[[Main Page 2007|Main Page of this wiki during 2007]] [[Route 2007|Route of Biketour 2007]] [[Map 2007|Map of Biketour 2007]]

===2006===
[[diary 06]], [[booklet 06]], [[pressrelease06 eng]], [[outreachmail participants 06 eng]],
[[traveltips to lithuania and poland]], [[short route description 06]], [[flyer06 eng]]

====Archive====
* campfire [[recipes]]
* [[texts about bt]]
* the 2005 wiki - bosnia, serbia, romaina and moldova: [http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]
* the 2004 wiki, quite some texts in czech and german: [http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]

Main Page

2010-05-13T11:04:25Z

Moritz: /* Tasks */

(''nb: to edit the wiki, you need to [[Special:Userlogin|login]] with your account. if you dont have one, you make it [[Special:Userlogin|here]])''

==Welcome to the wiki of the ecotopia biketour==

===Information===
*[[What is bt]]?
*[[Frequently asked questions]]
*[[Route]]
*[[Map]]
*How to [[join]]

=== Organizing 2010 ecotopia biketour ===
This is a self-organized tour!

No club, no ngo, no political party. Just some people following an idea - since 1990!

In 2010 we are planning to start in the UK at the end of June, go to the [http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/ Towards Carfree Cities Conference], then onto the [http://www.campclimat.org/ Camp Action Climat] in France at the end of July, and finally through Belgium, the Netherlands & Germany in August.

We are searching for people who want to join BT 2010 and take part in its organisation - see '''[[organise BT 2010]]''' how far we got already and where u can help!

There is an explanation on [[what bt is]] and how to [[organise biketour]] and collected some nice [[ideas]] about improving BT.<br>

Right now we are also working on the [[website]]. And where the hell is our [[stuff]]?<br>

====Tasks====

'''Bold text''' What we really need at the moment are following persons:
1 national co-ordinator in Germany
1 co-ordinator in the Netherlands
1 person in flenish Belgium, maybe even 2 (BT will be there for around one week)

we have quite a lot of job opportunities :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

* You can help us on-line!!! We do need help with moving pages from our old wikis and websites - have a look down to [[#Archive|archive]] - to this wiki. Also the [[website]] needs editing.

* Wiki organization
* Take care of moving old texts to here
* You can learn on [[How to edit Wiki]] for contributing
* Link this orphan pages: [[Special:Lonelypages]]

==Last years' tours==

===2009===
In 2009 we cycled from Macedonia to Croatia through Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here you find the traversed [[route 2009|route]], [[Links_BT_2009_-_Balkans|the links]] and the [[Meeting_minutes/Felt_the_heat|final evaluation]], a sort of lessons learned.

===2008===
*[[lessons learned]]
*[[checklist for national/local organisers]]
*[[checklist for international organisers]]

===2007===
[[Main Page 2007|Main Page of this wiki during 2007]] [[Route 2007|Route of Biketour 2007]] [[Map 2007|Map of Biketour 2007]]

===2006===
[[diary 06]], [[booklet 06]], [[pressrelease06 eng]], [[outreachmail participants 06 eng]],
[[traveltips to lithuania and poland]], [[short route description 06]], [[flyer06 eng]]

====Archive====
* campfire [[recipes]]
* [[texts about bt]]
* the 2005 wiki - bosnia, serbia, romaina and moldova: [http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]
* the 2004 wiki, quite some texts in czech and german: [http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]

Organise BT 2010

2010-02-27T16:48:16Z

Moritz: /* The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 */

= Organising Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ =

== Route ==

=== Overview ===
The Ecotopia Biketour will most likely move trough France and the UK this summer and maybe also visit Belguim and the Netherlands. One of our biggest stops will be the Climate Camp close to Le Havre from the 22nd of July to the 1st of August. There are some proposals for a route:

- to start at the world car free network conference from York (UK) at the 29th of June and travel to the south via Wales, cross the channel to France.

- to start at the WCN conference go to the north (maybe via Scotland) and take a ferry to the Netherlands or Belgium and go from there to France.

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

=== The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 ===

Here is an amazing list of activist events on or near the general route(s) we are talking about between May & August. Add anything else that you hear about. The list can also be seen on an open edit google map at http://bit.ly/ceNwc6

*26 - 28 May 2010 Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, Cologne, Germany

*31 May - 11 Jun 2010 UNFCCC First sessional period in 2010 Bonn, Germany (united nations climate change talks)

*12th June Naked bikeride, London, England [http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/London#Objectives_and_demands]

*19th June Naked Bikeride, Brussels, Belgium (to be confirmed)

*21-25 June - Two Degrees art/activism event being organised by Mark, London, England

*23rd June - 24th August: Baltic Sea Info Tour, Nuclear Heritage [http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Action:Infotour_Around_The_Baltic_Sea] to raise awareness aginast radioactive polution of the baltic sea

*25th June Critical Mass, London, England (& Brighton England)

*26-27 June - Exmouth Exodus - SW England equivalent of Dunwich Dynamo (see below) [http://exmouthexodus.co.uk/]

*28 June - 1 July Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX - York, England

*2nd July - 28th Aug Otesha project starts cycling, Lands End, Cornwall, England

*2-7 July - Tour de Elbe, international CZ-D ride from Decin /CZ/ to Magdeburg /D/ to promote Elberadweg

* 4. and 5. July - bikes not cars festival Amsterdam www.bikesnotcars.wordpress.com

*1-4 July 2010 "Velorution Universelle" a big critical mass in Paris, France [http://velorutionuniverselle.org/articles/spip.php?rubrique6]

*3 July - 15 August "AlterTour" tour-de-france for a non-doped planet, France [http://www.altertour.net/]

*1-6 july 2010 YOUPEC Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

* 8-11 July FOIBOS greenways conference, Budapest, Hungary

*22nd July - 1st August Camp Action Climat (french climate camp [http://www.campclimat.org]) near Le Havre, France.

*23-25 July The Big Tent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland

*25 July - 7 August - Tour de Natur (cycling tour middle of germany) www.tourdenatur.net

*23-27 July Peace News Summer Camp, Oxfordshire, England [http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1655]

*24-25 July Dunwich Dynamo, London-Suffolk (east coast), England - 190km overnight bike ride, not really an activist event, but one of the biggest mass participation, not-sport, bike events in the UK [http://www.southwarkcyclists.org.uk/dunwichfaqs.htm]

*25. july - 01. aug. Sieben Linden Sommercamp 2010

*30th July Critical Mass, London (& Brighton England)

*1-21st August Ecotopia, Flaeming, Germany

*18.-23.8. Earth First! Summer Camp, somewhere in the UK. time is set now, but still not sure where it will take place

*30. August - Pedal Power Day at Freestate Swomp Amsterdam http://swomp.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/pedal-power-dag-zondag-30-augustus/#more-920

*27th september - 5th of october No borders camp, brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travel on after BT.

* ongoing: Rossport Shell to Sea solidarity camp, Ireland [http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rsc/]
* ongoing: (right now, at least!) Mainshill Solidarity Camp, southern scotland [http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/]
* ongoing: http://www.lappersfort.tk/ a occupied forest in Belguim, people are resisting against the destruction of the forest - worth a visit
* ongoing: Major environmental in countries like Ukraine !

''Dates not set yet:''
*The UK Climate Camp regional groups are meeting right now (Jan & Feb) - it's very possible that there will be several summer Climate Camps across the UK in 2010 but we don't know yet. National gathering weekend of 13-14 February, Mark can't go but is trying to keep in touch with their plans
*Belgium Climate Camp (maybe in the same place as last year)
*Dutch Climate camp (will be separate from belgian one )
*YFoEE Summer Camp, probably early August, Poland
* Reclaim the Fields [http://bit.ly/6MA9hQ] maybe France, maybe Hungary..

=== Next Questions for the route: UK ===

How to get there:
*We need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

How to get from the UK back to the continent:
*Mark has done some price research on all the possible route to France, Belgium & Netherlands http://bit.ly/dzeFXJ The cheapest ferries are the ones from Dover, and tickets get more expensive further away.
*School holidays in England and Wales start Fri 23 July so we should cross the channel before then to get cheaper tickets.
*One possible cheap deal is the DutchFlyer, London-Amsterdam ticket, quite cheap (£29/€33) if it fits the route, including trains in UK and Netherlands - but may only be possible for a small number of bikes.
*We also need to consider using a bus/van if it makes taking bikes on the ferry cheaper
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*'''We need more contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for regional coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

===Route questions for the rest of Europe===

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info[at]ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard). (laura wants to add here: she didn't mean indigenous people from global south -indigenous people, but also/and/or voices from global south)
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

Seeds for Change Lancaster (a workers' coop offering activist trainings), they'd be up for giving us consensus, facilitation and other workshops as long as it is during the week, because summer weekends always are really busy.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would like to do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

Moritz & Laura are our international co-ordinators for 2010!

Mark is [one of?] regional co-ordinator for England!

=== Evs ===

Laura will be doing EVS with FoE FLanders & Brussels, being based in Gent from beginning of March 2010. Her main project there will be co-ordinating BT 2010!

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

== Meetings ==

''Things are moving!''

* Skype meetings (calls or chats) are happening weekly.

* Face-to-face '''Wintermeeting '''is going to be in '''MAINZ, Germany on 6th-7th FEB'''. Tell us if you are coming: [http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=xirvkc8ppb5ysbh4]

====Agenda of wintermeeting====
[http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] So here's the Agenda, please add to this, ''if it's something that doesn't already come under one of these topics''
Laura has made a new page [http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] to build-on each of these points to start of the discussions and to come to decisions/proposals. please put some notes or important facts or points, references to previous discussions that give direction as to how to move forward, and your thoughts- particularly if you aren't going to be at the wintermeeting. http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010

*Bringing laura & moritz up to speed on organising
====Route====
*To Ecotopia or not to ecotopia?
*Route, Calender of Events/places to go!
*National Co-ordinators & local organisations
====Aim====
*What on earth do we want to achieve/how do we want to do it.
*Climate Justice/or other theme workshop?
*How the f*** do we realistically achieve want we want to achieve
*Biketour's name & tagline brainstorm

====Process====
*Daily Routine during BT
*Evalutations + avoiding making the same mistakes
*Outreach & recruiting
how to get new participants? Biketour presantations on eco-meetings/summits/places were activists are
*Ecorates & participants fees
*Applications
*email lists & moderation
*decision making processes
rapid response, organiser's contact details?
*minimum participation days/ set joining days
====Outreach====
*media
*make a basic video here & now for BT!
*What things we need "training" in at the start of the biketour:
-theme of biketour
-successful groups are thanks for successful meetings
-concensus decision making
-getting to know eachother
-languages
-facilitating
-bicycle repair
-travelling vegan cooking
-dumpster diving
-open space
Brainstorm on who do we think would do hold these workshops
*website updates, wiki, facebook, social networks

====Logistics====
*Budget
both minimum & most ambitious
*Fundraising
*BT hardware
Trailer, cooking equiptment, bike repair stuff.. Do we have it; how is it getting to the starting point
*Best kind of bicycle to get
*instruction booklet
*tshirts/bags/patches/screenprinting biketour-propaganda stuff mainly for participants!
*Think about all those extra things
To do with process, route, co-ordinators...If at the end of the biketour you say or think 'oh, if only we'd done....' or 'this could always have been done better......' !
'''*Biketour 2011'''
(laura) Ukraine? Baltic states? EVS or funding applications writing? co-ordinator recruitment
====Where to from here?====
*Organise next skype call, and/or next in-person meeting
*Make a road-map for the organisation of BT2010
laura would really appreciate this
Write down briefly the discussions had, all decisions made & briefly explain why
*People to do action points!

== Funding ==

Yo & mark are looking into funding so far.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize, as well as hosts and people who would potentially want to organise BT 2011 !

Organise BT 2010

2010-02-27T16:23:40Z

Moritz: /* The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 */

= Organising Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ =

== Route ==

=== Overview ===
The Ecotopia Biketour will most likely move trough France and the UK this summer and maybe also visit Belguim and the Netherlands. One of our biggest stops will be the Climate Camp close to Le Havre from the 22nd of July to the 1st of August. There are some proposals for a route:

- to start at the world car free network conference from York (UK) at the 29th of June and travel to the south via Wales, cross the channel to France.

- to start at the WCN conference go to the north (maybe via Scotland) and take a ferry to the Netherlands or Belgium and go from there to France.

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

=== The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 ===

Here is an amazing list of activist events on or near the general route(s) we are talking about between May & August. Add anything else that you hear about. The list can also be seen on an open edit google map at http://bit.ly/ceNwc6

*26 - 28 May 2010 Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, Cologne, Germany

*31 May - 11 Jun 2010 UNFCCC First sessional period in 2010 Bonn, Germany (united nations climate change talks)

*12th June Naked bikeride, London, England [http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/London#Objectives_and_demands]

*19th June Naked Bikeride, Brussels, Belgium (to be confirmed)

*21-25 June - Two Degrees art/activism event being organised by Mark, London, England

*23rd June - 24th August: Baltic Sea Info Tour, Nuclear Heritage [http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Action:Infotour_Around_The_Baltic_Sea] to raise awareness aginast radioactive polution of the baltic sea

*25th June Critical Mass, London, England (& Brighton England)

*26-27 June - Exmouth Exodus - SW England equivalent of Dunwich Dynamo (see below) [http://exmouthexodus.co.uk/]

*28 June - 1 July Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX - York, England

*2nd July - 28th Aug Otesha project starts cycling, Lands End, Cornwall, England

*2-7 July - Tour de Elbe, international CZ-D ride from Decin /CZ/ to Magdeburg /D/ to promote Elberadweg

* 4. and 5. July - bikes not cars festival Amsterdam www.bikesnotcars.wordpress.com

*1-4 July 2010 "Velorution Universelle" a big critical mass in Paris, France [http://velorutionuniverselle.org/articles/spip.php?rubrique6]

*3 July - 15 August "AlterTour" tour-de-france for a non-doped planet, France [http://www.altertour.net/]

*1-6 july 2010 YOUPEC Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

* 8-11 July FOIBOS greenways conference, Budapest, Hungary

*22nd July - 1st August Camp Action Climat (french climate camp [http://www.campclimat.org]) near Le Havre, France.

*23-25 July The Big Tent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland

*25 July - 7 August - Tour de Natur (cycling tour middle of germany) www.tourdenatur.net

*23-27 July Peace News Summer Camp, Oxfordshire, England [http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1655]

*24-25 July Dunwich Dynamo, London-Suffolk (east coast), England - 190km overnight bike ride, not really an activist event, but one of the biggest mass participation, not-sport, bike events in the UK [http://www.southwarkcyclists.org.uk/dunwichfaqs.htm]

*25. july - 01. aug. Sieben Linden Sommercamp 2010

*30th July Critical Mass, London (& Brighton England)

*1-21st August Ecotopia, Flaeming, Germany

*18.-23.8. Earth First! Summer Camp, somewhere in the UK. time is set now, but still not sure where it will take place

*27th september - 5th of october No borders camp, brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travel on after BT.

* ongoing: Rossport Shell to Sea solidarity camp, Ireland [http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rsc/]
* ongoing: (right now, at least!) Mainshill Solidarity Camp, southern scotland [http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/]
* ongoing: http://www.lappersfort.tk/ a occupied forest in Belguim, people are resisting against the destruction of the forest - worth a visit
* ongoing: Major environmental in countries like Ukraine !

''Dates not set yet:''
*The UK Climate Camp regional groups are meeting right now (Jan & Feb) - it's very possible that there will be several summer Climate Camps across the UK in 2010 but we don't know yet. National gathering weekend of 13-14 February, Mark can't go but is trying to keep in touch with their plans
*Belgium Climate Camp (maybe in the same place as last year)
*Dutch Climate camp (will be separate from belgian one )
*YFoEE Summer Camp, probably early August, Poland
* Reclaim the Fields [http://bit.ly/6MA9hQ] maybe France, maybe Hungary..

=== Next Questions for the route: UK ===

How to get there:
*We need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

How to get from the UK back to the continent:
*Mark has done some price research on all the possible route to France, Belgium & Netherlands http://bit.ly/dzeFXJ The cheapest ferries are the ones from Dover, and tickets get more expensive further away.
*School holidays in England and Wales start Fri 23 July so we should cross the channel before then to get cheaper tickets.
*One possible cheap deal is the DutchFlyer, London-Amsterdam ticket, quite cheap (£29/€33) if it fits the route, including trains in UK and Netherlands - but may only be possible for a small number of bikes.
*We also need to consider using a bus/van if it makes taking bikes on the ferry cheaper
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*'''We need more contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for regional coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

===Route questions for the rest of Europe===

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info[at]ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard). (laura wants to add here: she didn't mean indigenous people from global south -indigenous people, but also/and/or voices from global south)
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

Seeds for Change Lancaster (a workers' coop offering activist trainings), they'd be up for giving us consensus, facilitation and other workshops as long as it is during the week, because summer weekends always are really busy.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would like to do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

Moritz & Laura are our international co-ordinators for 2010!

Mark is [one of?] regional co-ordinator for England!

=== Evs ===

Laura will be doing EVS with FoE FLanders & Brussels, being based in Gent from beginning of March 2010. Her main project there will be co-ordinating BT 2010!

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

== Meetings ==

''Things are moving!''

* Skype meetings (calls or chats) are happening weekly.

* Face-to-face '''Wintermeeting '''is going to be in '''MAINZ, Germany on 6th-7th FEB'''. Tell us if you are coming: [http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=xirvkc8ppb5ysbh4]

====Agenda of wintermeeting====
[http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] So here's the Agenda, please add to this, ''if it's something that doesn't already come under one of these topics''
Laura has made a new page [http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] to build-on each of these points to start of the discussions and to come to decisions/proposals. please put some notes or important facts or points, references to previous discussions that give direction as to how to move forward, and your thoughts- particularly if you aren't going to be at the wintermeeting. http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010

*Bringing laura & moritz up to speed on organising
====Route====
*To Ecotopia or not to ecotopia?
*Route, Calender of Events/places to go!
*National Co-ordinators & local organisations
====Aim====
*What on earth do we want to achieve/how do we want to do it.
*Climate Justice/or other theme workshop?
*How the f*** do we realistically achieve want we want to achieve
*Biketour's name & tagline brainstorm

====Process====
*Daily Routine during BT
*Evalutations + avoiding making the same mistakes
*Outreach & recruiting
how to get new participants? Biketour presantations on eco-meetings/summits/places were activists are
*Ecorates & participants fees
*Applications
*email lists & moderation
*decision making processes
rapid response, organiser's contact details?
*minimum participation days/ set joining days
====Outreach====
*media
*make a basic video here & now for BT!
*What things we need "training" in at the start of the biketour:
-theme of biketour
-successful groups are thanks for successful meetings
-concensus decision making
-getting to know eachother
-languages
-facilitating
-bicycle repair
-travelling vegan cooking
-dumpster diving
-open space
Brainstorm on who do we think would do hold these workshops
*website updates, wiki, facebook, social networks

====Logistics====
*Budget
both minimum & most ambitious
*Fundraising
*BT hardware
Trailer, cooking equiptment, bike repair stuff.. Do we have it; how is it getting to the starting point
*Best kind of bicycle to get
*instruction booklet
*tshirts/bags/patches/screenprinting biketour-propaganda stuff mainly for participants!
*Think about all those extra things
To do with process, route, co-ordinators...If at the end of the biketour you say or think 'oh, if only we'd done....' or 'this could always have been done better......' !
'''*Biketour 2011'''
(laura) Ukraine? Baltic states? EVS or funding applications writing? co-ordinator recruitment
====Where to from here?====
*Organise next skype call, and/or next in-person meeting
*Make a road-map for the organisation of BT2010
laura would really appreciate this
Write down briefly the discussions had, all decisions made & briefly explain why
*People to do action points!

== Funding ==

Yo & mark are looking into funding so far.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize, as well as hosts and people who would potentially want to organise BT 2011 !

Organise BT 2010

2010-02-25T21:14:37Z

Moritz: /* Oerview */

= Organising Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ =

== Route ==

=== Overview ===
The Ecotopia Biketour will most likely move trough France and the UK this summer and maybe also visit Belguim and the Netherlands. One of our biggest stops will be the Climate Camp close to Le Havre from the 22nd of July to the 1st of August. There are some proposals for a route:

- to start at the world car free network conference from York (UK) at the 29th of June and travel to the south via Wales, cross the channel to France.

- to start at the WCN conference go to the north (maybe via Scotland) and take a ferry to the Netherlands or Belgium and go from there to France.

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

=== The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 ===

Here is an amazing list of activist events on or near the general route(s) we are talking about between May & August. Add anything else that you hear about. The list can also be seen on an open edit google map at http://bit.ly/ceNwc6

*26 - 28 May 2010 Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, Cologne, Germany

*31 May - 11 Jun 2010 UNFCCC First sessional period in 2010 Bonn, Germany (united nations climate change talks)

*12th June Naked bikeride, London, England [http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/London#Objectives_and_demands]

*19th June Naked Bikeride, Brussels, Belgium (to be confirmed)

*21-25 June - Two Degrees art/activism event being organised by Mark, London, England

*23rd June - 24th August: Baltic Sea Info Tour, Nuclear Heritage [http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Action:Infotour_Around_The_Baltic_Sea] to raise awareness aginast radioactive polution of the baltic sea

*25th June Critical Mass, London, England (& Brighton England)

*26-27 June - Exmouth Exodus - SW England equivalent of Dunwich Dynamo (see below) [http://exmouthexodus.co.uk/]

*28 June - 1 July Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX - York, England

*2nd July - 28th Aug Otesha project starts cycling, Lands End, Cornwall, England

*2-7 July - Tour de Elbe, international CZ-D ride from Decin /CZ/ to Magdeburg /D/ to promote Elberadweg

*1-4 July 2010 "Velorution Universelle" a big critical mass in Paris, France [http://velorutionuniverselle.org/articles/spip.php?rubrique6]

*3 July - 15 August "AlterTour" tour-de-france for a non-doped planet, France [http://www.altertour.net/]

*1-6 july 2010 YOUPEC Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

* 8-11 July FOIBOS greenways conference, Budapest, Hungary

*22nd July - 1st August Camp Action Climat (french climate camp [http://www.campclimat.org]) near Le Havre, France.

*23-25 July The Big Tent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland

*25 July - 7 August - Tour de Natur (cycling tour middle of germany) www.tourdenatur.net

*23-27 July Peace News Summer Camp, Oxfordshire, England [http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1655]

*24-25 July Dunwich Dynamo, London-Suffolk (east coast), England - 190km overnight bike ride, not really an activist event, but one of the biggest mass participation, not-sport, bike events in the UK [http://www.southwarkcyclists.org.uk/dunwichfaqs.htm]

*25. july - 01. aug. Sieben Linden Sommercamp 2010

*30th July Critical Mass, London (& Brighton England)

*1-21st August Ecotopia, Flaeming, Germany

*18.-23.8. Earth First! Summer Camp, somewhere in the UK. time is set now, but still not sure where it will take place

*27th september - 5th of october No borders camp, brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travel on after BT.

* ongoing: Rossport Shell to Sea solidarity camp, Ireland [http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rsc/]
* ongoing: (right now, at least!) Mainshill Solidarity Camp, southern scotland [http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/]
* ongoing: http://www.lappersfort.tk/ a occupied forest in Belguim, people are resisting against the destruction of the forest - worth a visit
* ongoing: Major environmental in countries like Ukraine !

''Dates not set yet:''
*The UK Climate Camp regional groups are meeting right now (Jan & Feb) - it's very possible that there will be several summer Climate Camps across the UK in 2010 but we don't know yet. National gathering weekend of 13-14 February, Mark can't go but is trying to keep in touch with their plans
*Belgium Climate Camp (maybe in the same place as last year)
*Dutch Climate camp (will be separate from belgian one )
*YFoEE Summer Camp, probably early August, Poland
* Reclaim the Fields [http://bit.ly/6MA9hQ] maybe France, maybe Hungary..

=== Next Questions for the route: UK ===

How to get there:
*We need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

How to get from the UK back to the continent:
*Mark has done some price research on all the possible route to France, Belgium & Netherlands http://bit.ly/dzeFXJ The cheapest ferries are the ones from Dover, and tickets get more expensive further away.
*School holidays in England and Wales start Fri 23 July so we should cross the channel before then to get cheaper tickets.
*One possible cheap deal is the DutchFlyer, London-Amsterdam ticket, quite cheap (£29/€33) if it fits the route, including trains in UK and Netherlands - but may only be possible for a small number of bikes.
*We also need to consider using a bus/van if it makes taking bikes on the ferry cheaper
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*'''We need more contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for regional coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

===Route questions for the rest of Europe===

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info[at]ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard). (laura wants to add here: she didn't mean indigenous people from global south -indigenous people, but also/and/or voices from global south)
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

Seeds for Change Lancaster (a workers' coop offering activist trainings), they'd be up for giving us consensus, facilitation and other workshops as long as it is during the week, because summer weekends always are really busy.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would like to do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

Moritz & Laura are our international co-ordinators for 2010!

Mark is [one of?] regional co-ordinator for England!

=== Evs ===

Laura will be doing EVS with FoE FLanders & Brussels, being based in Gent from beginning of March 2010. Her main project there will be co-ordinating BT 2010!

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

== Meetings ==

''Things are moving!''

* Skype meetings (calls or chats) are happening weekly.

* Face-to-face '''Wintermeeting '''is going to be in '''MAINZ, Germany on 6th-7th FEB'''. Tell us if you are coming: [http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=xirvkc8ppb5ysbh4]

====Agenda of wintermeeting====
[http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] So here's the Agenda, please add to this, ''if it's something that doesn't already come under one of these topics''
Laura has made a new page [http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] to build-on each of these points to start of the discussions and to come to decisions/proposals. please put some notes or important facts or points, references to previous discussions that give direction as to how to move forward, and your thoughts- particularly if you aren't going to be at the wintermeeting. http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010

*Bringing laura & moritz up to speed on organising
====Route====
*To Ecotopia or not to ecotopia?
*Route, Calender of Events/places to go!
*National Co-ordinators & local organisations
====Aim====
*What on earth do we want to achieve/how do we want to do it.
*Climate Justice/or other theme workshop?
*How the f*** do we realistically achieve want we want to achieve
*Biketour's name & tagline brainstorm

====Process====
*Daily Routine during BT
*Evalutations + avoiding making the same mistakes
*Outreach & recruiting
how to get new participants? Biketour presantations on eco-meetings/summits/places were activists are
*Ecorates & participants fees
*Applications
*email lists & moderation
*decision making processes
rapid response, organiser's contact details?
*minimum participation days/ set joining days
====Outreach====
*media
*make a basic video here & now for BT!
*What things we need "training" in at the start of the biketour:
-theme of biketour
-successful groups are thanks for successful meetings
-concensus decision making
-getting to know eachother
-languages
-facilitating
-bicycle repair
-travelling vegan cooking
-dumpster diving
-open space
Brainstorm on who do we think would do hold these workshops
*website updates, wiki, facebook, social networks

====Logistics====
*Budget
both minimum & most ambitious
*Fundraising
*BT hardware
Trailer, cooking equiptment, bike repair stuff.. Do we have it; how is it getting to the starting point
*Best kind of bicycle to get
*instruction booklet
*tshirts/bags/patches/screenprinting biketour-propaganda stuff mainly for participants!
*Think about all those extra things
To do with process, route, co-ordinators...If at the end of the biketour you say or think 'oh, if only we'd done....' or 'this could always have been done better......' !
'''*Biketour 2011'''
(laura) Ukraine? Baltic states? EVS or funding applications writing? co-ordinator recruitment
====Where to from here?====
*Organise next skype call, and/or next in-person meeting
*Make a road-map for the organisation of BT2010
laura would really appreciate this
Write down briefly the discussions had, all decisions made & briefly explain why
*People to do action points!

== Funding ==

Yo & mark are looking into funding so far.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize, as well as hosts and people who would potentially want to organise BT 2011 !

Organise BT 2010

2010-02-25T21:12:50Z

Moritz: /* Consensus */

= Organising Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ =

== Route ==

=== Oerview ===
The Ecotopia Biketour will most likely move trough France and the UK this summer and maybe also visit Belguim and the Netherlands. One of our biggest stops will be the Climate Camp close to Le Havre from the 22nd of July to the 1st of August. There are some proposals for a route:

- to start at the world car free network conference from York (UK) at the 29th of June and travel to the south via Wales, cross the channel to France.

- to start at the WCN conference go to the north (maybe via Scotland) and take a ferry to the Netherlands or Belgium and go from there to France.

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

=== The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 ===

Here is an amazing list of activist events on or near the general route(s) we are talking about between May & August. Add anything else that you hear about. The list can also be seen on an open edit google map at http://bit.ly/ceNwc6

*26 - 28 May 2010 Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, Cologne, Germany

*31 May - 11 Jun 2010 UNFCCC First sessional period in 2010 Bonn, Germany (united nations climate change talks)

*12th June Naked bikeride, London, England [http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/London#Objectives_and_demands]

*19th June Naked Bikeride, Brussels, Belgium (to be confirmed)

*21-25 June - Two Degrees art/activism event being organised by Mark, London, England

*23rd June - 24th August: Baltic Sea Info Tour, Nuclear Heritage [http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Action:Infotour_Around_The_Baltic_Sea] to raise awareness aginast radioactive polution of the baltic sea

*25th June Critical Mass, London, England (& Brighton England)

*26-27 June - Exmouth Exodus - SW England equivalent of Dunwich Dynamo (see below) [http://exmouthexodus.co.uk/]

*28 June - 1 July Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX - York, England

*2nd July - 28th Aug Otesha project starts cycling, Lands End, Cornwall, England

*2-7 July - Tour de Elbe, international CZ-D ride from Decin /CZ/ to Magdeburg /D/ to promote Elberadweg

*1-4 July 2010 "Velorution Universelle" a big critical mass in Paris, France [http://velorutionuniverselle.org/articles/spip.php?rubrique6]

*3 July - 15 August "AlterTour" tour-de-france for a non-doped planet, France [http://www.altertour.net/]

*1-6 july 2010 YOUPEC Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

* 8-11 July FOIBOS greenways conference, Budapest, Hungary

*22nd July - 1st August Camp Action Climat (french climate camp [http://www.campclimat.org]) near Le Havre, France.

*23-25 July The Big Tent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland

*25 July - 7 August - Tour de Natur (cycling tour middle of germany) www.tourdenatur.net

*23-27 July Peace News Summer Camp, Oxfordshire, England [http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1655]

*24-25 July Dunwich Dynamo, London-Suffolk (east coast), England - 190km overnight bike ride, not really an activist event, but one of the biggest mass participation, not-sport, bike events in the UK [http://www.southwarkcyclists.org.uk/dunwichfaqs.htm]

*25. july - 01. aug. Sieben Linden Sommercamp 2010

*30th July Critical Mass, London (& Brighton England)

*1-21st August Ecotopia, Flaeming, Germany

*18.-23.8. Earth First! Summer Camp, somewhere in the UK. time is set now, but still not sure where it will take place

*27th september - 5th of october No borders camp, brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travel on after BT.

* ongoing: Rossport Shell to Sea solidarity camp, Ireland [http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rsc/]
* ongoing: (right now, at least!) Mainshill Solidarity Camp, southern scotland [http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/]
* ongoing: http://www.lappersfort.tk/ a occupied forest in Belguim, people are resisting against the destruction of the forest - worth a visit
* ongoing: Major environmental in countries like Ukraine !

''Dates not set yet:''
*The UK Climate Camp regional groups are meeting right now (Jan & Feb) - it's very possible that there will be several summer Climate Camps across the UK in 2010 but we don't know yet. National gathering weekend of 13-14 February, Mark can't go but is trying to keep in touch with their plans
*Belgium Climate Camp (maybe in the same place as last year)
*Dutch Climate camp (will be separate from belgian one )
*YFoEE Summer Camp, probably early August, Poland
* Reclaim the Fields [http://bit.ly/6MA9hQ] maybe France, maybe Hungary..

=== Next Questions for the route: UK ===

How to get there:
*We need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

How to get from the UK back to the continent:
*Mark has done some price research on all the possible route to France, Belgium & Netherlands http://bit.ly/dzeFXJ The cheapest ferries are the ones from Dover, and tickets get more expensive further away.
*School holidays in England and Wales start Fri 23 July so we should cross the channel before then to get cheaper tickets.
*One possible cheap deal is the DutchFlyer, London-Amsterdam ticket, quite cheap (£29/€33) if it fits the route, including trains in UK and Netherlands - but may only be possible for a small number of bikes.
*We also need to consider using a bus/van if it makes taking bikes on the ferry cheaper
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*'''We need more contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for regional coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

===Route questions for the rest of Europe===

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info[at]ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard). (laura wants to add here: she didn't mean indigenous people from global south -indigenous people, but also/and/or voices from global south)
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

Seeds for Change Lancaster (a workers' coop offering activist trainings), they'd be up for giving us consensus, facilitation and other workshops as long as it is during the week, because summer weekends always are really busy.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would like to do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

Moritz & Laura are our international co-ordinators for 2010!

Mark is [one of?] regional co-ordinator for England!

=== Evs ===

Laura will be doing EVS with FoE FLanders & Brussels, being based in Gent from beginning of March 2010. Her main project there will be co-ordinating BT 2010!

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

== Meetings ==

''Things are moving!''

* Skype meetings (calls or chats) are happening weekly.

* Face-to-face '''Wintermeeting '''is going to be in '''MAINZ, Germany on 6th-7th FEB'''. Tell us if you are coming: [http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=xirvkc8ppb5ysbh4]

====Agenda of wintermeeting====
[http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] So here's the Agenda, please add to this, ''if it's something that doesn't already come under one of these topics''
Laura has made a new page [http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] to build-on each of these points to start of the discussions and to come to decisions/proposals. please put some notes or important facts or points, references to previous discussions that give direction as to how to move forward, and your thoughts- particularly if you aren't going to be at the wintermeeting. http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010

*Bringing laura & moritz up to speed on organising
====Route====
*To Ecotopia or not to ecotopia?
*Route, Calender of Events/places to go!
*National Co-ordinators & local organisations
====Aim====
*What on earth do we want to achieve/how do we want to do it.
*Climate Justice/or other theme workshop?
*How the f*** do we realistically achieve want we want to achieve
*Biketour's name & tagline brainstorm

====Process====
*Daily Routine during BT
*Evalutations + avoiding making the same mistakes
*Outreach & recruiting
how to get new participants? Biketour presantations on eco-meetings/summits/places were activists are
*Ecorates & participants fees
*Applications
*email lists & moderation
*decision making processes
rapid response, organiser's contact details?
*minimum participation days/ set joining days
====Outreach====
*media
*make a basic video here & now for BT!
*What things we need "training" in at the start of the biketour:
-theme of biketour
-successful groups are thanks for successful meetings
-concensus decision making
-getting to know eachother
-languages
-facilitating
-bicycle repair
-travelling vegan cooking
-dumpster diving
-open space
Brainstorm on who do we think would do hold these workshops
*website updates, wiki, facebook, social networks

====Logistics====
*Budget
both minimum & most ambitious
*Fundraising
*BT hardware
Trailer, cooking equiptment, bike repair stuff.. Do we have it; how is it getting to the starting point
*Best kind of bicycle to get
*instruction booklet
*tshirts/bags/patches/screenprinting biketour-propaganda stuff mainly for participants!
*Think about all those extra things
To do with process, route, co-ordinators...If at the end of the biketour you say or think 'oh, if only we'd done....' or 'this could always have been done better......' !
'''*Biketour 2011'''
(laura) Ukraine? Baltic states? EVS or funding applications writing? co-ordinator recruitment
====Where to from here?====
*Organise next skype call, and/or next in-person meeting
*Make a road-map for the organisation of BT2010
laura would really appreciate this
Write down briefly the discussions had, all decisions made & briefly explain why
*People to do action points!

== Funding ==

Yo & mark are looking into funding so far.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize, as well as hosts and people who would potentially want to organise BT 2011 !

Organise BT 2010

2010-02-25T21:02:43Z

Moritz: /* The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 */

= Organising Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ =

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong online consensus to go to the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, probably cycling before and after. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, were really enthusiastic to join forces :-) you can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

=== The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 ===

Here is an amazing list of activist events on or near the general route(s) we are talking about between May & August. Add anything else that you hear about. The list can also be seen on an open edit google map at http://bit.ly/ceNwc6

*26 - 28 May 2010 Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, Cologne, Germany

*31 May - 11 Jun 2010 UNFCCC First sessional period in 2010 Bonn, Germany (united nations climate change talks)

*12th June Naked bikeride, London, England [http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/London#Objectives_and_demands]

*19th June Naked Bikeride, Brussels, Belgium (to be confirmed)

*21-25 June - Two Degrees art/activism event being organised by Mark, London, England

*23rd June - 24th August: Baltic Sea Info Tour, Nuclear Heritage [http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Action:Infotour_Around_The_Baltic_Sea] to raise awareness aginast radioactive polution of the baltic sea

*25th June Critical Mass, London, England (& Brighton England)

*26-27 June - Exmouth Exodus - SW England equivalent of Dunwich Dynamo (see below) [http://exmouthexodus.co.uk/]

*28 June - 1 July Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX - York, England

*2nd July - 28th Aug Otesha project starts cycling, Lands End, Cornwall, England

*2-7 July - Tour de Elbe, international CZ-D ride from Decin /CZ/ to Magdeburg /D/ to promote Elberadweg

*1-4 July 2010 "Velorution Universelle" a big critical mass in Paris, France [http://velorutionuniverselle.org/articles/spip.php?rubrique6]

*3 July - 15 August "AlterTour" tour-de-france for a non-doped planet, France [http://www.altertour.net/]

*1-6 july 2010 YOUPEC Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

* 8-11 July FOIBOS greenways conference, Budapest, Hungary

*22nd July - 1st August Camp Action Climat (french climate camp [http://www.campclimat.org]) near Le Havre, France.

*23-25 July The Big Tent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland

*25 July - 7 August - Tour de Natur (cycling tour middle of germany) www.tourdenatur.net

*23-27 July Peace News Summer Camp, Oxfordshire, England [http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1655]

*24-25 July Dunwich Dynamo, London-Suffolk (east coast), England - 190km overnight bike ride, not really an activist event, but one of the biggest mass participation, not-sport, bike events in the UK [http://www.southwarkcyclists.org.uk/dunwichfaqs.htm]

*25. july - 01. aug. Sieben Linden Sommercamp 2010

*30th July Critical Mass, London (& Brighton England)

*1-21st August Ecotopia, Flaeming, Germany

*18.-23.8. Earth First! Summer Camp, somewhere in the UK. time is set now, but still not sure where it will take place

*27th september - 5th of october No borders camp, brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travel on after BT.

* ongoing: Rossport Shell to Sea solidarity camp, Ireland [http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rsc/]
* ongoing: (right now, at least!) Mainshill Solidarity Camp, southern scotland [http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/]
* ongoing: http://www.lappersfort.tk/ a occupied forest in Belguim, people are resisting against the destruction of the forest - worth a visit
* ongoing: Major environmental in countries like Ukraine !

''Dates not set yet:''
*The UK Climate Camp regional groups are meeting right now (Jan & Feb) - it's very possible that there will be several summer Climate Camps across the UK in 2010 but we don't know yet. National gathering weekend of 13-14 February, Mark can't go but is trying to keep in touch with their plans
*Belgium Climate Camp (maybe in the same place as last year)
*Dutch Climate camp (will be separate from belgian one )
*YFoEE Summer Camp, probably early August, Poland
* Reclaim the Fields [http://bit.ly/6MA9hQ] maybe France, maybe Hungary..

=== Next Questions for the route: UK ===

How to get there:
*We need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

How to get from the UK back to the continent:
*Mark has done some price research on all the possible route to France, Belgium & Netherlands http://bit.ly/dzeFXJ The cheapest ferries are the ones from Dover, and tickets get more expensive further away.
*School holidays in England and Wales start Fri 23 July so we should cross the channel before then to get cheaper tickets.
*One possible cheap deal is the DutchFlyer, London-Amsterdam ticket, quite cheap (£29/€33) if it fits the route, including trains in UK and Netherlands - but may only be possible for a small number of bikes.
*We also need to consider using a bus/van if it makes taking bikes on the ferry cheaper
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*'''We need more contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for regional coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

===Route questions for the rest of Europe===

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info[at]ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard). (laura wants to add here: she didn't mean indigenous people from global south -indigenous people, but also/and/or voices from global south)
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

Seeds for Change Lancaster (a workers' coop offering activist trainings), they'd be up for giving us consensus, facilitation and other workshops as long as it is during the week, because summer weekends always are really busy.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would like to do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

Moritz & Laura are our international co-ordinators for 2010!

Mark is [one of?] regional co-ordinator for England!

=== Evs ===

Laura will be doing EVS with FoE FLanders & Brussels, being based in Gent from beginning of March 2010. Her main project there will be co-ordinating BT 2010!

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

== Meetings ==

''Things are moving!''

* Skype meetings (calls or chats) are happening weekly.

* Face-to-face '''Wintermeeting '''is going to be in '''MAINZ, Germany on 6th-7th FEB'''. Tell us if you are coming: [http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=xirvkc8ppb5ysbh4]

====Agenda of wintermeeting====
[http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] So here's the Agenda, please add to this, ''if it's something that doesn't already come under one of these topics''
Laura has made a new page [http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] to build-on each of these points to start of the discussions and to come to decisions/proposals. please put some notes or important facts or points, references to previous discussions that give direction as to how to move forward, and your thoughts- particularly if you aren't going to be at the wintermeeting. http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010

*Bringing laura & moritz up to speed on organising
====Route====
*To Ecotopia or not to ecotopia?
*Route, Calender of Events/places to go!
*National Co-ordinators & local organisations
====Aim====
*What on earth do we want to achieve/how do we want to do it.
*Climate Justice/or other theme workshop?
*How the f*** do we realistically achieve want we want to achieve
*Biketour's name & tagline brainstorm

====Process====
*Daily Routine during BT
*Evalutations + avoiding making the same mistakes
*Outreach & recruiting
how to get new participants? Biketour presantations on eco-meetings/summits/places were activists are
*Ecorates & participants fees
*Applications
*email lists & moderation
*decision making processes
rapid response, organiser's contact details?
*minimum participation days/ set joining days
====Outreach====
*media
*make a basic video here & now for BT!
*What things we need "training" in at the start of the biketour:
-theme of biketour
-successful groups are thanks for successful meetings
-concensus decision making
-getting to know eachother
-languages
-facilitating
-bicycle repair
-travelling vegan cooking
-dumpster diving
-open space
Brainstorm on who do we think would do hold these workshops
*website updates, wiki, facebook, social networks

====Logistics====
*Budget
both minimum & most ambitious
*Fundraising
*BT hardware
Trailer, cooking equiptment, bike repair stuff.. Do we have it; how is it getting to the starting point
*Best kind of bicycle to get
*instruction booklet
*tshirts/bags/patches/screenprinting biketour-propaganda stuff mainly for participants!
*Think about all those extra things
To do with process, route, co-ordinators...If at the end of the biketour you say or think 'oh, if only we'd done....' or 'this could always have been done better......' !
'''*Biketour 2011'''
(laura) Ukraine? Baltic states? EVS or funding applications writing? co-ordinator recruitment
====Where to from here?====
*Organise next skype call, and/or next in-person meeting
*Make a road-map for the organisation of BT2010
laura would really appreciate this
Write down briefly the discussions had, all decisions made & briefly explain why
*People to do action points!

== Funding ==

Yo & mark are looking into funding so far.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize, as well as hosts and people who would potentially want to organise BT 2011 !

Organise BT 2010

2010-02-16T22:38:58Z

Moritz: /* The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 */

= Organising Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ =

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong online consensus to go to the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, probably cycling before and after. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, were really enthusiastic to join forces :-) you can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

=== The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 ===

Here is an amazing list of activist events on or near the general route(s) we are talking about between May & August. Add anything else that you hear about. The list can also be seen on an open edit google map at http://bit.ly/ceNwc6

*26 - 28 May 2010 Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, Cologne, Germany

*31 May - 11 Jun 2010 UNFCCC First sessional period in 2010 Bonn, Germany (united nations climate change talks)

*12th June Naked bikeride, London, England [http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/London#Objectives_and_demands]

*19th June Naked Bikeride, Brussels, Belgium (to be confirmed)

*21-25 June - Two Degrees art/activism event being organised by Mark, London, England

*23rd June - 24th August: Baltic Sea Info Tour, Nuclear Heritage [http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Action:Infotour_Around_The_Baltic_Sea] to raise awareness aginast radioactive polution of the baltic sea

*25th June Critical Mass, London, England (& Brighton England)

*26-27 June - Exmouth Exodus - SW England equivalent of Dunwich Dynamo (see below) [http://exmouthexodus.co.uk/]

*28 June - 1 July Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX - York, England

*2nd July - 28th Aug Otesha project starts cycling, Lands End, Cornwall, England

*2-7 July - Tour de Elbe, international CZ-D ride from Decin /CZ/ to Magdeburg /D/ to promote Elberadweg

*1-4 July 2010 "Velorution Universelle" a big critical mass in Paris, France [http://velorutionuniverselle.org/articles/spip.php?rubrique6]

*3 July - 15 August "AlterTour" tour-de-france for a non-doped planet, France [http://www.altertour.net/]

*1-6 july 2010 YOUPEC Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

* 8-11 July FOIBOS greenways conference, Budapest, Hungary

*22nd July - 1st August Camp Action Climat (french climate camp [http://www.campclimat.org]) near Le Havre, France.

*23-25 July The Big Tent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland

*23-27 July Peace News Summer Camp, Oxfordshire, England [http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1655]

*24-25 July Dunwich Dynamo, London-Suffolk (east coast), England - 190km overnight bike ride, not really an activist event, but one of the biggest mass participation, not-sport, bike events in the UK [http://www.southwarkcyclists.org.uk/dunwichfaqs.htm]

*25. july - 01. aug. Sieben Linden Sommercamp 2010

*30th July Critical Mass, London (& Brighton England)

*1-21st August Ecotopia, Flaeming, Germany

*18.-23.8. Earth First! Summer Camp, somewhere in the UK. time is set now, but still not sure where it will take place

*27th september - 5th of october No borders camp, brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travel on after BT.

* ongoing: Rossport Shell to Sea solidarity camp, Ireland [http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rsc/]
* ongoing: (right now, at least!) Mainshill Solidarity Camp, southern scotland [http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/]
* ongoing: http://www.lappersfort.tk/ a occupied forest in Belguim, people are resisting against the destruction of the forest - worth a visit
* ongoing: Major environmental in countries like Ukraine !

''Dates not set yet:''
*The UK Climate Camp regional groups are meeting right now (Jan & Feb) - it's very possible that there will be several summer Climate Camps across the UK in 2010 but we don't know yet. National gathering weekend of 13-14 February, Mark can't go but is trying to keep in touch with their plans
*Belgium Climate Camp (maybe in the same place as last year)
*Dutch Climate camp (will be separate from belgian one )
*YFoEE Summer Camp, probably early August, Poland
* Reclaim the Fields [http://bit.ly/6MA9hQ] maybe France, maybe Hungary..

=== Next Questions for the route: UK ===

How to get there:
*We need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

How to get from the UK back to the continent:
*Mark has done some price research on all the possible route to France, Belgium & Netherlands http://bit.ly/dzeFXJ The cheapest ferries are the ones from Dover, and tickets get more expensive further away.
*School holidays in England and Wales start Fri 23 July so we should cross the channel before then to get cheaper tickets.
*One possible cheap deal is the DutchFlyer, London-Amsterdam ticket, quite cheap (£29/€33) if it fits the route, including trains in UK and Netherlands - but may only be possible for a small number of bikes.
*We also need to consider using a bus/van if it makes taking bikes on the ferry cheaper
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*'''We need more contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for regional coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

===Route questions for the rest of Europe===

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info[at]ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard). (laura wants to add here: she didn't mean indigenous people from global south -indigenous people, but also/and/or voices from global south)
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

Seeds for Change Lancaster (a workers' coop offering activist trainings), they'd be up for giving us consensus, facilitation and other workshops as long as it is during the week, because summer weekends always are really busy.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would like to do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

Moritz & Laura are our international co-ordinators for 2010!

Mark is [one of?] regional co-ordinator for England!

=== Evs ===

Laura will be doing EVS with FoE FLanders & Brussels, being based in Gent from beginning of March 2010. Her main project there will be co-ordinating BT 2010!

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

== Meetings ==

''Things are moving!''

* Skype meetings (calls or chats) are happening weekly.

* Face-to-face '''Wintermeeting '''is going to be in '''MAINZ, Germany on 6th-7th FEB'''. Tell us if you are coming: [http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=xirvkc8ppb5ysbh4]

====Agenda of wintermeeting====
[http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] So here's the Agenda, please add to this, ''if it's something that doesn't already come under one of these topics''
Laura has made a new page [http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] to build-on each of these points to start of the discussions and to come to decisions/proposals. please put some notes or important facts or points, references to previous discussions that give direction as to how to move forward, and your thoughts- particularly if you aren't going to be at the wintermeeting. http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010

*Bringing laura & moritz up to speed on organising
====Route====
*To Ecotopia or not to ecotopia?
*Route, Calender of Events/places to go!
*National Co-ordinators & local organisations
====Aim====
*What on earth do we want to achieve/how do we want to do it.
*Climate Justice/or other theme workshop?
*How the f*** do we realistically achieve want we want to achieve
*Biketour's name & tagline brainstorm

====Process====
*Daily Routine during BT
*Evalutations + avoiding making the same mistakes
*Outreach & recruiting
how to get new participants? Biketour presantations on eco-meetings/summits/places were activists are
*Ecorates & participants fees
*Applications
*email lists & moderation
*decision making processes
rapid response, organiser's contact details?
*minimum participation days/ set joining days
====Outreach====
*media
*make a basic video here & now for BT!
*What things we need "training" in at the start of the biketour:
-theme of biketour
-successful groups are thanks for successful meetings
-concensus decision making
-getting to know eachother
-languages
-facilitating
-bicycle repair
-travelling vegan cooking
-dumpster diving
-open space
Brainstorm on who do we think would do hold these workshops
*website updates, wiki, facebook, social networks

====Logistics====
*Budget
both minimum & most ambitious
*Fundraising
*BT hardware
Trailer, cooking equiptment, bike repair stuff.. Do we have it; how is it getting to the starting point
*Best kind of bicycle to get
*instruction booklet
*tshirts/bags/patches/screenprinting biketour-propaganda stuff mainly for participants!
*Think about all those extra things
To do with process, route, co-ordinators...If at the end of the biketour you say or think 'oh, if only we'd done....' or 'this could always have been done better......' !
'''*Biketour 2011'''
(laura) Ukraine? Baltic states? EVS or funding applications writing? co-ordinator recruitment
====Where to from here?====
*Organise next skype call, and/or next in-person meeting
*Make a road-map for the organisation of BT2010
laura would really appreciate this
Write down briefly the discussions had, all decisions made & briefly explain why
*People to do action points!

== Funding ==

Yo & mark are looking into funding so far.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize, as well as hosts and people who would potentially want to organise BT 2011 !

Organise BT 2010

2010-02-10T11:06:41Z

Moritz: /* The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 */

= Organising Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ =

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong online consensus to go to the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, probably cycling before and after. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, were really enthusiastic to join forces :-) you can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

== The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 ==

Here is an amazing list of activist events on or near the general route(s) we are talking about between May & August. Add anything else that you hear about. The list can also be seen on an open edit google map at http://bit.ly/ceNwc6

*26 - 28 May 2010 Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, Cologne, Germany

*31 May - 11 Jun 2010 UNFCCC First sessional period in 2010 Bonn, Germany (united nations climate change talks)

*12th June Naked bikeride, London, England [http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/London#Objectives_and_demands]

*19th June Naked Bikeride, Brussels, Belgium (to be confirmed)

*21-25 June - Two Degrees art/activism event being organised by Mark, London, England

*23rd June - 24th August: Baltic Sea Info Tour, Nuclear Heritage [http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Action:Infotour_Around_The_Baltic_Sea] to raise awareness aginast radioactive polution of the baltic sea

*25th June Critical Mass, London, England (& Brighton England)

*26-27 June - Exmouth Exodus - SW England equivalent of Dunwich Dynamo (see below) [http://exmouthexodus.co.uk/]

*28 June - 1 July Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX - York, England

*2nd July - 28th Aug Otesha project starts cycling, Lands End, Cornwall, England

*2-7 July - Tour de Elbe, international CZ-D ride from Decin /CZ/ to Magdeburg /D/ to promote Elberadweg

*1-4 July 2010 "Velorution Universelle" a big critical mass in Paris, France [http://velorutionuniverselle.org/articles/spip.php?rubrique6]

*3 July - 15 August "AlterTour" tour-de-france for a non-doped planet, France [http://www.altertour.net/]

*1-6 july 2010 YOUPEC Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

* 8-11 July FOIBOS greenways conference, Budapest, Hungary

*23-25 July The Big Tent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland

*23-27 July Peace News Summer Camp, Oxfordshire, England [http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1655]

*24-25 July Dunwich Dynamo, London-Suffolk (east coast), England - 190km overnight bike ride, not really an activist event, but one of the biggest mass participation, not-sport, bike events in the UK [http://www.southwarkcyclists.org.uk/dunwichfaqs.htm]

*25. july - 01. aug. Sieben Linden Sommercamp 2010

*30th July Critical Mass, London (& Brighton England)

*1-21st August Ecotopia, Flaeming, Germany

*27th september - 5th of october No borders camp, brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travel on after BT.

* ongoing: Rossport Shell to Sea solidarity camp, Ireland [http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rsc/]
* ongoing: (right now, at least!) Mainshill Solidarity Camp, southern scotland [http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/]
* ongoing: Major environmental in countries like Ukraine !
* ongoing: http://www.lappersfort.tk/ a occupied forest in Belguim, people are resisting against the destruction of the forest - worth a visit

''Dates not set yet:''
* Camp Action Climat (french climate camp [http://www.campclimat.org]) near Caen, France. Has a meeting the same weekend as our Mainz meeting !!

*The UK Climate Camp regional groups are meeting right now (Jan & Feb) - it's very possible that there will be several summer Climate Camps across the UK in 2010 but we don't know yet. National gathering weekend of 13-14 February, Mark can't go but is trying to keep in touch with their plans

* Reclaim the Fields [http://bit.ly/6MA9hQ] maybe France, maybe Hungary..

*Earth First! Summer Camp, somewhere in the UK. But it seems its not clear where and when it will be so far. At least I didn´t find any information about it. Niklas maybe knows more soon. Earth First! has a winter meeting in early Feb, maybe we can find some more information after that [http://earthfirstgathering.org.uk/2010moot/front.html]

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for national coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard). (laura wants to add here: she didn't mean indigenous people from global south -indigenous people, but also/and/or voices from global south)
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

Seeds for Change Lancaster (a workers' coop offering activist trainings), they'd be up for giving us consensus, facilitation and other workshops as long as it is during the week, because summer weekends always are really busy.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would like to do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

Moritz & Laura are our international co-ordinators for 2010!

Mark is [one of?] regional co-ordinator for England!

=== Evs ===

Laura will be doing EVS with FoE FLanders & Brussels, being based in Gent from beginning of March 2010. Her main project there will be co-ordinating BT 2010!

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

== Meetings ==

''Things are moving!''

* Skype meetings (calls or chats) are happening weekly.

* Face-to-face '''Wintermeeting '''is going to be in '''MAINZ, Germany on 6th-7th FEB'''. Tell us if you are coming: [http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=xirvkc8ppb5ysbh4]

====Agenda of wintermeeting====
[http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] So here's the Agenda, please add to this, ''if it's something that doesn't already come under one of these topics''
Laura has made a new page [http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] to build-on each of these points to start of the discussions and to come to decisions/proposals. please put some notes or important facts or points, references to previous discussions that give direction as to how to move forward, and your thoughts- particularly if you aren't going to be at the wintermeeting. http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010

*Bringing laura & moritz up to speed on organising
====Route====
*To Ecotopia or not to ecotopia?
*Route, Calender of Events/places to go!
*National Co-ordinators & local organisations
====Aim====
*What on earth do we want to achieve/how do we want to do it.
*Climate Justice/or other theme workshop?
*How the f*** do we realistically achieve want we want to achieve
*Biketour's name & tagline brainstorm

====Process====
*Daily Routine during BT
*Evalutations + avoiding making the same mistakes
*Outreach & recruiting
how to get new participants? Biketour presantations on eco-meetings/summits/places were activists are
*Ecorates & participants fees
*Applications
*email lists & moderation
*decision making processes
rapid response, organiser's contact details?
*minimum participation days/ set joining days
====Outreach====
*media
*make a basic video here & now for BT!
*What things we need "training" in at the start of the biketour:
-theme of biketour
-successful groups are thanks for successful meetings
-concensus decision making
-getting to know eachother
-languages
-facilitating
-bicycle repair
-travelling vegan cooking
-dumpster diving
-open space
Brainstorm on who do we think would do hold these workshops
*website updates, wiki, facebook, social networks

====Logistics====
*Budget
both minimum & most ambitious
*Fundraising
*BT hardware
Trailer, cooking equiptment, bike repair stuff.. Do we have it; how is it getting to the starting point
*Best kind of bicycle to get
*instruction booklet
*tshirts/bags/patches/screenprinting biketour-propaganda stuff mainly for participants!
*Think about all those extra things
To do with process, route, co-ordinators...If at the end of the biketour you say or think 'oh, if only we'd done....' or 'this could always have been done better......' !
'''*Biketour 2011'''
(laura) Ukraine? Baltic states? EVS or funding applications writing? co-ordinator recruitment
====Where to from here?====
*Organise next skype call, and/or next in-person meeting
*Make a road-map for the organisation of BT2010
laura would really appreciate this
Write down briefly the discussions had, all decisions made & briefly explain why
*People to do action points!

== Funding ==

Yo & mark are looking into funding so far.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize, as well as hosts and people who would potentially want to organise BT 2011 !

Organise BT 2010

2010-02-10T10:46:30Z

Moritz: /* The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 */

= Organising Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ =

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong online consensus to go to the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, probably cycling before and after. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, were really enthusiastic to join forces :-) you can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

== The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 ==

Here is an amazing list of activist events on or near the general route(s) we are talking about between May & August. Add anything else that you hear about. The list can also be seen on an open edit google map at http://bit.ly/ceNwc6

*26 - 28 May 2010 Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, Cologne, Germany

*31 May - 11 Jun 2010 UNFCCC First sessional period in 2010 Bonn, Germany (united nations climate change talks)

*12th June Naked bikeride, London, England [http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/London#Objectives_and_demands]

*19th June Naked Bikeride, Brussels, Belgium (to be confirmed)

*21-25 June - Two Degrees art/activism event being organised by Mark, London, England

*23rd June - 24th August: Baltic Sea Info Tour, Nuclear Heritage [http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Action:Infotour_Around_The_Baltic_Sea] to raise awareness aginast radioactive polution of the baltic sea

*25th June Critical Mass, London, England (& Brighton England)

*26-27 June - Exmouth Exodus - SW England equivalent of Dunwich Dynamo (see below) [http://exmouthexodus.co.uk/]

*28 June - 1 July Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX - York, England

*2nd July - 28th Aug Otesha project starts cycling, Lands End, Cornwall, England

*2-7 July - Tour de Elbe, international CZ-D ride from Decin /CZ/ to Magdeburg /D/ to promote Elberadweg

*1-4 July 2010 "Velorution Universelle" a big critical mass in Paris, France [http://velorutionuniverselle.org/articles/spip.php?rubrique6]

*3 July - 15 August "AlterTour" tour-de-france for a non-doped planet, France [http://www.altertour.net/]

*1-6 july 2010 YOUPEC Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

* 8-11 July FOIBOS greenways conference, Budapest, Hungary

*23-25 July The Big Tent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland

*23-27 July Peace News Summer Camp, Oxfordshire, England [http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1655]

*24-25 July Dunwich Dynamo, London-Suffolk (east coast), England - 190km overnight bike ride, not really an activist event, but one of the biggest mass participation, not-sport, bike events in the UK [http://www.southwarkcyclists.org.uk/dunwichfaqs.htm]

*25. july - 01. aug. Sieben Linden Sommercamp 2010

*30th July Critical Mass, London (& Brighton England)

*1-21st August Ecotopia, Flaeming, Germany

*27th september - 5th of october No borders camp, brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travel on after BT.

* ongoing: Rossport Shell to Sea solidarity camp, Ireland [http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rsc/]
* ongoing: (right now, at least!) Mainshill Solidarity Camp, southern scotland [http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/]
* ongoing: Major environmental in countries like Ukraine !

''Dates not set yet:''
* Camp Action Climat (french climate camp [http://www.campclimat.org]) near Caen, France. Has a meeting the same weekend as our Mainz meeting !!

*The UK Climate Camp regional groups are meeting right now (Jan & Feb) - it's very possible that there will be several summer Climate Camps across the UK in 2010 but we don't know yet. National gathering weekend of 13-14 February, Mark can't go but is trying to keep in touch with their plans

* Reclaim the Fields [http://bit.ly/6MA9hQ] maybe France, maybe Hungary..

*Earth First! Summer Camp, somewhere in the UK. But it seems its not clear where and when it will be so far. At least I didn´t find any information about it. Niklas maybe knows more soon. Earth First! has a winter meeting in early Feb, maybe we can find some more information after that [http://earthfirstgathering.org.uk/2010moot/front.html]

* http://www.lappersfort.tk/ a occupied forest in Belguim, people are resisting against the destruction of the forest - worth a visit

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for national coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard). (laura wants to add here: she didn't mean indigenous people from global south -indigenous people, but also/and/or voices from global south)
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

Seeds for Change Lancaster (a workers' coop offering activist trainings), they'd be up for giving us consensus, facilitation and other workshops as long as it is during the week, because summer weekends always are really busy.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would like to do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

Moritz & Laura are our international co-ordinators for 2010!

Mark is [one of?] regional co-ordinator for England!

=== Evs ===

Laura will be doing EVS with FoE FLanders & Brussels, being based in Gent from beginning of March 2010. Her main project there will be co-ordinating BT 2010!

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

== Meetings ==

''Things are moving!''

* Skype meetings (calls or chats) are happening weekly.

* Face-to-face '''Wintermeeting '''is going to be in '''MAINZ, Germany on 6th-7th FEB'''. Tell us if you are coming: [http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=xirvkc8ppb5ysbh4]

====Agenda of wintermeeting====
[http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] So here's the Agenda, please add to this, ''if it's something that doesn't already come under one of these topics''
Laura has made a new page [http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010] to build-on each of these points to start of the discussions and to come to decisions/proposals. please put some notes or important facts or points, references to previous discussions that give direction as to how to move forward, and your thoughts- particularly if you aren't going to be at the wintermeeting. http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Agenda_Wintermeeting_2010

*Bringing laura & moritz up to speed on organising
====Route====
*To Ecotopia or not to ecotopia?
*Route, Calender of Events/places to go!
*National Co-ordinators & local organisations
====Aim====
*What on earth do we want to achieve/how do we want to do it.
*Climate Justice/or other theme workshop?
*How the f*** do we realistically achieve want we want to achieve
*Biketour's name & tagline brainstorm

====Process====
*Daily Routine during BT
*Evalutations + avoiding making the same mistakes
*Outreach & recruiting
how to get new participants? Biketour presantations on eco-meetings/summits/places were activists are
*Ecorates & participants fees
*Applications
*email lists & moderation
*decision making processes
rapid response, organiser's contact details?
*minimum participation days/ set joining days
====Outreach====
*media
*make a basic video here & now for BT!
*What things we need "training" in at the start of the biketour:
-theme of biketour
-successful groups are thanks for successful meetings
-concensus decision making
-getting to know eachother
-languages
-facilitating
-bicycle repair
-travelling vegan cooking
-dumpster diving
-open space
Brainstorm on who do we think would do hold these workshops
*website updates, wiki, facebook, social networks

====Logistics====
*Budget
both minimum & most ambitious
*Fundraising
*BT hardware
Trailer, cooking equiptment, bike repair stuff.. Do we have it; how is it getting to the starting point
*Best kind of bicycle to get
*instruction booklet
*tshirts/bags/patches/screenprinting biketour-propaganda stuff mainly for participants!
*Think about all those extra things
To do with process, route, co-ordinators...If at the end of the biketour you say or think 'oh, if only we'd done....' or 'this could always have been done better......' !
'''*Biketour 2011'''
(laura) Ukraine? Baltic states? EVS or funding applications writing? co-ordinator recruitment
====Where to from here?====
*Organise next skype call, and/or next in-person meeting
*Make a road-map for the organisation of BT2010
laura would really appreciate this
Write down briefly the discussions had, all decisions made & briefly explain why
*People to do action points!

== Funding ==

Yo & mark are looking into funding so far.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize, as well as hosts and people who would potentially want to organise BT 2011 !

Organise BT 2010

2010-02-02T21:02:40Z

Moritz: /* Outreach */

= Organising Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ =

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong online consensus to go to the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, probably cycling before and after. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, were really enthusiastic to join forces :-) you can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

== The list: Activist/Ecologist Events in europe, summer 2010 ==
'''if someone wants to put this into a nice online calender, map or ''something'' so I can visualise this list, I would love you (laura)'''
Here is an amazing list of activist events on or near the general route(s) we are talking about between May & August, put together by Laura. Add anything else that you hear about:

*26 - 28 May 2010 Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference, Cologne, Germany

*31 May - 11 Jun 2010 UNFCCC First sessional period in 2010 Bonn, Germany (united nations climate change talks)

*12th June Naked bikeride, London, England [http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/London#Objectives_and_demands]

*19th June Naked Bikeride, Brussels, Belgium (to be confirmed)

*23rd June - 24th August: Baltic Sea Info Tour, Nuclear Heritage [http://www.greenkids.de/europas-atomerbe/index.php/Action:Infotour_Around_The_Baltic_Sea] to raise awareness aginast radioactive polution of the baltic sea

*25th June Critical Mass, London, England (& Brighton England)

*26-27 June - Exmouth Exodus - SW England equivalent of Dunwich Dynamo (see below) [http://exmouthexodus.co.uk/]

*28 June - 1 July Towards Carfree Cities Conference IX - York, England

*2nd July - 28th Aug Otesha project starts cycling, Lands End, Cornwall, England

*2-7 July - Tour de Elbe, international CZ-D ride from Decin /CZ/ to Magdeburg /D/ to promote Elberadweg

*1-4 July 2010 "Velorution Universelle" a big critical mass in Paris, France [http://velorutionuniverselle.org/articles/spip.php?rubrique6]

*3 July - 15 August "AlterTour" tour-de-france for a non-doped planet, France [http://www.altertour.net/]

*1-6 july 2010 YOUPEC Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

* 8-11 July FOIBOS greenways conference, Budapest, Hungary

*23-25 July The Big Tent, Falkland, Fife, Scotland

*23-27 July Peace News Summer Camp, Oxfordshire, England [http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1655]

*24-25 July Dunwich Dynamo, London-Suffolk (east coast), England - 190km overnight bike ride, not really an activist event, but one of the biggest mass participation, not-sport, bike events in the UK [http://www.southwarkcyclists.org.uk/dunwichfaqs.htm]

*30th July Critical Mass, London (& Brighton England)

*1-21st August Ecotopia, Flaeming, Germany

*27th september - 5th of october No borders camp, brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travel on after BT.

* ongoing: Rossport Shell to Sea solidarity camp, Ireland [http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rsc/]
* ongoing: (right now, at least!) Mainshill Solidarity Camp, southern scotland [http://coalactionscotland.noflag.org.uk/]
* ongoing: Major environmental in countries like Ukraine !

''Dates not set yet:''
* Camp Action Climat (french climate camp [http://www.campclimat.org]) near Caen, France. Has a meeting the same weekend as our Mainz meeting !!

*The UK Climate Camp regional groups are meeting right now (Jan & Feb) - it's very possible that there will be several summer Climate Camps across the UK in 2010 but we don't know yet. National gathering weekend of 13-14 February, Mark can't go but is trying to keep in touch with their plans

* Reclaim the Fields [http://bit.ly/6MA9hQ] maybe France, maybe Hungary..

*Earth First! Summer Camp, somewhere in the UK. But it seems its not clear where and when it will be so far. At least I didn´t find any information about it. Niklas maybe knows more soon. Earth First! has a winter meeting in early Feb, maybe we can find some more information after that [http://earthfirstgathering.org.uk/2010moot/front.html]

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for national coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard). (laura wants to add here: she didn't mean indigenous people from global south -indigenous people, but also/and/or voices from global south)
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

Seeds for Change Lancaster (a workers' coop offering activist trainings), they'd be up for giving us consensus, facilitation and other workshops as long as it is during the week, because summer weekends always are really busy.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would like to do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

Moritz & Laura are our international co-ordinators for 2010!

Mark is [one of?] regional co-ordinator for England!

=== Evs ===

Laura will be doing EVS with FoE FLanders & Brussels, being based in Gent from beginning of March 2010. Her main project there will be co-ordinating BT 2010!

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

== Meetings ==

''Things are moving!''

*'''Skype meetings''' (calls or chats) are happening weekly.

*Face-to-face '''Wintermeeting '''is going to be in '''Mainz, Germany on 6th-7th February'''. Would you like to come?http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=xirvkc8ppb5ysbh4

===Agenda of wintermeeting===
please add to this, ''if it's something that doesn't already come under one of these topics''
Underneath each agenda item, please put some notes or important facts or discussion points, references to previous discussions, etc! Your thoughts- particularly if you aren't going to be at the wintermeeting.

*Bringing laura & moritz up to speed on organising
(how things work, finances, website, wiki, applications, visas) Laura has a lot of questions.
====Route====
*To Ecotopia or not to ecotopia?
*Route, Calender of Events/places to go!
*National Co-ordinators & local organisations
====Aim====
*Climate Justice/or other theme workshop
*Biketour's name & tagline brainstorm
====Process====
*Best kind of bicycle to get
*Daily Routine during BT
*Evalutations + avoiding making the same mistakes
*Outreach & recruiting
*Ecorates & participants fees
*Applications
*decision making processes
rapid response, organiser's contact details?
*minimum participation days/ set joining days
====Outreach====
*media
*make a basic video here & now for BT!
*What things we need "training" in at the start of the biketour:
-theme of biketour
-successful groups are thanks for successful meetings
-concensus decision making
-getting to know eachother
-languages
-facilitating
-bicycle repair
-travelling vegan cooking
-dumpster diving
-open space
Brainstorm on who do we think would do hold these workshops
*website updates, wiki, facebook, social networks

how to get new participants? Biketour presantations on eco-meetings/summits/places were activists are

====Logistics====
*Budget
both minimum & most ambitious
*Fundraising
*BT hardware
Trailer, cooking equiptment, bike repair stuff
Do we have it; how is it getting to the starting point
*instruction booklet
*tshirts/bags/patches/screenprinting biketour-propaganda stuff mainly for participants!
*Think about all those extra things
To do with process, route, co-ordinators...If at the end of the biketour you say or think 'oh, if only we'd done....' or 'this could always have been done better......' !
'''*Biketour 2011'''
(laura) Ukraine? Baltic states? EVS or funding applications writing? co-ordinator recruitment
====Where to from here?====
*Organise next skype call, and/or next in-person meeting
*Make a road-map for the organisation of BT2010
laura would really appreciate this
Write down briefly the discussions had, all decisions made & briefly explain why
*People to do action points!

== Funding ==

Yo & mark are looking into funding so far.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize, as well as hosts and people who would potentially want to organise BT 2011 !

Organise BT 2010

2010-01-19T18:11:25Z

Moritz: /* Action/Theater/Propaganda */

== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, or better be starting earlier or ending later. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, where really enthusiastic to join forces :-) u can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

There will be an climate camp in swisserland, France and the UK! For all of them its not clear when and where! The German Climate Camp was cancelled, the Wendlandcamp in Germany as well.

Probably there will be an Earth First! Summer Camp. But it seems its not clear where and when it will be so far. At least I didn´t find any information about it. Niklas maybe knows more soon.

from the 27th of september till the 5th of october there will be a no border camp in brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travell on after BT.

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for national coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard).
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

http://otesha.org.uk/ another bikeprojekt is once agin travelling trough the UK this summer. There was the idea to connect with them, maybe to meet on the way. Juhu!

Seeds for Change Lancaster (a workers' coop offering activist trainings), they'd be up for giving us consensus, facilitation and other workshops as long as it is during the week, because summer weekends always are really busy.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ? Yo is interrested in helping out in the dutch part..
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?

As an evs volunteer is not in sight til now we would need to reach out for participants, who want to join organisational effords. Someone wants to write call for these. We can also offer evs positions – starting in mai.

=== Evs ===

we had evs volunteers working for biketour the last years. Experience shows, that its great to have 2 of them. But no evs volunteer worked out for the 1.11. deadline. Next deadline is 1.2., so starting to work 1.5.. it can be 2 to 12 months service that would give us a full time working person for the hottest phase just before the tour. The only candidate is laura, but she did not state jet, if that is an option for her.
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.

====possible hosting organisations====

*wcn: they have physical space in the office in prague, but have already their max number of volunteers as hosting organisation – another hosting org would be needed. Prague is not on the route, but the spain/portugal tour has been organized from there as well

*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office.
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij

*in germany, jup bad oldesloe could be asked to host, with the volunteer maybe being located somewhere else, near to the ecotopia? organiziers, who do not have a hosting org. wam from the ecotopia? team said, that would be possible.

*luxembourg/life/queesch/infoladen. Might be possible for the 1.2. deadline, but would need good preparation, no option for a last minute thing, as they would have to discuss it first and the go through some administrative processes.

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

=== Meetings ===

meetings in person are the most important meetings we can have. Lets meet as often as possible, whenever 2 or more people into organizing have the chance to meet somewhere.
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan
*during cop15

== Funding ==

who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts

Organise BT 2010

2010-01-19T18:09:38Z

Moritz:

== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, or better be starting earlier or ending later. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, where really enthusiastic to join forces :-) u can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Collection of alternative Camps ===
As going to ecotopia or not is in the discussion at the moment, we have to look out for other places to go. Please add which activist camps, festivals, summer camps you know which could be a possible destination.

There will be an climate camp in swisserland, France and the UK! For all of them its not clear when and where! The German Climate Camp was cancelled, the Wendlandcamp in Germany as well.

Probably there will be an Earth First! Summer Camp. But it seems its not clear where and when it will be so far. At least I didn´t find any information about it. Niklas maybe knows more soon.

from the 27th of september till the 5th of october there will be a no border camp in brussels. Probably interesting for people who want to travell on after BT.

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for national coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard).
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

http://otesha.org.uk/ another bikeprojekt is once agin travelling trough the UK this summer. There was the idea to connect with them, maybe to meet on the way. Juhu!

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ? Yo is interrested in helping out in the dutch part..
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?

As an evs volunteer is not in sight til now we would need to reach out for participants, who want to join organisational effords. Someone wants to write call for these. We can also offer evs positions – starting in mai.

=== Evs ===

we had evs volunteers working for biketour the last years. Experience shows, that its great to have 2 of them. But no evs volunteer worked out for the 1.11. deadline. Next deadline is 1.2., so starting to work 1.5.. it can be 2 to 12 months service that would give us a full time working person for the hottest phase just before the tour. The only candidate is laura, but she did not state jet, if that is an option for her.
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.

====possible hosting organisations====

*wcn: they have physical space in the office in prague, but have already their max number of volunteers as hosting organisation – another hosting org would be needed. Prague is not on the route, but the spain/portugal tour has been organized from there as well

*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office.
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij

*in germany, jup bad oldesloe could be asked to host, with the volunteer maybe being located somewhere else, near to the ecotopia? organiziers, who do not have a hosting org. wam from the ecotopia? team said, that would be possible.

*luxembourg/life/queesch/infoladen. Might be possible for the 1.2. deadline, but would need good preparation, no option for a last minute thing, as they would have to discuss it first and the go through some administrative processes.

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

=== Meetings ===

meetings in person are the most important meetings we can have. Lets meet as often as possible, whenever 2 or more people into organizing have the chance to meet somewhere.
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan
*during cop15

== Funding ==

who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts

Organise BT 2010

2010-01-19T18:04:20Z

Moritz: /* Action/Theater/Propaganda */

== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, or better be starting earlier or ending later. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, where really enthusiastic to join forces :-) u can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for national coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard).
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

http://otesha.org.uk/ another bikeprojekt is once agin travelling trough the UK this summer. There was the idea to connect with them, maybe to meet on the way. Juhu!

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ? Yo is interrested in helping out in the dutch part..
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?

As an evs volunteer is not in sight til now we would need to reach out for participants, who want to join organisational effords. Someone wants to write call for these. We can also offer evs positions – starting in mai.

=== Evs ===

we had evs volunteers working for biketour the last years. Experience shows, that its great to have 2 of them. But no evs volunteer worked out for the 1.11. deadline. Next deadline is 1.2., so starting to work 1.5.. it can be 2 to 12 months service that would give us a full time working person for the hottest phase just before the tour. The only candidate is laura, but she did not state jet, if that is an option for her.
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.

====possible hosting organisations====

*wcn: they have physical space in the office in prague, but have already their max number of volunteers as hosting organisation – another hosting org would be needed. Prague is not on the route, but the spain/portugal tour has been organized from there as well

*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office.
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij

*in germany, jup bad oldesloe could be asked to host, with the volunteer maybe being located somewhere else, near to the ecotopia? organiziers, who do not have a hosting org. wam from the ecotopia? team said, that would be possible.

*luxembourg/life/queesch/infoladen. Might be possible for the 1.2. deadline, but would need good preparation, no option for a last minute thing, as they would have to discuss it first and the go through some administrative processes.

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

=== Meetings ===

meetings in person are the most important meetings we can have. Lets meet as often as possible, whenever 2 or more people into organizing have the chance to meet somewhere.
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan
*during cop15

== Funding ==

who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts

Organise BT 2010

2010-01-19T18:01:32Z

Moritz: /* Next Questions for the UK route */

== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, or better be starting earlier or ending later. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, where really enthusiastic to join forces :-) u can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people. Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route! we can contact her as far we know that we will go to the netherlands.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for national coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard).
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ? Yo is interrested in helping out in the dutch part..
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?

As an evs volunteer is not in sight til now we would need to reach out for participants, who want to join organisational effords. Someone wants to write call for these. We can also offer evs positions – starting in mai.

=== Evs ===

we had evs volunteers working for biketour the last years. Experience shows, that its great to have 2 of them. But no evs volunteer worked out for the 1.11. deadline. Next deadline is 1.2., so starting to work 1.5.. it can be 2 to 12 months service that would give us a full time working person for the hottest phase just before the tour. The only candidate is laura, but she did not state jet, if that is an option for her.
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.

====possible hosting organisations====

*wcn: they have physical space in the office in prague, but have already their max number of volunteers as hosting organisation – another hosting org would be needed. Prague is not on the route, but the spain/portugal tour has been organized from there as well

*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office.
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij

*in germany, jup bad oldesloe could be asked to host, with the volunteer maybe being located somewhere else, near to the ecotopia? organiziers, who do not have a hosting org. wam from the ecotopia? team said, that would be possible.

*luxembourg/life/queesch/infoladen. Might be possible for the 1.2. deadline, but would need good preparation, no option for a last minute thing, as they would have to discuss it first and the go through some administrative processes.

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

=== Meetings ===

meetings in person are the most important meetings we can have. Lets meet as often as possible, whenever 2 or more people into organizing have the chance to meet somewhere.
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan
*during cop15

== Funding ==

who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts

Organise BT 2010

2010-01-19T18:00:39Z

Moritz: /* Action/Theater/Propaganda */

== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, or better be starting earlier or ending later. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, where really enthusiastic to join forces :-) u can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for national coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard).
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway.

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ? Yo is interrested in helping out in the dutch part..
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?

As an evs volunteer is not in sight til now we would need to reach out for participants, who want to join organisational effords. Someone wants to write call for these. We can also offer evs positions – starting in mai.

=== Evs ===

we had evs volunteers working for biketour the last years. Experience shows, that its great to have 2 of them. But no evs volunteer worked out for the 1.11. deadline. Next deadline is 1.2., so starting to work 1.5.. it can be 2 to 12 months service that would give us a full time working person for the hottest phase just before the tour. The only candidate is laura, but she did not state jet, if that is an option for her.
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.

====possible hosting organisations====

*wcn: they have physical space in the office in prague, but have already their max number of volunteers as hosting organisation – another hosting org would be needed. Prague is not on the route, but the spain/portugal tour has been organized from there as well

*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office.
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij

*in germany, jup bad oldesloe could be asked to host, with the volunteer maybe being located somewhere else, near to the ecotopia? organiziers, who do not have a hosting org. wam from the ecotopia? team said, that would be possible.

*luxembourg/life/queesch/infoladen. Might be possible for the 1.2. deadline, but would need good preparation, no option for a last minute thing, as they would have to discuss it first and the go through some administrative processes.

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

=== Meetings ===

meetings in person are the most important meetings we can have. Lets meet as often as possible, whenever 2 or more people into organizing have the chance to meet somewhere.
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan
*during cop15

== Funding ==

who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts

Organise BT 2010

2010-01-19T17:56:59Z

Moritz: /* Next Questions for the UK route */

== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, or better be starting earlier or ending later. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, where really enthusiastic to join forces :-) u can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. There is Mark who is ready for national coordinating, also Kristina a former BT-participant wants to help out. Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard).
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway. She can be contacted: liekezuidema@hetnet.nl

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ? Yo is interrested in helping out in the dutch part..
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?

As an evs volunteer is not in sight til now we would need to reach out for participants, who want to join organisational effords. Someone wants to write call for these. We can also offer evs positions – starting in mai.

=== Evs ===

we had evs volunteers working for biketour the last years. Experience shows, that its great to have 2 of them. But no evs volunteer worked out for the 1.11. deadline. Next deadline is 1.2., so starting to work 1.5.. it can be 2 to 12 months service that would give us a full time working person for the hottest phase just before the tour. The only candidate is laura, but she did not state jet, if that is an option for her.
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.

====possible hosting organisations====

*wcn: they have physical space in the office in prague, but have already their max number of volunteers as hosting organisation – another hosting org would be needed. Prague is not on the route, but the spain/portugal tour has been organized from there as well

*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office.
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij

*in germany, jup bad oldesloe could be asked to host, with the volunteer maybe being located somewhere else, near to the ecotopia? organiziers, who do not have a hosting org. wam from the ecotopia? team said, that would be possible.

*luxembourg/life/queesch/infoladen. Might be possible for the 1.2. deadline, but would need good preparation, no option for a last minute thing, as they would have to discuss it first and the go through some administrative processes.

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

=== Meetings ===

meetings in person are the most important meetings we can have. Lets meet as often as possible, whenever 2 or more people into organizing have the chance to meet somewhere.
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan
*during cop15

== Funding ==

who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts

Organise BT 2010

2010-01-19T17:54:41Z

Moritz: /* Action/Theater/Propaganda */

== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, or better be starting earlier or ending later. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, where really enthusiastic to join forces :-) u can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. Who can contact Lithuanian Kristina ? Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard).
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

Janneke´s mother wants to help out with the route, sleeping places.. in the north of the netherlands (Friesland). She could prepare an action there against a highway. She can be contacted: liekezuidema@hetnet.nl

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ? Yo is interrested in helping out in the dutch part..
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?

As an evs volunteer is not in sight til now we would need to reach out for participants, who want to join organisational effords. Someone wants to write call for these. We can also offer evs positions – starting in mai.

=== Evs ===

we had evs volunteers working for biketour the last years. Experience shows, that its great to have 2 of them. But no evs volunteer worked out for the 1.11. deadline. Next deadline is 1.2., so starting to work 1.5.. it can be 2 to 12 months service that would give us a full time working person for the hottest phase just before the tour. The only candidate is laura, but she did not state jet, if that is an option for her.
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.

====possible hosting organisations====

*wcn: they have physical space in the office in prague, but have already their max number of volunteers as hosting organisation – another hosting org would be needed. Prague is not on the route, but the spain/portugal tour has been organized from there as well

*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office.
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij

*in germany, jup bad oldesloe could be asked to host, with the volunteer maybe being located somewhere else, near to the ecotopia? organiziers, who do not have a hosting org. wam from the ecotopia? team said, that would be possible.

*luxembourg/life/queesch/infoladen. Might be possible for the 1.2. deadline, but would need good preparation, no option for a last minute thing, as they would have to discuss it first and the go through some administrative processes.

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

=== Meetings ===

meetings in person are the most important meetings we can have. Lets meet as often as possible, whenever 2 or more people into organizing have the chance to meet somewhere.
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan
*during cop15

== Funding ==

who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts

Organise BT 2010

2010-01-19T17:54:00Z

Moritz: /* Office Backup */

== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, or better be starting earlier or ending later. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, where really enthusiastic to join forces :-) u can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. Who can contact Lithuanian Kristina ? Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard).
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would do that ?

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ? Yo is interrested in helping out in the dutch part..
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?

As an evs volunteer is not in sight til now we would need to reach out for participants, who want to join organisational effords. Someone wants to write call for these. We can also offer evs positions – starting in mai.

=== Evs ===

we had evs volunteers working for biketour the last years. Experience shows, that its great to have 2 of them. But no evs volunteer worked out for the 1.11. deadline. Next deadline is 1.2., so starting to work 1.5.. it can be 2 to 12 months service that would give us a full time working person for the hottest phase just before the tour. The only candidate is laura, but she did not state jet, if that is an option for her.
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.

====possible hosting organisations====

*wcn: they have physical space in the office in prague, but have already their max number of volunteers as hosting organisation – another hosting org would be needed. Prague is not on the route, but the spain/portugal tour has been organized from there as well

*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office.
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij

*in germany, jup bad oldesloe could be asked to host, with the volunteer maybe being located somewhere else, near to the ecotopia? organiziers, who do not have a hosting org. wam from the ecotopia? team said, that would be possible.

*luxembourg/life/queesch/infoladen. Might be possible for the 1.2. deadline, but would need good preparation, no option for a last minute thing, as they would have to discuss it first and the go through some administrative processes.

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

=== Meetings ===

meetings in person are the most important meetings we can have. Lets meet as often as possible, whenever 2 or more people into organizing have the chance to meet somewhere.
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan
*during cop15

== Funding ==

who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts

Organise BT 2010

2010-01-19T17:53:40Z

Moritz: /* Office Backup */

== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==

== Route ==

=== Consensus ===
At the moment we are re-discussing a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 near Berlin – We are open for ideas about other action camps.
There is a strong on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, or better be starting earlier or ending later. WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net]], organizers of TCCC, where really enthusiastic to join forces :-) u can read some [[reasons to take the UK route]] from a chat protocol

=== Next Questions for the UK route ===

Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel.
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?'''
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up
*It is possible to '''hitchhike ferries''' – we could reserve some days for it, so the whole group has time to give it a try. '''Who could check out, which ferries work well, how it works and stuff ?'''
*We could also ask '''the ferry company to sponsor us, give some free transport or at least a discount. Someone up for checking that out ? ''' Maybe we should wait with that till our website looks fresh.

*We also need ideas how to come to the tour, how to reach York or any other starting point by cheap bike friendly transport on the surface, as there are the German wochenend ticket, mitfahrzentralen/ ride sharing, night train offers, the Czech bus student agency (do they take bikes?) '''Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''

*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?
I heard Laura mention Scotland.

*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:

** '''who would like to coordinate the Tour in The Netherlands ?''' We have quite some dutch people on the bt-org list. It is the bike country of Europa, with Groningen as best example city – 50% of all trips on bike. In Groningen there is Marij, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people.

** We need '''contacts in the UK'''. Who can contact Lithuanian Kristina ? Barry – well he is Irish, but still. Ask WCN for contacts ? http://otesha.org.uk/ ? London Critical Mass ? The organizers/hosts of the 2002 tour ? This massive bikesoundsystem, what was the name again ?

**in Germany we can cooperate with '''janun[[http://www.janun.de]] for lower Saxony'''. Someone up to coordinate things ? Jan has the contact of Arne, a janun and bt veteran. Also there is the wendland on the way, a region which resists an atomic waste dump since decades. And the ecovillage „sieben Linden“ could be on the route. Jan and Moritz currently live in Germany.

** What about Belgium ? Luxembourg ? Jan has good contacts there. Bt has never been there, at least not this millennium. But its hilly and a bit out of the way.

=== Other Route Ideas ===

here is a list of the other ideas we had on [[Route 2010]]. if u want to give one of them energy, please do so on the bt-org list or write to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

== The Tour ==

here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general

=== Content/ Slogan ===
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary:
'''theme proposals'''
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ?
Climate justice could be a general theme where all other things can fit in/are related to. Everyone in chat was interested in this theme. Disadvantage of a wide theme is too loose focus, maybe its good to chose one angle. Climate justice has it a set stamp of ideologies, and actions to take, according to Laura, she would love to give a workshop about it!
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''
* the idea to meet with indigenous people from the global south and link BT to their experiences: to take their voices with us (as they probably can not join us, but should be heard).
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)
'''older notes:'''
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good
material to present this during the tour.
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive
elements called actions ;)

to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference

===Action/Theater/Propaganda===

inspired by [[http://otesha.org.uk/ otesha]] I would really like to see some preparation of an action, something creative, some theater play or such. Such creative work as a theater play is sooo good for group dynamics and so much fun. It would need one person, who wants to come to the start and knows a bit about theater, to work with the group on the piece, creating something which people coming later can easily join. More ideas include: To carry an exhibition, to carry a slide show, to prepare some workshops for the participants as well as for the public – all connected to the theme “towards carfree cities”

=== Office Backup ===

it would be really great, if the tour would have a office backup while traveling, someone who has all the modern communication channels open for the people on tour, do a bit press work, answe the phone and mail, update the website, upload photos and stuff like that. Who would do that ?

Calais – moritz has some friends who are involved in actions and initatives trying to help the refugees whos camps are destroyed in Calais France. If we´re crossing the ocean from the UK to France that could be a stop for an action/helping out. I will ask my friends if they could imagine to prepare something or at least ask other people who maybe would like to have a nice biketour around and are willing to organise something. Could be connected to the topic climate refugees.

===Veterans===

we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?

== Staff ==

at the moment there is no payed staff. We do not have a club or ngo behind us. Just a group of more or less engaged volunteers. Should we change that ?

=== Volunteers ===

we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ? Yo is interrested in helping out in the dutch part..
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?

As an evs volunteer is not in sight til now we would need to reach out for participants, who want to join organisational effords. Someone wants to write call for these. We can also offer evs positions – starting in mai.

=== Evs ===

we had evs volunteers working for biketour the last years. Experience shows, that its great to have 2 of them. But no evs volunteer worked out for the 1.11. deadline. Next deadline is 1.2., so starting to work 1.5.. it can be 2 to 12 months service that would give us a full time working person for the hottest phase just before the tour. The only candidate is laura, but she did not state jet, if that is an option for her.
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.

====possible hosting organisations====

*wcn: they have physical space in the office in prague, but have already their max number of volunteers as hosting organisation – another hosting org would be needed. Prague is not on the route, but the spain/portugal tour has been organized from there as well

*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office.
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij

*in germany, jup bad oldesloe could be asked to host, with the volunteer maybe being located somewhere else, near to the ecotopia? organiziers, who do not have a hosting org. wam from the ecotopia? team said, that would be possible.

*luxembourg/life/queesch/infoladen. Might be possible for the 1.2. deadline, but would need good preparation, no option for a last minute thing, as they would have to discuss it first and the go through some administrative processes.

=== Jobs ===

we have quite a lot of job opportunities to offer :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:

*coordinating a bit of the route
*take care of our outreach during the tour: flyer, poster, website content, prepare an action, prepare a theater piece, prepare actions, prepare workshop to be given to the tour members or to the public
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers
*maintain the website
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...
*raise funds
*take care about visa
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?
*backup office
*presswork
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there

=== Meetings ===

meetings in person are the most important meetings we can have. Lets meet as often as possible, whenever 2 or more people into organizing have the chance to meet somewhere.
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan
*during cop15

== Funding ==

who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.

We can alway ask small funds like x-y ''(any other ? more details ?)'' who already know us from previous years - so we have template applications to be inspired by. Do you want to write an application ?

Another way of DIY fund raising is to get a party or concert going and cook some food in your local squat or social center. offer us your profit and also ask people to donate for biketour. Jan will ask the vienna critical mass to do such a party.

You can go to ur local bikestore and ask for a donation - well we could make this quite big and ask bigger companies for sponsoring. there are so many adventurers getting their bike trips sponsored, so why would it not work for us. we can ask for money or equipment.

Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead.

== Outreach ==

=== before the tour ===

we want to attract people to come to the tour and to help organizing. lets start now. we should concentrate on the countries we will pass, but it is also good to do it ur your environment, in all possibly interested networks. talk to people about biketour, hand out leaflets at your next (bicycle) demonstration/concert hang up posters about it in your local bikestore, anarchist bookshop, squat, bio-shop, community center, free shop...

online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''

we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts