https://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=MorlaaEcotopia Biketour Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-05-07T04:44:11ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.45.3https://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Join_bt_text_in_german&diff=2597Join bt text in german2010-05-14T00:52:16Z<p>Morlaa: New page: Auf geht’s! Komm zur Ecotopia Biketour 2010 - Der Radtour für Klimagerechtigkeit in Westeuropa! Wir brauchen uns keine Sorgen darum zu machen, dass uns eine Vulkanaschewolke in die ...</p>
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Auf geht’s!<br />
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Komm zur Ecotopia Biketour 2010 - Der Radtour für Klimagerechtigkeit in Westeuropa!<br />
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Wir brauchen uns keine Sorgen darum zu machen, dass uns eine Vulkanaschewolke in die Quere kommen könnte - wir fahren mit dem Fahrrad von England nach Köln – Start 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.<br />
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<-Hier geht’s direkt zur Anmeldung -><br />
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Die Ecotopia Biketour ist keine vorgekaute Radreise, auf der wir einfach so durch hübsche Panoramen strapeln, sondern eine selbstorganisierte Umweltkampagne voller Aktionen! Unterwegs werden wir Gemeinschaften an forderster Front darin unterstützen, sich gegen mächtige Industrie-Interessen durchzusetzen; wir werden die Mythen der Atomkraftlobby entlarven und mischen uns mit direkten Aktionen in die Diskussion um Öl- und Kohleindustrie; 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. Wir nehmen das in unsere eigene Hand. 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 BetroffeneR Gehör zu finden mag. Jeden Woche wird es Workshops und Diskussionen geben, es gibt zweifellos Spass und Spiele. Die Höhepunkte werden sicher die World Carfree Conference in York gleich am Anfang, das französische Klimacamp im July 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 einer Permakultur oder mit Erneuerbaren Energien, zum Recycling, was nicht wiederbenutzt werden kann, der Natur langfristig Schutzräume bieten ... und dann kommt noch das kreative Chaos – denn die Ecotopia Biketour ist das, was wir daraus machen! <br />
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Wenn Du...<br />
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um die 50 km pro Tag radfahren kannst und mit dem einen oder anderen Regentag fertig wirst)<br />
Dich für Umweltthemen und soziale Gerechtigkeit interessierst und findest, dass da ein paar Aktionen nötig sind<br />
gern im Konsens mitentscheidest, auf englisch und manchmal auch nach einem langen Tag auf dem Rad<br />
Dich drauf freust, Dir mit anderen interantionalen Freiwilligen die täglich anfallenden Aufgaben zu teilen (Dinge wie Essen kochen, Anhänger ziehen, Abwaschen oder ein Auge drauf zu haben, dass wir die Schlafpätze aufgeräumt verlassen)<br />
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...dann komm, fahr mit!<br />
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*[So kommst Du mit]*<br />
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Als erstes liest Du Dir Idee und Form der Biketour auf unserer Website durch und füllst dann das Anmeldeformular aus:<br />
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http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net/join-us/registration<br />
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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.<br />
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Der tägliche Teilnahmebeitrag liegt zwischen 4 und 8 € - wenns Dir ökonomisch entsprechend geht, 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 Dein Zelt.<br />
Wenn du von Anfang an dabei sein willst: Wir treffen uns am Morgen des Freitags, dem 25. Juni in London – denn viele von uns werden vom Kontinent aus anreisen. Am Abend fahren wir mit der/ in der Londoner Critical Mass. Falls Du in London lebst und uns helfen willst, es gäbe noch einiges vorzubereiten – z.B. ein Banner für die CM, Siebdruck für Biketout-T-Shirts, lecker Essen … wende Dich vertrauensvoll an uns.<br />
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 samstags nachmittags in North Yorkshire. Den genauen Startort geben wir bekanntgegeben sobald wir einen würdigen ersten Schafplatz gefunden haben – irgentwo 60 Meilen nördich von York. <br />
Du kannst Dich uns dann auch irgentwo irgentwann on the road anschliessen, aber bitte kündige Dich vorher an, damit wir wissen, wann wir mit Dir zu rechnen haben. Die Route kristalisiert sich von Tag zu Tag deutlicher heraus.<br />
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Wir hätten noch ne Menge dazu zu sagen, wie mensch sich auf die Biketour vorbereiten kann und wie mensch beim Biketour-Vorbereiten 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 bei angemessener Länge zu halten verweisen wir hier auf unsere website www.ecotopiabiketour.net. Und wenn Du dann noch fragen hast, frag! Du findest uns auch auf facebook (join our event here) und kannst uns auf Twitter folgen. Aber sehen wir uns lieber draussen, auf der Strasse!<br />
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vive la velorution<br />
Laura und Moritz<br />
die diesjährigen internationalen KoordinatorInnen <br />
info@ecotopiabiketour.net</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_BT_2010&diff=2596Organise BT 20102010-05-14T00:51:51Z<p>Morlaa: /* Outreach */</p>
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<div>= Organising Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ =<br />
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== Route ==<br />
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=== Overview ===<br />
The Ecotopia Biketour will move from Northern England, through France, Belgium, (maybe the Netherlands) and Germany. One of our biggest stops will be the Camp Action Climat, close to Le Havre from the 22 July - 1 August. ''Rough route on googlemaps: [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=118042301261299956345.00048202c943d91616145&t=h&z=6]''<br />
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Laura put the info on this working page: [[Route 2010]]<br />
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== The Tour == <br />
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here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general<br />
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=== Content/ Slogan ===<br />
On sat 16 january there was a brainstorm chat on skype about a theme for BT2010, read the [[full chat here]]. summary: <br />
'''theme proposals'''<br />
nuclear, climate justice, traffic, link theme to biodiversity, renewable sources of energy ? <br />
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! <br />
'''More ideas connected to Climate justice as theme could be:'''<br />
* 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)<br />
* to link climate justice to practical stuff like recycling food, materials etc<br />
* to address the green-washing problem: the problem of presenting renewables as green capitalist solution, the problem of carbon trading<br />
* focus on voluntary simplicity, on using less, on people self.organization.... (we could make up a set of principals that consumption matters..)<br />
* fits well to french climate camp (which could be our destination)<br />
'''older notes:'''<br />
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound<br />
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the<br />
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !<br />
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good<br />
material to present this during the tour.<br />
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in<br />
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive<br />
elements called actions ;) <br />
<br />
to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be<br />
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation<br />
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference<br />
<br />
===Action/Theater/Propaganda===<br />
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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”<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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=== Office Backup ===<br />
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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 ?<br />
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===Veterans===<br />
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we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?<br />
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?<br />
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== Staff ==<br />
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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 ? <br />
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=== Volunteers ===<br />
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Moritz & Laura are our international co-ordinators for 2010.<br />
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Moritz will be based in Mainz, Germany and Laura will be doing EVS with FoE FLanders & Brussels, being based in '''Gent''', Belgium from beginning of March 2010. Her main project there will be co-ordinating BT 2010!<br />
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Mark is [one of?] regional co-ordinators for England, based in London.<br />
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We need:<br />
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*Tech/computer-savvy volunteer<br />
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=== Jobs ===<br />
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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:<br />
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*coordinating a bit of the route<br />
*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<br />
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers<br />
*maintain the website<br />
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...<br />
*raise funds<br />
*take care about visa<br />
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?<br />
*backup office<br />
*presswork<br />
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there<br />
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== Meetings ==<br />
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''Things are moving!''<br />
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* Skype meetings (calls or chats) are happening weekly. Email laura [a] ecotopiabiketour.net if you want to join the next call & can't find the details!<br />
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* Face-to-face Wintermeeting happened in February: The extensive minutes are here: [[Winter meeting minutes February 2010]]<br />
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* Laura & Moritz went to the french climate camp meeting in Angers<br />
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* Moritz & Laura will hopefully meet for a week in middle of April, in Gent.<br />
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* We would like to have a meeting in London, Lille or Le Havre for the Biketour with regional organisers/co-ordinators before the tour starts!<br />
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== Funding ==<br />
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Yo & mark are looking into funding so far.<br />
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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 ? <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead. <br />
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== Outreach ==<br />
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[[join bt text in german]]<br />
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=== before the tour ===<br />
<br />
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...<br />
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online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''<br />
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we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.<br />
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 !</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_BT_2010&diff=2463Organise BT 20102009-12-15T01:36:53Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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<div>== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==<br />
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== Route ==<br />
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=== Consensus ===<br />
We have a weak online consensus to go to Ecotopia 2010 [[http://ecotopia2010.org/]] near Berlin – lots of people agreed, but some oppose.<br />
There is a stronger 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<br />
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=== Next Questions for the UK route ===<br />
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Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel. <br />
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person<br />
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?''' <br />
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
*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.<br />
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*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 ?'''<br />
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*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?<br />
I heard Laura mention Scotland. <br />
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*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:<br />
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** '''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.<br />
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** 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 ?<br />
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**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.<br />
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** 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.<br />
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=== Other Route Ideas ===<br />
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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<br />
<br />
== The Tour == <br />
<br />
here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general<br />
<br />
=== Content/ Slogan ===<br />
<br />
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound<br />
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the<br />
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !<br />
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good<br />
material to present this during the tour.<br />
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in<br />
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive<br />
elements called actions ;) <br />
<br />
to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be<br />
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation<br />
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference<br />
===Action/Theater/Propaganda===<br />
<br />
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”<br />
<br />
=== Office Backup ===<br />
<br />
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 ?<br />
<br />
===Veterans===<br />
<br />
we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?<br />
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?<br />
<br />
== Staff ==<br />
<br />
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 ? <br />
<br />
=== Volunteers ===<br />
<br />
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..<br />
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?<br />
<br />
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.<br />
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=== Evs ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.<br />
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====possible hosting organisations====<br />
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*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<br />
<br />
*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office. <br />
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij <br />
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*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.<br />
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*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.<br />
<br />
=== Jobs ===<br />
<br />
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:<br />
<br />
*coordinating a bit of the route<br />
*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<br />
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers<br />
*maintain the website<br />
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...<br />
*raise funds<br />
*take care about visa<br />
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?<br />
*backup office<br />
*presswork<br />
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there<br />
<br />
=== Meetings ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :<br />
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan<br />
*during cop15 <br />
<br />
== Funding ==<br />
<br />
who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.<br />
<br />
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 ? <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead. <br />
<br />
== Outreach ==<br />
<br />
=== before the tour ===<br />
<br />
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...<br />
<br />
online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''<br />
<br />
we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.<br />
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_BT_2010&diff=2455Organise BT 20102009-11-01T12:11:47Z<p>Morlaa: /* Jobs */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==<br />
<br />
== Route ==<br />
<br />
=== Consensus ===<br />
We have a strong on-line consensus to go to Ecotopia? [[http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/]] near Berlin – lots of people agreed, even if there where other suggestions - see further down.<br />
And there is a weak on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, maybe starting earlier or ending later. That means that this proposal did not get any objections in a one week period, till now it was promoted by Jan, karl, mihail and Milan. And 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<br />
<br />
=== Next Questions for the UK route ===<br />
<br />
Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel. <br />
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person<br />
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?''' <br />
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
<br />
*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?<br />
I heard Laura mention Scotland. <br />
<br />
*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:<br />
<br />
** '''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.<br />
<br />
** 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 ?<br />
<br />
**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.<br />
<br />
** 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.<br />
<br />
=== Other Route Ideas ===<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== The Tour == <br />
<br />
here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general<br />
<br />
=== Content/ Slogan ===<br />
<br />
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound<br />
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the<br />
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !<br />
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good<br />
material to present this during the tour.<br />
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in<br />
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive<br />
elements called actions ;) <br />
<br />
to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be<br />
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation<br />
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference<br />
===Action/Theater/Propaganda===<br />
<br />
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”<br />
<br />
=== Office Backup ===<br />
<br />
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 ?<br />
<br />
===Veterans===<br />
<br />
we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?<br />
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?<br />
<br />
== Staff ==<br />
<br />
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 ? <br />
<br />
=== Volunteers ===<br />
<br />
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..<br />
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
=== Evs ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.<br />
<br />
====possible hosting organisations====<br />
<br />
*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<br />
<br />
*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office. <br />
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij <br />
<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
=== Jobs ===<br />
<br />
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:<br />
<br />
*coordinating a bit of the route<br />
*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<br />
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers<br />
*maintain the website<br />
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...<br />
*raise funds<br />
*take care about visa<br />
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?<br />
*backup office<br />
*presswork<br />
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there<br />
<br />
=== Meetings ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :<br />
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan<br />
*during cop15 <br />
<br />
== Funding ==<br />
<br />
who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.<br />
<br />
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 ? <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead. <br />
<br />
== Outreach ==<br />
<br />
=== before the tour ===<br />
<br />
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...<br />
<br />
online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''<br />
<br />
we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.<br />
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_BT_2010&diff=2454Organise BT 20102009-11-01T12:10:10Z<p>Morlaa: /* possible hosting organisations */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==<br />
<br />
== Route ==<br />
<br />
=== Consensus ===<br />
We have a strong on-line consensus to go to Ecotopia? [[http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/]] near Berlin – lots of people agreed, even if there where other suggestions - see further down.<br />
And there is a weak on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, maybe starting earlier or ending later. That means that this proposal did not get any objections in a one week period, till now it was promoted by Jan, karl, mihail and Milan. And 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<br />
<br />
=== Next Questions for the UK route ===<br />
<br />
Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel. <br />
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person<br />
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?''' <br />
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
<br />
*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?<br />
I heard Laura mention Scotland. <br />
<br />
*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:<br />
<br />
** '''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.<br />
<br />
** 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 ?<br />
<br />
**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.<br />
<br />
** 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.<br />
<br />
=== Other Route Ideas ===<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== The Tour == <br />
<br />
here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general<br />
<br />
=== Content/ Slogan ===<br />
<br />
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound<br />
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the<br />
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !<br />
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good<br />
material to present this during the tour.<br />
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in<br />
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive<br />
elements called actions ;) <br />
<br />
to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be<br />
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation<br />
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference<br />
===Action/Theater/Propaganda===<br />
<br />
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”<br />
<br />
=== Office Backup ===<br />
<br />
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 ?<br />
<br />
===Veterans===<br />
<br />
we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?<br />
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?<br />
<br />
== Staff ==<br />
<br />
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 ? <br />
<br />
=== Volunteers ===<br />
<br />
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..<br />
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
=== Evs ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.<br />
<br />
====possible hosting organisations====<br />
<br />
*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<br />
<br />
*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office. <br />
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij <br />
<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
=== Jobs ===<br />
<br />
we have quite a lot of job opportunities :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:<br />
<br />
*coordinating a bit of the route<br />
*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<br />
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers<br />
*maintain the website<br />
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...<br />
*raise funds<br />
*take care about visa<br />
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?<br />
*backup office<br />
*presswork<br />
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there<br />
<br />
=== Meetings ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :<br />
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan<br />
*during cop15 <br />
<br />
== Funding ==<br />
<br />
who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.<br />
<br />
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 ? <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead. <br />
<br />
== Outreach ==<br />
<br />
=== before the tour ===<br />
<br />
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...<br />
<br />
online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''<br />
<br />
we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.<br />
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_BT_2010&diff=2453Organise BT 20102009-11-01T12:08:06Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==<br />
<br />
== Route ==<br />
<br />
=== Consensus ===<br />
We have a strong on-line consensus to go to Ecotopia? [[http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/]] near Berlin – lots of people agreed, even if there where other suggestions - see further down.<br />
And there is a weak on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, maybe starting earlier or ending later. That means that this proposal did not get any objections in a one week period, till now it was promoted by Jan, karl, mihail and Milan. And 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<br />
<br />
=== Next Questions for the UK route ===<br />
<br />
Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel. <br />
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person<br />
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?''' <br />
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
<br />
*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?<br />
I heard Laura mention Scotland. <br />
<br />
*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:<br />
<br />
** '''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.<br />
<br />
** 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 ?<br />
<br />
**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.<br />
<br />
** 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.<br />
<br />
=== Other Route Ideas ===<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== The Tour == <br />
<br />
here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general<br />
<br />
=== Content/ Slogan ===<br />
<br />
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound<br />
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the<br />
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !<br />
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good<br />
material to present this during the tour.<br />
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in<br />
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive<br />
elements called actions ;) <br />
<br />
to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be<br />
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation<br />
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference<br />
===Action/Theater/Propaganda===<br />
<br />
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”<br />
<br />
=== Office Backup ===<br />
<br />
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 ?<br />
<br />
===Veterans===<br />
<br />
we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?<br />
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?<br />
<br />
== Staff ==<br />
<br />
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 ? <br />
<br />
=== Volunteers ===<br />
<br />
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..<br />
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
=== Evs ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.<br />
<br />
====possible hosting organisations====<br />
<br />
*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<br />
<br />
*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office. <br />
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij <br />
<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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. <br />
<br />
=== Jobs ===<br />
<br />
we have quite a lot of job opportunities :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:<br />
<br />
*coordinating a bit of the route<br />
*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<br />
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers<br />
*maintain the website<br />
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...<br />
*raise funds<br />
*take care about visa<br />
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?<br />
*backup office<br />
*presswork<br />
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there<br />
<br />
=== Meetings ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :<br />
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan<br />
*during cop15 <br />
<br />
== Funding ==<br />
<br />
who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is always good to have.<br />
<br />
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 ? <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
Then there is x-mas, where everyone loves to donate money. you could ask people doing that to donate for bt instead. <br />
<br />
== Outreach ==<br />
<br />
=== before the tour ===<br />
<br />
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...<br />
<br />
online outreach should include couch surfing, warm showers, wcn, eyfa, facebook, critical mass forums, cyclotourism forums ''do you know any others ?''<br />
<br />
we should announce our route, date and that we are an international collective based on volunteers.<br />
what biketour is about and that we are looking for participants who already now join effords to organize - as well as hosts</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=2452Main Page2009-11-01T11:05:04Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>(''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]])''<br />
<br />
==Welcome to the wiki of the ecotopia biketour==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Information===<br />
*[[What is bt]]?<br />
*[[Frequently asked questions]]<br />
*[[Route]]<br />
*[[Map]]<br />
*How to [[join]]<br />
<br />
=== Organizing 2010 ecotopia biketour ===<br />
This is a self-organized tour!<br />
<br />
No club, no ngo, no political party. Just some people following an idea - since 1993!<br />
<br />
2010 we will most probably go from the "[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/ Towards Carfree Cities Conference]" in York to [http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/ Ecotopia?], maybe starting earlier or ending later.<br />
<br />
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! <br />
<br />
There is an explanation on [[what bt is]] and how to [[organise biketour]] and collected some nice [[ideas]] about improving BT.<br><br />
<br />
Right now we are also working on the [[website]]. And where the hell is our [[stuff]]?<br><br />
<br />
<br />
====Tasks====<br />
<br />
we have quite a lot of job opportunities :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:<br />
<br />
*coordinating a bit of the route<br />
*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<br />
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers<br />
*maintain the website<br />
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...<br />
*raise funds<br />
*take care about visa<br />
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?<br />
*backup office<br />
*presswork<br />
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
* Wiki organization<br />
* Take care of moving old texts to here<br />
* You can learn on [[How to edit Wiki]] for contributing<br />
* Link this orphan pages: [[Special:Lonelypages]]<br />
<br />
==Last years' tours==<br />
<br />
===2009===<br />
In 2009 we cycled from Macedonia to Croatia through Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here you find the traversed [[route 2009|route]], and the [[Meeting_minutes/Felt_the_heat|final evaluation]], a sort of lessons learned.<br />
<br />
===2008===<br />
*[[lessons learned]]<br />
*[[checklist for national/local organisers]]<br />
*[[checklist for international organisers]]<br />
<br />
===2007===<br />
[[Main Page 2007|Main Page of this wiki during 2007]] [[Route 2007|Route of Biketour 2007]] [[Map 2007|Map of Biketour 2007]]<br />
<br />
===2006===<br />
[[diary 06]], [[booklet 06]], [[pressrelease06 eng]], [[outreachmail participants 06 eng]],<br />
[[traveltips to lithuania and poland]], [[short route description 06]], [[flyer06 eng]]<br />
<br />
====Archive====<br />
* campfire [[recipes]]<br />
* [[texts about bt]]<br />
* the 2005 wiki - bosnia, serbia, romaina and moldova: [http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]<br />
* the 2004 wiki, quite some texts in czech and german: [http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=2451Main Page2009-11-01T10:44:41Z<p>Morlaa: /* Organizing 2010 ecotopia biketour */</p>
<hr />
<div>(''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]])''<br />
<br />
==Welcome to the wiki of the ecotopia biketour==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Information===<br />
*[[What is bt]]?<br />
*[[Frequently asked questions]]<br />
*[[Route]]<br />
*[[Map]]<br />
*How to [[join]]<br />
<br />
=== Organizing 2010 ecotopia biketour ===<br />
This is a self-organized tour!<br />
<br />
No club, no ngo, no political party. Just some people following an idea - since 1993!<br />
<br />
2010 we will most probably go from the "[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/ Towards Carfree Cities Conference]" in York to [http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/ Ecotopia?], maybe starting earlier or ending later.<br />
<br />
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! <br />
<br />
There is an explanation on [[what bt is]] and how to [[organize biketour]] and collected some nice [[ideas]] about improving BT.<br><br />
<br />
Right now we are also working on the [[website]]. And where the hell is our [[stuff]]?<br><br />
<br />
<br />
====Tasks====<br />
'''Please help''' with some of this:<br />
<br />
* Designers: we need a design/logo for flyers/stickers about Biketours' intentions to spread during the Biketour. Besides this we need a design for this years t-shirts...<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
* Brainstorm of [[ideas]] about improving BT<br />
<br />
<br />
* Wiki organization<br />
* Take care of moving old texts to here<br />
* You can learn on [[How to edit Wiki]] for contributing<br />
* update this same list, maybe at this page [[Org Tasks]] ?<br />
* Link this orphan pages: [[Special:Lonelypages]]<br />
* Collaborate on the [[route]] drafting<br />
* reading, writing and collaborating on the profiles of places to visit<br />
* Translation (help translate by reading [[How to translate]])<br />
* [[Website]]<br />
* Make up a [[slogan]] for Biketour 2010!!!!<br />
<br />
==Last years' tours==<br />
<br />
===2009===<br />
In 2009 we cycled from Macedonia to Croatia through Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here you find the traversed [[route 2009|route]], and the [[Meeting_minutes/Felt_the_heat|final evaluation]], a sort of lessons learned.<br />
<br />
===2008===<br />
*[[lessons learned]]<br />
*[[checklist for national/local organisers]]<br />
*[[checklist for international organisers]]<br />
<br />
===2007===<br />
[[Main Page 2007|Main Page of this wiki during 2007]] [[Route 2007|Route of Biketour 2007]] [[Map 2007|Map of Biketour 2007]]<br />
<br />
===2006===<br />
[[diary 06]], [[booklet 06]], [[pressrelease06 eng]], [[outreachmail participants 06 eng]],<br />
[[traveltips to lithuania and poland]], [[short route description 06]], [[flyer06 eng]]<br />
<br />
====Archive====<br />
* campfire [[recipes]]<br />
* [[texts about bt]]<br />
* the 2005 wiki - bosnia, serbia, romaina and moldova: [http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]<br />
* the 2004 wiki, quite some texts in czech and german: [http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_BT_2010&diff=2439Organise BT 20102009-10-27T00:27:33Z<p>Morlaa: /* Consensus */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==<br />
<br />
== Route ==<br />
<br />
=== Consensus ===<br />
We have a strong on-line consensus to go to Ecotopia? [[http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/]] near Berlin – lots of people agreed, even if there where other suggestions - see further down.<br />
And there is a weak on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, maybe starting earlier or ending later. That means that this proposal did not get any objections in a one week period, till now it was promoted by Jan, karl, mihail and Milan. And 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<br />
<br />
=== Next Questions for the UK route ===<br />
<br />
Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel. <br />
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person<br />
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?''' <br />
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
<br />
*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?<br />
I heard Laura mention Scotland. <br />
<br />
*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:<br />
<br />
** '''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.<br />
<br />
** 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 ?<br />
<br />
**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.<br />
<br />
** 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.<br />
<br />
=== Other Route Ideas ===<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== The Tour == <br />
<br />
here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general<br />
<br />
=== Content/ Slogan ===<br />
<br />
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound<br />
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the<br />
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !<br />
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good<br />
material to present this during the tour.<br />
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in<br />
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive<br />
elements called actions ;) <br />
<br />
to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be<br />
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation<br />
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference<br />
===Action/Theater/Propaganda===<br />
<br />
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”<br />
<br />
=== Office Backup ===<br />
<br />
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 ?<br />
<br />
===Veterans===<br />
<br />
we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?<br />
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?<br />
<br />
== Staff ==<br />
<br />
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 ? <br />
<br />
=== Volunteers ===<br />
<br />
we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ?<br />
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
=== Evs ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.<br />
<br />
====possible hosting organisations====<br />
<br />
*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<br />
<br />
*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office. <br />
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij <br />
<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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. <br />
<br />
=== Jobs ===<br />
<br />
we have quite a lot of job opportunities :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:<br />
<br />
*coordinating a bit of the route<br />
*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<br />
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers<br />
*maintain the website<br />
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...<br />
*raise funds<br />
*take care about visa<br />
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?<br />
*backup office<br />
*presswork<br />
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there<br />
<br />
=== Meetings ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :<br />
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan<br />
*during cop15 <br />
<br />
== Funding ==<br />
<br />
who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is good to have..<br />
<br />
ok, now I am too tired to continue – maybe someone else can fill in the rest<br />
<br />
<br />
== Outreach ==<br />
<br />
=== DIY Participants ===<br />
<br />
=== Regional Coordinators ===<br />
<br />
=== Hosts ===</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_BT_2010&diff=2438Organise BT 20102009-10-27T00:26:59Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==<br />
<br />
== Route ==<br />
<br />
=== Consensus ===<br />
We have a strong on-line consensus to go to Ecotopia? [[http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/]] near Berlin – lots of people agreed, even if there where other suggestions - see further down.<br />
And there is a weak on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, maybe starting earlier or ending later. That means that this proposal did not get any objections in a one week period, till now it was promoted by Jan, karl, mihail and Milan. And 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 <br />
<br />
=== Next Questions for the UK route ===<br />
<br />
Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel. <br />
*There is the '''ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge''', which is 44 pounds per person<br />
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?''' <br />
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
<br />
*any ideas about where to start earlier or where to head after ecotopia? ?<br />
I heard Laura mention Scotland. <br />
<br />
*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:<br />
<br />
** '''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.<br />
<br />
** 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 ?<br />
<br />
**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.<br />
<br />
** 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.<br />
<br />
=== Other Route Ideas ===<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
== The Tour == <br />
<br />
here is the space to put ideas about the 2010 tour in general<br />
<br />
=== Content/ Slogan ===<br />
<br />
i am especially excited about the opportunity to give some profound<br />
content to bt, with wcn help. we will travel a lot of towns, where the<br />
bike is already used a lot. but still there is such a long way to go for people to live sustainable !<br />
"towards carfree cities" as a possible motto for the tour - but with a comprehensive website and good<br />
material to present this during the tour.<br />
i love the carbusters magazine, we would have to make a "best off" in<br />
the format of a biketour, a travelling exhibition with interactive<br />
elements called actions ;) <br />
<br />
to have bt starting for days before the conference and let it be<br />
embedded in the conferences press strategie - a more close cooperation<br />
than ever, bt being more integral part of the conference<br />
===Action/Theater/Propaganda===<br />
<br />
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”<br />
<br />
=== Office Backup ===<br />
<br />
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 ?<br />
<br />
===Veterans===<br />
<br />
we could invite all the old people. Hey karl or mihail, is that not something for u ?<br />
we should also still have the kids trailor around somewhere, no ?<br />
<br />
== Staff ==<br />
<br />
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 ? <br />
<br />
=== Volunteers ===<br />
<br />
we have 4 people who said they would help on a voluntary basis: Jan, Laura, Moritz and Pablo. Anyone else ?<br />
sapi and milan showed interest to meet in in prague to talk things through – anyone wants to join ?<br />
<br />
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. <br />
<br />
=== Evs ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
But she is interested to do then evs for next year, the 2011 tour.<br />
<br />
====possible hosting organisations====<br />
<br />
*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<br />
<br />
*eyfa in amsterdam is rather a sending organisation and they have no space in the office. <br />
*maybe falkor in groningen could be convinced to host someone – jan has the contact to marij <br />
<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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. <br />
<br />
=== Jobs ===<br />
<br />
we have quite a lot of job opportunities :) smaller areas of the project, where u would be the right person to take responsibility:<br />
<br />
*coordinating a bit of the route<br />
*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<br />
*coordinate the outreach for participants and organizers<br />
*maintain the website<br />
*style/desing the website, leaflets, posters...<br />
*raise funds<br />
*take care about visa<br />
*overall coordination – done at the moment by laura and jan – are u interested ?<br />
*backup office<br />
*presswork<br />
*bring bt to social networks like facebook and keep it updated there<br />
<br />
=== Meetings ===<br />
<br />
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.<br />
Two suggestions for meeting in the next time :<br />
*WCN:Grassroots Capacity Building Seminar in Prague, November 4–6, 2009 or the wcn annual meeting just after: sapi and milan<br />
*during cop15 <br />
<br />
== Funding ==<br />
<br />
who is taking care for funding ? We do not need a lot, but a bit of money is good to have..<br />
<br />
ok, now I am too tired to continue – maybe someone else can fill in the rest<br />
<br />
<br />
== Outreach ==<br />
<br />
=== DIY Participants ===<br />
<br />
=== Regional Coordinators ===<br />
<br />
=== Hosts ===</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_BT_2010&diff=2437Organise BT 20102009-10-26T22:43:39Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==<br />
<br />
== Route ==<br />
<br />
=== Consensus ===<br />
We have a strong on-line consensus to go to Ecotopia? [[http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/]] near Berlin – lots of people agreed, even if there where other suggestions - see further down.<br />
And there is a weak on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, maybe starting earlier or ending later. That means that this proposal did not get any objections in a one week period, but till now it was only promoted by Jan and Milan. And 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<br />
<br />
=== Next Questions for the UK route ===<br />
<br />
Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel. <br />
*There is the ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge, which is 44 pounds per person<br />
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?''' <br />
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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?) '''<br />
Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''<br />
<br />
*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:<br />
<br />
** '''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 Marji, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people.<br />
<br />
** 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 ?<br />
<br />
**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.<br />
<br />
** 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.<br />
<br />
=== Other Route Ideas ===<br />
<br />
here is a list of the other ideas we had. Especially the France/Switzerland/Germany idea keeps popping up. If u want to give energy to any of these or propose another rocking variant , please write a mail to the [https://lists.eyfa.org/mailman/listinfo/bt-org Bt-org] list or to info@ecotopiabiketour.net if u are not on the list. But don´t wait til tomorrow, as we are already making contacts for the UK route. <br />
<br />
Proposal by Laura, partly based on [[Meeting_minutes/Felt_the_heat#destination_and_route_options|Felt the heat!]]. Daniël added distances.<br />
<br />
#[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Yevpatoriia,+Ukraine&sll=45.460131,37.792969&sspn=31.849167,67.763672&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=Ff_JsQIdXQb9AQ&split=0&ll=45.267155,33.376465&spn=3.99729,8.470459&z=7&iwloc=A Eupatoria] to [http://ecotopia.belzignet.de/ Ecotopia] (Black Sea, Ukraine to Chernobyl to the Ecotopia (1 - 21 Augus) in Germany)<br />
#* minimal 2200 km ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=flaeming,+Germany&daddr=sebastopol,ukraine&hl=en&geocode=FSB5GQMdU1u7ACH_iVBAUem7Tw%3B&mra=ls&sll=49.39421,21.5071&sspn=14.800624,33.881836&ie=UTF8&ll=48.487486,23.203125&spn=15.065357,33.881836&z=5 Sebastopol-Flaeming])<br />
# Tallinn to Berlin (ecovillages in all baltic countries - this could be adapted depending on what country co-ordinators could be found for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus....Poland, Germany)<br />
#* Kaliningrad? (=Russia) -- [[User:Eiland|Eiland]] 12:27, 24 September 2009 (UTC)<br>[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=tallinn&daddr=79+Laisv%C4%97s+al%C4%97ja,+Kaunas,+44001,+Lithuania+(Kaunas)+to:flaeming,+Germany&geocode=%3BFaarRQMdo9JsASF04GsYIb0_vQ%3BFSB5GQMdU1u7ACH_iVBAUem7Tw&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=53.396432,18.083496&sspn=6.775749,16.940918&ie=UTF8&z=5 1650 km].<br />
# Ireland to [http://tinyurl.com/ecotopia2010 Ecotopia?] in Germany, through [http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/ towards car-free cities conference] in York, England! (Which is 28 June - 1 July 2010, nice timing). <br />
#* York-Flaeming is [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=flaeming,+Germany&daddr=york+uk&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=51.862924,4.833984&sspn=6.555101,14.128418&ie=UTF8&z=5 1350 km], for that there is approx. 40 days without resting days<br />
# Switzerland to Ecotopia (potentially through Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic). This would include countries never before ridden through on biketour! Not to mention going thru some spectacular scenery at the start of the trip in the Alps.<br />
#* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=flaeming,+Germany&daddr=liechtenstein&hl=en&geocode=FSB5GQMdU1u7ACH_iVBAUem7Tw%3B&mra=ls&sll=52.49616,4.943848&sspn=6.917914,16.940918&ie=UTF8&ll=49.582226,10.942383&spn=7.366067,16.940918&z=6 750-850 km]<br />
# Switzerland to Spain,The EYFA climate camp in Spain! There would also be plenty of eco-villages/eco-projects/wwoof communities on this route.<br />
#* Zürich-Barcelona is [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=zurich&daddr=madrid&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=46.415139,8.887939&sspn=3.915712,8.470459&ie=UTF8&z=6 1050 km]<br>EYFA camp @Barcelona is planned first week of July.<BR>climate action camp with large anti-GMO focus<br />
#: Maybe better the other way around? Or to Ecotopia 2010? Thats 1800 km. approx 30 days...<br />
<br />
'''NOTE''' Kms are in minimum. aim is to make max. 50 km per cycling day. And biketour does ''not'' take the most efficient route. Also, it is good to plan one resting day every 4 days of cycling.<br />
<br />
== The Tour == <br />
<br />
=== Content/ Slogan ===<br />
<br />
=== What to organize ===<br />
<br />
=== Office Backup ===<br />
<br />
== Staff ==<br />
<br />
=== Volunteers ===<br />
<br />
=== Evs ===<br />
<br />
=== Jobs ===<br />
<br />
=== Meetings ===<br />
<br />
== Funding ==<br />
<br />
== Outreach ==<br />
<br />
=== DIY Participants ===<br />
<br />
=== Regional Coordinators ===<br />
<br />
=== Hosts ===</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_BT_2010&diff=2436Organise BT 20102009-10-26T22:42:14Z<p>Morlaa: /* Consensus */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==<br />
<br />
== Route ==<br />
<br />
=== Consensus ===<br />
We have a strong on-line consensus to go to Ecotopia? [[http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/]] near Berlin – lots of people agreed, even if there where other suggestions - see further down.<br />
And there is a weak on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, maybe starting earlier or ending later. That means that this proposal did not get any objections in a one week period, but till now it was only promoted by Jan and Milan. And 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<br />
<br />
=== Next Questions for the UK route ===<br />
<br />
Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel. <br />
*There is the ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge, which is 44 pounds per person<br />
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?''' <br />
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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?) '''<br />
Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''<br />
<br />
*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:<br />
<br />
** '''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 Marji, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people.<br />
<br />
** 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 ?<br />
<br />
**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.<br />
<br />
** 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.<br />
<br />
=== Other Route Ideas ===<br />
<br />
here is a list of the other ideas we had. Especially the France/Switzerland/Germany idea keeps popping up. If u want to give energy to any of these or propose another rocking variant , please write a mail to the [https://lists.eyfa.org/mailman/listinfo/bt-org Bt-org] list or to info@ecotopiabiketour.net if u are not on the list. But don´t wait til tomorrow, as we are already making contacts for the UK route. <br />
<br />
Proposal by Laura, partly based on [[Meeting_minutes/Felt_the_heat#destination_and_route_options|Felt the heat!]]. Daniël added distances.<br />
<br />
#[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Yevpatoriia,+Ukraine&sll=45.460131,37.792969&sspn=31.849167,67.763672&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=Ff_JsQIdXQb9AQ&split=0&ll=45.267155,33.376465&spn=3.99729,8.470459&z=7&iwloc=A Eupatoria] to [http://ecotopia.belzignet.de/ Ecotopia] (Black Sea, Ukraine to Chernobyl to the Ecotopia (1 - 21 Augus) in Germany)<br />
#* minimal 2200 km ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=flaeming,+Germany&daddr=sebastopol,ukraine&hl=en&geocode=FSB5GQMdU1u7ACH_iVBAUem7Tw%3B&mra=ls&sll=49.39421,21.5071&sspn=14.800624,33.881836&ie=UTF8&ll=48.487486,23.203125&spn=15.065357,33.881836&z=5 Sebastopol-Flaeming])<br />
# Tallinn to Berlin (ecovillages in all baltic countries - this could be adapted depending on what country co-ordinators could be found for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus....Poland, Germany)<br />
#* Kaliningrad? (=Russia) -- [[User:Eiland|Eiland]] 12:27, 24 September 2009 (UTC)<br>[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=tallinn&daddr=79+Laisv%C4%97s+al%C4%97ja,+Kaunas,+44001,+Lithuania+(Kaunas)+to:flaeming,+Germany&geocode=%3BFaarRQMdo9JsASF04GsYIb0_vQ%3BFSB5GQMdU1u7ACH_iVBAUem7Tw&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=53.396432,18.083496&sspn=6.775749,16.940918&ie=UTF8&z=5 1650 km].<br />
# Ireland to [http://tinyurl.com/ecotopia2010 Ecotopia?] in Germany, through [http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/ towards car-free cities conference] in York, England! (Which is 28 June - 1 July 2010, nice timing). <br />
#* York-Flaeming is [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=flaeming,+Germany&daddr=york+uk&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=51.862924,4.833984&sspn=6.555101,14.128418&ie=UTF8&z=5 1350 km], for that there is approx. 40 days without resting days<br />
# Switzerland to Ecotopia (potentially through Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic). This would include countries never before ridden through on biketour! Not to mention going thru some spectacular scenery at the start of the trip in the Alps.<br />
#* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=flaeming,+Germany&daddr=liechtenstein&hl=en&geocode=FSB5GQMdU1u7ACH_iVBAUem7Tw%3B&mra=ls&sll=52.49616,4.943848&sspn=6.917914,16.940918&ie=UTF8&ll=49.582226,10.942383&spn=7.366067,16.940918&z=6 750-850 km]<br />
# Switzerland to Spain,The EYFA climate camp in Spain! There would also be plenty of eco-villages/eco-projects/wwoof communities on this route.<br />
#* Zürich-Barcelona is [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=zurich&daddr=madrid&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=46.415139,8.887939&sspn=3.915712,8.470459&ie=UTF8&z=6 1050 km]<br>EYFA camp @Barcelona is planned first week of July.<BR>climate action camp with large anti-GMO focus<br />
#: Maybe better the other way around? Or to Ecotopia 2010? Thats 1800 km. approx 30 days...<br />
<br />
'''NOTE''' Kms are in minimum. aim is to make max. 50 km per cycling day. And biketour does ''not'' take the most efficient route. Also, it is good to plan one resting day every 4 days of cycling.<br />
<br />
== The Tour == <br />
<br />
=== Content/ Slogan = ==<br />
<br />
=== What to organize ===<br />
<br />
=== Office Backup ===<br />
<br />
== Staff ==<br />
<br />
=== Volunteers ===<br />
<br />
=== Evs ===<br />
<br />
=== Jobs ===<br />
<br />
=== Meetings ===<br />
<br />
== Funding ==<br />
<br />
== Outreach ==<br />
<br />
=== DIY Participants ===<br />
<br />
=== Regional Coordinators ===<br />
<br />
=== Hosts ===</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_BT_2010&diff=2435Organise BT 20102009-10-26T22:41:26Z<p>Morlaa: New page: == Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ == == Route == === Consensus === We have a strong on-line consensus to go to Ecotopia? http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/ near Ber...</p>
<hr />
<div>== Organizing Biketour 2010 „20th Anniversary“ ==<br />
<br />
== Route ==<br />
<br />
=== Consensus ===<br />
We have a strong on-line consensus to go to Ecotopia? [[http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/]] near Berlin – lots of people agreed, even if there where other suggestions - see further down.<br />
And there is a weak on-line consensus to start from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference" (TCCC)[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York/UK, maybe starting earlier or ending later. That means that this proposal did not get any objections in a one week period, but till now it was only promoted by Jan and Milan. And 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 <br />
<br />
=== Next Questions for the UK route ===<br />
<br />
Now we need to figure out, how to cross the channel. <br />
*There is the ferry from Hull, UK to Hook-of-Holland or Brugge, which is 44 pounds per person<br />
'''How many km would that be ? How would the route look like ?''' <br />
*There might be a '''train ticket from London to Amsterdam for 29€''', Jan heard rumors about it and is following it up<br />
*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 ?'''<br />
*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.<br />
<br />
*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?) '''<br />
Who wants to expand the list and fill it with details ?'''<br />
<br />
*Possible Partners/ Interesting Places on that road – please add your ideas and the answers u got:<br />
<br />
** '''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 Marji, a bt-veteran and other ecotopia people.<br />
<br />
** 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 ?<br />
<br />
**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.<br />
<br />
** 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.<br />
<br />
=== Other Route Ideas ===<br />
<br />
here is a list of the other ideas we had. Especially the France/Switzerland/Germany idea keeps popping up. If u want to give energy to any of these or propose another rocking variant , please write a mail to the [https://lists.eyfa.org/mailman/listinfo/bt-org Bt-org] list or to info@ecotopiabiketour.net if u are not on the list. But don´t wait til tomorrow, as we are already making contacts for the UK route. <br />
<br />
Proposal by Laura, partly based on [[Meeting_minutes/Felt_the_heat#destination_and_route_options|Felt the heat!]]. Daniël added distances.<br />
<br />
#[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Yevpatoriia,+Ukraine&sll=45.460131,37.792969&sspn=31.849167,67.763672&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=Ff_JsQIdXQb9AQ&split=0&ll=45.267155,33.376465&spn=3.99729,8.470459&z=7&iwloc=A Eupatoria] to [http://ecotopia.belzignet.de/ Ecotopia] (Black Sea, Ukraine to Chernobyl to the Ecotopia (1 - 21 Augus) in Germany)<br />
#* minimal 2200 km ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=flaeming,+Germany&daddr=sebastopol,ukraine&hl=en&geocode=FSB5GQMdU1u7ACH_iVBAUem7Tw%3B&mra=ls&sll=49.39421,21.5071&sspn=14.800624,33.881836&ie=UTF8&ll=48.487486,23.203125&spn=15.065357,33.881836&z=5 Sebastopol-Flaeming])<br />
# Tallinn to Berlin (ecovillages in all baltic countries - this could be adapted depending on what country co-ordinators could be found for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus....Poland, Germany)<br />
#* Kaliningrad? (=Russia) -- [[User:Eiland|Eiland]] 12:27, 24 September 2009 (UTC)<br>[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=tallinn&daddr=79+Laisv%C4%97s+al%C4%97ja,+Kaunas,+44001,+Lithuania+(Kaunas)+to:flaeming,+Germany&geocode=%3BFaarRQMdo9JsASF04GsYIb0_vQ%3BFSB5GQMdU1u7ACH_iVBAUem7Tw&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=53.396432,18.083496&sspn=6.775749,16.940918&ie=UTF8&z=5 1650 km].<br />
# Ireland to [http://tinyurl.com/ecotopia2010 Ecotopia?] in Germany, through [http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/ towards car-free cities conference] in York, England! (Which is 28 June - 1 July 2010, nice timing). <br />
#* York-Flaeming is [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=flaeming,+Germany&daddr=york+uk&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=51.862924,4.833984&sspn=6.555101,14.128418&ie=UTF8&z=5 1350 km], for that there is approx. 40 days without resting days<br />
# Switzerland to Ecotopia (potentially through Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic). This would include countries never before ridden through on biketour! Not to mention going thru some spectacular scenery at the start of the trip in the Alps.<br />
#* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=flaeming,+Germany&daddr=liechtenstein&hl=en&geocode=FSB5GQMdU1u7ACH_iVBAUem7Tw%3B&mra=ls&sll=52.49616,4.943848&sspn=6.917914,16.940918&ie=UTF8&ll=49.582226,10.942383&spn=7.366067,16.940918&z=6 750-850 km]<br />
# Switzerland to Spain,The EYFA climate camp in Spain! There would also be plenty of eco-villages/eco-projects/wwoof communities on this route.<br />
#* Zürich-Barcelona is [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=zurich&daddr=madrid&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=46.415139,8.887939&sspn=3.915712,8.470459&ie=UTF8&z=6 1050 km]<br>EYFA camp @Barcelona is planned first week of July.<BR>climate action camp with large anti-GMO focus<br />
#: Maybe better the other way around? Or to Ecotopia 2010? Thats 1800 km. approx 30 days...<br />
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'''NOTE''' Kms are in minimum. aim is to make max. 50 km per cycling day. And biketour does ''not'' take the most efficient route. Also, it is good to plan one resting day every 4 days of cycling.<br />
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== The Tour == <br />
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=== Content/ Slogan = ==<br />
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=== What to organize ===<br />
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=== Office Backup ===<br />
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== Staff ==<br />
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=== Volunteers ===<br />
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=== Evs ===<br />
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=== Jobs ===<br />
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=== Meetings ===<br />
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== Funding ==<br />
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== Outreach ==<br />
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=== DIY Participants ===<br />
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=== Regional Coordinators ===<br />
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=== Hosts ===</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=2434Main Page2009-10-26T21:13:27Z<p>Morlaa: organise Bt 2010 - added our route</p>
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<div>(''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]])''<br />
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==Welcome to the wiki of the ecotopia biketour==<br />
<br />
<br />
===Information===<br />
*[[What is bt]]?<br />
*[[Frequently asked questions]]<br />
*[[Route]]<br />
*[[Map]]<br />
*How to [[join]]<br />
<br />
===Organizing next biketour===<br />
This is a self-organized tour!<br />
<br />
No club, no ngo, no political party. Just some people following an idea - since 1993!<br />
<br />
2010 we will most probably go from the "Towards Carfree Cities Conference"[[http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/]] in York to Ecotopia? [[http://ecotopia.torzumflaeming.de/]], maybe starting earlier or ending later.<br />
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We are actually searching for people, who want to join the tour and take part in its organisation - see on [[organise BT 2010]] how far we got already and where u can help! <br />
<br />
There is an explanation on [[what bt is]] and how to [[organise biketour]] and collected some nice [[ideas]] about improving BT.<br><br />
<br />
Right now we are also working on the [[website]]. And where the hell is our [[stuff]]?<br><br />
<br />
<br />
====Tasks====<br />
'''Please help''' with some of this:<br />
<br />
* Designers: we need a design/logo for flyers/stickers about Biketours' intentions to spread during the Biketour. Besides this we need a design for this years t-shirts...<br />
* You can help us online!!! We do need help with moving pages from our old wikis and websites - have a look down to archive - to this wiki. Also the [[website]] needs doing: writing, designing and creating an ez-publish template.<br />
<br />
* Brainstorm of [[ideas]] about improving BT<br />
<br />
<br />
* Wiki organization<br />
* take care of moving old texts to here<br />
* You can learn on [[How to edit Wiki]] for contributing<br />
* update this same list, maybe at this page [[Org Tasks]] ?<br />
* Link this orphan pages: [[Special:Lonelypages]]<br />
* Collaborate on the [[route]] drafting<br />
* reading, writing and collaborating on the profiles of places to visit<br />
* Translation<br />
* Help translate by reading [[How to translate]]<br />
* [[Website]]<br />
* make up a [[slogan]] for Biketour 2010!!!!<br />
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==Last years tours==<br />
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===2009===<br />
In 2009 we cycled from Macedonia to Croatia through Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina. Here are some ideas about the [[route]] and [[map]].<br><br />
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===2008===<br />
*[[lessons learned]]<br />
*[[checklist for national/local organisers]]<br />
*[[checklist for international organisers]]<br />
*[[introduction to Biketour: usefull for organisers & volunteers]]<br />
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===2007===<br />
[[Main Page 2007|Main Page of this wiki during 2007]] [[Route 2007|Route of Biketour 2007]] [[Map 2007|Map of Biketour 2007]]<br />
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===2006===<br />
[[diary 06]], [[booklet 06]], [[pressrelease06 eng]], [[outreachmail participants 06 eng]],<br />
[[traveltips to lithuania and poland]], [[short route description 06]], [[flyer06 eng]]<br />
<br />
==Archive==<br />
<br />
camp fire [[recipes]]<br />
<br />
[[texts about bt]] - '''well this is intended to be a collection of all texts about bt we have here - but who knows if everyone thinks of mentioning her text here ?'''<br />
<br />
the 2005 wiki - bosnia, serbia, romaina and moldova:<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
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the 2004 wiki, quite some texts in czech and german:<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Portugu%C3%AAs&diff=527Português2008-04-23T22:16:33Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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=Portugues=<br />
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==Benvindo ao Ecotopedia - o wiki do biketour do ecotopia==<br />
<br />
===Organizando o próximo biketour===<br />
Esta é uma excursão auto-organizada!<br />
Não é clube, nem ONG, nem partido político. Apenas algumas pessoas que seguem uma ideia - desde 1993! Em 2007 vamos estar [[Spain#portugues|Espanha]] e [[Portugal#portugues|Portugal]] - aqui estão algumas ideias sobre [[route#portugues|rota]] e [[map#portugues|mapa]].<br><br />
É apelativo? Quer ajudar em parte na organização do BT?<br><br />
O melhor será vir à [[nextmeeting#portugues|próxima reunião]], online ou fisicamente, para ter uma ideia das pessoas e das tarefas, ou leia as [[meeting_minutes#portugues|minutas de reuniões]].<br />
Se morar na redondezas ou conhecer lugares interessantes a visitar, pode falar com o [[Joao]]. Nós compilámos também alguns textos sobre aproximadamente [[what_bt_is#portugues|o que é o BT]] e como [[organise_biketour#portugues|organizar o biketour]] e juntámos algumas agradáveis [[ideas#portugues|ideias]] sobre como melhorar o BT.<br><br />
De momento estamos a tentar desenvolver também o [[Web_site#portugues|Sítio web]]. E onde está o nosso [[stuff#portugues|material]]?<br><br />
Poderá também ajudar-nos pela internet, mesmo que viva perto da rota. Nós necessitamos ajuda com as páginas, precisam de ser movidas dos nossos wikis e Web site antigos - repare abaixo no arquivo - para este wiki novo. Necessitamos de [[How_to_translate#portugues|traduzir]] as páginas já existentes. Também o [[Web site]] necessita de: escrever, projectar e criar um template de ez-publishr.<br />
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====Tarefas====<br />
'''Por favor ajude''' em algo como:<br />
* Brainstorm de [[ideas#portugues|ideias]] sobre como melhorar o BT<br />
* Organização do Wiki<br />
** mover textos velhos para aqui<br />
*** Pode aprender sobre [[How_to_edit_Wiki#portugues|Como editar o wiki]] para contribuir<br />
** actualizar esta mesma lista, talvez nesta página [[Org_Tasks#portugues|tarefas de Organização]]?<br />
** ligado as páginas órfãs: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Special:Lonelypages<br />
** Colaborar com o esboço da [[route#portugues|rota]]<br />
*** leitura, escrita e colaboração dos perfis dos lugares a visitar<br />
* Tradução<br />
** Ajuda a traduzir lendo [[How_to_translate#portugues|como traduzir]]<br />
* [[Web site]]<br />
** ez-publish , alguém percebe deste CMS?<br />
** design<br />
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==O Biketour nos últimos anos==<br />
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===2006===<br />
[[diary 06]], [[booklet 06]], [[pressrelease06 eng]], [[outreachmail participants 06 eng]],<br />
[[traveltips to lithuania and poland]], [[short route description 06]], [[flyer06 eng]]<br />
<br />
==Arquivo==<br />
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fogo de acampamento - [[recipes#portugues|receitas]]<br />
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[[texts about bt#portugues|textos sobre o bt]] - '''pretende ser uma colecção de todos os textos sobre o bt que nós temos aqui - mas quem sabe se todos tencionem mencionar o seu texto aqui?'''<br />
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2005 o wiki - Bósnia, servia, roménia e moldavia:<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
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o wiki 2004, muitos textos em checo e alemão:<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Espa%C3%B1ol&diff=526Español2008-04-23T22:16:08Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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AUTO TRANSLATION - please correct and delete this line!<br />
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==Bienvenid@ a la Ecotopedia - el wiki del biketour de Ecotopia==<br />
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===Organización del próximo biketour===<br />
¡Esto es un viaje auto-organizado!<br />
Ningún club, ninguna ONG, ningún partido político. ¡Sólo alguna gente que sigue una idea - desde 1993! En 2007 pedalearemos por [[Spain#espanol|España]] y [[Portugal#espanol|Portugal]] - aquí están algunas ideas sobre la [[route#espanol|ruta]] y el [[map#espanol|mapa]]. <br><br />
¿Te apetece? ¿Deseas formar parte de la organización de bt? <br><br />
Lo mejor es venir a la [[nextmeeting#espanol|proxima reunión]], en línea o en persona, para hacerse una idea de la gente y de las tareas, u hojee los [[meeting_minutes#espanol|minutos de reunión]].<br />
Si vives al lado de ella o conoces lugares para visitar, hablar con [[Joao]]. También compilamos algunos textos acerca de [[what bt is#espanol|qué es bt]] y cómo se [[organise_biketour#espanol|organiza el biketour]] y recogemos algunas de las [[ideas#espanol|ideas]] sobre mejorar BT.<br><br />
Ahora también estamos trabajando en el [[website#espanol|Web site]]. ¿Y dónde demonios está nuestro [[stuff#espanol|material]]? <br><br />
También puedes ayudarnos en línea, aunque no vivas al lado de la ruta. Necesitamos ayuda con las páginas móviles de nuestros viejos wikis y Web site - mira abajo a archivar - a este wiki. También [[website#espanol|Web site]] necesita hacer: escribiendo, diseñando y creando una plantilla del ez-publicar.<br />
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====Tareas====<br />
El ''' ayuda por favor al ''' con algo de esto:<br />
* Buena inspiración de [[ideas#espanol|ideas]] sobre mejorar BT<br />
* Organización de Wiki<br />
cuidado de la toma del ** de mover los viejos textos a aquí<br />
*** Que usted puede aprender encendido [[How_to_edit_Wiki#espanol|como editar lo Wiki]] para contribuir<br />
¿actualización del ** esta misma lista, quizá en esta página [[tareas de Org]]?<br />
Acoplamiento del ** que este huérfano pagina: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Special:Lonelypages<br />
El ** colabora en [[route#espanol|ruta]] el bosquejo<br />
lectura, escritura y colaboración del *** en los perfiles de lugares para visitar<br />
* Traducción<br />
La ayuda del ** traduce leyendo [[how_to_translate#espanol|cómo traducir]]<br />
* [[website#espanol|Web site]]<br />
el ** ez-publica el conocimiento dado la bienvenida<br />
Diseñadores del **<br />
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==El biketour de años anteriores==<br />
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===2006===<br />
[[diario 06]], [[librete 06]], [[inglés pressrelease06]], [[participantes del outreachmail 06 ingleses]],<br />
[[traveltips a Lituania y a Polonia]], [[descripción corta 06 de la ruta]], [[inglés flyer06]]<br />
<br />
==Archivo==<br />
<br />
fuego de campamento [[recetas]]<br />
<br />
[[textos sobre bt]] - pozo del ''' ésta pretende ser una colección de todos los textos sobre bt que tenemos aquí - pero ¿quién sabe si cada uno piensa en mencionar su texto aquí? '''<br />
<br />
el wiki 2005 - Bosnia, Serbia, Rumanía y Moldavia:<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
<br />
el wiki 2004, algunos textos en checo y alemán:<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=525Main Page2008-04-23T22:14:32Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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==Welcome to the Ecotopedia - the wiki of the ecotopia biketour==<br />
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Roll up! Roll up! It’s the great Ecotopia Biketour 2008 extravaganza!<br />
<br />
Where? Serbia, Bulgaria, and Turkey (Belgrade to Sinop on the Black Sea<br />
coast).<br />
<br />
When? 21st June - 14th August 2008<br />
<br />
What? The Ecotopia Biketour is a mobile community that appears for<br />
several weeks each year in a different part of Europe and provides an<br />
environmentally acceptable way to reach the Ecotopia gathering<br />
(http://eyfa.org/ecotopia, http://www.ecotopiagathering.org/) or simply<br />
to cycle in interesting places. Along the way we meet local groups<br />
working on ecological or social issues and support their activities.<br />
<br />
Why? Learning new things, keeping fit, seeing new places, promoting<br />
cycling, meeting new people, supporting local environmental groups...<br />
<br />
Who? If you’re interested in environmental issues, willing to take an<br />
active part in the group, and you have a bicycle, then Ecotopia Biketour<br />
might be just the thing for you. Biketour is suitable for people of most<br />
cycling abilities, and accommodation is usually in tents. Participants<br />
are responsible for tasks such as preparing meals, washing up and since<br />
we don’t have a support vehicle, we also carry our own equipment in bike<br />
trailers. Participants pay a small participation fee graded according to<br />
country of residence and are expected to take part in decision-making<br />
during the tour.<br />
<br />
For more information:<br />
<br />
Join the biketour mailing list at:<br />
https://lists.eyfa.org/mailman/listinfo/biketour<br />
Or e-mail mail4yoy (at) gmail.com<br />
<br />
<br />
===Information===<br />
*[[What is bt]]?<br />
*[[Frequently asked questions]]<br />
*[[Route]]<br />
*[[Map]]<br />
*How to [[join]]<br />
<br />
===Organizing next biketour===<br />
This is a self-organized tour!<br />
No club, no ngo, no political party. Just some people following an idea - since 1993! In 2007 we will cycle [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] - here are some ideas about the [[route]] and [[map]].<br><br />
Does this appeal to you? and do you want to do your share of bt-organizing?<br><br />
The best is you to come to the [[nextmeeting]], online or in real, to get an idea of the people and tasks, or browse through the [[meeting minutes]].<br />
If you live next to it or know great places to visit, talk to [[Joao]]. We also compiled some texts about [[what bt is]] and how to [[organise biketour]] and collected some nice [[ideas]] about improving BT.<br><br />
Right now we are also working on the [[website]]. And where the hell is our [[stuff]]?<br><br />
You can also help us online, even if you do not live next to the route. We do need help with moving pages from our old wikis and websites - have a look down to archive - to this wiki. Also the [[website]] needs doing: writing, designing and creating an ez-publish template.<br />
<br />
====Tasks====<br />
'''Please help''' with some of this:<br />
* Brainstorm of [[ideas]] about improving BT<br />
* Wiki organization<br />
** take care of moving old texts to here<br />
*** You can learn on [[How_to_edit_Wiki]] for contributing<br />
** update this same list, maybe at this page [[Org Tasks]] ?<br />
** Link this orphan pages: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Special:Lonelypages<br />
** Collaborate on the [[route]] drafting<br />
*** reading, writing and collaborating on the profiles of places to visit<br />
* Translation<br />
** Help translate by reading [[How to translate]]<br />
* [[Website]]<br />
** ez-publish knowledge welcomed<br />
** Designers<br />
<br />
<br />
==Last years tours==<br />
<br />
===2006===<br />
[[diary 06]], [[booklet 06]], [[pressrelease06 eng]], [[outreachmail participants 06 eng]],<br />
[[traveltips to lithuania and poland]], [[short route description 06]], [[flyer06 eng]]<br />
<br />
==Archive==<br />
<br />
camp fire [[recipes]]<br />
<br />
[[texts about bt]] - '''well this is intended to be a collection of all texts about bt we have here - but who knows if everyone thinks of mentioning her text here ?'''<br />
<br />
the 2005 wiki - bosnia, serbia, romaina and moldova:<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
<br />
the 2004 wiki, quite some texts in czech and german:<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]<br />
<br />
[[espaniol]] [[portugese]]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Home&diff=318Home2007-04-27T20:10:51Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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<div>home<br />
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main menu:<br />
[[what is bt]].. [[join the tour]].. [[register]] ..[[impressions]].. [[help out]].. how to[[organise bt]] <br />
[[herstory]] ..[[press]].. [[search]].. [[wiki]] ..[[contact]] ..[[search]] <br />
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submenus:<br />
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[[what is bt]]:<br />
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[[diy]] as in [[What is bt#organizing_network]]..[[what is bt#eco-mobile...]]..<br />
[[what is bt#...action community]]..[[theme]]???<br />
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[[join the tour]]:<br />
[[where to join]]..[[what to bring]]..[[far-distance travels with your bike]]..[[the route]]<br />
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[[impressions]]<br />
[[diary]]..[[podcast]]..[[pictures]]..[[past tours]]<br />
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Welcome to the Ecotopia Biketour - the project for everyone interested in do-it-yourself "diy" environmentalism, cultural exchange, romantic nature experience, consensus based community life and the art of travelling without motors. This year we will sweat our way through Spain and Portugal. We will start in Barcelona 1st of June, and we reach Ecotopia [[http://eyfa.org/ecotopia]]at Aljezur, Portugal at beginning of August and then maybe [[cycle on for a bit]], continue to Africa or head back north ... We will visit "interesting placesTM" on our way: alternative, environmental, artistic projects and communities, nature monuments and people who preserve them or resist their destruction. We want to stay there for some days to have the time to exchange knowledge with the residents and prepare some actions. The [[route]] is evolving rapidly, but if you have any contacts in the region or ideas, where to travel or whom to visit, do not hesitate to [[contact]] us!<br />
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Check out our old website [[http://www.thebiketour.net/old/index.html]]for more information on how the tour works or dig our wiki[[http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Main_Page]]. Join our malinglist[[https://lists.thebiketour.net/mailman/listinfo/biketour-list]] to get in contact with past and future [[participants]].For some [[impressions]] of our trip 2006 see the fragments of the online diary [[http://ecotopiabiketour.blogspot.com/]]or see some photos[[http://flickr.com/photos/pedalofilo/sets/72157594389805110/]].<br />
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logos & links of organisations supporting us</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=What_bt_is&diff=317What bt is2007-04-27T20:10:15Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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==english==<br />
====intro====<br />
The ecotopia biketour is an eco-mobile action community on its way to or from ecotopia.<br />
Some 10 to 50 bikers from different backgrounds - nationality, age, language, experience - cycle together towards [[ecotopia]], doing actions on their way and meet up with environmentally minded people and groups. They carry all [[equipment]] for camping on their bikes and trailers. It is a totally chaotic tour, with constantly changing sleeping places, group composition and food quality, but with some common things like:<br />
[[consensus based decision making]], all [[tasks]] divided between the [[participants]], a sleeping place every night and breakfast, lunch and dinner for a [[participation fee]] calculated in [[ecos]] and collected by sigmund, our magic hat.<br />
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====sleeping places====<br />
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The basic BT sleeping place includes some space for tents.<br />
As nothing more is really needed, we made the experience that we can organize our sleeping places during the tour, during the day. This is nice sometimes - it strengthens the group feeling when people work together to find the place and to make up for its downsides.<br />
<br />
Basic features which should not miss with any organized sleeping place are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
<br />
also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bike shops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
<br />
Another type of sleeping place is schools and sport halls, which have quite some facilities.<br />
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====food====<br />
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The participants rotate the [[task]] of preparing a vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner. In our attempt to buy as local and eco food as possible we avoid big supermarkets with its highly packed and far travelled products but buy our food on local markets, small shops or from farmers we pass by. Usually we cook on wood fire, if we do not have access to a big kitchen, but for the iberian peninsula we might need another solution.<br />
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====the [[route]]====<br />
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We do prefer quiet asphalt roads in a beautiful scenery, slightly downhill. ~50 km per day. We do our best find them! A day with 30 km is very nice to fluff around and enjoy the not cycling sides of life. Do less on action days and none on resting days, where we should have 2 per week.A slow pace gives more time for the nice things of biketour, the brakes and workshops and a deeper picture of the sleeping places, but still you might have to expect harder day - busy roads, 80 km, 100 maybe with the shortcuts, some haste because some hosts are waiting...<br />
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====consensus====<br />
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We work with consensus based decision making - not the majority decides, but everyone is included in the decision We do that since years, and we think that all decisions should be based on consensus. But we do also know, that none of us learned this in school and that there are certain human qualities which take care, that we will always have decision makers and people sitting quiet in the circle. Cultural and language barriers, human group behavior, gender specific behavior, highly motivated or very lazy people and the constantly changing group structure are standing against our try, but we think, it is important to train our communication and decision making skills and be patient during long morning circles, try new structures and experiment with the whole thing to live an alternative to what governments present as democracy.<br />
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====eco-mobile ...====<br />
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With this tour we do set an example how to travel in an ecological sound way. We do not use any motorized vehicles, transport all our stuff on our bike or with our trailors. We will reduce our garbage as much as possible, reuse most of it and try to recycle the rest. We shop locally and organically produced stuff, cook with wook and eat vegeterian meals. Every participant comes with a different background to the tour, different ideas how to behave ecological. During the tour we will learn from each other, how to do that, and find out the do's and don'ts. We consider it everyones personal decision to follow them, but we expect you to be open to listen to the reasons behind them and to stricktly follow them, if you do something for the whole group.<br />
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====...action community====<br />
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Biketour connects with local groups and projects, by whom we are being hosted. They show us their project, their campaigns or their nightlife. and we might find a way to help them with our massive workforce, our positive motivated radiation, our ability to raise attention for a certain topic as an international biketour doing an action. On the one hand we see biketourists experiencing the host project, collecting ideas and get impressions of political realities, on the other hand the local group is visited by a cheerful crowd of open-minded foreign people, who bring some fresh wind and new ideas and tell of similar things happening at home. <br />
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====organizing network====<br />
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The tour is organised by an open network of old and new participants, there is no NGO or party behind us. We do have a strong connection to EYFA [[http://www.eyfa.org/]] and WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net/]] though. This is also a call to you to join organising effords and to prepare stuff for the tour at home. There are people putting a shitload of work into this project, doing the international und national coordination, caring for hosts, sleepingplaces, actions, participants, infrastructure, info-material and funding. Visit [[help out]] to see how to support them. Find out about the [[next meeting]], online or in real, where decisions are being taken and work distributed.<br />
And although it is not easy to get rid of them we try to reduce hierachies by abolishing the difference between organisers and participants during the tour : everyone is an organiser !!<br />
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====money====<br />
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Biketour is a cheap way to travel. Right now we prpose a daily fee of 8 eco per day. The Eco is EYFA's alternative currency, calculated every year for every participating country. 8 eco are roughly 8 euros for someone from the rich west and around 3-4 ecos people from poorer countries. But this money is collected anonymously by Sigmund, the magic hat. So if you are rich enough to support some less wealthy person, you have the chance to give more, or less if you happen not to own much money.<br />
Sometimes we are very lucky with funding, but generally we are the poor type. Asking for free entry or reduction everywhere as we are a big international group with poor eastern europeans and should get everything for free. We can also ask farmers and shop owners for (food) donations, so that in general the costs stay low. On the other hand there are really nice project on our way and we want them to profit from our stay. Not only through the higher media interest, but if possible by leaving some money. But even more valuable are friendship and inspiration exchanged between participants and locals.<br />
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====conclusion====<br />
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There is quite some magic happening around biketour, chaos everywhere, things not working out, being different than expected and a lot of improvisation. But in these rooms, this not organized part, which people have to cope with together, will be filled with the nicest minutes and be the time, when friendships grow. Leave place for creativity, BT itself cost a lot of time and energy per day, trust in the biketour ability to work things out herself:]<br />
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==espanol==<br />
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El Biketour del Ecotopia es una comunidad activa eco-móvil de camino a o desde Ecotopia.<br />
Unos 10 a 50 ciclistas de diversas características - nacionalidad, edad, lengua, experiencia - completan un ciclo juntos hacia Ecotopia, haciendo acciones en el camino y reúnen a gente y a grupos interesados por el medio ambiente. Todos llevan acoplado en sus bicis equipo para acampar. Es un viaje totalmente caótico, con los lugares donde dormir, la composición del grupo y el valor nutritivo en constante cambio, pero con algunas cosas comunes como:<br />
toma de decisión basada en el consenso, todas las tareas divididas entre los participantes, un lugar donde dormir cada noche y desayuno, almuerzo y cena mediante una cuota participativa calculada en ecos y recogida por "Sigmund", nuestro sombrero mágico.<br />
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1:) de los lugares donde dormir<br />
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El lugar básico el dormir de BT incluye un cierto espacio para las tiendas.<br />
Pues nada más es realmente necesario, hicimos la experiencia que podemos organizar nuestros lugares el dormir durante el viaje, durante el día. Esto es agradable a veces - consolida la sensación del grupo cuando la gente trabaja junta para encontrar el lugar y para compensar sus desventajas.<br />
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Las características básicas que no deben faltar con ningún lugar organizado el dormir son fuente del agua potable, un lugar del fuego a cocinar y madera en alcance.<br />
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también son apreciadas por los participantes las duchas calientes/sauna, un lago/lugar para nadar, los tocadores, una azotea, un cuarto del desayuno, una cocina equipada para los grupos grandes, algunos entran en contacto con e intercambio con los locals, una acción, instalaciones del Internet, información sobre los alrededores - tiendas de la bici, los mercados (del eco), donde conseguir productos de los granjeros locales, las trampas del turista…<br />
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Otro tipo de lugar el dormir es escuelas y los pasillos de deporte, que tienen absolutamente algunas instalaciones.<br />
¡Se cercioran de, son lugar para un fuego que cocina!<br />
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Intentamos no pagar los lugares el dormir, o si conseguir las reducciones grandes, como nosotros somos un ecotopoor con la gente pobre de ensamblar de Europa Oriental. 2 euros/personas/noches se parecen un precio aceptable. a menos que decidamos apoyar ese proyecto cerca nos están recibiendo - entonces tenemos gusto de pagar más ~ si podemos permitirnos lo.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' del alimento<br />
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Compramos nuestro alimento en mercados locales o de granjeros pasamos cerca, como eco como posible y cocinero en el fuego de madera, si no tenemos acceso a una cocina grande. Nada organizar para eso, salvo que un grupo local pudieron pedir de antemano donaciones del alimento…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' del registro<br />
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Poblar venido e ir en biketour. Solamente algunos de ellos registro, y solamente alguna gente registrada vienen. Los planes lo cambian… son duros conseguir un número próximo para contar encendido - 10 a 50 es absolutamente exactos.<br />
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''' 4:) el ''' de la ruta<br />
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Preferimos carreteras de asfalto reservadas en un paisaje hermoso, levemente cuesta abajo. ~50 kilómetro por día. Y tomar esto serio. Un día con 30 kilómetros es muy agradable a la pelusa alrededor y goza de los lados que no completan un ciclo de la vida. Hacer menos en días y ningunos de la acción el los días de descanso, donde debemos tener 2 por semana. no que allí BT no puede hacer más, él es bueno conseguir a gente pasar sus fronteras a veces, pero un paso lento da más hora para las cosas agradables del biketour, los frenos y los talleres y un cuadro más profundo de los lugares el dormir. Si u no puede encontrar un lugar el dormir para cubrir ese agujero de los 90km entre esos 2 muy agradables, licencia justa él abierto al grupo para encontrar uno. Si la gente desea completar un ciclo más, ella es siempre agradable hacer eso en su propia cuenta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' del consenso<br />
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Experimentamos con la toma de decisión basada consenso. Hacemos eso desde años, y pensamos que todas las decisiones se deben basar en consenso. Pero también sabemos, ese ningunos de nosotros aprendieron que esto en escuela y ése hay ciertas calidades humanas que toman cuidado, que tendremos siempre responsables y gente que se sientan silenciosamente en el círculo. las barreras linguísticas culturales y, la gente altamente motivada o muy perezosa del comportamiento humano del grupo, del comportamiento específico del género, y la estructura del grupo constantemente que cambia están estando paradas contra nuestro intento, pero pensamos, él somos importantes entrenar a nuestras habilidades de la comunicación y de la toma de decisión y ser pacientes durante círculos largos de la mañana, estructuras del intento las nuevos y experimento con la cosa entera a vivir un alternativa a qué gobiernos presentan como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' local de la implicación<br />
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Deseamos traer un intercambio entre los biketourers y los locals. Los buenos lugares el dormir son organizados por los grupos locales, que necesitan ayuda con una cierta acción o desean presentar su proyecto. una posibilidad al presente ourselves se aprecia siempre, y algún partido/concierto/bailar hacen a alguna gente feliz. Pero observar que BT es totalmente caótico y famoso para que su capacidad sea atrasado. Grande si la gente local nos ensambla por algunos días, o por lo menos para el campfire o la publicación. Conseguirlo a una integración más local del viaje es también importante hacer que un buen nacional exceda para los participantes, de modo que haya absolutamente alguna gente que habla la lengua local en el viaje.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' de organización de la comunidad<br />
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Tenemos generalmente un coordinador internacional en el centro y él debe tener la descripción. Este año nadie estaba dispuesto a tomar el trabajo, así que lo dimos a [[RUEDA]] en lugar de otro. Esto es un cuerpo que resuelve cada segunda semana vía [[skype]], un foro para intercambiar entre todos los partidos activos, y para que todos los vagos perezosos den sus dos centavos.<br />
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Entonces hay los equipos nacionales con sus coordinadores nacionales, a veces varios en un país grande. Ésos trabajan en su ruta y materia nacionales, pero también junto en la materia internacional común. Y hay algunos veteranos, que ayudan hacia fuera a organizar o pueden por lo menos ser pedidos consejo.<br />
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Está tan fresco; hay una comunidad internacional fuerte del biketour. Es justo no así que visible vía Internet, trabaja más con conocimiento personal. Alguna gente tiene gusto de completar un ciclo más que mecanografiando. Pero tenemos 15 años de historia y las porciones de gente han sido entusiásticas sobre BT durante este tiempo. Es un preludio a una amistad agradable, y usted puede viajar los BT-sofás que practican surf de Europa.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' del dinero<br />
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Somos a veces muy afortunados con el financiamiento, pero somos generalmente el tipo pobre. Pidiendo entrada o la reducción libre por todas partes, pues somos un grupo internacional grande con europeos del este pobres y debemos conseguir todo para libre. Por otra parte hay proyecto realmente agradable sobre nuestra manera y quisiéramos que se beneficiaran de nuestra estancia. No sólo con el interés más alto de los medios, pero si es posible dejando un poco de dinero. Pero aún más valiosa son la amistad y la inspiración intercambiadas entre los participantes y los locals.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' de la conclusión<br />
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Hay una absolutamente cierta magia que sucede alrededor de biketour, de caos por todas partes, de cosas que no se resuelven, siendo diferente que esperado y los muchos de improvisación. Pero en estos cuartos, esta parte no organizada, que la gente tiene que hacer frente a junto, será llenada de los minutos más agradables y ser el tiempo, cuando las amistades crecen. Dejar el lugar para la creatividad, BT sí mismo costado mucho tiempo y la energía por el día, confianza en la capacidad del biketour a las cosas del trabajo hacia fuera ella misma:]<br />
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==portugues==<br />
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O biketour do ecotopia é uma eco-comunidade móvel activista a caminho do ou desde o [[Ecotopia]].<br />
Cerca de 10 a 50 ciclistas de origens diferentes - nacionalidade, idade, idioma, experiência - pedalam juntos para o [[Ecotopia]], fazendo acções durante o caminho e encontrando-se com pessoas e associações que se preocupam com as questões ambientais. Carregam todo o seu [[equipment#portugues|equipamento]] para acampar e cozinhar nas suas bicicletas e atrelados. É uma excursão muito espontânea e diversificada, constantemente mudando de lugares para dormir, composição do grupo e qualidade da comida, mas com algumas coisas comuns como:<br />
[[Consensus_based_decision_making#portugues|tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso]], todas as [[tasks#portugues|tarefas]] divididas entre os [[participants#portugues|participantes]], um lugar diferente onde dormir em cada noite e pequeno almoço, almoço e jantar por uma [[participation_fee#portugues|taxa da participação]] calculado em [[ecos]] e colectado no sigmund, o nosso chapéu mágico.<br />
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''' 1:) ''' lugares de dormida<br />
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O lugar básico de dormida de BT inclui algum espaço para tendas.<br />
Porque nada mais é na realidade necessário, a experiência ensinou-nos que podemos organizar os nossos lugares de dormida ao longo da excursão, durante o próprio dia. Isto pode ser agradável - reforçando o sentimento de grupo quando as pessoas trabalham juntas para encontrar um sítio onde dormir.<br />
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As características básicas que não devem faltar em qualquer lugar organizado de dormida são água potável, um lugar para cozinhar com fogo e madeira acessível (ponto a reavaliar).<br />
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São apreciados também pelos participantes os chuveiros quentes/sauna, um lago/lugar para nadar, casas-de-banho, um tecto, um quarto para pequeno-almoço, uma cozinha equipada para grupos grandes, alguns contactos e partilha com a população local, uma acção, acesso Internet, informação sobre os arredores - lojas de bicicleta, mercados (tradicionais), onde encontrar produtos dos agricultores locais, algumas armadilhas para turistas ;)…<br />
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Um outro tipo de lugar para dormir são escolas e salões desportivos, que têm algumas das condições necessárias para receber o BT. Certifiquem-se contudo que existe sítio para cozinhar!<br />
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Nós tentamos não pagar pelos lugares para dormir ou então que se obtenham grandes reduções, dado que somos muitas vezes um "ecotopoor" com participantes da Europa Oriental. 2 euro/pessoa/noite parece um preço razoável. Excepto quando decidimos apoiar o projecto onde estamos hospedados - nesse caso gostamos de pagar mais ~ se tivermos recursos para tal.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' alimentação<br />
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Os alimentos são sempre que possível comprados em mercados locais ou em agricultores perto de onde passamos, o mais "eco" e biológico possível, e cozinhamos numa fogueira, se não tivermos acesso a uma cozinha grande. Nada é necessário organizar para a alimentação, a não ser quando um grupo local pedir de antemão doações para a refeição (preparadas por eles)…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' registo<br />
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As pessoas chegam e partem do biketour. Somente alguns deles se registam, e somente alguns registados de facto vêm. Os planos mudam… é difícil prever um número aproximado confiável - 10 a 50 pessoas em simultâneo é uma boa aproximação.<br />
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''' 4:) ''' rota<br />
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Preferimos estradas de asfalto tranquilas com um cenário bonito, ligeiramente a descer, fazendo 50 quilómetros por dia em média. E tomem isto a sério! Um dia com 30 quilómetros é muito agradável para "engonhar" e apreciar os lados de não pedalanço da vida. O ideal é fazer menos em dias de acções e nada nos dias de descanso, os quais devem existir 2 vezes por semana. Não é que o BT não possa fazer mais, pois estimular as pessoas a ultrapassar os seus limites às vezes é bom, mas um ritmo lento dá mais tempo para as coisas agradáveis do biketour, as pausas e os seminários e um retrato mais profundo dos lugares por onde se passa. Se não puder encontrar um lugar para dormir cobrindo esse furo de 90km entre aqueles 2 locais muito interessantes, o melhor é deixar em aberto para que o grupo encontre um. Se os participantes quiserem pedalar mais, são sempre bem-vindos fazendo-o por sua própria conta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' consenso<br />
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Parte importante do BT é aprender e experimentar o processo de tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso. Desde há anos que o fazemos, e pensamos que todas as decisões deveriam ser baseadas no consenso. Mas também se sabe que nenhum de nós aprendeu isto na escola e que existem determinadas qualidades humanas que se evidenciam mais nuns que noutros, em que teremos sempre alguns responsáveis pelas decisões e outros que se sentarão nos círculos sem participar. As barreiras culturais e de idioma, comportamento de grupo, comportamentos específicos consoante o sexo, pessoas altamente motivadas ou muito preguiçosas, e a estrutura constantemente em mudança do grupo serão resistências às nossas tentativas, mas pensamos que é importante treinar as nossas habilidades de comunicação e de tomada de decisão, sendo pacientes durante círculos longos pelas manhãs, testando novas estruturas e a experimentando tudo o que possa ser viver uma alternativa ao que os governos apresentam como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' participação local<br />
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Uma interacção entre os participantes do BT e a população local é sempre desejada. Bons locais de passagem são organizados pelos grupos locais que necessitam de ajuda com alguma campanha ou acção, ou querem promover os seus projectos. A possibilidade de nos apresentarmos é sempre apreciada, e festas/concertos/dança fazem sempre as pessoas felizes. Mas é preciso ter em conta que o BT tem uma dinâmica muito espontânea e imprevisível, sendo famoso pela sua habilidade em chegar atrasado. As pessoas locais serão muito bem vindas, em especial se se juntarem a nós por alguns dias, ou pelo menos ao nosso círculo ou a um café/bar. Para ter uma integração mais local durante a excursão é também importante ter uma divulgação nacional, para que haja participantes que falem a língua local durante a excursão.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' comunidade de organizadores<br />
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Nos anos recentes tem havido um coordenador internacional que deve ter uma visão geral do projecto. Este ano ninguém esteve disposto a fazer essa tarefa (por motivos vários), e assim ficou a cargo da [[WHEEL#portugues|RODA]]. Este é um corpo que se encontra de duas em duas semanas através do [[skype]], um forum para trocar experiência e questões entre todas as partes activas.<br />
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Depois existem as equipas nacionais com o respectivo coordenador nacional, às vezes mais do que um em países grandes. Estes trabalham nas suas rotas e questões nacionais, mas também envolvendo-se nas questões internacionais comuns. E depois há alguns veteranos, que ajudam a organizar ou a quem se pode pelo menos pedir conselhos.<br />
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É muito interessante; há uma comunidade "biketour" internacional forte. É certo que não é assim tão visível através da Internet, pois trabalha mais com conhecimento pessoal. Algumas pessoas gostam mais de pedalar do que dactilografar. Mas nós temos 15 anos do história e muitas pessoas têm sido entusiásticas sobre o BT durante todo este tempo. É o começo a uma amizade agradável, e poderão viajar pelos BT-couches da Europa e mundo.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' dinheiro<br />
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Por vezes temos sorte com os financiamentos, mas geralmente andamos a contar os tostões. Pedimos entrada livre ou redução de preço em muitos sítios, porque somos um grupo internacional grande, muitas vezes com europeus de leste com fracos recursos e tentamos ter apenas o essencial e de forma barata ou grátis. Por outro lado existem projectos realmente agradáveis nos nossos trajectos e queremos que ganhem com a nossa estadia. Não apenas com o interesse mais elevado dos meios de comunicação, mas se possível deixando algum dinheiro. Mas ainda mais valiosos são a amizade e a inspiração trocados entre participantes e habitantes locais.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' conclusão<br />
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Há algo completamente mágico que acontece em volta do biketour, muita espontaneidade e algum caos, coisas que não funcionam, situações diferentes do esperado e muita improvisação. Mas estas ocasiões, esta parte não organizada em que as pessoas têm que lidar em grupo, será preenchida com minutos agradáveis e será o momento em que amizades crescem. Dê lugar à criatividade, o próprio BT implica muito tempo e energia dispendidos por dia, confie na habilidade do biketour de resolver as coisas por ele próprio:]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=What_bt_is&diff=316What bt is2007-04-27T20:09:34Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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<div>=What Biketour is=<br />
==english==<br />
====intro====<br />
The ecotopia biketour is an eco-mobile action community on its way to or from ecotopia.<br />
Some 10 to 50 bikers from different backgrounds - nationality, age, language, experience - cycle together towards [[ecotopia]], doing actions on their way and meet up with environmentally minded people and groups. They carry all [[equipment]] for camping on their bikes and trailers. It is a totally chaotic tour, with constantly changing sleeping places, group composition and food quality, but with some common things like:<br />
[[consensus based decision making]], all [[tasks]] divided between the [[participants]], a sleeping place every night and breakfast, lunch and dinner for a [[participation fee]] calculated in [[ecos]] and collected by sigmund, our magic hat.<br />
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====sleeping places====<br />
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The basic BT sleeping place includes some space for tents.<br />
As nothing more is really needed, we made the experience that we can organize our sleeping places during the tour, during the day. This is nice sometimes - it strengthens the group feeling when people work together to find the place and to make up for its downsides.<br />
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Basic features which should not miss with any organized sleeping place are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
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also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bike shops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
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Another type of sleeping place is schools and sport halls, which have quite some facilities.<br />
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====food====<br />
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The participants rotate the [[task]] of preparing a vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner. In our attempt to buy as local and eco food as possible we avoid big supermarkets with its highly packed and far travelled products but buy our food on local markets, small shops or from farmers we pass by. Usually we cook on wood fire, if we do not have access to a big kitchen, but for the iberian peninsula we might need another solution.<br />
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====the [[route]]====<br />
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We do prefer quiet asphalt roads in a beautiful scenery, slightly downhill. ~50 km per day. We do our best find them! A day with 30 km is very nice to fluff around and enjoy the not cycling sides of life. Do less on action days and none on resting days, where we should have 2 per week.A slow pace gives more time for the nice things of biketour, the brakes and workshops and a deeper picture of the sleeping places, but still you might have to expect harder day - busy roads, 80 km, 100 maybe with the shortcuts, some haste because some hosts are waiting...<br />
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====consensus====<br />
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We work with consensus based decision making - not the majority decides, but everyone is included in the decision We do that since years, and we think that all decisions should be based on consensus. But we do also know, that none of us learned this in school and that there are certain human qualities which take care, that we will always have decision makers and people sitting quiet in the circle. Cultural and language barriers, human group behavior, gender specific behavior, highly motivated or very lazy people and the constantly changing group structure are standing against our try, but we think, it is important to train our communication and decision making skills and be patient during long morning circles, try new structures and experiment with the whole thing to live an alternative to what governments present as democracy.<br />
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====eco-mobile ...====<br />
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With this tour we do set an example how to travel in an ecological sound way. We do not use any motorized vehicles, transport all our stuff on our bike or with our trailors. We will reduce our garbage as much as possible, reuse most of it and try to recycle the rest. We shop locally and organically produced stuff, cook with wook and eat vegeterian meals. Every participant comes with a different background to the tour, different ideas how to behave ecological. During the tour we will learn from each other, how to do that, and find out the do's and don'ts. We consider it everyones personal decision to follow them, but we expect you to be open to listen to the reasons behind them and to stricktly follow them, if you do something for the whole group.<br />
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====action community====<br />
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Biketour connects with local groups and projects, by whom we are being hosted. They show us their project, their campaigns or their nightlife. and we might find a way to help them with our massive workforce, our positive motivated radiation, our ability to raise attention for a certain topic as an international biketour doing an action. On the one hand we see biketourists experiencing the host project, collecting ideas and get impressions of political realities, on the other hand the local group is visited by a cheerful crowd of open-minded foreign people, who bring some fresh wind and new ideas and tell of similar things happening at home. <br />
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====organizing network====<br />
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The tour is organised by an open network of old and new participants, there is no NGO or party behind us. We do have a strong connection to EYFA [[http://www.eyfa.org/]] and WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net/]] though. This is also a call to you to join organising effords and to prepare stuff for the tour at home. There are people putting a shitload of work into this project, doing the international und national coordination, caring for hosts, sleepingplaces, actions, participants, infrastructure, info-material and funding. Visit [[help out]] to see how to support them. Find out about the [[next meeting]], online or in real, where decisions are being taken and work distributed.<br />
And although it is not easy to get rid of them we try to reduce hierachies by abolishing the difference between organisers and participants during the tour : everyone is an organiser !!<br />
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====money====<br />
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Biketour is a cheap way to travel. Right now we prpose a daily fee of 8 eco per day. The Eco is EYFA's alternative currency, calculated every year for every participating country. 8 eco are roughly 8 euros for someone from the rich west and around 3-4 ecos people from poorer countries. But this money is collected anonymously by Sigmund, the magic hat. So if you are rich enough to support some less wealthy person, you have the chance to give more, or less if you happen not to own much money.<br />
Sometimes we are very lucky with funding, but generally we are the poor type. Asking for free entry or reduction everywhere as we are a big international group with poor eastern europeans and should get everything for free. We can also ask farmers and shop owners for (food) donations, so that in general the costs stay low. On the other hand there are really nice project on our way and we want them to profit from our stay. Not only through the higher media interest, but if possible by leaving some money. But even more valuable are friendship and inspiration exchanged between participants and locals.<br />
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====conclusion====<br />
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There is quite some magic happening around biketour, chaos everywhere, things not working out, being different than expected and a lot of improvisation. But in these rooms, this not organized part, which people have to cope with together, will be filled with the nicest minutes and be the time, when friendships grow. Leave place for creativity, BT itself cost a lot of time and energy per day, trust in the biketour ability to work things out herself:]<br />
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==espanol==<br />
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El Biketour del Ecotopia es una comunidad activa eco-móvil de camino a o desde Ecotopia.<br />
Unos 10 a 50 ciclistas de diversas características - nacionalidad, edad, lengua, experiencia - completan un ciclo juntos hacia Ecotopia, haciendo acciones en el camino y reúnen a gente y a grupos interesados por el medio ambiente. Todos llevan acoplado en sus bicis equipo para acampar. Es un viaje totalmente caótico, con los lugares donde dormir, la composición del grupo y el valor nutritivo en constante cambio, pero con algunas cosas comunes como:<br />
toma de decisión basada en el consenso, todas las tareas divididas entre los participantes, un lugar donde dormir cada noche y desayuno, almuerzo y cena mediante una cuota participativa calculada en ecos y recogida por "Sigmund", nuestro sombrero mágico.<br />
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1:) de los lugares donde dormir<br />
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El lugar básico el dormir de BT incluye un cierto espacio para las tiendas.<br />
Pues nada más es realmente necesario, hicimos la experiencia que podemos organizar nuestros lugares el dormir durante el viaje, durante el día. Esto es agradable a veces - consolida la sensación del grupo cuando la gente trabaja junta para encontrar el lugar y para compensar sus desventajas.<br />
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Las características básicas que no deben faltar con ningún lugar organizado el dormir son fuente del agua potable, un lugar del fuego a cocinar y madera en alcance.<br />
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también son apreciadas por los participantes las duchas calientes/sauna, un lago/lugar para nadar, los tocadores, una azotea, un cuarto del desayuno, una cocina equipada para los grupos grandes, algunos entran en contacto con e intercambio con los locals, una acción, instalaciones del Internet, información sobre los alrededores - tiendas de la bici, los mercados (del eco), donde conseguir productos de los granjeros locales, las trampas del turista…<br />
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Otro tipo de lugar el dormir es escuelas y los pasillos de deporte, que tienen absolutamente algunas instalaciones.<br />
¡Se cercioran de, son lugar para un fuego que cocina!<br />
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Intentamos no pagar los lugares el dormir, o si conseguir las reducciones grandes, como nosotros somos un ecotopoor con la gente pobre de ensamblar de Europa Oriental. 2 euros/personas/noches se parecen un precio aceptable. a menos que decidamos apoyar ese proyecto cerca nos están recibiendo - entonces tenemos gusto de pagar más ~ si podemos permitirnos lo.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' del alimento<br />
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Compramos nuestro alimento en mercados locales o de granjeros pasamos cerca, como eco como posible y cocinero en el fuego de madera, si no tenemos acceso a una cocina grande. Nada organizar para eso, salvo que un grupo local pudieron pedir de antemano donaciones del alimento…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' del registro<br />
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Poblar venido e ir en biketour. Solamente algunos de ellos registro, y solamente alguna gente registrada vienen. Los planes lo cambian… son duros conseguir un número próximo para contar encendido - 10 a 50 es absolutamente exactos.<br />
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''' 4:) el ''' de la ruta<br />
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Preferimos carreteras de asfalto reservadas en un paisaje hermoso, levemente cuesta abajo. ~50 kilómetro por día. Y tomar esto serio. Un día con 30 kilómetros es muy agradable a la pelusa alrededor y goza de los lados que no completan un ciclo de la vida. Hacer menos en días y ningunos de la acción el los días de descanso, donde debemos tener 2 por semana. no que allí BT no puede hacer más, él es bueno conseguir a gente pasar sus fronteras a veces, pero un paso lento da más hora para las cosas agradables del biketour, los frenos y los talleres y un cuadro más profundo de los lugares el dormir. Si u no puede encontrar un lugar el dormir para cubrir ese agujero de los 90km entre esos 2 muy agradables, licencia justa él abierto al grupo para encontrar uno. Si la gente desea completar un ciclo más, ella es siempre agradable hacer eso en su propia cuenta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' del consenso<br />
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Experimentamos con la toma de decisión basada consenso. Hacemos eso desde años, y pensamos que todas las decisiones se deben basar en consenso. Pero también sabemos, ese ningunos de nosotros aprendieron que esto en escuela y ése hay ciertas calidades humanas que toman cuidado, que tendremos siempre responsables y gente que se sientan silenciosamente en el círculo. las barreras linguísticas culturales y, la gente altamente motivada o muy perezosa del comportamiento humano del grupo, del comportamiento específico del género, y la estructura del grupo constantemente que cambia están estando paradas contra nuestro intento, pero pensamos, él somos importantes entrenar a nuestras habilidades de la comunicación y de la toma de decisión y ser pacientes durante círculos largos de la mañana, estructuras del intento las nuevos y experimento con la cosa entera a vivir un alternativa a qué gobiernos presentan como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' local de la implicación<br />
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Deseamos traer un intercambio entre los biketourers y los locals. Los buenos lugares el dormir son organizados por los grupos locales, que necesitan ayuda con una cierta acción o desean presentar su proyecto. una posibilidad al presente ourselves se aprecia siempre, y algún partido/concierto/bailar hacen a alguna gente feliz. Pero observar que BT es totalmente caótico y famoso para que su capacidad sea atrasado. Grande si la gente local nos ensambla por algunos días, o por lo menos para el campfire o la publicación. Conseguirlo a una integración más local del viaje es también importante hacer que un buen nacional exceda para los participantes, de modo que haya absolutamente alguna gente que habla la lengua local en el viaje.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' de organización de la comunidad<br />
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Tenemos generalmente un coordinador internacional en el centro y él debe tener la descripción. Este año nadie estaba dispuesto a tomar el trabajo, así que lo dimos a [[RUEDA]] en lugar de otro. Esto es un cuerpo que resuelve cada segunda semana vía [[skype]], un foro para intercambiar entre todos los partidos activos, y para que todos los vagos perezosos den sus dos centavos.<br />
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Entonces hay los equipos nacionales con sus coordinadores nacionales, a veces varios en un país grande. Ésos trabajan en su ruta y materia nacionales, pero también junto en la materia internacional común. Y hay algunos veteranos, que ayudan hacia fuera a organizar o pueden por lo menos ser pedidos consejo.<br />
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Está tan fresco; hay una comunidad internacional fuerte del biketour. Es justo no así que visible vía Internet, trabaja más con conocimiento personal. Alguna gente tiene gusto de completar un ciclo más que mecanografiando. Pero tenemos 15 años de historia y las porciones de gente han sido entusiásticas sobre BT durante este tiempo. Es un preludio a una amistad agradable, y usted puede viajar los BT-sofás que practican surf de Europa.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' del dinero<br />
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Somos a veces muy afortunados con el financiamiento, pero somos generalmente el tipo pobre. Pidiendo entrada o la reducción libre por todas partes, pues somos un grupo internacional grande con europeos del este pobres y debemos conseguir todo para libre. Por otra parte hay proyecto realmente agradable sobre nuestra manera y quisiéramos que se beneficiaran de nuestra estancia. No sólo con el interés más alto de los medios, pero si es posible dejando un poco de dinero. Pero aún más valiosa son la amistad y la inspiración intercambiadas entre los participantes y los locals.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' de la conclusión<br />
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Hay una absolutamente cierta magia que sucede alrededor de biketour, de caos por todas partes, de cosas que no se resuelven, siendo diferente que esperado y los muchos de improvisación. Pero en estos cuartos, esta parte no organizada, que la gente tiene que hacer frente a junto, será llenada de los minutos más agradables y ser el tiempo, cuando las amistades crecen. Dejar el lugar para la creatividad, BT sí mismo costado mucho tiempo y la energía por el día, confianza en la capacidad del biketour a las cosas del trabajo hacia fuera ella misma:]<br />
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==portugues==<br />
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O biketour do ecotopia é uma eco-comunidade móvel activista a caminho do ou desde o [[Ecotopia]].<br />
Cerca de 10 a 50 ciclistas de origens diferentes - nacionalidade, idade, idioma, experiência - pedalam juntos para o [[Ecotopia]], fazendo acções durante o caminho e encontrando-se com pessoas e associações que se preocupam com as questões ambientais. Carregam todo o seu [[equipment#portugues|equipamento]] para acampar e cozinhar nas suas bicicletas e atrelados. É uma excursão muito espontânea e diversificada, constantemente mudando de lugares para dormir, composição do grupo e qualidade da comida, mas com algumas coisas comuns como:<br />
[[Consensus_based_decision_making#portugues|tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso]], todas as [[tasks#portugues|tarefas]] divididas entre os [[participants#portugues|participantes]], um lugar diferente onde dormir em cada noite e pequeno almoço, almoço e jantar por uma [[participation_fee#portugues|taxa da participação]] calculado em [[ecos]] e colectado no sigmund, o nosso chapéu mágico.<br />
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''' 1:) ''' lugares de dormida<br />
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O lugar básico de dormida de BT inclui algum espaço para tendas.<br />
Porque nada mais é na realidade necessário, a experiência ensinou-nos que podemos organizar os nossos lugares de dormida ao longo da excursão, durante o próprio dia. Isto pode ser agradável - reforçando o sentimento de grupo quando as pessoas trabalham juntas para encontrar um sítio onde dormir.<br />
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As características básicas que não devem faltar em qualquer lugar organizado de dormida são água potável, um lugar para cozinhar com fogo e madeira acessível (ponto a reavaliar).<br />
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São apreciados também pelos participantes os chuveiros quentes/sauna, um lago/lugar para nadar, casas-de-banho, um tecto, um quarto para pequeno-almoço, uma cozinha equipada para grupos grandes, alguns contactos e partilha com a população local, uma acção, acesso Internet, informação sobre os arredores - lojas de bicicleta, mercados (tradicionais), onde encontrar produtos dos agricultores locais, algumas armadilhas para turistas ;)…<br />
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Um outro tipo de lugar para dormir são escolas e salões desportivos, que têm algumas das condições necessárias para receber o BT. Certifiquem-se contudo que existe sítio para cozinhar!<br />
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Nós tentamos não pagar pelos lugares para dormir ou então que se obtenham grandes reduções, dado que somos muitas vezes um "ecotopoor" com participantes da Europa Oriental. 2 euro/pessoa/noite parece um preço razoável. Excepto quando decidimos apoiar o projecto onde estamos hospedados - nesse caso gostamos de pagar mais ~ se tivermos recursos para tal.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' alimentação<br />
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Os alimentos são sempre que possível comprados em mercados locais ou em agricultores perto de onde passamos, o mais "eco" e biológico possível, e cozinhamos numa fogueira, se não tivermos acesso a uma cozinha grande. Nada é necessário organizar para a alimentação, a não ser quando um grupo local pedir de antemão doações para a refeição (preparadas por eles)…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' registo<br />
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As pessoas chegam e partem do biketour. Somente alguns deles se registam, e somente alguns registados de facto vêm. Os planos mudam… é difícil prever um número aproximado confiável - 10 a 50 pessoas em simultâneo é uma boa aproximação.<br />
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''' 4:) ''' rota<br />
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Preferimos estradas de asfalto tranquilas com um cenário bonito, ligeiramente a descer, fazendo 50 quilómetros por dia em média. E tomem isto a sério! Um dia com 30 quilómetros é muito agradável para "engonhar" e apreciar os lados de não pedalanço da vida. O ideal é fazer menos em dias de acções e nada nos dias de descanso, os quais devem existir 2 vezes por semana. Não é que o BT não possa fazer mais, pois estimular as pessoas a ultrapassar os seus limites às vezes é bom, mas um ritmo lento dá mais tempo para as coisas agradáveis do biketour, as pausas e os seminários e um retrato mais profundo dos lugares por onde se passa. Se não puder encontrar um lugar para dormir cobrindo esse furo de 90km entre aqueles 2 locais muito interessantes, o melhor é deixar em aberto para que o grupo encontre um. Se os participantes quiserem pedalar mais, são sempre bem-vindos fazendo-o por sua própria conta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' consenso<br />
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Parte importante do BT é aprender e experimentar o processo de tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso. Desde há anos que o fazemos, e pensamos que todas as decisões deveriam ser baseadas no consenso. Mas também se sabe que nenhum de nós aprendeu isto na escola e que existem determinadas qualidades humanas que se evidenciam mais nuns que noutros, em que teremos sempre alguns responsáveis pelas decisões e outros que se sentarão nos círculos sem participar. As barreiras culturais e de idioma, comportamento de grupo, comportamentos específicos consoante o sexo, pessoas altamente motivadas ou muito preguiçosas, e a estrutura constantemente em mudança do grupo serão resistências às nossas tentativas, mas pensamos que é importante treinar as nossas habilidades de comunicação e de tomada de decisão, sendo pacientes durante círculos longos pelas manhãs, testando novas estruturas e a experimentando tudo o que possa ser viver uma alternativa ao que os governos apresentam como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' participação local<br />
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Uma interacção entre os participantes do BT e a população local é sempre desejada. Bons locais de passagem são organizados pelos grupos locais que necessitam de ajuda com alguma campanha ou acção, ou querem promover os seus projectos. A possibilidade de nos apresentarmos é sempre apreciada, e festas/concertos/dança fazem sempre as pessoas felizes. Mas é preciso ter em conta que o BT tem uma dinâmica muito espontânea e imprevisível, sendo famoso pela sua habilidade em chegar atrasado. As pessoas locais serão muito bem vindas, em especial se se juntarem a nós por alguns dias, ou pelo menos ao nosso círculo ou a um café/bar. Para ter uma integração mais local durante a excursão é também importante ter uma divulgação nacional, para que haja participantes que falem a língua local durante a excursão.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' comunidade de organizadores<br />
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Nos anos recentes tem havido um coordenador internacional que deve ter uma visão geral do projecto. Este ano ninguém esteve disposto a fazer essa tarefa (por motivos vários), e assim ficou a cargo da [[WHEEL#portugues|RODA]]. Este é um corpo que se encontra de duas em duas semanas através do [[skype]], um forum para trocar experiência e questões entre todas as partes activas.<br />
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Depois existem as equipas nacionais com o respectivo coordenador nacional, às vezes mais do que um em países grandes. Estes trabalham nas suas rotas e questões nacionais, mas também envolvendo-se nas questões internacionais comuns. E depois há alguns veteranos, que ajudam a organizar ou a quem se pode pelo menos pedir conselhos.<br />
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É muito interessante; há uma comunidade "biketour" internacional forte. É certo que não é assim tão visível através da Internet, pois trabalha mais com conhecimento pessoal. Algumas pessoas gostam mais de pedalar do que dactilografar. Mas nós temos 15 anos do história e muitas pessoas têm sido entusiásticas sobre o BT durante todo este tempo. É o começo a uma amizade agradável, e poderão viajar pelos BT-couches da Europa e mundo.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' dinheiro<br />
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Por vezes temos sorte com os financiamentos, mas geralmente andamos a contar os tostões. Pedimos entrada livre ou redução de preço em muitos sítios, porque somos um grupo internacional grande, muitas vezes com europeus de leste com fracos recursos e tentamos ter apenas o essencial e de forma barata ou grátis. Por outro lado existem projectos realmente agradáveis nos nossos trajectos e queremos que ganhem com a nossa estadia. Não apenas com o interesse mais elevado dos meios de comunicação, mas se possível deixando algum dinheiro. Mas ainda mais valiosos são a amizade e a inspiração trocados entre participantes e habitantes locais.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' conclusão<br />
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Há algo completamente mágico que acontece em volta do biketour, muita espontaneidade e algum caos, coisas que não funcionam, situações diferentes do esperado e muita improvisação. Mas estas ocasiões, esta parte não organizada em que as pessoas têm que lidar em grupo, será preenchida com minutos agradáveis e será o momento em que amizades crescem. Dê lugar à criatividade, o próprio BT implica muito tempo e energia dispendidos por dia, confie na habilidade do biketour de resolver as coisas por ele próprio:]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=What_bt_is&diff=315What bt is2007-04-27T20:05:21Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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<div>=What Biketour is=<br />
==english==<br />
====intro====<br />
The ecotopia biketour is an eco-mobile action community on its way to or from ecotopia.<br />
Some 10 to 50 bikers from different backgrounds - nationality, age, language, experience - cycle together towards [[ecotopia]], doing actions on their way and meet up with environmentally minded people and groups. They carry all [[equipment]] for camping on their bikes and trailers. It is a totally chaotic tour, with constantly changing sleeping places, group composition and food quality, but with some common things like:<br />
[[consensus based decision making]], all [[tasks]] divided between the [[participants]], a sleeping place every night and breakfast, lunch and dinner for a [[participation fee]] calculated in [[ecos]] and collected by sigmund, our magic hat.<br />
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====sleeping places====<br />
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The basic BT sleeping place includes some space for tents.<br />
As nothing more is really needed, we made the experience that we can organize our sleeping places during the tour, during the day. This is nice sometimes - it strengthens the group feeling when people work together to find the place and to make up for its downsides.<br />
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Basic features which should not miss with any organized sleeping place are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
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also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bike shops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
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Another type of sleeping place is schools and sport halls, which have quite some facilities.<br />
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====food====<br />
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The participants rotate the [[task]] of preparing a vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner. In our attempt to buy as local and eco food as possible we avoid big supermarkets with its highly packed and far travelled products but buy our food on local markets, small shops or from farmers we pass by. Usually we cook on wood fire, if we do not have access to a big kitchen, but for the iberian peninsula we might need another solution.<br />
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====the [[route]]====<br />
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We do prefer quiet asphalt roads in a beautiful scenery, slightly downhill. ~50 km per day. We do our best find them! A day with 30 km is very nice to fluff around and enjoy the not cycling sides of life. Do less on action days and none on resting days, where we should have 2 per week.A slow pace gives more time for the nice things of biketour, the brakes and workshops and a deeper picture of the sleeping places, but still you might have to expect harder day - busy roads, 80 km, 100 maybe with the shortcuts, some haste because some hosts are waiting...<br />
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====consensus====<br />
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We work with consensus based decision making - not the majority decides, but everyone is included in the decision We do that since years, and we think that all decisions should be based on consensus. But we do also know, that none of us learned this in school and that there are certain human qualities which take care, that we will always have decision makers and people sitting quiet in the circle. Cultural and language barriers, human group behavior, gender specific behavior, highly motivated or very lazy people and the constantly changing group structure are standing against our try, but we think, it is important to train our communication and decision making skills and be patient during long morning circles, try new structures and experiment with the whole thing to live an alternative to what governments present as democracy.<br />
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====eco-mobile ...====<br />
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With this tour we do set an example how to travel in an ecological sound way. We do not use any motorized vehicles, transport all our stuff on our bike or with our trailors. We will reduce our garbage as much as possible, reuse most of it and try to recycle the rest. We shop locally and organically produced stuff, cook with wook and eat vegeterian meals. Every participant comes with a different background to the tour, different ideas how to behave ecological. During the tour we will learn from each other, how to do that, and find out the do's and don'ts. We consider it everyones personal decision to follow them, but we expect you to be open to listen to the reasons behind them and to stricktly follow them, if you do something for the whole group.<br />
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====...action community====<br />
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Biketour connects with local groups and projects, by whom we are being hosted. They show us their project, their campaigns or their nightlife. and we might find a way to help them with our massive workforce, our positive motivated radiation, our ability to raise attention for a certain topic as an international biketour doing an action. On the one hand we see biketourists experiencing the host project, collecting ideas and get impressions of political realities, on the other hand the local group is visited by a cheerful crowd of open-minded foreign people, who bring some fresh wind and new ideas and tell of similar things happening at home. <br />
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====organizing network====<br />
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The tour is organised by an open network of old and new participants, there is no NGO or party behind us. We do have a strong connection to EYFA [[http://www.eyfa.org/]] and WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net/]] though. This is also a call to you to join organising effords and to prepare stuff for the tour at home. There are people putting a shitload of work into this project, doing the international und national coordination, caring for hosts, sleepingplaces, actions, participants, infrastructure, info-material and funding. Visit [[help out]] to see how to support them. Find out about the [[next meeting]], online or in real, where decisions are being taken and work distributed.<br />
And although it is not easy to get rid of them we try to reduce hierachies by abolishing the difference between organisers and participants during the tour : everyone is an organiser !!<br />
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====money====<br />
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Biketour is a cheap way to travel. Right now we prpose a daily fee of 8 eco per day. The Eco is EYFA's alternative currency, calculated every year for every participating country. 8 eco are roughly 8 euros for someone from the rich west and around 3-4 ecos people from poorer countries. But this money is collected anonymously by Sigmund, the magic hat. So if you are rich enough to support some less wealthy person, you have the chance to give more, or less if you happen not to own much money.<br />
Sometimes we are very lucky with funding, but generally we are the poor type. Asking for free entry or reduction everywhere as we are a big international group with poor eastern europeans and should get everything for free. We can also ask farmers and shop owners for (food) donations, so that in general the costs stay low. On the other hand there are really nice project on our way and we want them to profit from our stay. Not only through the higher media interest, but if possible by leaving some money. But even more valuable are friendship and inspiration exchanged between participants and locals.<br />
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====conclusion====<br />
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There is quite some magic happening around biketour, chaos everywhere, things not working out, being different than expected and a lot of improvisation. But in these rooms, this not organized part, which people have to cope with together, will be filled with the nicest minutes and be the time, when friendships grow. Leave place for creativity, BT itself cost a lot of time and energy per day, trust in the biketour ability to work things out herself:]<br />
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==espanol==<br />
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El Biketour del Ecotopia es una comunidad activa eco-móvil de camino a o desde Ecotopia.<br />
Unos 10 a 50 ciclistas de diversas características - nacionalidad, edad, lengua, experiencia - completan un ciclo juntos hacia Ecotopia, haciendo acciones en el camino y reúnen a gente y a grupos interesados por el medio ambiente. Todos llevan acoplado en sus bicis equipo para acampar. Es un viaje totalmente caótico, con los lugares donde dormir, la composición del grupo y el valor nutritivo en constante cambio, pero con algunas cosas comunes como:<br />
toma de decisión basada en el consenso, todas las tareas divididas entre los participantes, un lugar donde dormir cada noche y desayuno, almuerzo y cena mediante una cuota participativa calculada en ecos y recogida por "Sigmund", nuestro sombrero mágico.<br />
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1:) de los lugares donde dormir<br />
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El lugar básico el dormir de BT incluye un cierto espacio para las tiendas.<br />
Pues nada más es realmente necesario, hicimos la experiencia que podemos organizar nuestros lugares el dormir durante el viaje, durante el día. Esto es agradable a veces - consolida la sensación del grupo cuando la gente trabaja junta para encontrar el lugar y para compensar sus desventajas.<br />
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Las características básicas que no deben faltar con ningún lugar organizado el dormir son fuente del agua potable, un lugar del fuego a cocinar y madera en alcance.<br />
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también son apreciadas por los participantes las duchas calientes/sauna, un lago/lugar para nadar, los tocadores, una azotea, un cuarto del desayuno, una cocina equipada para los grupos grandes, algunos entran en contacto con e intercambio con los locals, una acción, instalaciones del Internet, información sobre los alrededores - tiendas de la bici, los mercados (del eco), donde conseguir productos de los granjeros locales, las trampas del turista…<br />
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Otro tipo de lugar el dormir es escuelas y los pasillos de deporte, que tienen absolutamente algunas instalaciones.<br />
¡Se cercioran de, son lugar para un fuego que cocina!<br />
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Intentamos no pagar los lugares el dormir, o si conseguir las reducciones grandes, como nosotros somos un ecotopoor con la gente pobre de ensamblar de Europa Oriental. 2 euros/personas/noches se parecen un precio aceptable. a menos que decidamos apoyar ese proyecto cerca nos están recibiendo - entonces tenemos gusto de pagar más ~ si podemos permitirnos lo.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' del alimento<br />
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Compramos nuestro alimento en mercados locales o de granjeros pasamos cerca, como eco como posible y cocinero en el fuego de madera, si no tenemos acceso a una cocina grande. Nada organizar para eso, salvo que un grupo local pudieron pedir de antemano donaciones del alimento…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' del registro<br />
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Poblar venido e ir en biketour. Solamente algunos de ellos registro, y solamente alguna gente registrada vienen. Los planes lo cambian… son duros conseguir un número próximo para contar encendido - 10 a 50 es absolutamente exactos.<br />
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''' 4:) el ''' de la ruta<br />
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Preferimos carreteras de asfalto reservadas en un paisaje hermoso, levemente cuesta abajo. ~50 kilómetro por día. Y tomar esto serio. Un día con 30 kilómetros es muy agradable a la pelusa alrededor y goza de los lados que no completan un ciclo de la vida. Hacer menos en días y ningunos de la acción el los días de descanso, donde debemos tener 2 por semana. no que allí BT no puede hacer más, él es bueno conseguir a gente pasar sus fronteras a veces, pero un paso lento da más hora para las cosas agradables del biketour, los frenos y los talleres y un cuadro más profundo de los lugares el dormir. Si u no puede encontrar un lugar el dormir para cubrir ese agujero de los 90km entre esos 2 muy agradables, licencia justa él abierto al grupo para encontrar uno. Si la gente desea completar un ciclo más, ella es siempre agradable hacer eso en su propia cuenta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' del consenso<br />
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Experimentamos con la toma de decisión basada consenso. Hacemos eso desde años, y pensamos que todas las decisiones se deben basar en consenso. Pero también sabemos, ese ningunos de nosotros aprendieron que esto en escuela y ése hay ciertas calidades humanas que toman cuidado, que tendremos siempre responsables y gente que se sientan silenciosamente en el círculo. las barreras linguísticas culturales y, la gente altamente motivada o muy perezosa del comportamiento humano del grupo, del comportamiento específico del género, y la estructura del grupo constantemente que cambia están estando paradas contra nuestro intento, pero pensamos, él somos importantes entrenar a nuestras habilidades de la comunicación y de la toma de decisión y ser pacientes durante círculos largos de la mañana, estructuras del intento las nuevos y experimento con la cosa entera a vivir un alternativa a qué gobiernos presentan como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' local de la implicación<br />
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Deseamos traer un intercambio entre los biketourers y los locals. Los buenos lugares el dormir son organizados por los grupos locales, que necesitan ayuda con una cierta acción o desean presentar su proyecto. una posibilidad al presente ourselves se aprecia siempre, y algún partido/concierto/bailar hacen a alguna gente feliz. Pero observar que BT es totalmente caótico y famoso para que su capacidad sea atrasado. Grande si la gente local nos ensambla por algunos días, o por lo menos para el campfire o la publicación. Conseguirlo a una integración más local del viaje es también importante hacer que un buen nacional exceda para los participantes, de modo que haya absolutamente alguna gente que habla la lengua local en el viaje.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' de organización de la comunidad<br />
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Tenemos generalmente un coordinador internacional en el centro y él debe tener la descripción. Este año nadie estaba dispuesto a tomar el trabajo, así que lo dimos a [[RUEDA]] en lugar de otro. Esto es un cuerpo que resuelve cada segunda semana vía [[skype]], un foro para intercambiar entre todos los partidos activos, y para que todos los vagos perezosos den sus dos centavos.<br />
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Entonces hay los equipos nacionales con sus coordinadores nacionales, a veces varios en un país grande. Ésos trabajan en su ruta y materia nacionales, pero también junto en la materia internacional común. Y hay algunos veteranos, que ayudan hacia fuera a organizar o pueden por lo menos ser pedidos consejo.<br />
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Está tan fresco; hay una comunidad internacional fuerte del biketour. Es justo no así que visible vía Internet, trabaja más con conocimiento personal. Alguna gente tiene gusto de completar un ciclo más que mecanografiando. Pero tenemos 15 años de historia y las porciones de gente han sido entusiásticas sobre BT durante este tiempo. Es un preludio a una amistad agradable, y usted puede viajar los BT-sofás que practican surf de Europa.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' del dinero<br />
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Somos a veces muy afortunados con el financiamiento, pero somos generalmente el tipo pobre. Pidiendo entrada o la reducción libre por todas partes, pues somos un grupo internacional grande con europeos del este pobres y debemos conseguir todo para libre. Por otra parte hay proyecto realmente agradable sobre nuestra manera y quisiéramos que se beneficiaran de nuestra estancia. No sólo con el interés más alto de los medios, pero si es posible dejando un poco de dinero. Pero aún más valiosa son la amistad y la inspiración intercambiadas entre los participantes y los locals.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' de la conclusión<br />
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Hay una absolutamente cierta magia que sucede alrededor de biketour, de caos por todas partes, de cosas que no se resuelven, siendo diferente que esperado y los muchos de improvisación. Pero en estos cuartos, esta parte no organizada, que la gente tiene que hacer frente a junto, será llenada de los minutos más agradables y ser el tiempo, cuando las amistades crecen. Dejar el lugar para la creatividad, BT sí mismo costado mucho tiempo y la energía por el día, confianza en la capacidad del biketour a las cosas del trabajo hacia fuera ella misma:]<br />
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==portugues==<br />
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O biketour do ecotopia é uma eco-comunidade móvel activista a caminho do ou desde o [[Ecotopia]].<br />
Cerca de 10 a 50 ciclistas de origens diferentes - nacionalidade, idade, idioma, experiência - pedalam juntos para o [[Ecotopia]], fazendo acções durante o caminho e encontrando-se com pessoas e associações que se preocupam com as questões ambientais. Carregam todo o seu [[equipment#portugues|equipamento]] para acampar e cozinhar nas suas bicicletas e atrelados. É uma excursão muito espontânea e diversificada, constantemente mudando de lugares para dormir, composição do grupo e qualidade da comida, mas com algumas coisas comuns como:<br />
[[Consensus_based_decision_making#portugues|tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso]], todas as [[tasks#portugues|tarefas]] divididas entre os [[participants#portugues|participantes]], um lugar diferente onde dormir em cada noite e pequeno almoço, almoço e jantar por uma [[participation_fee#portugues|taxa da participação]] calculado em [[ecos]] e colectado no sigmund, o nosso chapéu mágico.<br />
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''' 1:) ''' lugares de dormida<br />
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O lugar básico de dormida de BT inclui algum espaço para tendas.<br />
Porque nada mais é na realidade necessário, a experiência ensinou-nos que podemos organizar os nossos lugares de dormida ao longo da excursão, durante o próprio dia. Isto pode ser agradável - reforçando o sentimento de grupo quando as pessoas trabalham juntas para encontrar um sítio onde dormir.<br />
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As características básicas que não devem faltar em qualquer lugar organizado de dormida são água potável, um lugar para cozinhar com fogo e madeira acessível (ponto a reavaliar).<br />
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São apreciados também pelos participantes os chuveiros quentes/sauna, um lago/lugar para nadar, casas-de-banho, um tecto, um quarto para pequeno-almoço, uma cozinha equipada para grupos grandes, alguns contactos e partilha com a população local, uma acção, acesso Internet, informação sobre os arredores - lojas de bicicleta, mercados (tradicionais), onde encontrar produtos dos agricultores locais, algumas armadilhas para turistas ;)…<br />
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Um outro tipo de lugar para dormir são escolas e salões desportivos, que têm algumas das condições necessárias para receber o BT. Certifiquem-se contudo que existe sítio para cozinhar!<br />
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Nós tentamos não pagar pelos lugares para dormir ou então que se obtenham grandes reduções, dado que somos muitas vezes um "ecotopoor" com participantes da Europa Oriental. 2 euro/pessoa/noite parece um preço razoável. Excepto quando decidimos apoiar o projecto onde estamos hospedados - nesse caso gostamos de pagar mais ~ se tivermos recursos para tal.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' alimentação<br />
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Os alimentos são sempre que possível comprados em mercados locais ou em agricultores perto de onde passamos, o mais "eco" e biológico possível, e cozinhamos numa fogueira, se não tivermos acesso a uma cozinha grande. Nada é necessário organizar para a alimentação, a não ser quando um grupo local pedir de antemão doações para a refeição (preparadas por eles)…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' registo<br />
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As pessoas chegam e partem do biketour. Somente alguns deles se registam, e somente alguns registados de facto vêm. Os planos mudam… é difícil prever um número aproximado confiável - 10 a 50 pessoas em simultâneo é uma boa aproximação.<br />
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''' 4:) ''' rota<br />
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Preferimos estradas de asfalto tranquilas com um cenário bonito, ligeiramente a descer, fazendo 50 quilómetros por dia em média. E tomem isto a sério! Um dia com 30 quilómetros é muito agradável para "engonhar" e apreciar os lados de não pedalanço da vida. O ideal é fazer menos em dias de acções e nada nos dias de descanso, os quais devem existir 2 vezes por semana. Não é que o BT não possa fazer mais, pois estimular as pessoas a ultrapassar os seus limites às vezes é bom, mas um ritmo lento dá mais tempo para as coisas agradáveis do biketour, as pausas e os seminários e um retrato mais profundo dos lugares por onde se passa. Se não puder encontrar um lugar para dormir cobrindo esse furo de 90km entre aqueles 2 locais muito interessantes, o melhor é deixar em aberto para que o grupo encontre um. Se os participantes quiserem pedalar mais, são sempre bem-vindos fazendo-o por sua própria conta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' consenso<br />
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Parte importante do BT é aprender e experimentar o processo de tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso. Desde há anos que o fazemos, e pensamos que todas as decisões deveriam ser baseadas no consenso. Mas também se sabe que nenhum de nós aprendeu isto na escola e que existem determinadas qualidades humanas que se evidenciam mais nuns que noutros, em que teremos sempre alguns responsáveis pelas decisões e outros que se sentarão nos círculos sem participar. As barreiras culturais e de idioma, comportamento de grupo, comportamentos específicos consoante o sexo, pessoas altamente motivadas ou muito preguiçosas, e a estrutura constantemente em mudança do grupo serão resistências às nossas tentativas, mas pensamos que é importante treinar as nossas habilidades de comunicação e de tomada de decisão, sendo pacientes durante círculos longos pelas manhãs, testando novas estruturas e a experimentando tudo o que possa ser viver uma alternativa ao que os governos apresentam como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' participação local<br />
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Uma interacção entre os participantes do BT e a população local é sempre desejada. Bons locais de passagem são organizados pelos grupos locais que necessitam de ajuda com alguma campanha ou acção, ou querem promover os seus projectos. A possibilidade de nos apresentarmos é sempre apreciada, e festas/concertos/dança fazem sempre as pessoas felizes. Mas é preciso ter em conta que o BT tem uma dinâmica muito espontânea e imprevisível, sendo famoso pela sua habilidade em chegar atrasado. As pessoas locais serão muito bem vindas, em especial se se juntarem a nós por alguns dias, ou pelo menos ao nosso círculo ou a um café/bar. Para ter uma integração mais local durante a excursão é também importante ter uma divulgação nacional, para que haja participantes que falem a língua local durante a excursão.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' comunidade de organizadores<br />
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Nos anos recentes tem havido um coordenador internacional que deve ter uma visão geral do projecto. Este ano ninguém esteve disposto a fazer essa tarefa (por motivos vários), e assim ficou a cargo da [[WHEEL#portugues|RODA]]. Este é um corpo que se encontra de duas em duas semanas através do [[skype]], um forum para trocar experiência e questões entre todas as partes activas.<br />
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Depois existem as equipas nacionais com o respectivo coordenador nacional, às vezes mais do que um em países grandes. Estes trabalham nas suas rotas e questões nacionais, mas também envolvendo-se nas questões internacionais comuns. E depois há alguns veteranos, que ajudam a organizar ou a quem se pode pelo menos pedir conselhos.<br />
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É muito interessante; há uma comunidade "biketour" internacional forte. É certo que não é assim tão visível através da Internet, pois trabalha mais com conhecimento pessoal. Algumas pessoas gostam mais de pedalar do que dactilografar. Mas nós temos 15 anos do história e muitas pessoas têm sido entusiásticas sobre o BT durante todo este tempo. É o começo a uma amizade agradável, e poderão viajar pelos BT-couches da Europa e mundo.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' dinheiro<br />
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Por vezes temos sorte com os financiamentos, mas geralmente andamos a contar os tostões. Pedimos entrada livre ou redução de preço em muitos sítios, porque somos um grupo internacional grande, muitas vezes com europeus de leste com fracos recursos e tentamos ter apenas o essencial e de forma barata ou grátis. Por outro lado existem projectos realmente agradáveis nos nossos trajectos e queremos que ganhem com a nossa estadia. Não apenas com o interesse mais elevado dos meios de comunicação, mas se possível deixando algum dinheiro. Mas ainda mais valiosos são a amizade e a inspiração trocados entre participantes e habitantes locais.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' conclusão<br />
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Há algo completamente mágico que acontece em volta do biketour, muita espontaneidade e algum caos, coisas que não funcionam, situações diferentes do esperado e muita improvisação. Mas estas ocasiões, esta parte não organizada em que as pessoas têm que lidar em grupo, será preenchida com minutos agradáveis e será o momento em que amizades crescem. Dê lugar à criatividade, o próprio BT implica muito tempo e energia dispendidos por dia, confie na habilidade do biketour de resolver as coisas por ele próprio:]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Talk:Home&diff=314Talk:Home2007-04-27T20:04:41Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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<div>ok, this is my idea of the page, and with all the links to none existing pages, of how it could be<br />
it will develop diffrently, because we will not have the time to write all this stuff and some texts are already there but do not fit into the sceme<br />
take it as a suggestion</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=What_bt_is&diff=313What bt is2007-04-27T19:48:29Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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<div>=What Biketour is=<br />
==english==<br />
====intro====<br />
The ecotopia biketour is an eco-mobile action community on its way to or from ecotopia.<br />
Some 10 to 50 bikers from different backgrounds - nationality, age, language, experience - cycle together towards [[ecotopia]], doing actions on their way and meet up with environmentally minded people and groups. They carry all [[equipment]] for camping on their bikes and trailers. It is a totally chaotic tour, with constantly changing sleeping places, group composition and food quality, but with some common things like:<br />
[[consensus based decision making]], all [[tasks]] divided between the [[participants]], a sleeping place every night and breakfast, lunch and dinner for a [[participation fee]] calculated in [[ecos]] and collected by sigmund, our magic hat.<br />
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====sleeping places====<br />
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The basic BT sleeping place includes some space for tents.<br />
As nothing more is really needed, we made the experience that we can organize our sleeping places during the tour, during the day. This is nice sometimes - it strengthens the group feeling when people work together to find the place and to make up for its downsides.<br />
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Basic features which should not miss with any organized sleeping place are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
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also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bike shops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
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Another type of sleeping place is schools and sport halls, which have quite some facilities.<br />
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====food====<br />
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The participants rotate the [[task]] of preparing a vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner. In our attempt to buy as local and eco food as possible we avoid big supermarkets with its highly packed and far travelled products but buy our food on local markets, small shops or from farmers we pass by. Usually we cook on wood fire, if we do not have access to a big kitchen, but for the iberian peninsula we might need another solution.<br />
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====the [[route]]====<br />
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We do prefer quiet asphalt roads in a beautiful scenery, slightly downhill. ~50 km per day. We do our best find them! A day with 30 km is very nice to fluff around and enjoy the not cycling sides of life. Do less on action days and none on resting days, where we should have 2 per week.A slow pace gives more time for the nice things of biketour, the brakes and workshops and a deeper picture of the sleeping places, but still you might have to expect harder day - busy roads, 80 km, 100 maybe with the shortcuts, some haste because some hosts are waiting...<br />
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====consensus====<br />
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We work with consensus based decision making - not the majority decides, but everyone is included in the decision We do that since years, and we think that all decisions should be based on consensus. But we do also know, that none of us learned this in school and that there are certain human qualities which take care, that we will always have decision makers and people sitting quiet in the circle. Cultural and language barriers, human group behavior, gender specific behavior, highly motivated or very lazy people and the constantly changing group structure are standing against our try, but we think, it is important to train our communication and decision making skills and be patient during long morning circles, try new structures and experiment with the whole thing to live an alternative to what governments present as democracy.<br />
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====eco<br />
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====local involvement====<br />
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Biketour connects with local groups and projects, by whom we are being hosted. They show us their project, their campaigns or their nightlife. and we might find a way to help them with our massive workforce, our positive motivated radiation, our ability to raise attention for a certain topic as an international biketour doing an action. On the one hand we see biketourists experiencing the host project, collecting ideas and get impressions of political realities, on the other hand the local group is visited by a cheerful crowd of open-minded foreign people, who bring some fresh wind and new ideas and tell of similar things happening at home. <br />
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====organizing community====<br />
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The tour is organised by an open network of old and new participants, there is no NGO or party behind us. We do have a strong connection to EYFA [[http://www.eyfa.org/]] and WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net/]] though. This is also a call to you to join organising effords and to prepare stuff for the tour at home. There are people putting a shitload of work into this project, doing the international und national coordination, caring for hosts, sleepingplaces, actions, participants, infrastructure, info-material and funding. Visit [[help out]] to see how to support them. Find out about the [[next meeting]], online or in real, where decisions are being taken and work distributed.<br />
And although it is not easy to get rid of them we try to reduce hierachies by abolishing the difference between organisers and participants during the tour : everyone is an organiser !!<br />
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====money====<br />
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Biketour is a cheap way to travel. Right now we prpose a daily fee of 8 eco per day. The Eco is EYFA's alternative currency, calculated every year for every participating country. 8 eco are roughly 8 euros for someone from the rich west and around 3-4 ecos people from poorer countries. But this money is collected anonymously by Sigmund, the magic hat. So if you are rich enough to support some less wealthy person, you have the chance to give more, or less if you happen not to own much money.<br />
Sometimes we are very lucky with funding, but generally we are the poor type. Asking for free entry or reduction everywhere as we are a big international group with poor eastern europeans and should get everything for free. We can also ask farmers and shop owners for (food) donations, so that in general the costs stay low. On the other hand there are really nice project on our way and we want them to profit from our stay. Not only through the higher media interest, but if possible by leaving some money. But even more valuable are friendship and inspiration exchanged between participants and locals.<br />
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====conclusion====<br />
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There is quite some magic happening around biketour, chaos everywhere, things not working out, being different than expected and a lot of improvisation. But in these rooms, this not organized part, which people have to cope with together, will be filled with the nicest minutes and be the time, when friendships grow. Leave place for creativity, BT itself cost a lot of time and energy per day, trust in the biketour ability to work things out herself:]<br />
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==espanol==<br />
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El Biketour del Ecotopia es una comunidad activa eco-móvil de camino a o desde Ecotopia.<br />
Unos 10 a 50 ciclistas de diversas características - nacionalidad, edad, lengua, experiencia - completan un ciclo juntos hacia Ecotopia, haciendo acciones en el camino y reúnen a gente y a grupos interesados por el medio ambiente. Todos llevan acoplado en sus bicis equipo para acampar. Es un viaje totalmente caótico, con los lugares donde dormir, la composición del grupo y el valor nutritivo en constante cambio, pero con algunas cosas comunes como:<br />
toma de decisión basada en el consenso, todas las tareas divididas entre los participantes, un lugar donde dormir cada noche y desayuno, almuerzo y cena mediante una cuota participativa calculada en ecos y recogida por "Sigmund", nuestro sombrero mágico.<br />
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1:) de los lugares donde dormir<br />
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El lugar básico el dormir de BT incluye un cierto espacio para las tiendas.<br />
Pues nada más es realmente necesario, hicimos la experiencia que podemos organizar nuestros lugares el dormir durante el viaje, durante el día. Esto es agradable a veces - consolida la sensación del grupo cuando la gente trabaja junta para encontrar el lugar y para compensar sus desventajas.<br />
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Las características básicas que no deben faltar con ningún lugar organizado el dormir son fuente del agua potable, un lugar del fuego a cocinar y madera en alcance.<br />
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también son apreciadas por los participantes las duchas calientes/sauna, un lago/lugar para nadar, los tocadores, una azotea, un cuarto del desayuno, una cocina equipada para los grupos grandes, algunos entran en contacto con e intercambio con los locals, una acción, instalaciones del Internet, información sobre los alrededores - tiendas de la bici, los mercados (del eco), donde conseguir productos de los granjeros locales, las trampas del turista…<br />
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Otro tipo de lugar el dormir es escuelas y los pasillos de deporte, que tienen absolutamente algunas instalaciones.<br />
¡Se cercioran de, son lugar para un fuego que cocina!<br />
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Intentamos no pagar los lugares el dormir, o si conseguir las reducciones grandes, como nosotros somos un ecotopoor con la gente pobre de ensamblar de Europa Oriental. 2 euros/personas/noches se parecen un precio aceptable. a menos que decidamos apoyar ese proyecto cerca nos están recibiendo - entonces tenemos gusto de pagar más ~ si podemos permitirnos lo.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' del alimento<br />
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Compramos nuestro alimento en mercados locales o de granjeros pasamos cerca, como eco como posible y cocinero en el fuego de madera, si no tenemos acceso a una cocina grande. Nada organizar para eso, salvo que un grupo local pudieron pedir de antemano donaciones del alimento…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' del registro<br />
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Poblar venido e ir en biketour. Solamente algunos de ellos registro, y solamente alguna gente registrada vienen. Los planes lo cambian… son duros conseguir un número próximo para contar encendido - 10 a 50 es absolutamente exactos.<br />
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''' 4:) el ''' de la ruta<br />
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Preferimos carreteras de asfalto reservadas en un paisaje hermoso, levemente cuesta abajo. ~50 kilómetro por día. Y tomar esto serio. Un día con 30 kilómetros es muy agradable a la pelusa alrededor y goza de los lados que no completan un ciclo de la vida. Hacer menos en días y ningunos de la acción el los días de descanso, donde debemos tener 2 por semana. no que allí BT no puede hacer más, él es bueno conseguir a gente pasar sus fronteras a veces, pero un paso lento da más hora para las cosas agradables del biketour, los frenos y los talleres y un cuadro más profundo de los lugares el dormir. Si u no puede encontrar un lugar el dormir para cubrir ese agujero de los 90km entre esos 2 muy agradables, licencia justa él abierto al grupo para encontrar uno. Si la gente desea completar un ciclo más, ella es siempre agradable hacer eso en su propia cuenta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' del consenso<br />
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Experimentamos con la toma de decisión basada consenso. Hacemos eso desde años, y pensamos que todas las decisiones se deben basar en consenso. Pero también sabemos, ese ningunos de nosotros aprendieron que esto en escuela y ése hay ciertas calidades humanas que toman cuidado, que tendremos siempre responsables y gente que se sientan silenciosamente en el círculo. las barreras linguísticas culturales y, la gente altamente motivada o muy perezosa del comportamiento humano del grupo, del comportamiento específico del género, y la estructura del grupo constantemente que cambia están estando paradas contra nuestro intento, pero pensamos, él somos importantes entrenar a nuestras habilidades de la comunicación y de la toma de decisión y ser pacientes durante círculos largos de la mañana, estructuras del intento las nuevos y experimento con la cosa entera a vivir un alternativa a qué gobiernos presentan como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' local de la implicación<br />
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Deseamos traer un intercambio entre los biketourers y los locals. Los buenos lugares el dormir son organizados por los grupos locales, que necesitan ayuda con una cierta acción o desean presentar su proyecto. una posibilidad al presente ourselves se aprecia siempre, y algún partido/concierto/bailar hacen a alguna gente feliz. Pero observar que BT es totalmente caótico y famoso para que su capacidad sea atrasado. Grande si la gente local nos ensambla por algunos días, o por lo menos para el campfire o la publicación. Conseguirlo a una integración más local del viaje es también importante hacer que un buen nacional exceda para los participantes, de modo que haya absolutamente alguna gente que habla la lengua local en el viaje.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' de organización de la comunidad<br />
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Tenemos generalmente un coordinador internacional en el centro y él debe tener la descripción. Este año nadie estaba dispuesto a tomar el trabajo, así que lo dimos a [[RUEDA]] en lugar de otro. Esto es un cuerpo que resuelve cada segunda semana vía [[skype]], un foro para intercambiar entre todos los partidos activos, y para que todos los vagos perezosos den sus dos centavos.<br />
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Entonces hay los equipos nacionales con sus coordinadores nacionales, a veces varios en un país grande. Ésos trabajan en su ruta y materia nacionales, pero también junto en la materia internacional común. Y hay algunos veteranos, que ayudan hacia fuera a organizar o pueden por lo menos ser pedidos consejo.<br />
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Está tan fresco; hay una comunidad internacional fuerte del biketour. Es justo no así que visible vía Internet, trabaja más con conocimiento personal. Alguna gente tiene gusto de completar un ciclo más que mecanografiando. Pero tenemos 15 años de historia y las porciones de gente han sido entusiásticas sobre BT durante este tiempo. Es un preludio a una amistad agradable, y usted puede viajar los BT-sofás que practican surf de Europa.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' del dinero<br />
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Somos a veces muy afortunados con el financiamiento, pero somos generalmente el tipo pobre. Pidiendo entrada o la reducción libre por todas partes, pues somos un grupo internacional grande con europeos del este pobres y debemos conseguir todo para libre. Por otra parte hay proyecto realmente agradable sobre nuestra manera y quisiéramos que se beneficiaran de nuestra estancia. No sólo con el interés más alto de los medios, pero si es posible dejando un poco de dinero. Pero aún más valiosa son la amistad y la inspiración intercambiadas entre los participantes y los locals.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' de la conclusión<br />
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Hay una absolutamente cierta magia que sucede alrededor de biketour, de caos por todas partes, de cosas que no se resuelven, siendo diferente que esperado y los muchos de improvisación. Pero en estos cuartos, esta parte no organizada, que la gente tiene que hacer frente a junto, será llenada de los minutos más agradables y ser el tiempo, cuando las amistades crecen. Dejar el lugar para la creatividad, BT sí mismo costado mucho tiempo y la energía por el día, confianza en la capacidad del biketour a las cosas del trabajo hacia fuera ella misma:]<br />
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==portugues==<br />
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O biketour do ecotopia é uma eco-comunidade móvel activista a caminho do ou desde o [[Ecotopia]].<br />
Cerca de 10 a 50 ciclistas de origens diferentes - nacionalidade, idade, idioma, experiência - pedalam juntos para o [[Ecotopia]], fazendo acções durante o caminho e encontrando-se com pessoas e associações que se preocupam com as questões ambientais. Carregam todo o seu [[equipment#portugues|equipamento]] para acampar e cozinhar nas suas bicicletas e atrelados. É uma excursão muito espontânea e diversificada, constantemente mudando de lugares para dormir, composição do grupo e qualidade da comida, mas com algumas coisas comuns como:<br />
[[Consensus_based_decision_making#portugues|tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso]], todas as [[tasks#portugues|tarefas]] divididas entre os [[participants#portugues|participantes]], um lugar diferente onde dormir em cada noite e pequeno almoço, almoço e jantar por uma [[participation_fee#portugues|taxa da participação]] calculado em [[ecos]] e colectado no sigmund, o nosso chapéu mágico.<br />
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''' 1:) ''' lugares de dormida<br />
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O lugar básico de dormida de BT inclui algum espaço para tendas.<br />
Porque nada mais é na realidade necessário, a experiência ensinou-nos que podemos organizar os nossos lugares de dormida ao longo da excursão, durante o próprio dia. Isto pode ser agradável - reforçando o sentimento de grupo quando as pessoas trabalham juntas para encontrar um sítio onde dormir.<br />
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As características básicas que não devem faltar em qualquer lugar organizado de dormida são água potável, um lugar para cozinhar com fogo e madeira acessível (ponto a reavaliar).<br />
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São apreciados também pelos participantes os chuveiros quentes/sauna, um lago/lugar para nadar, casas-de-banho, um tecto, um quarto para pequeno-almoço, uma cozinha equipada para grupos grandes, alguns contactos e partilha com a população local, uma acção, acesso Internet, informação sobre os arredores - lojas de bicicleta, mercados (tradicionais), onde encontrar produtos dos agricultores locais, algumas armadilhas para turistas ;)…<br />
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Um outro tipo de lugar para dormir são escolas e salões desportivos, que têm algumas das condições necessárias para receber o BT. Certifiquem-se contudo que existe sítio para cozinhar!<br />
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Nós tentamos não pagar pelos lugares para dormir ou então que se obtenham grandes reduções, dado que somos muitas vezes um "ecotopoor" com participantes da Europa Oriental. 2 euro/pessoa/noite parece um preço razoável. Excepto quando decidimos apoiar o projecto onde estamos hospedados - nesse caso gostamos de pagar mais ~ se tivermos recursos para tal.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' alimentação<br />
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Os alimentos são sempre que possível comprados em mercados locais ou em agricultores perto de onde passamos, o mais "eco" e biológico possível, e cozinhamos numa fogueira, se não tivermos acesso a uma cozinha grande. Nada é necessário organizar para a alimentação, a não ser quando um grupo local pedir de antemão doações para a refeição (preparadas por eles)…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' registo<br />
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As pessoas chegam e partem do biketour. Somente alguns deles se registam, e somente alguns registados de facto vêm. Os planos mudam… é difícil prever um número aproximado confiável - 10 a 50 pessoas em simultâneo é uma boa aproximação.<br />
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''' 4:) ''' rota<br />
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Preferimos estradas de asfalto tranquilas com um cenário bonito, ligeiramente a descer, fazendo 50 quilómetros por dia em média. E tomem isto a sério! Um dia com 30 quilómetros é muito agradável para "engonhar" e apreciar os lados de não pedalanço da vida. O ideal é fazer menos em dias de acções e nada nos dias de descanso, os quais devem existir 2 vezes por semana. Não é que o BT não possa fazer mais, pois estimular as pessoas a ultrapassar os seus limites às vezes é bom, mas um ritmo lento dá mais tempo para as coisas agradáveis do biketour, as pausas e os seminários e um retrato mais profundo dos lugares por onde se passa. Se não puder encontrar um lugar para dormir cobrindo esse furo de 90km entre aqueles 2 locais muito interessantes, o melhor é deixar em aberto para que o grupo encontre um. Se os participantes quiserem pedalar mais, são sempre bem-vindos fazendo-o por sua própria conta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' consenso<br />
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Parte importante do BT é aprender e experimentar o processo de tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso. Desde há anos que o fazemos, e pensamos que todas as decisões deveriam ser baseadas no consenso. Mas também se sabe que nenhum de nós aprendeu isto na escola e que existem determinadas qualidades humanas que se evidenciam mais nuns que noutros, em que teremos sempre alguns responsáveis pelas decisões e outros que se sentarão nos círculos sem participar. As barreiras culturais e de idioma, comportamento de grupo, comportamentos específicos consoante o sexo, pessoas altamente motivadas ou muito preguiçosas, e a estrutura constantemente em mudança do grupo serão resistências às nossas tentativas, mas pensamos que é importante treinar as nossas habilidades de comunicação e de tomada de decisão, sendo pacientes durante círculos longos pelas manhãs, testando novas estruturas e a experimentando tudo o que possa ser viver uma alternativa ao que os governos apresentam como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' participação local<br />
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Uma interacção entre os participantes do BT e a população local é sempre desejada. Bons locais de passagem são organizados pelos grupos locais que necessitam de ajuda com alguma campanha ou acção, ou querem promover os seus projectos. A possibilidade de nos apresentarmos é sempre apreciada, e festas/concertos/dança fazem sempre as pessoas felizes. Mas é preciso ter em conta que o BT tem uma dinâmica muito espontânea e imprevisível, sendo famoso pela sua habilidade em chegar atrasado. As pessoas locais serão muito bem vindas, em especial se se juntarem a nós por alguns dias, ou pelo menos ao nosso círculo ou a um café/bar. Para ter uma integração mais local durante a excursão é também importante ter uma divulgação nacional, para que haja participantes que falem a língua local durante a excursão.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' comunidade de organizadores<br />
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Nos anos recentes tem havido um coordenador internacional que deve ter uma visão geral do projecto. Este ano ninguém esteve disposto a fazer essa tarefa (por motivos vários), e assim ficou a cargo da [[WHEEL#portugues|RODA]]. Este é um corpo que se encontra de duas em duas semanas através do [[skype]], um forum para trocar experiência e questões entre todas as partes activas.<br />
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Depois existem as equipas nacionais com o respectivo coordenador nacional, às vezes mais do que um em países grandes. Estes trabalham nas suas rotas e questões nacionais, mas também envolvendo-se nas questões internacionais comuns. E depois há alguns veteranos, que ajudam a organizar ou a quem se pode pelo menos pedir conselhos.<br />
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É muito interessante; há uma comunidade "biketour" internacional forte. É certo que não é assim tão visível através da Internet, pois trabalha mais com conhecimento pessoal. Algumas pessoas gostam mais de pedalar do que dactilografar. Mas nós temos 15 anos do história e muitas pessoas têm sido entusiásticas sobre o BT durante todo este tempo. É o começo a uma amizade agradável, e poderão viajar pelos BT-couches da Europa e mundo.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' dinheiro<br />
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Por vezes temos sorte com os financiamentos, mas geralmente andamos a contar os tostões. Pedimos entrada livre ou redução de preço em muitos sítios, porque somos um grupo internacional grande, muitas vezes com europeus de leste com fracos recursos e tentamos ter apenas o essencial e de forma barata ou grátis. Por outro lado existem projectos realmente agradáveis nos nossos trajectos e queremos que ganhem com a nossa estadia. Não apenas com o interesse mais elevado dos meios de comunicação, mas se possível deixando algum dinheiro. Mas ainda mais valiosos são a amizade e a inspiração trocados entre participantes e habitantes locais.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' conclusão<br />
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Há algo completamente mágico que acontece em volta do biketour, muita espontaneidade e algum caos, coisas que não funcionam, situações diferentes do esperado e muita improvisação. Mas estas ocasiões, esta parte não organizada em que as pessoas têm que lidar em grupo, será preenchida com minutos agradáveis e será o momento em que amizades crescem. Dê lugar à criatividade, o próprio BT implica muito tempo e energia dispendidos por dia, confie na habilidade do biketour de resolver as coisas por ele próprio:]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=What_bt_is&diff=312What bt is2007-04-27T19:47:47Z<p>Morlaa: /* the route */</p>
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<div>=What Biketour is=<br />
==english==<br />
====intro====<br />
The ecotopia biketour is an eco-mobile action community on its way to or from ecotopia.<br />
Some 10 to 50 bikers from different backgrounds - nationality, age, language, experience - cycle together towards [[ecotopia]], doing actions on their way and meet up with environmentally minded people and groups. They carry all [[equipment]] for camping on their bikes and trailers. It is a totally chaotic tour, with constantly changing sleeping places, group composition and food quality, but with some common things like:<br />
[[consensus based decision making]], all [[tasks]] divided between the [[participants]], a sleeping place every night and breakfast, lunch and dinner for a [[participation fee]] calculated in [[ecos]] and collected by sigmund, our magic hat.<br />
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====sleeping places====<br />
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The basic BT sleeping place includes some space for tents.<br />
As nothing more is really needed, we made the experience that we can organize our sleeping places during the tour, during the day. This is nice sometimes - it strengthens the group feeling when people work together to find the place and to make up for its downsides.<br />
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Basic features which should not miss with any organized sleeping place are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
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also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bike shops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
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Another type of sleeping place is schools and sport halls, which have quite some facilities.<br />
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====food====<br />
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The participants rotate the [[task]] of preparing a vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner. In our attempt to buy as local and eco food as possible we avoid big supermarkets with its highly packed and far travelled products but buy our food on local markets, small shops or from farmers we pass by. Usually we cook on wood fire, if we do not have access to a big kitchen, but for the iberian peninsula we might need another solution.<br />
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====the [[route]]====<br />
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We do prefer quiet asphalt roads in a beautiful scenery, slightly downhill. ~50 km per day. We do our best find them! A day with 30 km is very nice to fluff around and enjoy the not cycling sides of life. Do less on action days and none on resting days, where we should have 2 per week.A slow pace gives more time for the nice things of biketour, the brakes and workshops and a deeper picture of the sleeping places, but still you might have to expect harder day - busy roads, 80 km, 100 maybe with the shortcuts, some haste because some hosts are waiting...<br />
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====consensus====<br />
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We work with consensus based decision making - not the majority decides, but everyone is included in the decision We do that since years, and we think that all decisions should be based on consensus. But we do also know, that none of us learned this in school and that there are certain human qualities which take care, that we will always have decision makers and people sitting quiet in the circle. Cultural and language barriers, human group behavior, gender specific behavior, highly motivated or very lazy people and the constantly changing group structure are standing against our try, but we think, it is important to train our communication and decision making skills and be patient during long morning circles, try new structures and experiment with the whole thing to live an alternative to what governments present as democracy.<br />
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====local involvement====<br />
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Biketour connects with local groups and projects, by whom we are being hosted. They show us their project, their campaigns or their nightlife. and we might find a way to help them with our massive workforce, our positive motivated radiation, our ability to raise attention for a certain topic as an international biketour doing an action. On the one hand we see biketourists experiencing the host project, collecting ideas and get impressions of political realities, on the other hand the local group is visited by a cheerful crowd of open-minded foreign people, who bring some fresh wind and new ideas and tell of similar things happening at home. <br />
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====organizing community====<br />
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The tour is organised by an open network of old and new participants, there is no NGO or party behind us. We do have a strong connection to EYFA [[http://www.eyfa.org/]] and WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net/]] though. This is also a call to you to join organising effords and to prepare stuff for the tour at home. There are people putting a shitload of work into this project, doing the international und national coordination, caring for hosts, sleepingplaces, actions, participants, infrastructure, info-material and funding. Visit [[help out]] to see how to support them. Find out about the [[next meeting]], online or in real, where decisions are being taken and work distributed.<br />
And although it is not easy to get rid of them we try to reduce hierachies by abolishing the difference between organisers and participants during the tour : everyone is an organiser !!<br />
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====money====<br />
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Biketour is a cheap way to travel. Right now we prpose a daily fee of 8 eco per day. The Eco is EYFA's alternative currency, calculated every year for every participating country. 8 eco are roughly 8 euros for someone from the rich west and around 3-4 ecos people from poorer countries. But this money is collected anonymously by Sigmund, the magic hat. So if you are rich enough to support some less wealthy person, you have the chance to give more, or less if you happen not to own much money.<br />
Sometimes we are very lucky with funding, but generally we are the poor type. Asking for free entry or reduction everywhere as we are a big international group with poor eastern europeans and should get everything for free. We can also ask farmers and shop owners for (food) donations, so that in general the costs stay low. On the other hand there are really nice project on our way and we want them to profit from our stay. Not only through the higher media interest, but if possible by leaving some money. But even more valuable are friendship and inspiration exchanged between participants and locals.<br />
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====conclusion====<br />
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There is quite some magic happening around biketour, chaos everywhere, things not working out, being different than expected and a lot of improvisation. But in these rooms, this not organized part, which people have to cope with together, will be filled with the nicest minutes and be the time, when friendships grow. Leave place for creativity, BT itself cost a lot of time and energy per day, trust in the biketour ability to work things out herself:]<br />
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==espanol==<br />
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El Biketour del Ecotopia es una comunidad activa eco-móvil de camino a o desde Ecotopia.<br />
Unos 10 a 50 ciclistas de diversas características - nacionalidad, edad, lengua, experiencia - completan un ciclo juntos hacia Ecotopia, haciendo acciones en el camino y reúnen a gente y a grupos interesados por el medio ambiente. Todos llevan acoplado en sus bicis equipo para acampar. Es un viaje totalmente caótico, con los lugares donde dormir, la composición del grupo y el valor nutritivo en constante cambio, pero con algunas cosas comunes como:<br />
toma de decisión basada en el consenso, todas las tareas divididas entre los participantes, un lugar donde dormir cada noche y desayuno, almuerzo y cena mediante una cuota participativa calculada en ecos y recogida por "Sigmund", nuestro sombrero mágico.<br />
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1:) de los lugares donde dormir<br />
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El lugar básico el dormir de BT incluye un cierto espacio para las tiendas.<br />
Pues nada más es realmente necesario, hicimos la experiencia que podemos organizar nuestros lugares el dormir durante el viaje, durante el día. Esto es agradable a veces - consolida la sensación del grupo cuando la gente trabaja junta para encontrar el lugar y para compensar sus desventajas.<br />
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Las características básicas que no deben faltar con ningún lugar organizado el dormir son fuente del agua potable, un lugar del fuego a cocinar y madera en alcance.<br />
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también son apreciadas por los participantes las duchas calientes/sauna, un lago/lugar para nadar, los tocadores, una azotea, un cuarto del desayuno, una cocina equipada para los grupos grandes, algunos entran en contacto con e intercambio con los locals, una acción, instalaciones del Internet, información sobre los alrededores - tiendas de la bici, los mercados (del eco), donde conseguir productos de los granjeros locales, las trampas del turista…<br />
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Otro tipo de lugar el dormir es escuelas y los pasillos de deporte, que tienen absolutamente algunas instalaciones.<br />
¡Se cercioran de, son lugar para un fuego que cocina!<br />
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Intentamos no pagar los lugares el dormir, o si conseguir las reducciones grandes, como nosotros somos un ecotopoor con la gente pobre de ensamblar de Europa Oriental. 2 euros/personas/noches se parecen un precio aceptable. a menos que decidamos apoyar ese proyecto cerca nos están recibiendo - entonces tenemos gusto de pagar más ~ si podemos permitirnos lo.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' del alimento<br />
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Compramos nuestro alimento en mercados locales o de granjeros pasamos cerca, como eco como posible y cocinero en el fuego de madera, si no tenemos acceso a una cocina grande. Nada organizar para eso, salvo que un grupo local pudieron pedir de antemano donaciones del alimento…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' del registro<br />
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Poblar venido e ir en biketour. Solamente algunos de ellos registro, y solamente alguna gente registrada vienen. Los planes lo cambian… son duros conseguir un número próximo para contar encendido - 10 a 50 es absolutamente exactos.<br />
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''' 4:) el ''' de la ruta<br />
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Preferimos carreteras de asfalto reservadas en un paisaje hermoso, levemente cuesta abajo. ~50 kilómetro por día. Y tomar esto serio. Un día con 30 kilómetros es muy agradable a la pelusa alrededor y goza de los lados que no completan un ciclo de la vida. Hacer menos en días y ningunos de la acción el los días de descanso, donde debemos tener 2 por semana. no que allí BT no puede hacer más, él es bueno conseguir a gente pasar sus fronteras a veces, pero un paso lento da más hora para las cosas agradables del biketour, los frenos y los talleres y un cuadro más profundo de los lugares el dormir. Si u no puede encontrar un lugar el dormir para cubrir ese agujero de los 90km entre esos 2 muy agradables, licencia justa él abierto al grupo para encontrar uno. Si la gente desea completar un ciclo más, ella es siempre agradable hacer eso en su propia cuenta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' del consenso<br />
<br />
Experimentamos con la toma de decisión basada consenso. Hacemos eso desde años, y pensamos que todas las decisiones se deben basar en consenso. Pero también sabemos, ese ningunos de nosotros aprendieron que esto en escuela y ése hay ciertas calidades humanas que toman cuidado, que tendremos siempre responsables y gente que se sientan silenciosamente en el círculo. las barreras linguísticas culturales y, la gente altamente motivada o muy perezosa del comportamiento humano del grupo, del comportamiento específico del género, y la estructura del grupo constantemente que cambia están estando paradas contra nuestro intento, pero pensamos, él somos importantes entrenar a nuestras habilidades de la comunicación y de la toma de decisión y ser pacientes durante círculos largos de la mañana, estructuras del intento las nuevos y experimento con la cosa entera a vivir un alternativa a qué gobiernos presentan como democracia.<br />
<br />
''' 6:) ''' local de la implicación<br />
<br />
Deseamos traer un intercambio entre los biketourers y los locals. Los buenos lugares el dormir son organizados por los grupos locales, que necesitan ayuda con una cierta acción o desean presentar su proyecto. una posibilidad al presente ourselves se aprecia siempre, y algún partido/concierto/bailar hacen a alguna gente feliz. Pero observar que BT es totalmente caótico y famoso para que su capacidad sea atrasado. Grande si la gente local nos ensambla por algunos días, o por lo menos para el campfire o la publicación. Conseguirlo a una integración más local del viaje es también importante hacer que un buen nacional exceda para los participantes, de modo que haya absolutamente alguna gente que habla la lengua local en el viaje.<br />
<br />
''' 7:) ''' de organización de la comunidad<br />
<br />
Tenemos generalmente un coordinador internacional en el centro y él debe tener la descripción. Este año nadie estaba dispuesto a tomar el trabajo, así que lo dimos a [[RUEDA]] en lugar de otro. Esto es un cuerpo que resuelve cada segunda semana vía [[skype]], un foro para intercambiar entre todos los partidos activos, y para que todos los vagos perezosos den sus dos centavos.<br />
<br />
Entonces hay los equipos nacionales con sus coordinadores nacionales, a veces varios en un país grande. Ésos trabajan en su ruta y materia nacionales, pero también junto en la materia internacional común. Y hay algunos veteranos, que ayudan hacia fuera a organizar o pueden por lo menos ser pedidos consejo.<br />
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Está tan fresco; hay una comunidad internacional fuerte del biketour. Es justo no así que visible vía Internet, trabaja más con conocimiento personal. Alguna gente tiene gusto de completar un ciclo más que mecanografiando. Pero tenemos 15 años de historia y las porciones de gente han sido entusiásticas sobre BT durante este tiempo. Es un preludio a una amistad agradable, y usted puede viajar los BT-sofás que practican surf de Europa.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' del dinero<br />
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Somos a veces muy afortunados con el financiamiento, pero somos generalmente el tipo pobre. Pidiendo entrada o la reducción libre por todas partes, pues somos un grupo internacional grande con europeos del este pobres y debemos conseguir todo para libre. Por otra parte hay proyecto realmente agradable sobre nuestra manera y quisiéramos que se beneficiaran de nuestra estancia. No sólo con el interés más alto de los medios, pero si es posible dejando un poco de dinero. Pero aún más valiosa son la amistad y la inspiración intercambiadas entre los participantes y los locals.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' de la conclusión<br />
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Hay una absolutamente cierta magia que sucede alrededor de biketour, de caos por todas partes, de cosas que no se resuelven, siendo diferente que esperado y los muchos de improvisación. Pero en estos cuartos, esta parte no organizada, que la gente tiene que hacer frente a junto, será llenada de los minutos más agradables y ser el tiempo, cuando las amistades crecen. Dejar el lugar para la creatividad, BT sí mismo costado mucho tiempo y la energía por el día, confianza en la capacidad del biketour a las cosas del trabajo hacia fuera ella misma:]<br />
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==portugues==<br />
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O biketour do ecotopia é uma eco-comunidade móvel activista a caminho do ou desde o [[Ecotopia]].<br />
Cerca de 10 a 50 ciclistas de origens diferentes - nacionalidade, idade, idioma, experiência - pedalam juntos para o [[Ecotopia]], fazendo acções durante o caminho e encontrando-se com pessoas e associações que se preocupam com as questões ambientais. Carregam todo o seu [[equipment#portugues|equipamento]] para acampar e cozinhar nas suas bicicletas e atrelados. É uma excursão muito espontânea e diversificada, constantemente mudando de lugares para dormir, composição do grupo e qualidade da comida, mas com algumas coisas comuns como:<br />
[[Consensus_based_decision_making#portugues|tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso]], todas as [[tasks#portugues|tarefas]] divididas entre os [[participants#portugues|participantes]], um lugar diferente onde dormir em cada noite e pequeno almoço, almoço e jantar por uma [[participation_fee#portugues|taxa da participação]] calculado em [[ecos]] e colectado no sigmund, o nosso chapéu mágico.<br />
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''' 1:) ''' lugares de dormida<br />
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O lugar básico de dormida de BT inclui algum espaço para tendas.<br />
Porque nada mais é na realidade necessário, a experiência ensinou-nos que podemos organizar os nossos lugares de dormida ao longo da excursão, durante o próprio dia. Isto pode ser agradável - reforçando o sentimento de grupo quando as pessoas trabalham juntas para encontrar um sítio onde dormir.<br />
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As características básicas que não devem faltar em qualquer lugar organizado de dormida são água potável, um lugar para cozinhar com fogo e madeira acessível (ponto a reavaliar).<br />
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São apreciados também pelos participantes os chuveiros quentes/sauna, um lago/lugar para nadar, casas-de-banho, um tecto, um quarto para pequeno-almoço, uma cozinha equipada para grupos grandes, alguns contactos e partilha com a população local, uma acção, acesso Internet, informação sobre os arredores - lojas de bicicleta, mercados (tradicionais), onde encontrar produtos dos agricultores locais, algumas armadilhas para turistas ;)…<br />
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Um outro tipo de lugar para dormir são escolas e salões desportivos, que têm algumas das condições necessárias para receber o BT. Certifiquem-se contudo que existe sítio para cozinhar!<br />
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Nós tentamos não pagar pelos lugares para dormir ou então que se obtenham grandes reduções, dado que somos muitas vezes um "ecotopoor" com participantes da Europa Oriental. 2 euro/pessoa/noite parece um preço razoável. Excepto quando decidimos apoiar o projecto onde estamos hospedados - nesse caso gostamos de pagar mais ~ se tivermos recursos para tal.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' alimentação<br />
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Os alimentos são sempre que possível comprados em mercados locais ou em agricultores perto de onde passamos, o mais "eco" e biológico possível, e cozinhamos numa fogueira, se não tivermos acesso a uma cozinha grande. Nada é necessário organizar para a alimentação, a não ser quando um grupo local pedir de antemão doações para a refeição (preparadas por eles)…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' registo<br />
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As pessoas chegam e partem do biketour. Somente alguns deles se registam, e somente alguns registados de facto vêm. Os planos mudam… é difícil prever um número aproximado confiável - 10 a 50 pessoas em simultâneo é uma boa aproximação.<br />
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''' 4:) ''' rota<br />
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Preferimos estradas de asfalto tranquilas com um cenário bonito, ligeiramente a descer, fazendo 50 quilómetros por dia em média. E tomem isto a sério! Um dia com 30 quilómetros é muito agradável para "engonhar" e apreciar os lados de não pedalanço da vida. O ideal é fazer menos em dias de acções e nada nos dias de descanso, os quais devem existir 2 vezes por semana. Não é que o BT não possa fazer mais, pois estimular as pessoas a ultrapassar os seus limites às vezes é bom, mas um ritmo lento dá mais tempo para as coisas agradáveis do biketour, as pausas e os seminários e um retrato mais profundo dos lugares por onde se passa. Se não puder encontrar um lugar para dormir cobrindo esse furo de 90km entre aqueles 2 locais muito interessantes, o melhor é deixar em aberto para que o grupo encontre um. Se os participantes quiserem pedalar mais, são sempre bem-vindos fazendo-o por sua própria conta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' consenso<br />
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Parte importante do BT é aprender e experimentar o processo de tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso. Desde há anos que o fazemos, e pensamos que todas as decisões deveriam ser baseadas no consenso. Mas também se sabe que nenhum de nós aprendeu isto na escola e que existem determinadas qualidades humanas que se evidenciam mais nuns que noutros, em que teremos sempre alguns responsáveis pelas decisões e outros que se sentarão nos círculos sem participar. As barreiras culturais e de idioma, comportamento de grupo, comportamentos específicos consoante o sexo, pessoas altamente motivadas ou muito preguiçosas, e a estrutura constantemente em mudança do grupo serão resistências às nossas tentativas, mas pensamos que é importante treinar as nossas habilidades de comunicação e de tomada de decisão, sendo pacientes durante círculos longos pelas manhãs, testando novas estruturas e a experimentando tudo o que possa ser viver uma alternativa ao que os governos apresentam como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' participação local<br />
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Uma interacção entre os participantes do BT e a população local é sempre desejada. Bons locais de passagem são organizados pelos grupos locais que necessitam de ajuda com alguma campanha ou acção, ou querem promover os seus projectos. A possibilidade de nos apresentarmos é sempre apreciada, e festas/concertos/dança fazem sempre as pessoas felizes. Mas é preciso ter em conta que o BT tem uma dinâmica muito espontânea e imprevisível, sendo famoso pela sua habilidade em chegar atrasado. As pessoas locais serão muito bem vindas, em especial se se juntarem a nós por alguns dias, ou pelo menos ao nosso círculo ou a um café/bar. Para ter uma integração mais local durante a excursão é também importante ter uma divulgação nacional, para que haja participantes que falem a língua local durante a excursão.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' comunidade de organizadores<br />
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Nos anos recentes tem havido um coordenador internacional que deve ter uma visão geral do projecto. Este ano ninguém esteve disposto a fazer essa tarefa (por motivos vários), e assim ficou a cargo da [[WHEEL#portugues|RODA]]. Este é um corpo que se encontra de duas em duas semanas através do [[skype]], um forum para trocar experiência e questões entre todas as partes activas.<br />
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Depois existem as equipas nacionais com o respectivo coordenador nacional, às vezes mais do que um em países grandes. Estes trabalham nas suas rotas e questões nacionais, mas também envolvendo-se nas questões internacionais comuns. E depois há alguns veteranos, que ajudam a organizar ou a quem se pode pelo menos pedir conselhos.<br />
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É muito interessante; há uma comunidade "biketour" internacional forte. É certo que não é assim tão visível através da Internet, pois trabalha mais com conhecimento pessoal. Algumas pessoas gostam mais de pedalar do que dactilografar. Mas nós temos 15 anos do história e muitas pessoas têm sido entusiásticas sobre o BT durante todo este tempo. É o começo a uma amizade agradável, e poderão viajar pelos BT-couches da Europa e mundo.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' dinheiro<br />
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Por vezes temos sorte com os financiamentos, mas geralmente andamos a contar os tostões. Pedimos entrada livre ou redução de preço em muitos sítios, porque somos um grupo internacional grande, muitas vezes com europeus de leste com fracos recursos e tentamos ter apenas o essencial e de forma barata ou grátis. Por outro lado existem projectos realmente agradáveis nos nossos trajectos e queremos que ganhem com a nossa estadia. Não apenas com o interesse mais elevado dos meios de comunicação, mas se possível deixando algum dinheiro. Mas ainda mais valiosos são a amizade e a inspiração trocados entre participantes e habitantes locais.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' conclusão<br />
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Há algo completamente mágico que acontece em volta do biketour, muita espontaneidade e algum caos, coisas que não funcionam, situações diferentes do esperado e muita improvisação. Mas estas ocasiões, esta parte não organizada em que as pessoas têm que lidar em grupo, será preenchida com minutos agradáveis e será o momento em que amizades crescem. Dê lugar à criatividade, o próprio BT implica muito tempo e energia dispendidos por dia, confie na habilidade do biketour de resolver as coisas por ele próprio:]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=What_bt_is&diff=311What bt is2007-04-27T19:46:51Z<p>Morlaa: /* food */</p>
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<div>=What Biketour is=<br />
==english==<br />
====intro====<br />
The ecotopia biketour is an eco-mobile action community on its way to or from ecotopia.<br />
Some 10 to 50 bikers from different backgrounds - nationality, age, language, experience - cycle together towards [[ecotopia]], doing actions on their way and meet up with environmentally minded people and groups. They carry all [[equipment]] for camping on their bikes and trailers. It is a totally chaotic tour, with constantly changing sleeping places, group composition and food quality, but with some common things like:<br />
[[consensus based decision making]], all [[tasks]] divided between the [[participants]], a sleeping place every night and breakfast, lunch and dinner for a [[participation fee]] calculated in [[ecos]] and collected by sigmund, our magic hat.<br />
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====sleeping places====<br />
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The basic BT sleeping place includes some space for tents.<br />
As nothing more is really needed, we made the experience that we can organize our sleeping places during the tour, during the day. This is nice sometimes - it strengthens the group feeling when people work together to find the place and to make up for its downsides.<br />
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Basic features which should not miss with any organized sleeping place are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
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also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bike shops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
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Another type of sleeping place is schools and sport halls, which have quite some facilities.<br />
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====food====<br />
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The participants rotate the [[task]] of preparing a vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner. In our attempt to buy as local and eco food as possible we avoid big supermarkets with its highly packed and far travelled products but buy our food on local markets, small shops or from farmers we pass by. Usually we cook on wood fire, if we do not have access to a big kitchen, but for the iberian peninsula we might need another solution.<br />
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====the route====<br />
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We do prefer quiet asphalt roads in a beautiful scenery, slightly downhill. ~50 km per day. We do our best find them! A day with 30 km is very nice to fluff around and enjoy the not cycling sides of life. Do less on action days and none on resting days, where we should have 2 per week.A slow pace gives more time for the nice things of biketour, the brakes and workshops and a deeper picture of the sleeping places, but still you might have to expect harder day - busy roads, 80 km, 100 maybe with the shortcuts, some haste because some hosts are waiting...<br />
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====consensus====<br />
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We work with consensus based decision making - not the majority decides, but everyone is included in the decision We do that since years, and we think that all decisions should be based on consensus. But we do also know, that none of us learned this in school and that there are certain human qualities which take care, that we will always have decision makers and people sitting quiet in the circle. Cultural and language barriers, human group behavior, gender specific behavior, highly motivated or very lazy people and the constantly changing group structure are standing against our try, but we think, it is important to train our communication and decision making skills and be patient during long morning circles, try new structures and experiment with the whole thing to live an alternative to what governments present as democracy.<br />
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====local involvement====<br />
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Biketour connects with local groups and projects, by whom we are being hosted. They show us their project, their campaigns or their nightlife. and we might find a way to help them with our massive workforce, our positive motivated radiation, our ability to raise attention for a certain topic as an international biketour doing an action. On the one hand we see biketourists experiencing the host project, collecting ideas and get impressions of political realities, on the other hand the local group is visited by a cheerful crowd of open-minded foreign people, who bring some fresh wind and new ideas and tell of similar things happening at home. <br />
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====organizing community====<br />
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The tour is organised by an open network of old and new participants, there is no NGO or party behind us. We do have a strong connection to EYFA [[http://www.eyfa.org/]] and WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net/]] though. This is also a call to you to join organising effords and to prepare stuff for the tour at home. There are people putting a shitload of work into this project, doing the international und national coordination, caring for hosts, sleepingplaces, actions, participants, infrastructure, info-material and funding. Visit [[help out]] to see how to support them. Find out about the [[next meeting]], online or in real, where decisions are being taken and work distributed.<br />
And although it is not easy to get rid of them we try to reduce hierachies by abolishing the difference between organisers and participants during the tour : everyone is an organiser !!<br />
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====money====<br />
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Biketour is a cheap way to travel. Right now we prpose a daily fee of 8 eco per day. The Eco is EYFA's alternative currency, calculated every year for every participating country. 8 eco are roughly 8 euros for someone from the rich west and around 3-4 ecos people from poorer countries. But this money is collected anonymously by Sigmund, the magic hat. So if you are rich enough to support some less wealthy person, you have the chance to give more, or less if you happen not to own much money.<br />
Sometimes we are very lucky with funding, but generally we are the poor type. Asking for free entry or reduction everywhere as we are a big international group with poor eastern europeans and should get everything for free. We can also ask farmers and shop owners for (food) donations, so that in general the costs stay low. On the other hand there are really nice project on our way and we want them to profit from our stay. Not only through the higher media interest, but if possible by leaving some money. But even more valuable are friendship and inspiration exchanged between participants and locals.<br />
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====conclusion====<br />
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There is quite some magic happening around biketour, chaos everywhere, things not working out, being different than expected and a lot of improvisation. But in these rooms, this not organized part, which people have to cope with together, will be filled with the nicest minutes and be the time, when friendships grow. Leave place for creativity, BT itself cost a lot of time and energy per day, trust in the biketour ability to work things out herself:]<br />
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==espanol==<br />
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El Biketour del Ecotopia es una comunidad activa eco-móvil de camino a o desde Ecotopia.<br />
Unos 10 a 50 ciclistas de diversas características - nacionalidad, edad, lengua, experiencia - completan un ciclo juntos hacia Ecotopia, haciendo acciones en el camino y reúnen a gente y a grupos interesados por el medio ambiente. Todos llevan acoplado en sus bicis equipo para acampar. Es un viaje totalmente caótico, con los lugares donde dormir, la composición del grupo y el valor nutritivo en constante cambio, pero con algunas cosas comunes como:<br />
toma de decisión basada en el consenso, todas las tareas divididas entre los participantes, un lugar donde dormir cada noche y desayuno, almuerzo y cena mediante una cuota participativa calculada en ecos y recogida por "Sigmund", nuestro sombrero mágico.<br />
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1:) de los lugares donde dormir<br />
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El lugar básico el dormir de BT incluye un cierto espacio para las tiendas.<br />
Pues nada más es realmente necesario, hicimos la experiencia que podemos organizar nuestros lugares el dormir durante el viaje, durante el día. Esto es agradable a veces - consolida la sensación del grupo cuando la gente trabaja junta para encontrar el lugar y para compensar sus desventajas.<br />
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Las características básicas que no deben faltar con ningún lugar organizado el dormir son fuente del agua potable, un lugar del fuego a cocinar y madera en alcance.<br />
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también son apreciadas por los participantes las duchas calientes/sauna, un lago/lugar para nadar, los tocadores, una azotea, un cuarto del desayuno, una cocina equipada para los grupos grandes, algunos entran en contacto con e intercambio con los locals, una acción, instalaciones del Internet, información sobre los alrededores - tiendas de la bici, los mercados (del eco), donde conseguir productos de los granjeros locales, las trampas del turista…<br />
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Otro tipo de lugar el dormir es escuelas y los pasillos de deporte, que tienen absolutamente algunas instalaciones.<br />
¡Se cercioran de, son lugar para un fuego que cocina!<br />
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Intentamos no pagar los lugares el dormir, o si conseguir las reducciones grandes, como nosotros somos un ecotopoor con la gente pobre de ensamblar de Europa Oriental. 2 euros/personas/noches se parecen un precio aceptable. a menos que decidamos apoyar ese proyecto cerca nos están recibiendo - entonces tenemos gusto de pagar más ~ si podemos permitirnos lo.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' del alimento<br />
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Compramos nuestro alimento en mercados locales o de granjeros pasamos cerca, como eco como posible y cocinero en el fuego de madera, si no tenemos acceso a una cocina grande. Nada organizar para eso, salvo que un grupo local pudieron pedir de antemano donaciones del alimento…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' del registro<br />
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Poblar venido e ir en biketour. Solamente algunos de ellos registro, y solamente alguna gente registrada vienen. Los planes lo cambian… son duros conseguir un número próximo para contar encendido - 10 a 50 es absolutamente exactos.<br />
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''' 4:) el ''' de la ruta<br />
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Preferimos carreteras de asfalto reservadas en un paisaje hermoso, levemente cuesta abajo. ~50 kilómetro por día. Y tomar esto serio. Un día con 30 kilómetros es muy agradable a la pelusa alrededor y goza de los lados que no completan un ciclo de la vida. Hacer menos en días y ningunos de la acción el los días de descanso, donde debemos tener 2 por semana. no que allí BT no puede hacer más, él es bueno conseguir a gente pasar sus fronteras a veces, pero un paso lento da más hora para las cosas agradables del biketour, los frenos y los talleres y un cuadro más profundo de los lugares el dormir. Si u no puede encontrar un lugar el dormir para cubrir ese agujero de los 90km entre esos 2 muy agradables, licencia justa él abierto al grupo para encontrar uno. Si la gente desea completar un ciclo más, ella es siempre agradable hacer eso en su propia cuenta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' del consenso<br />
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Experimentamos con la toma de decisión basada consenso. Hacemos eso desde años, y pensamos que todas las decisiones se deben basar en consenso. Pero también sabemos, ese ningunos de nosotros aprendieron que esto en escuela y ése hay ciertas calidades humanas que toman cuidado, que tendremos siempre responsables y gente que se sientan silenciosamente en el círculo. las barreras linguísticas culturales y, la gente altamente motivada o muy perezosa del comportamiento humano del grupo, del comportamiento específico del género, y la estructura del grupo constantemente que cambia están estando paradas contra nuestro intento, pero pensamos, él somos importantes entrenar a nuestras habilidades de la comunicación y de la toma de decisión y ser pacientes durante círculos largos de la mañana, estructuras del intento las nuevos y experimento con la cosa entera a vivir un alternativa a qué gobiernos presentan como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' local de la implicación<br />
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Deseamos traer un intercambio entre los biketourers y los locals. Los buenos lugares el dormir son organizados por los grupos locales, que necesitan ayuda con una cierta acción o desean presentar su proyecto. una posibilidad al presente ourselves se aprecia siempre, y algún partido/concierto/bailar hacen a alguna gente feliz. Pero observar que BT es totalmente caótico y famoso para que su capacidad sea atrasado. Grande si la gente local nos ensambla por algunos días, o por lo menos para el campfire o la publicación. Conseguirlo a una integración más local del viaje es también importante hacer que un buen nacional exceda para los participantes, de modo que haya absolutamente alguna gente que habla la lengua local en el viaje.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' de organización de la comunidad<br />
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Tenemos generalmente un coordinador internacional en el centro y él debe tener la descripción. Este año nadie estaba dispuesto a tomar el trabajo, así que lo dimos a [[RUEDA]] en lugar de otro. Esto es un cuerpo que resuelve cada segunda semana vía [[skype]], un foro para intercambiar entre todos los partidos activos, y para que todos los vagos perezosos den sus dos centavos.<br />
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Entonces hay los equipos nacionales con sus coordinadores nacionales, a veces varios en un país grande. Ésos trabajan en su ruta y materia nacionales, pero también junto en la materia internacional común. Y hay algunos veteranos, que ayudan hacia fuera a organizar o pueden por lo menos ser pedidos consejo.<br />
<br />
Está tan fresco; hay una comunidad internacional fuerte del biketour. Es justo no así que visible vía Internet, trabaja más con conocimiento personal. Alguna gente tiene gusto de completar un ciclo más que mecanografiando. Pero tenemos 15 años de historia y las porciones de gente han sido entusiásticas sobre BT durante este tiempo. Es un preludio a una amistad agradable, y usted puede viajar los BT-sofás que practican surf de Europa.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' del dinero<br />
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Somos a veces muy afortunados con el financiamiento, pero somos generalmente el tipo pobre. Pidiendo entrada o la reducción libre por todas partes, pues somos un grupo internacional grande con europeos del este pobres y debemos conseguir todo para libre. Por otra parte hay proyecto realmente agradable sobre nuestra manera y quisiéramos que se beneficiaran de nuestra estancia. No sólo con el interés más alto de los medios, pero si es posible dejando un poco de dinero. Pero aún más valiosa son la amistad y la inspiración intercambiadas entre los participantes y los locals.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' de la conclusión<br />
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Hay una absolutamente cierta magia que sucede alrededor de biketour, de caos por todas partes, de cosas que no se resuelven, siendo diferente que esperado y los muchos de improvisación. Pero en estos cuartos, esta parte no organizada, que la gente tiene que hacer frente a junto, será llenada de los minutos más agradables y ser el tiempo, cuando las amistades crecen. Dejar el lugar para la creatividad, BT sí mismo costado mucho tiempo y la energía por el día, confianza en la capacidad del biketour a las cosas del trabajo hacia fuera ella misma:]<br />
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==portugues==<br />
<br />
O biketour do ecotopia é uma eco-comunidade móvel activista a caminho do ou desde o [[Ecotopia]].<br />
Cerca de 10 a 50 ciclistas de origens diferentes - nacionalidade, idade, idioma, experiência - pedalam juntos para o [[Ecotopia]], fazendo acções durante o caminho e encontrando-se com pessoas e associações que se preocupam com as questões ambientais. Carregam todo o seu [[equipment#portugues|equipamento]] para acampar e cozinhar nas suas bicicletas e atrelados. É uma excursão muito espontânea e diversificada, constantemente mudando de lugares para dormir, composição do grupo e qualidade da comida, mas com algumas coisas comuns como:<br />
[[Consensus_based_decision_making#portugues|tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso]], todas as [[tasks#portugues|tarefas]] divididas entre os [[participants#portugues|participantes]], um lugar diferente onde dormir em cada noite e pequeno almoço, almoço e jantar por uma [[participation_fee#portugues|taxa da participação]] calculado em [[ecos]] e colectado no sigmund, o nosso chapéu mágico.<br />
<br />
''' 1:) ''' lugares de dormida<br />
<br />
O lugar básico de dormida de BT inclui algum espaço para tendas.<br />
Porque nada mais é na realidade necessário, a experiência ensinou-nos que podemos organizar os nossos lugares de dormida ao longo da excursão, durante o próprio dia. Isto pode ser agradável - reforçando o sentimento de grupo quando as pessoas trabalham juntas para encontrar um sítio onde dormir.<br />
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As características básicas que não devem faltar em qualquer lugar organizado de dormida são água potável, um lugar para cozinhar com fogo e madeira acessível (ponto a reavaliar).<br />
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São apreciados também pelos participantes os chuveiros quentes/sauna, um lago/lugar para nadar, casas-de-banho, um tecto, um quarto para pequeno-almoço, uma cozinha equipada para grupos grandes, alguns contactos e partilha com a população local, uma acção, acesso Internet, informação sobre os arredores - lojas de bicicleta, mercados (tradicionais), onde encontrar produtos dos agricultores locais, algumas armadilhas para turistas ;)…<br />
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Um outro tipo de lugar para dormir são escolas e salões desportivos, que têm algumas das condições necessárias para receber o BT. Certifiquem-se contudo que existe sítio para cozinhar!<br />
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Nós tentamos não pagar pelos lugares para dormir ou então que se obtenham grandes reduções, dado que somos muitas vezes um "ecotopoor" com participantes da Europa Oriental. 2 euro/pessoa/noite parece um preço razoável. Excepto quando decidimos apoiar o projecto onde estamos hospedados - nesse caso gostamos de pagar mais ~ se tivermos recursos para tal.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' alimentação<br />
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Os alimentos são sempre que possível comprados em mercados locais ou em agricultores perto de onde passamos, o mais "eco" e biológico possível, e cozinhamos numa fogueira, se não tivermos acesso a uma cozinha grande. Nada é necessário organizar para a alimentação, a não ser quando um grupo local pedir de antemão doações para a refeição (preparadas por eles)…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' registo<br />
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As pessoas chegam e partem do biketour. Somente alguns deles se registam, e somente alguns registados de facto vêm. Os planos mudam… é difícil prever um número aproximado confiável - 10 a 50 pessoas em simultâneo é uma boa aproximação.<br />
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''' 4:) ''' rota<br />
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Preferimos estradas de asfalto tranquilas com um cenário bonito, ligeiramente a descer, fazendo 50 quilómetros por dia em média. E tomem isto a sério! Um dia com 30 quilómetros é muito agradável para "engonhar" e apreciar os lados de não pedalanço da vida. O ideal é fazer menos em dias de acções e nada nos dias de descanso, os quais devem existir 2 vezes por semana. Não é que o BT não possa fazer mais, pois estimular as pessoas a ultrapassar os seus limites às vezes é bom, mas um ritmo lento dá mais tempo para as coisas agradáveis do biketour, as pausas e os seminários e um retrato mais profundo dos lugares por onde se passa. Se não puder encontrar um lugar para dormir cobrindo esse furo de 90km entre aqueles 2 locais muito interessantes, o melhor é deixar em aberto para que o grupo encontre um. Se os participantes quiserem pedalar mais, são sempre bem-vindos fazendo-o por sua própria conta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' consenso<br />
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Parte importante do BT é aprender e experimentar o processo de tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso. Desde há anos que o fazemos, e pensamos que todas as decisões deveriam ser baseadas no consenso. Mas também se sabe que nenhum de nós aprendeu isto na escola e que existem determinadas qualidades humanas que se evidenciam mais nuns que noutros, em que teremos sempre alguns responsáveis pelas decisões e outros que se sentarão nos círculos sem participar. As barreiras culturais e de idioma, comportamento de grupo, comportamentos específicos consoante o sexo, pessoas altamente motivadas ou muito preguiçosas, e a estrutura constantemente em mudança do grupo serão resistências às nossas tentativas, mas pensamos que é importante treinar as nossas habilidades de comunicação e de tomada de decisão, sendo pacientes durante círculos longos pelas manhãs, testando novas estruturas e a experimentando tudo o que possa ser viver uma alternativa ao que os governos apresentam como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' participação local<br />
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Uma interacção entre os participantes do BT e a população local é sempre desejada. Bons locais de passagem são organizados pelos grupos locais que necessitam de ajuda com alguma campanha ou acção, ou querem promover os seus projectos. A possibilidade de nos apresentarmos é sempre apreciada, e festas/concertos/dança fazem sempre as pessoas felizes. Mas é preciso ter em conta que o BT tem uma dinâmica muito espontânea e imprevisível, sendo famoso pela sua habilidade em chegar atrasado. As pessoas locais serão muito bem vindas, em especial se se juntarem a nós por alguns dias, ou pelo menos ao nosso círculo ou a um café/bar. Para ter uma integração mais local durante a excursão é também importante ter uma divulgação nacional, para que haja participantes que falem a língua local durante a excursão.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' comunidade de organizadores<br />
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Nos anos recentes tem havido um coordenador internacional que deve ter uma visão geral do projecto. Este ano ninguém esteve disposto a fazer essa tarefa (por motivos vários), e assim ficou a cargo da [[WHEEL#portugues|RODA]]. Este é um corpo que se encontra de duas em duas semanas através do [[skype]], um forum para trocar experiência e questões entre todas as partes activas.<br />
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Depois existem as equipas nacionais com o respectivo coordenador nacional, às vezes mais do que um em países grandes. Estes trabalham nas suas rotas e questões nacionais, mas também envolvendo-se nas questões internacionais comuns. E depois há alguns veteranos, que ajudam a organizar ou a quem se pode pelo menos pedir conselhos.<br />
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É muito interessante; há uma comunidade "biketour" internacional forte. É certo que não é assim tão visível através da Internet, pois trabalha mais com conhecimento pessoal. Algumas pessoas gostam mais de pedalar do que dactilografar. Mas nós temos 15 anos do história e muitas pessoas têm sido entusiásticas sobre o BT durante todo este tempo. É o começo a uma amizade agradável, e poderão viajar pelos BT-couches da Europa e mundo.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' dinheiro<br />
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Por vezes temos sorte com os financiamentos, mas geralmente andamos a contar os tostões. Pedimos entrada livre ou redução de preço em muitos sítios, porque somos um grupo internacional grande, muitas vezes com europeus de leste com fracos recursos e tentamos ter apenas o essencial e de forma barata ou grátis. Por outro lado existem projectos realmente agradáveis nos nossos trajectos e queremos que ganhem com a nossa estadia. Não apenas com o interesse mais elevado dos meios de comunicação, mas se possível deixando algum dinheiro. Mas ainda mais valiosos são a amizade e a inspiração trocados entre participantes e habitantes locais.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' conclusão<br />
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Há algo completamente mágico que acontece em volta do biketour, muita espontaneidade e algum caos, coisas que não funcionam, situações diferentes do esperado e muita improvisação. Mas estas ocasiões, esta parte não organizada em que as pessoas têm que lidar em grupo, será preenchida com minutos agradáveis e será o momento em que amizades crescem. Dê lugar à criatividade, o próprio BT implica muito tempo e energia dispendidos por dia, confie na habilidade do biketour de resolver as coisas por ele próprio:]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=What_bt_is&diff=310What bt is2007-04-27T19:45:14Z<p>Morlaa: jans version</p>
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<div>=What Biketour is=<br />
==english==<br />
====intro====<br />
The ecotopia biketour is an eco-mobile action community on its way to or from ecotopia.<br />
Some 10 to 50 bikers from different backgrounds - nationality, age, language, experience - cycle together towards [[ecotopia]], doing actions on their way and meet up with environmentally minded people and groups. They carry all [[equipment]] for camping on their bikes and trailers. It is a totally chaotic tour, with constantly changing sleeping places, group composition and food quality, but with some common things like:<br />
[[consensus based decision making]], all [[tasks]] divided between the [[participants]], a sleeping place every night and breakfast, lunch and dinner for a [[participation fee]] calculated in [[ecos]] and collected by sigmund, our magic hat.<br />
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====sleeping places====<br />
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The basic BT sleeping place includes some space for tents.<br />
As nothing more is really needed, we made the experience that we can organize our sleeping places during the tour, during the day. This is nice sometimes - it strengthens the group feeling when people work together to find the place and to make up for its downsides.<br />
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Basic features which should not miss with any organized sleeping place are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
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also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bike shops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
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Another type of sleeping place is schools and sport halls, which have quite some facilities.<br />
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====food====<br />
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The participants rotate the [[task]] of preparing a vegetarian breakfast, lunch and dinner. In our attempt to buy as local and eco food as possible we avoid big supermarkets with its highly packed and far travelled products but buy our food on local markets, small shops or from farmers we pass by. Usually we cook on wood fire, if we do not have access to a big kitchen, but for the iberian peninsula we might need another solution.<br />
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====the route====<br />
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We do prefer quiet asphalt roads in a beautiful scenery, slightly downhill. ~50 km per day. We do our best find them! A day with 30 km is very nice to fluff around and enjoy the not cycling sides of life. Do less on action days and none on resting days, where we should have 2 per week.A slow pace gives more time for the nice things of biketour, the brakes and workshops and a deeper picture of the sleeping places, but still you might have to expect harder day - busy roads, 80 km, 100 maybe with the shortcuts, some haste because some hosts are waiting...<br />
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====consensus====<br />
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We work with consensus based decision making - not the majority decides, but everyone is included in the decision We do that since years, and we think that all decisions should be based on consensus. But we do also know, that none of us learned this in school and that there are certain human qualities which take care, that we will always have decision makers and people sitting quiet in the circle. Cultural and language barriers, human group behavior, gender specific behavior, highly motivated or very lazy people and the constantly changing group structure are standing against our try, but we think, it is important to train our communication and decision making skills and be patient during long morning circles, try new structures and experiment with the whole thing to live an alternative to what governments present as democracy.<br />
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====local involvement====<br />
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Biketour connects with local groups and projects, by whom we are being hosted. They show us their project, their campaigns or their nightlife. and we might find a way to help them with our massive workforce, our positive motivated radiation, our ability to raise attention for a certain topic as an international biketour doing an action. On the one hand we see biketourists experiencing the host project, collecting ideas and get impressions of political realities, on the other hand the local group is visited by a cheerful crowd of open-minded foreign people, who bring some fresh wind and new ideas and tell of similar things happening at home. <br />
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====organizing community====<br />
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The tour is organised by an open network of old and new participants, there is no NGO or party behind us. We do have a strong connection to EYFA [[http://www.eyfa.org/]] and WCN [[http://www.worldcarfree.net/]] though. This is also a call to you to join organising effords and to prepare stuff for the tour at home. There are people putting a shitload of work into this project, doing the international und national coordination, caring for hosts, sleepingplaces, actions, participants, infrastructure, info-material and funding. Visit [[help out]] to see how to support them. Find out about the [[next meeting]], online or in real, where decisions are being taken and work distributed.<br />
And although it is not easy to get rid of them we try to reduce hierachies by abolishing the difference between organisers and participants during the tour : everyone is an organiser !!<br />
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====money====<br />
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Biketour is a cheap way to travel. Right now we prpose a daily fee of 8 eco per day. The Eco is EYFA's alternative currency, calculated every year for every participating country. 8 eco are roughly 8 euros for someone from the rich west and around 3-4 ecos people from poorer countries. But this money is collected anonymously by Sigmund, the magic hat. So if you are rich enough to support some less wealthy person, you have the chance to give more, or less if you happen not to own much money.<br />
Sometimes we are very lucky with funding, but generally we are the poor type. Asking for free entry or reduction everywhere as we are a big international group with poor eastern europeans and should get everything for free. We can also ask farmers and shop owners for (food) donations, so that in general the costs stay low. On the other hand there are really nice project on our way and we want them to profit from our stay. Not only through the higher media interest, but if possible by leaving some money. But even more valuable are friendship and inspiration exchanged between participants and locals.<br />
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====conclusion====<br />
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There is quite some magic happening around biketour, chaos everywhere, things not working out, being different than expected and a lot of improvisation. But in these rooms, this not organized part, which people have to cope with together, will be filled with the nicest minutes and be the time, when friendships grow. Leave place for creativity, BT itself cost a lot of time and energy per day, trust in the biketour ability to work things out herself:]<br />
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==espanol==<br />
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El Biketour del Ecotopia es una comunidad activa eco-móvil de camino a o desde Ecotopia.<br />
Unos 10 a 50 ciclistas de diversas características - nacionalidad, edad, lengua, experiencia - completan un ciclo juntos hacia Ecotopia, haciendo acciones en el camino y reúnen a gente y a grupos interesados por el medio ambiente. Todos llevan acoplado en sus bicis equipo para acampar. Es un viaje totalmente caótico, con los lugares donde dormir, la composición del grupo y el valor nutritivo en constante cambio, pero con algunas cosas comunes como:<br />
toma de decisión basada en el consenso, todas las tareas divididas entre los participantes, un lugar donde dormir cada noche y desayuno, almuerzo y cena mediante una cuota participativa calculada en ecos y recogida por "Sigmund", nuestro sombrero mágico.<br />
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1:) de los lugares donde dormir<br />
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El lugar básico el dormir de BT incluye un cierto espacio para las tiendas.<br />
Pues nada más es realmente necesario, hicimos la experiencia que podemos organizar nuestros lugares el dormir durante el viaje, durante el día. Esto es agradable a veces - consolida la sensación del grupo cuando la gente trabaja junta para encontrar el lugar y para compensar sus desventajas.<br />
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Las características básicas que no deben faltar con ningún lugar organizado el dormir son fuente del agua potable, un lugar del fuego a cocinar y madera en alcance.<br />
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también son apreciadas por los participantes las duchas calientes/sauna, un lago/lugar para nadar, los tocadores, una azotea, un cuarto del desayuno, una cocina equipada para los grupos grandes, algunos entran en contacto con e intercambio con los locals, una acción, instalaciones del Internet, información sobre los alrededores - tiendas de la bici, los mercados (del eco), donde conseguir productos de los granjeros locales, las trampas del turista…<br />
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Otro tipo de lugar el dormir es escuelas y los pasillos de deporte, que tienen absolutamente algunas instalaciones.<br />
¡Se cercioran de, son lugar para un fuego que cocina!<br />
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Intentamos no pagar los lugares el dormir, o si conseguir las reducciones grandes, como nosotros somos un ecotopoor con la gente pobre de ensamblar de Europa Oriental. 2 euros/personas/noches se parecen un precio aceptable. a menos que decidamos apoyar ese proyecto cerca nos están recibiendo - entonces tenemos gusto de pagar más ~ si podemos permitirnos lo.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' del alimento<br />
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Compramos nuestro alimento en mercados locales o de granjeros pasamos cerca, como eco como posible y cocinero en el fuego de madera, si no tenemos acceso a una cocina grande. Nada organizar para eso, salvo que un grupo local pudieron pedir de antemano donaciones del alimento…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' del registro<br />
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Poblar venido e ir en biketour. Solamente algunos de ellos registro, y solamente alguna gente registrada vienen. Los planes lo cambian… son duros conseguir un número próximo para contar encendido - 10 a 50 es absolutamente exactos.<br />
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''' 4:) el ''' de la ruta<br />
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Preferimos carreteras de asfalto reservadas en un paisaje hermoso, levemente cuesta abajo. ~50 kilómetro por día. Y tomar esto serio. Un día con 30 kilómetros es muy agradable a la pelusa alrededor y goza de los lados que no completan un ciclo de la vida. Hacer menos en días y ningunos de la acción el los días de descanso, donde debemos tener 2 por semana. no que allí BT no puede hacer más, él es bueno conseguir a gente pasar sus fronteras a veces, pero un paso lento da más hora para las cosas agradables del biketour, los frenos y los talleres y un cuadro más profundo de los lugares el dormir. Si u no puede encontrar un lugar el dormir para cubrir ese agujero de los 90km entre esos 2 muy agradables, licencia justa él abierto al grupo para encontrar uno. Si la gente desea completar un ciclo más, ella es siempre agradable hacer eso en su propia cuenta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' del consenso<br />
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Experimentamos con la toma de decisión basada consenso. Hacemos eso desde años, y pensamos que todas las decisiones se deben basar en consenso. Pero también sabemos, ese ningunos de nosotros aprendieron que esto en escuela y ése hay ciertas calidades humanas que toman cuidado, que tendremos siempre responsables y gente que se sientan silenciosamente en el círculo. las barreras linguísticas culturales y, la gente altamente motivada o muy perezosa del comportamiento humano del grupo, del comportamiento específico del género, y la estructura del grupo constantemente que cambia están estando paradas contra nuestro intento, pero pensamos, él somos importantes entrenar a nuestras habilidades de la comunicación y de la toma de decisión y ser pacientes durante círculos largos de la mañana, estructuras del intento las nuevos y experimento con la cosa entera a vivir un alternativa a qué gobiernos presentan como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' local de la implicación<br />
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Deseamos traer un intercambio entre los biketourers y los locals. Los buenos lugares el dormir son organizados por los grupos locales, que necesitan ayuda con una cierta acción o desean presentar su proyecto. una posibilidad al presente ourselves se aprecia siempre, y algún partido/concierto/bailar hacen a alguna gente feliz. Pero observar que BT es totalmente caótico y famoso para que su capacidad sea atrasado. Grande si la gente local nos ensambla por algunos días, o por lo menos para el campfire o la publicación. Conseguirlo a una integración más local del viaje es también importante hacer que un buen nacional exceda para los participantes, de modo que haya absolutamente alguna gente que habla la lengua local en el viaje.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' de organización de la comunidad<br />
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Tenemos generalmente un coordinador internacional en el centro y él debe tener la descripción. Este año nadie estaba dispuesto a tomar el trabajo, así que lo dimos a [[RUEDA]] en lugar de otro. Esto es un cuerpo que resuelve cada segunda semana vía [[skype]], un foro para intercambiar entre todos los partidos activos, y para que todos los vagos perezosos den sus dos centavos.<br />
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Entonces hay los equipos nacionales con sus coordinadores nacionales, a veces varios en un país grande. Ésos trabajan en su ruta y materia nacionales, pero también junto en la materia internacional común. Y hay algunos veteranos, que ayudan hacia fuera a organizar o pueden por lo menos ser pedidos consejo.<br />
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Está tan fresco; hay una comunidad internacional fuerte del biketour. Es justo no así que visible vía Internet, trabaja más con conocimiento personal. Alguna gente tiene gusto de completar un ciclo más que mecanografiando. Pero tenemos 15 años de historia y las porciones de gente han sido entusiásticas sobre BT durante este tiempo. Es un preludio a una amistad agradable, y usted puede viajar los BT-sofás que practican surf de Europa.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' del dinero<br />
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Somos a veces muy afortunados con el financiamiento, pero somos generalmente el tipo pobre. Pidiendo entrada o la reducción libre por todas partes, pues somos un grupo internacional grande con europeos del este pobres y debemos conseguir todo para libre. Por otra parte hay proyecto realmente agradable sobre nuestra manera y quisiéramos que se beneficiaran de nuestra estancia. No sólo con el interés más alto de los medios, pero si es posible dejando un poco de dinero. Pero aún más valiosa son la amistad y la inspiración intercambiadas entre los participantes y los locals.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' de la conclusión<br />
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Hay una absolutamente cierta magia que sucede alrededor de biketour, de caos por todas partes, de cosas que no se resuelven, siendo diferente que esperado y los muchos de improvisación. Pero en estos cuartos, esta parte no organizada, que la gente tiene que hacer frente a junto, será llenada de los minutos más agradables y ser el tiempo, cuando las amistades crecen. Dejar el lugar para la creatividad, BT sí mismo costado mucho tiempo y la energía por el día, confianza en la capacidad del biketour a las cosas del trabajo hacia fuera ella misma:]<br />
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==portugues==<br />
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O biketour do ecotopia é uma eco-comunidade móvel activista a caminho do ou desde o [[Ecotopia]].<br />
Cerca de 10 a 50 ciclistas de origens diferentes - nacionalidade, idade, idioma, experiência - pedalam juntos para o [[Ecotopia]], fazendo acções durante o caminho e encontrando-se com pessoas e associações que se preocupam com as questões ambientais. Carregam todo o seu [[equipment#portugues|equipamento]] para acampar e cozinhar nas suas bicicletas e atrelados. É uma excursão muito espontânea e diversificada, constantemente mudando de lugares para dormir, composição do grupo e qualidade da comida, mas com algumas coisas comuns como:<br />
[[Consensus_based_decision_making#portugues|tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso]], todas as [[tasks#portugues|tarefas]] divididas entre os [[participants#portugues|participantes]], um lugar diferente onde dormir em cada noite e pequeno almoço, almoço e jantar por uma [[participation_fee#portugues|taxa da participação]] calculado em [[ecos]] e colectado no sigmund, o nosso chapéu mágico.<br />
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''' 1:) ''' lugares de dormida<br />
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O lugar básico de dormida de BT inclui algum espaço para tendas.<br />
Porque nada mais é na realidade necessário, a experiência ensinou-nos que podemos organizar os nossos lugares de dormida ao longo da excursão, durante o próprio dia. Isto pode ser agradável - reforçando o sentimento de grupo quando as pessoas trabalham juntas para encontrar um sítio onde dormir.<br />
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As características básicas que não devem faltar em qualquer lugar organizado de dormida são água potável, um lugar para cozinhar com fogo e madeira acessível (ponto a reavaliar).<br />
<br />
São apreciados também pelos participantes os chuveiros quentes/sauna, um lago/lugar para nadar, casas-de-banho, um tecto, um quarto para pequeno-almoço, uma cozinha equipada para grupos grandes, alguns contactos e partilha com a população local, uma acção, acesso Internet, informação sobre os arredores - lojas de bicicleta, mercados (tradicionais), onde encontrar produtos dos agricultores locais, algumas armadilhas para turistas ;)…<br />
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Um outro tipo de lugar para dormir são escolas e salões desportivos, que têm algumas das condições necessárias para receber o BT. Certifiquem-se contudo que existe sítio para cozinhar!<br />
<br />
Nós tentamos não pagar pelos lugares para dormir ou então que se obtenham grandes reduções, dado que somos muitas vezes um "ecotopoor" com participantes da Europa Oriental. 2 euro/pessoa/noite parece um preço razoável. Excepto quando decidimos apoiar o projecto onde estamos hospedados - nesse caso gostamos de pagar mais ~ se tivermos recursos para tal.<br />
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''' 2:) ''' alimentação<br />
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Os alimentos são sempre que possível comprados em mercados locais ou em agricultores perto de onde passamos, o mais "eco" e biológico possível, e cozinhamos numa fogueira, se não tivermos acesso a uma cozinha grande. Nada é necessário organizar para a alimentação, a não ser quando um grupo local pedir de antemão doações para a refeição (preparadas por eles)…<br />
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''' 3:) ''' registo<br />
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As pessoas chegam e partem do biketour. Somente alguns deles se registam, e somente alguns registados de facto vêm. Os planos mudam… é difícil prever um número aproximado confiável - 10 a 50 pessoas em simultâneo é uma boa aproximação.<br />
<br />
''' 4:) ''' rota<br />
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Preferimos estradas de asfalto tranquilas com um cenário bonito, ligeiramente a descer, fazendo 50 quilómetros por dia em média. E tomem isto a sério! Um dia com 30 quilómetros é muito agradável para "engonhar" e apreciar os lados de não pedalanço da vida. O ideal é fazer menos em dias de acções e nada nos dias de descanso, os quais devem existir 2 vezes por semana. Não é que o BT não possa fazer mais, pois estimular as pessoas a ultrapassar os seus limites às vezes é bom, mas um ritmo lento dá mais tempo para as coisas agradáveis do biketour, as pausas e os seminários e um retrato mais profundo dos lugares por onde se passa. Se não puder encontrar um lugar para dormir cobrindo esse furo de 90km entre aqueles 2 locais muito interessantes, o melhor é deixar em aberto para que o grupo encontre um. Se os participantes quiserem pedalar mais, são sempre bem-vindos fazendo-o por sua própria conta.<br />
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''' 5:) ''' consenso<br />
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Parte importante do BT é aprender e experimentar o processo de tomadas de decisão baseadas no consenso. Desde há anos que o fazemos, e pensamos que todas as decisões deveriam ser baseadas no consenso. Mas também se sabe que nenhum de nós aprendeu isto na escola e que existem determinadas qualidades humanas que se evidenciam mais nuns que noutros, em que teremos sempre alguns responsáveis pelas decisões e outros que se sentarão nos círculos sem participar. As barreiras culturais e de idioma, comportamento de grupo, comportamentos específicos consoante o sexo, pessoas altamente motivadas ou muito preguiçosas, e a estrutura constantemente em mudança do grupo serão resistências às nossas tentativas, mas pensamos que é importante treinar as nossas habilidades de comunicação e de tomada de decisão, sendo pacientes durante círculos longos pelas manhãs, testando novas estruturas e a experimentando tudo o que possa ser viver uma alternativa ao que os governos apresentam como democracia.<br />
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''' 6:) ''' participação local<br />
<br />
Uma interacção entre os participantes do BT e a população local é sempre desejada. Bons locais de passagem são organizados pelos grupos locais que necessitam de ajuda com alguma campanha ou acção, ou querem promover os seus projectos. A possibilidade de nos apresentarmos é sempre apreciada, e festas/concertos/dança fazem sempre as pessoas felizes. Mas é preciso ter em conta que o BT tem uma dinâmica muito espontânea e imprevisível, sendo famoso pela sua habilidade em chegar atrasado. As pessoas locais serão muito bem vindas, em especial se se juntarem a nós por alguns dias, ou pelo menos ao nosso círculo ou a um café/bar. Para ter uma integração mais local durante a excursão é também importante ter uma divulgação nacional, para que haja participantes que falem a língua local durante a excursão.<br />
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''' 7:) ''' comunidade de organizadores<br />
<br />
Nos anos recentes tem havido um coordenador internacional que deve ter uma visão geral do projecto. Este ano ninguém esteve disposto a fazer essa tarefa (por motivos vários), e assim ficou a cargo da [[WHEEL#portugues|RODA]]. Este é um corpo que se encontra de duas em duas semanas através do [[skype]], um forum para trocar experiência e questões entre todas as partes activas.<br />
<br />
Depois existem as equipas nacionais com o respectivo coordenador nacional, às vezes mais do que um em países grandes. Estes trabalham nas suas rotas e questões nacionais, mas também envolvendo-se nas questões internacionais comuns. E depois há alguns veteranos, que ajudam a organizar ou a quem se pode pelo menos pedir conselhos.<br />
<br />
É muito interessante; há uma comunidade "biketour" internacional forte. É certo que não é assim tão visível através da Internet, pois trabalha mais com conhecimento pessoal. Algumas pessoas gostam mais de pedalar do que dactilografar. Mas nós temos 15 anos do história e muitas pessoas têm sido entusiásticas sobre o BT durante todo este tempo. É o começo a uma amizade agradável, e poderão viajar pelos BT-couches da Europa e mundo.<br />
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''' 8:) ''' dinheiro<br />
<br />
Por vezes temos sorte com os financiamentos, mas geralmente andamos a contar os tostões. Pedimos entrada livre ou redução de preço em muitos sítios, porque somos um grupo internacional grande, muitas vezes com europeus de leste com fracos recursos e tentamos ter apenas o essencial e de forma barata ou grátis. Por outro lado existem projectos realmente agradáveis nos nossos trajectos e queremos que ganhem com a nossa estadia. Não apenas com o interesse mais elevado dos meios de comunicação, mas se possível deixando algum dinheiro. Mas ainda mais valiosos são a amizade e a inspiração trocados entre participantes e habitantes locais.<br />
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''' 9:) ''' conclusão<br />
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Há algo completamente mágico que acontece em volta do biketour, muita espontaneidade e algum caos, coisas que não funcionam, situações diferentes do esperado e muita improvisação. Mas estas ocasiões, esta parte não organizada em que as pessoas têm que lidar em grupo, será preenchida com minutos agradáveis e será o momento em que amizades crescem. Dê lugar à criatividade, o próprio BT implica muito tempo e energia dispendidos por dia, confie na habilidade do biketour de resolver as coisas por ele próprio:]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=309Main Page2007-04-27T18:46:28Z<p>Morlaa: /* Information */</p>
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<div>=English=<br />
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==Welcome to the Ecotopedia - the wiki of the ecotopia biketour==<br />
<br />
===Information===<br />
*[[What is bt]]?<br />
*[[Frequently asked questions]]<br />
*[[Route]]<br />
*[[Map]]<br />
*How to [[join]]<br />
<br />
===Organizing next biketour===<br />
This is a self-organized tour!<br />
No club, no ngo, no political party. Just some people following an idea - since 1993! In 2007 we will cycle [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] - here are some ideas about the [[route]] and [[map]].<br><br />
Does this appeal to you? and do you want to do your share of bt-organizing?<br><br />
The best is you to come to the [[nextmeeting]], online or in real, to get an idea of the people and tasks, or browse through the [[meeting minutes]].<br />
If you live next to it or know great places to visit, talk to [[Joao]]. We also compiled some texts about [[what bt is]] and how to [[organise biketour]] and collected some nice [[ideas]] about improving BT.<br><br />
Right now we are also working on the [[website]]. And where the hell is our [[stuff]]?<br><br />
You can also help us online, even if you do not live next to the route. We do need help with moving pages from our old wikis and websites - have a look down to archive - to this wiki. Also the [[website]] needs doing: writing, designing and creating an ez-publish template.<br />
<br />
====Tasks====<br />
'''Please help''' with some of this:<br />
* Brainstorm of [[ideas]] about improving BT<br />
* Wiki organization<br />
** take care of moving old texts to here<br />
*** You can learn on [[How_to_edit_Wiki]] for contributing<br />
** update this same list, maybe at this page [[Org Tasks]] ?<br />
** Link this orphan pages: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Special:Lonelypages<br />
** Collaborate on the [[route]] drafting<br />
*** reading, writing and collaborating on the profiles of places to visit<br />
* Translation<br />
** Help translate by reading [[How to translate]]<br />
* [[Website]]<br />
** ez-publish knowledge welcomed<br />
** Designers<br />
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<br />
==Last years tours==<br />
<br />
===2006===<br />
[[diary 06]], [[booklet 06]], [[pressrelease06 eng]], [[outreachmail participants 06 eng]],<br />
[[traveltips to lithuania and poland]], [[short route description 06]], [[flyer06 eng]]<br />
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==Archive==<br />
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camp fire [[recipes]]<br />
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[[texts about bt]] - '''well this is intended to be a collection of all texts about bt we have here - but who knows if everyone thinks of mentioning her text here ?'''<br />
<br />
the 2005 wiki - bosnia, serbia, romaina and moldova:<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
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the 2004 wiki, quite some texts in czech and german:<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]<br />
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=Espanol=<br />
AUTO TRANSLATION - please correct and delete this line!<br />
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==Bienvenid@ a la Ecotopedia - el wiki del biketour de Ecotopia==<br />
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===Organización del próximo biketour===<br />
¡Esto es un viaje auto-organizado!<br />
Ningún club, ninguna ONG, ningún partido político. ¡Sólo alguna gente que sigue una idea - desde 1993! En 2007 pedalearemos por [[Spain#espanol|España]] y [[Portugal#espanol|Portugal]] - aquí están algunas ideas sobre la [[route#espanol|ruta]] y el [[map#espanol|mapa]]. <br><br />
¿Te apetece? ¿Deseas formar parte de la organización de bt? <br><br />
Lo mejor es venir a la [[nextmeeting#espanol|proxima reunión]], en línea o en persona, para hacerse una idea de la gente y de las tareas, u hojee los [[meeting_minutes#espanol|minutos de reunión]].<br />
Si vives al lado de ella o conoces lugares para visitar, hablar con [[Joao]]. También compilamos algunos textos acerca de [[what bt is#espanol|qué es bt]] y cómo se [[organise_biketour#espanol|organiza el biketour]] y recogemos algunas de las [[ideas#espanol|ideas]] sobre mejorar BT.<br><br />
Ahora también estamos trabajando en el [[website#espanol|Web site]]. ¿Y dónde demonios está nuestro [[stuff#espanol|material]]? <br><br />
También puedes ayudarnos en línea, aunque no vivas al lado de la ruta. Necesitamos ayuda con las páginas móviles de nuestros viejos wikis y Web site - mira abajo a archivar - a este wiki. También [[website#espanol|Web site]] necesita hacer: escribiendo, diseñando y creando una plantilla del ez-publicar.<br />
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====Tareas====<br />
El ''' ayuda por favor al ''' con algo de esto:<br />
* Buena inspiración de [[ideas#espanol|ideas]] sobre mejorar BT<br />
* Organización de Wiki<br />
cuidado de la toma del ** de mover los viejos textos a aquí<br />
*** Que usted puede aprender encendido [[How_to_edit_Wiki#espanol|como editar lo Wiki]] para contribuir<br />
¿actualización del ** esta misma lista, quizá en esta página [[tareas de Org]]?<br />
Acoplamiento del ** que este huérfano pagina: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Special:Lonelypages<br />
El ** colabora en [[route#espanol|ruta]] el bosquejo<br />
lectura, escritura y colaboración del *** en los perfiles de lugares para visitar<br />
* Traducción<br />
La ayuda del ** traduce leyendo [[how_to_translate#espanol|cómo traducir]]<br />
* [[website#espanol|Web site]]<br />
el ** ez-publica el conocimiento dado la bienvenida<br />
Diseñadores del **<br />
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==El biketour de años anteriores==<br />
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===2006===<br />
[[diario 06]], [[librete 06]], [[inglés pressrelease06]], [[participantes del outreachmail 06 ingleses]],<br />
[[traveltips a Lituania y a Polonia]], [[descripción corta 06 de la ruta]], [[inglés flyer06]]<br />
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==Archivo==<br />
<br />
fuego de campamento [[recetas]]<br />
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[[textos sobre bt]] - pozo del ''' ésta pretende ser una colección de todos los textos sobre bt que tenemos aquí - pero ¿quién sabe si cada uno piensa en mencionar su texto aquí? '''<br />
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el wiki 2005 - Bosnia, Serbia, Rumanía y Moldavia:<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
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el wiki 2004, algunos textos en checo y alemán:<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]<br />
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=Portugues=<br />
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==Benvindo ao Ecotopedia - o wiki do biketour do ecotopia==<br />
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===Organizando o próximo biketour===<br />
Esta é uma excursão auto-organizada!<br />
Não é clube, nem ONG, nem partido político. Apenas algumas pessoas que seguem uma ideia - desde 1993! Em 2007 vamos estar [[Spain#portugues|Espanha]] e [[Portugal#portugues|Portugal]] - aqui estão algumas ideias sobre [[route#portugues|rota]] e [[map#portugues|mapa]].<br><br />
É apelativo? Quer ajudar em parte na organização do BT?<br><br />
O melhor será vir à [[nextmeeting#portugues|próxima reunião]], online ou fisicamente, para ter uma ideia das pessoas e das tarefas, ou leia as [[meeting_minutes#portugues|minutas de reuniões]].<br />
Se morar na redondezas ou conhecer lugares interessantes a visitar, pode falar com o [[Joao]]. Nós compilámos também alguns textos sobre aproximadamente [[what_bt_is#portugues|o que é o BT]] e como [[organise_biketour#portugues|organizar o biketour]] e juntámos algumas agradáveis [[ideas#portugues|ideias]] sobre como melhorar o BT.<br><br />
De momento estamos a tentar desenvolver também o [[Web_site#portugues|Sítio web]]. E onde está o nosso [[stuff#portugues|material]]?<br><br />
Poderá também ajudar-nos pela internet, mesmo que viva perto da rota. Nós necessitamos ajuda com as páginas, precisam de ser movidas dos nossos wikis e Web site antigos - repare abaixo no arquivo - para este wiki novo. Necessitamos de [[How_to_translate#portugues|traduzir]] as páginas já existentes. Também o [[Web site]] necessita de: escrever, projectar e criar um template de ez-publishr.<br />
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====Tarefas====<br />
'''Por favor ajude''' em algo como:<br />
* Brainstorm de [[ideas#portugues|ideias]] sobre como melhorar o BT<br />
* Organização do Wiki<br />
** mover textos velhos para aqui<br />
*** Pode aprender sobre [[How_to_edit_Wiki#portugues|Como editar o wiki]] para contribuir<br />
** actualizar esta mesma lista, talvez nesta página [[Org_Tasks#portugues|tarefas de Organização]]?<br />
** ligado as páginas órfãs: http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Special:Lonelypages<br />
** Colaborar com o esboço da [[route#portugues|rota]]<br />
*** leitura, escrita e colaboração dos perfis dos lugares a visitar<br />
* Tradução<br />
** Ajuda a traduzir lendo [[How_to_translate#portugues|como traduzir]]<br />
* [[Web site]]<br />
** ez-publish , alguém percebe deste CMS?<br />
** design<br />
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==O Biketour nos últimos anos==<br />
<br />
===2006===<br />
[[diary 06]], [[booklet 06]], [[pressrelease06 eng]], [[outreachmail participants 06 eng]],<br />
[[traveltips to lithuania and poland]], [[short route description 06]], [[flyer06 eng]]<br />
<br />
==Arquivo==<br />
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fogo de acampamento - [[recipes#portugues|receitas]]<br />
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[[texts about bt#portugues|textos sobre o bt]] - '''pretende ser uma colecção de todos os textos sobre o bt que nós temos aqui - mas quem sabe se todos tencionem mencionar o seu texto aqui?'''<br />
<br />
2005 o wiki - Bósnia, servia, roménia e moldavia:<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
<br />
o wiki 2004, muitos textos em checo e alemão:<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Home&diff=308Home2007-04-27T18:42:30Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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<div>home<br />
<br />
main menu:<br />
[[what is bt]].. [[join the tour]].. [[register]] ..[[impressions]].. [[help out]].. how to[[organise bt]] <br />
[[herstory]] ..[[press]].. [[search]].. [[wiki]] ..[[contact]] ..[[search]] <br />
<br />
submenus:<br />
<br />
[[what is bt]]:<br />
<br />
[[diy]]..[[eco]]..[[mobile]]..[[action]]..[[community]]..[[theme]]<br />
<br />
[[join the tour]]:<br />
[[where to join]]..[[what to bring]]..[[far-distance travels with your bike]]..[[the route]]<br />
<br />
[[impressions]]<br />
[[diary]]..[[podcast]]..[[pictures]]..[[past tours]]<br />
<br />
Welcome to the Ecotopia Biketour - the project for everyone interested in do-it-yourself "diy" environmentalism, cultural exchange, romantic nature experience, consensus based community life and the art of travelling without motors. This year we will sweat our way through Spain and Portugal. We will start in Barcelona 1st of June, and we reach Ecotopia [[http://eyfa.org/ecotopia]]at Aljezur, Portugal at beginning of August and then maybe [[cycle on for a bit]], continue to Africa or head back north ... We will visit "interesting placesTM" on our way: alternative, environmental, artistic projects and communities, nature monuments and people who preserve them or resist their destruction. We want to stay there for some days to have the time to exchange knowledge with the residents and prepare some actions. The [[route]] is evolving rapidly, but if you have any contacts in the region or ideas, where to travel or whom to visit, do not hesitate to [[contact]] us!<br />
<br />
Check out our old website [[http://www.thebiketour.net/old/index.html]]for more information on how the tour works or dig our wiki[[http://btwiki.ecobytes.net/Main_Page]]. Join our malinglist[[https://lists.thebiketour.net/mailman/listinfo/biketour-list]] to get in contact with past and future [[participants]].For some [[impressions]] of our trip 2006 see the fragments of the online diary [[http://ecotopiabiketour.blogspot.com/]]or see some photos[[http://flickr.com/photos/pedalofilo/sets/72157594389805110/]].<br />
<br />
<br />
logos & links of organisations supporting us</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Home&diff=307Home2007-04-27T18:37:39Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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<div>home<br />
<br />
main menu:<br />
[[what is bt]].. [[join the tour]].. [[register]] ..[[impressions]].. [[help out]].. [[how to organise bt]] <br />
[[herstory]] ..[[press]].. [[search]].. [[wiki]] ..[[contact]] ..[[search]] <br />
<br />
submenus:<br />
<br />
[[what is bt]]:<br />
<br />
[[diy]]..[[eco]]..[[mobile]]..[[action]]..[[community]]..[[theme]]<br />
<br />
[[join the tour]]:<br />
[[where to join]]..[[what to bring]]..[[far-distance travels with your bike]]..[[the route]]<br />
<br />
[[impressions]]<br />
[[diary]]..[[podcast]]..[[pictures]]..[[past tours]]<br />
<br />
Welcome to the Ecotopia Biketour - the project for everyone interested in do-it-yourself "diy" environmentalism, cultural exchange, romantic nature experience, consensus based community life and the art of travelling without motors. This year we will sweat our way through Spain and Portugal. We will start in Barcelona 1st of June, and we reach Ecotopia [[http://eyfa.org/ecotopia]]at Aljezur, Portugal at beginning of August and then maybe [[cycle on for a bit]], continue to Africa or head back north ... We will visit "interesting placesTM" on our way: alternative, environmental, artistic projects and communities, nature monuments and people who preserve them or resist their destruction. We want to stay there for some days to have the time to exchange knowledge with the residents and prepare some actions. The [[route]] is evolving rapidly, but if you have any contacts in the region or ideas, where to travel or whom to visit, do not hesitate to [[contact]] us!<br />
<br />
Check out our old website for more information on how the tour works or dig our wiki. Join our malinglist to get in contact with past and future [[participants]].For some [[impressions]] of our trip 2006 see the fragments of the online diary [[http://ecotopiabiketour.blogspot.com/]]or see some photos[[http://flickr.com/photos/pedalofilo/sets/72157594389805110/]].<br />
<br />
<br />
logos & links of organisations supporting us</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Home&diff=306Home2007-04-27T18:34:32Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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<div>home<br />
<br />
main menu:<br />
[[what is bt]] [[join the tour]] [[register]] [[impressions]] [[help out]] [[how to organise bt]] <br />
[[herstory]] [[press]] [[search]] [[wiki]] [[contact]] [[search]] <br />
<br />
submenus:<br />
<br />
[[what is bt]]:<br />
<br />
*[[diy]]<br />
*[[eco]]<br />
*[[mobile]]<br />
*[[action]]<br />
*[[community]]<br />
*[[theme]]<br />
<br />
[[join the tour]]:<br />
*[[where to join]]<br />
*[[what to bring]]<br />
*[[far-distance travels with your bike]]<br />
*[[the route]]<br />
<br />
[[impressions]]<br />
*[[diary]]<br />
*[[podcast]]<br />
*[[pictures]]<br />
*[[past tours]]<br />
<br />
Welcome to the Ecotopia Biketour - the project for everyone interested in do-it-yourself "diy" environmentalism, cultural exchange, romantic nature experience, consensus based community life and the art of travelling without motors. This year we will sweat our way through Spain and Portugal. We will start in Barcelona 1st of June, and we reach Ecotopia [[http://eyfa.org/ecotopia]]at Aljezur, Portugal at beginning of August and then maybe [[cycle on for a bit]], continue to Africa or head back north ... We will visit "interesting placesTM" on our way: alternative, environmental, artistic projects and communities, nature monuments and people who preserve them or resist their destruction. We want to stay there for some days to have the time to exchange knowledge with the residents and prepare some actions. The [[route]] is evolving rapidly, but if you have any contacts in the region or ideas, where to travel or whom to visit, do not hesitate to [[contact]] us!<br />
<br />
Check out our old website for more information on how the tour works or dig our wiki. Join our malinglist to get in contact with past and future [[participants]].For some [[impressions]] of our trip 2006 see the fragments of the online diary [[http://ecotopiabiketour.blogspot.com/]]or see some photos[[http://flickr.com/photos/pedalofilo/sets/72157594389805110/]].<br />
<br />
<br />
logos & links of organisations supporting us</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Home&diff=305Home2007-04-27T18:33:17Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>home<br />
<br />
main menu:<br />
[[what is bt]] [[join the tour]] [[register]] [[impressions]] [[help out]] [[how to organise bt]] <br />
[[herstory]] [[press]] [[search]] [[wiki]] [[contact]] [[search]] <br />
<br />
submenus:<br />
<br />
[[what is bt]]:<br />
<br />
*[[diy]]<br />
*[[eco]]<br />
*[[mobile]]<br />
*[[action]]<br />
*[[community]]<br />
*[[theme]]<br />
<br />
[[join the tour]]:<br />
*[[where to join]]<br />
*[[what to bring]]<br />
*[[far-distance travels with your bike]]<br />
*[[the route]]<br />
<br />
[[impressions]]<br />
*[[diary]]<br />
*[[podcast]]<br />
*[[pictures]]<br />
*[[past tours]]<br />
<br />
Welcome to the Ecotopia Biketour - the project for everyone interested in do-it-yourself "diy" environmentalism, cultural exchange, romantic nature experience, consensus based community life and the art of travelling without motors. This year we will sweat our way through Spain and Portugal. We will start in Barcelona 1st of June, and we reach Ecotopia [[http://eyfa.org/ecotopia]]at Aljezur, Portugal at beginning of August and then maybe [[cycle on for a bit]], continue to Africa or head back north ... We will visit "interesting placesTM" on our way: alternative, environmental, artistic projects and communities, nature monuments and people who preserve them or resist their destruction. We want to stay there for some days to have the time to exchange knowledge with the residents and prepare some actions. The [[route]] is evolving rapidly, but if you have any contacts in the region or ideas, where to travel or whom to visit, do not hesitate to [[contact]] us!<br />
<br />
Check out our old website for more information on how the tour works or dig our wiki. Join our malinglist to get in contact with past and future [[participants]].For some [[impressions]] of our trip 2006 see the fragments of the online diary [[http://ecotopiabiketour.blogspot.com/]]or see some photos[[http://flickr.com/photos/pedalofilo/sets/72157594389805110/]].<br />
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logos & links of organisations supporting us</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Nextmeeting&diff=95Nextmeeting2007-03-11T19:35:38Z<p>Morlaa: /* online wheel meeting */</p>
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<div>===bt meetings===<br />
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we meet every some months in person - next meeting will be in march in spain somewhere - details to be announced soon here !<br />
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===online wheel meeting===<br />
and the we do the [[wheel]] meetings online using skype<br />
when will the next wheel meeting be ? when do you have time ?<br />
<br />
jan: sunday afternoon<br />
<br />
if you want to join the wheel meeting, you need a working skype setup.<br />
that would be a computer with internet, speaker and a microphone and the<br />
programm skype [[http://www.skype.com]] installed<br />
best is to have a headset, which is earphones and a microphone in one<br />
device, they produce best quality. they are really not very expensive.<br />
but i also skyped with people using earphones as microphones or just the<br />
microphone of their laptop<br />
if you install skype on your computer, everything might just work. if it<br />
does not, dial echo123 and check it out - the skype website offers a lot<br />
of solutions to possible problems - please check it out before the<br />
meeting so that you can participate in it and we are more occupied with<br />
chatting away than with solving computer problems<br />
to join the meeting you will have to send a skype chat message to<br />
roeland - kuijperroeland - so that he can invite you to the conference call<br />
<br />
===agenda points===<br />
space for things you want to be discussed during the next meeting,<br />
<br />
===[[meeting minutes]]===</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Texts_about_bt&diff=94Texts about bt2007-03-11T19:05:21Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>we will work on texts for the [[website]] there, some texts appearing there might not be mentioned here<br />
<br />
[[what bt is]]<br />
<br />
[[studene feb06]] offers some nice collection of what is bt...<br />
<br />
[[short intro]] about bt, explanation of [[bike it yourself]]<br />
<br />
[[participation guidelines]]<br />
<br />
[[consensus]], [[food]], [[camp setup]], [[tasks]]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Tasks&diff=93Tasks2007-03-11T18:56:47Z<p>Morlaa: /* ideas: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==ideas:==<br />
<br />
a describtion of the tasks, also good to print in the booklet<br />
missing till now : <br />
the money person, facilitating the circle<br />
<br />
please go through the texts and try to find more precise formulations and shorten it a bit<br />
<br />
a general text about the ideas of everyone taking tasks but not only the task person is responisble to make them happen and everyone should help everyone would be a good extension<br />
<br />
== text:==<br />
<br />
===breackfast and lunch or dinner cleanup===<br />
<br />
People HAVE TO BE MADE AWARE about how to use food! Too much food gets spilled, this attracts wasps and other animals, this results in people getting stung more often than necessary. Empty jars and jars that are not being used should be closed!<br />
<br />
This is something that you as a Cleanup crew have to try to solve. BE CREATIVE!<br />
<br />
Ask people friendly, tell in the morning circle after breakfast that you refuse to clean after such pigs, serve people jars filled with bees and confront them with the problem they are causing themselves. The cleaner you get the people to be the easier cleanup task gets done. (and thats how it should be, right?)<br />
<br />
====Breakfast and Lunch Cleanup====<br />
<br />
After Breakfast, the crew doesn’t really clean up yet because the lunch will be made soon after. They will put the lids onto the jars to prevent the insects from coming. They will also clean most of the spilled jam and other sweet stuff and can already clean empty packages.<br />
<br />
After the morning circle the lunch will be prepared and then you will clean everything, tables, floor, Biketour cutlery, pots used for tea and porridge (when empty). Everything used for breakfast and lunch. You will clean all jars and separate all possible waste on the garbage collection point with the beautiful signs, which are in the kitchen. It is also your task to dispose the garbage in a sound way.<br />
<br />
====Dinner Cleanup====<br />
<br />
When everybody ate:<br />
* The dinner cleanup team will clean everything used for dinner.<br />
* RECYCLE TO THE MAX!<br />
* The dinner cleanup team will inform the Break==PREPARING BREAKFAST AND LUNCH or DINNER==<br />
<br />
These tasks are carried out in a small group and needs some preparation.<br />
<br />
If you volunteered in the morning circle<br />
*to prepare breakfast means tomorrow’s breakfast.<br />
*dinner means today.<br />
<br />
There are a few things that seem to be hidden rules to a successful Biketour food preparation. Firstly, take your responsibility seriously. If you have promised to do something, do it. There are 40 people's meals depending on this...<br />
<br />
====How to get the food====<br />
<br />
*First of all: you look in the Biketour booklet if there are no addresses for stores or farmers. Maybe the Coordinators already managed to arrange some discount or free food.<br />
**If yes: perfect, you will have an easy job.<br />
**If no: YEEHAA, you are going to have a hell of an adventure:)<br />
<br />
*old info from 2004<br />
**This year we have a new wish: we want to make a how-to-life-4-free guide (Suggested change to: We would like to make as much use of other people's wasted food as possible)(in western european cities - in eastern europe it is not so easy and if you find free food you should think of whether there might be someone who needs it better than biketour).<br />
Once in the "shopping zone" you go out and see what wasted food you can get and then you will think with your crew about what the hell you are going to cook with that. Don’t be scared be creative!<br />
We ask every breakfast, lunch and dinner team to write a report of their quest for wasted food.<br />
<br />
*The best is to leave early with a group: all food people together and the trailer people.<br />
**You really need trailer people to carry your food, so you could make an appointment to meet up but this often results in a lot of waiting so it is much better to ride together. And make sure the person(s) with the pot clearly know that they have a special responsibility to turn up at the sleeping place on time, otherwise the cooking cannot start.<br />
<br />
*You see on the map in what place we will stay that evening and try to predict where you can find stores or farmers. Think carefully about opening times. Don't assume you can get to the sleeping place and then buy food, this will result in either a very late dinner or no dinner at all.<br />
<br />
*You take off and have a normal cycling day with all the same fun and breaks, but because you left early you can make sure to be in time in the places where you will look for food!<br />
<br />
*You might find locals selling home made products along the way. It is VERY OK to support these small businesses (they suffer a lot from the big corporations). So please do so if we have the money to spend.<br />
<br />
*You also might encounter wild fruit trees and herbs for tea, don’t hesitate to stop for a while, eat some and than collect a whole lot for the group so we don’t have to buy it. (Self supporting.)<br />
<br />
*You might want to find:<br />
*#Organic stores and farmers: they are often friendly and helpful.<br />
*#*(If you think it is appropriate to ask for food donations), Wait till a moment when there are no or not so many customers in the store and than go in and tell your creative story about who we are and what we stand for or you can give them a special "Food4Free" Flyer and hope for the best, practice a song, or maybe even put up a small theater play in case you don’t speak the language that fluently:) (Talk about strategies with your group)<br />
*#It is also a good idea for the Breakfast and Lunch crew to search Bakeries and try to secure some free bread for tomorrow in the same way as described above.<br />
*#*Containers from big corporations (this is nothing strange or new, it is called dumpster diving): they are often filled with stuff that is still perfectly useful, only the consumer society Brainwashed most of us and now we think that a small spot on an apple is going to kill us. Just find the containers somewhere around the shops, they might be hidden away behind a fence or even locked. If you can get to the container, just give it your best try (one person might want to check out if there is something to get) If somebody tells you to go away or the containers are locked, ask for the chief and do your Biketour thing.<br />
<br />
*Do you think there are more ways to get food for free (maybe it is better to not steal food for 50 people) please demonstrate them on the Biketour and write a nice, funny, adventurous report about it so we can share this information with the world.<br />
<br />
'''''GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!'''''<br />
<br />
Now the dinner crew has to decide if they have enough food, if they want to search for more free food or if they want to buy the remaining food.<br />
<br />
* ''The breakfast and lunch crew doesn't have to buy anything yet (only if we are going to sleep in the middle of nowhere and it would be to far to cycle in the morning) but has ideally established some good contacts in town. (You can offer friendly people to come and have a look at our camp).''<br />
<br />
====How to cook the food====<br />
When the dinner crew enters the camp:<br />
<br />
# A spontaneous volunteer should have already made a fire.<br />
# They go to the fireplace with the trailers and start to cook.<br />
# They will basically be the first who will produce waste, so they are expected to create a waste collection point, somewhere close to the fire (not to close but good visible, clean and structured on a central point.)<br />
# More spontaneous volunteers help to chop up vegetables (Hint for silent people: to volunteer spontaneously is a good way to mix with the group, it is highly appreciated within a community)<br />
# Dinner crew calls for food and then counts the people or asks if someone is missing (we have to save food for everybody who isn't there yet)<br />
# Explanation of how much from everything you get<br />
# The dinner crew will start serving.<br />
# The dinner crew writes down how many kilos or pieces of whatever was needed to feed what number of people and if it was enough.<br />
<br />
====after dinner====<br />
When everybody ate (in a circle where every body is able to sit in and is on the same distance from the fire):<br />
<br />
# The dinner cleanup team will clean everything used for dinner.<br />
# The dinner cleanup team will inform the Breakfast and lunch crew about the leftovers, they have to try to find a way to deal with the leftovers. We don’t like to throw things away and especially no food! Often you get tasteful bread spread if you throw all old food together and MASH it. You can optimize the taste of the spread with a bit of salt. The making of the spread can be best done in the evening already so more people can help with making it tasteful.<br />
#* (WRITE DOWN WHAT KIND OF FOOD YOU MANAGED TO TURN INTO A NICE SPREAD AND HOW! This is essential information for the rest of Biketour's existence)<br />
# Than the Breakfast and Lunch crew has to get the trailers, and the trailer attachments and lock them to their bikes. It is not nice to have to wake up people too early in the morning.<br />
<br />
===breakfast - lunch - dinner=== <br />
<br />
====morning====<br />
In the morning the Breakfast and Lunch crew has to:<br />
<br />
# Wake up first,<br />
# Maybe restart the fire for tea,<br />
# See what things were left over from yesterday's breakfast and decide what you need to buy. (People like to eat porridge or muesli in the morning. Learn from the list of last breakfast how much milk, bread, spread, vegetables and fruit you need to buy.)<br />
# Buy it healthy and cheap.<br />
# The crew has to write down how many breads they bought, how many liters of milk, how much of everything and add this to the Breakfast and Lunch paper.<br />
# Make sure the breakfast is in time.<br />
# Make sure the breakfast is not being started less than 20 minutes after wakeup call.<br />
<br />
====other ideas====<br />
<br />
The task of taking care about food is clearly calling for your responsibility.<br />
<br />
When you are ignorant, the whole group will eat unhealthy<br />
<br />
Try to make healthy food that will give us the power to cycle.<br />
<br />
And please, think about vegans, they need more attention paid to proteins and calcium than other people. If you are not sure what to get, ask them.<br />
<br />
Fresh flower salads?<br />
<br />
=== call for the circle===<br />
*This is a task, which is necessary when the group doesn't feel the importance of circles.<br />
<br />
*Ideally, the morning circles will take a bit longer in the beginning from the Biketour. When everybody participates from the beginning and tells her or his opinion about the discussed issues to work out a common code, there will not be so long morning circles and more time to talk about nice things.<br />
<br />
*Experience teaches that people who have the nice habit to come to the morning circle will automatically start to call for a morning circle. The call works the best if you ask the people personally and very friendly, but this can easily forgotten when you have to ask the same people, personally everyday.<br />
<br />
*The sooner that people get to the circle, the faster it is over.<br />
<br />
=== camp cleanup ===<br />
<br />
u walk somewhere on the campground and you see some dirt on the ground; you feel an urge to pick this up.<br />
**The same when you break down your tent, or just pack your things. When there is some waste lying in front of your feet,even if it looks like it is laying there already for a long time, just make your decision, live the perfect example, bend over and pick it up!<br />
**Take a hike to the Biketour recycling site and that’s that.<br />
<br />
*Normally the cleanup person gets help from the last people.<br />
<br />
*After the camp is cleaned and the waste is disposed of in a sound way, the cleanup person gets to the owner and proudly shows Biketour respect for the place, by leaving it cleaner than we found it.<br />
<br />
=== sign maker===<br />
<br />
Every day a main route is discussed.<br />
<br />
*The Sign maker mainly leaves in the front, follows this route and makes signs mainly through cities and on crucial points.<br />
**Basically, you don’t make a sign if you go straight, if you follow the main road or if there is a bike trail sign that you are following.<br />
**You make a sign when make a turn, when you change the surface of a road, in case of any difficulties.<br />
<br />
*The sign maker can also indicate special points of interest like "Bà Ice Cream" is a appreciated sign.<br />
**The sign maker can be asked to use creativity to make a sign.<br />
***Every sign maker is collecting bricks to draw arrows on the street but sometimes you don’t have a brick anymore or you are on a sand road. Use you imagination than.<br />
***I saw beautiful arrows made from branches, leaves, grass, stones and even Cardboard attached to streetlights.<br />
**But consider that the point of making signs is that they are seen by other participants.<br />
***It's tricky to rely on signs and not being able to find any because either the cars or the rain wipe them out...<br />
<br />
*When close to the accommodation, you might want to draw more arrows and some arrows under streetlights so that people who have to cycle in the dark have a bigger chance of seeing them. Sometimes the sign maker indicates more routes to the accommodation.<br />
<br />
=== trailors ===<br />
<br />
*This is a task for everyone<br />
**If you think the trailer will be too heavy, you can try to ask the other trailer carriers to help you by taking some of your trailer stuff on theirs<br />
**Usually the trailer fits in any bike, but you can check what your special one needs for carrying this very important BT tool!<br />
<br />
*If you chose to take the trailer you have to leave early with the food group.<br />
**You have the responsibility to carry the pots and will have to carry some food in them after the food crew went to shop with you.<br />
<br />
*After you arrive at the camp, you will put the trailer next to the fireplace and give the trailer attachment to the breakfast crew so that they can use the trailer in the morning.<br />
<br />
* When you are going to take the trailer next day<br />
** You should talk with the breakfast cleanup crew to make sure that they will have the pots and other stuff ready so that you can leave at your desired time.<br />
** Make sure that you don't forget stuff at the camp site, as it will be very difficult for non-trailer people to take it!<br />
<br />
In the history of Biketour it happened that people with a trailer ended up somewhere alone in the rain and on slippery roads in the mountains and were almost not able to continue. We ask everybody to take care about the people who take the trailers.<br />
<br />
===wakeup call===<br />
I saw people think: "ah, that is a nice task for me, that is easy!"<br />
<br />
A wake up call is a task that seems very easy.<br />
<br />
Like every task, you could choose to get it over with fast as possible.<br />
<br />
In that case you would start to scream "WAKE UP!!" at the appointed time for the wake up call and everybody will "hate" you, or at least your lack of creativity, for the rest of their lives.<br />
<br />
Talking about creativity, I know people who are loved because of their creative Wake up calls. (I recall a magical morning, in Croatia, Pula, where we were on the EYFA winter meeting. Uli from Germany and Andre from Portugal were sitting in stereo position beside me softly producing rhythmic sounds with their voices, allowing me to slowly open my eyes.<br />
<br />
The gentile contrast between the sweet, warm woman’s voice on the left and the deep, soft, men’s voice on the right made the step from dreaming into the real world nicer than it has ever been. "Ahhh, that’s a nice way to wake up on a sunny morning, Thank you!" I told my lovely alarm clock and jumped out of my sleeping bag. Once standing I was really surprised to find that the sun was hiding behind a big pack of clouds. These two angels went from person to person and sang pure love into our ears until all eyes had finally opened.<br />
<br />
This is a perfect example of the power you take into your hands by volunteering for the wake up call and I hope everybody will keep this in mind! You take the power of waking people up with a good or a bad mood! I am sure you can think about a thousand irritating ways to wake up. The challenge here lays in your ability to create a magically loving atmosphere in which people feel like they want to wake up.<br />
<br />
On 2004 winter meeting there was a kind of "competition" of who could wake up in the nicest way. Not to be the best, no. Everybody can win this competition for her- or himself, simply by the reward of a group full of smiling, energetic people, ready to start another beautiful day.<br />
<br />
Ideas to get your creativity started:<br />
* Singing;<br />
* Massaging ones head;<br />
* Guitar or other musical instrument;<br />
* Telling people softly about the beautiful day that has already started;<br />
* Reggae music, etc<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===volunteering===<br />
<br />
This seems to be the most difficult and time consuming task...<br />
<br />
its like Biketour:<br />
<br />
Just DO IT!</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Tasks&diff=92Tasks2007-03-11T18:54:38Z<p>Morlaa: /* ideas: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==ideas:==<br />
<br />
a describtion of the tasks, also good to print in the booklet<br />
missing till now : <br />
the money person, facilitating the circle<br />
<br />
please go through the texts and try to find more precise formulations and shorten it a bit<br />
<br />
== text:==<br />
<br />
===breackfast and lunch or dinner cleanup===<br />
<br />
People HAVE TO BE MADE AWARE about how to use food! Too much food gets spilled, this attracts wasps and other animals, this results in people getting stung more often than necessary. Empty jars and jars that are not being used should be closed!<br />
<br />
This is something that you as a Cleanup crew have to try to solve. BE CREATIVE!<br />
<br />
Ask people friendly, tell in the morning circle after breakfast that you refuse to clean after such pigs, serve people jars filled with bees and confront them with the problem they are causing themselves. The cleaner you get the people to be the easier cleanup task gets done. (and thats how it should be, right?)<br />
<br />
====Breakfast and Lunch Cleanup====<br />
<br />
After Breakfast, the crew doesn’t really clean up yet because the lunch will be made soon after. They will put the lids onto the jars to prevent the insects from coming. They will also clean most of the spilled jam and other sweet stuff and can already clean empty packages.<br />
<br />
After the morning circle the lunch will be prepared and then you will clean everything, tables, floor, Biketour cutlery, pots used for tea and porridge (when empty). Everything used for breakfast and lunch. You will clean all jars and separate all possible waste on the garbage collection point with the beautiful signs, which are in the kitchen. It is also your task to dispose the garbage in a sound way.<br />
<br />
====Dinner Cleanup====<br />
<br />
When everybody ate:<br />
* The dinner cleanup team will clean everything used for dinner.<br />
* RECYCLE TO THE MAX!<br />
* The dinner cleanup team will inform the Break==PREPARING BREAKFAST AND LUNCH or DINNER==<br />
<br />
These tasks are carried out in a small group and needs some preparation.<br />
<br />
If you volunteered in the morning circle<br />
*to prepare breakfast means tomorrow’s breakfast.<br />
*dinner means today.<br />
<br />
There are a few things that seem to be hidden rules to a successful Biketour food preparation. Firstly, take your responsibility seriously. If you have promised to do something, do it. There are 40 people's meals depending on this...<br />
<br />
====How to get the food====<br />
<br />
*First of all: you look in the Biketour booklet if there are no addresses for stores or farmers. Maybe the Coordinators already managed to arrange some discount or free food.<br />
**If yes: perfect, you will have an easy job.<br />
**If no: YEEHAA, you are going to have a hell of an adventure:)<br />
<br />
*old info from 2004<br />
**This year we have a new wish: we want to make a how-to-life-4-free guide (Suggested change to: We would like to make as much use of other people's wasted food as possible)(in western european cities - in eastern europe it is not so easy and if you find free food you should think of whether there might be someone who needs it better than biketour).<br />
Once in the "shopping zone" you go out and see what wasted food you can get and then you will think with your crew about what the hell you are going to cook with that. Don’t be scared be creative!<br />
We ask every breakfast, lunch and dinner team to write a report of their quest for wasted food.<br />
<br />
*The best is to leave early with a group: all food people together and the trailer people.<br />
**You really need trailer people to carry your food, so you could make an appointment to meet up but this often results in a lot of waiting so it is much better to ride together. And make sure the person(s) with the pot clearly know that they have a special responsibility to turn up at the sleeping place on time, otherwise the cooking cannot start.<br />
<br />
*You see on the map in what place we will stay that evening and try to predict where you can find stores or farmers. Think carefully about opening times. Don't assume you can get to the sleeping place and then buy food, this will result in either a very late dinner or no dinner at all.<br />
<br />
*You take off and have a normal cycling day with all the same fun and breaks, but because you left early you can make sure to be in time in the places where you will look for food!<br />
<br />
*You might find locals selling home made products along the way. It is VERY OK to support these small businesses (they suffer a lot from the big corporations). So please do so if we have the money to spend.<br />
<br />
*You also might encounter wild fruit trees and herbs for tea, don’t hesitate to stop for a while, eat some and than collect a whole lot for the group so we don’t have to buy it. (Self supporting.)<br />
<br />
*You might want to find:<br />
*#Organic stores and farmers: they are often friendly and helpful.<br />
*#*(If you think it is appropriate to ask for food donations), Wait till a moment when there are no or not so many customers in the store and than go in and tell your creative story about who we are and what we stand for or you can give them a special "Food4Free" Flyer and hope for the best, practice a song, or maybe even put up a small theater play in case you don’t speak the language that fluently:) (Talk about strategies with your group)<br />
*#It is also a good idea for the Breakfast and Lunch crew to search Bakeries and try to secure some free bread for tomorrow in the same way as described above.<br />
*#*Containers from big corporations (this is nothing strange or new, it is called dumpster diving): they are often filled with stuff that is still perfectly useful, only the consumer society Brainwashed most of us and now we think that a small spot on an apple is going to kill us. Just find the containers somewhere around the shops, they might be hidden away behind a fence or even locked. If you can get to the container, just give it your best try (one person might want to check out if there is something to get) If somebody tells you to go away or the containers are locked, ask for the chief and do your Biketour thing.<br />
<br />
*Do you think there are more ways to get food for free (maybe it is better to not steal food for 50 people) please demonstrate them on the Biketour and write a nice, funny, adventurous report about it so we can share this information with the world.<br />
<br />
'''''GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!'''''<br />
<br />
Now the dinner crew has to decide if they have enough food, if they want to search for more free food or if they want to buy the remaining food.<br />
<br />
* ''The breakfast and lunch crew doesn't have to buy anything yet (only if we are going to sleep in the middle of nowhere and it would be to far to cycle in the morning) but has ideally established some good contacts in town. (You can offer friendly people to come and have a look at our camp).''<br />
<br />
====How to cook the food====<br />
When the dinner crew enters the camp:<br />
<br />
# A spontaneous volunteer should have already made a fire.<br />
# They go to the fireplace with the trailers and start to cook.<br />
# They will basically be the first who will produce waste, so they are expected to create a waste collection point, somewhere close to the fire (not to close but good visible, clean and structured on a central point.)<br />
# More spontaneous volunteers help to chop up vegetables (Hint for silent people: to volunteer spontaneously is a good way to mix with the group, it is highly appreciated within a community)<br />
# Dinner crew calls for food and then counts the people or asks if someone is missing (we have to save food for everybody who isn't there yet)<br />
# Explanation of how much from everything you get<br />
# The dinner crew will start serving.<br />
# The dinner crew writes down how many kilos or pieces of whatever was needed to feed what number of people and if it was enough.<br />
<br />
====after dinner====<br />
When everybody ate (in a circle where every body is able to sit in and is on the same distance from the fire):<br />
<br />
# The dinner cleanup team will clean everything used for dinner.<br />
# The dinner cleanup team will inform the Breakfast and lunch crew about the leftovers, they have to try to find a way to deal with the leftovers. We don’t like to throw things away and especially no food! Often you get tasteful bread spread if you throw all old food together and MASH it. You can optimize the taste of the spread with a bit of salt. The making of the spread can be best done in the evening already so more people can help with making it tasteful.<br />
#* (WRITE DOWN WHAT KIND OF FOOD YOU MANAGED TO TURN INTO A NICE SPREAD AND HOW! This is essential information for the rest of Biketour's existence)<br />
# Than the Breakfast and Lunch crew has to get the trailers, and the trailer attachments and lock them to their bikes. It is not nice to have to wake up people too early in the morning.<br />
<br />
===breakfast - lunch - dinner=== <br />
<br />
====morning====<br />
In the morning the Breakfast and Lunch crew has to:<br />
<br />
# Wake up first,<br />
# Maybe restart the fire for tea,<br />
# See what things were left over from yesterday's breakfast and decide what you need to buy. (People like to eat porridge or muesli in the morning. Learn from the list of last breakfast how much milk, bread, spread, vegetables and fruit you need to buy.)<br />
# Buy it healthy and cheap.<br />
# The crew has to write down how many breads they bought, how many liters of milk, how much of everything and add this to the Breakfast and Lunch paper.<br />
# Make sure the breakfast is in time.<br />
# Make sure the breakfast is not being started less than 20 minutes after wakeup call.<br />
<br />
====other ideas====<br />
<br />
The task of taking care about food is clearly calling for your responsibility.<br />
<br />
When you are ignorant, the whole group will eat unhealthy<br />
<br />
Try to make healthy food that will give us the power to cycle.<br />
<br />
And please, think about vegans, they need more attention paid to proteins and calcium than other people. If you are not sure what to get, ask them.<br />
<br />
Fresh flower salads?<br />
<br />
=== call for the circle===<br />
*This is a task, which is necessary when the group doesn't feel the importance of circles.<br />
<br />
*Ideally, the morning circles will take a bit longer in the beginning from the Biketour. When everybody participates from the beginning and tells her or his opinion about the discussed issues to work out a common code, there will not be so long morning circles and more time to talk about nice things.<br />
<br />
*Experience teaches that people who have the nice habit to come to the morning circle will automatically start to call for a morning circle. The call works the best if you ask the people personally and very friendly, but this can easily forgotten when you have to ask the same people, personally everyday.<br />
<br />
*The sooner that people get to the circle, the faster it is over.<br />
<br />
=== camp cleanup ===<br />
<br />
u walk somewhere on the campground and you see some dirt on the ground; you feel an urge to pick this up.<br />
**The same when you break down your tent, or just pack your things. When there is some waste lying in front of your feet,even if it looks like it is laying there already for a long time, just make your decision, live the perfect example, bend over and pick it up!<br />
**Take a hike to the Biketour recycling site and that’s that.<br />
<br />
*Normally the cleanup person gets help from the last people.<br />
<br />
*After the camp is cleaned and the waste is disposed of in a sound way, the cleanup person gets to the owner and proudly shows Biketour respect for the place, by leaving it cleaner than we found it.<br />
<br />
=== sign maker===<br />
<br />
Every day a main route is discussed.<br />
<br />
*The Sign maker mainly leaves in the front, follows this route and makes signs mainly through cities and on crucial points.<br />
**Basically, you don’t make a sign if you go straight, if you follow the main road or if there is a bike trail sign that you are following.<br />
**You make a sign when make a turn, when you change the surface of a road, in case of any difficulties.<br />
<br />
*The sign maker can also indicate special points of interest like "Bà Ice Cream" is a appreciated sign.<br />
**The sign maker can be asked to use creativity to make a sign.<br />
***Every sign maker is collecting bricks to draw arrows on the street but sometimes you don’t have a brick anymore or you are on a sand road. Use you imagination than.<br />
***I saw beautiful arrows made from branches, leaves, grass, stones and even Cardboard attached to streetlights.<br />
**But consider that the point of making signs is that they are seen by other participants.<br />
***It's tricky to rely on signs and not being able to find any because either the cars or the rain wipe them out...<br />
<br />
*When close to the accommodation, you might want to draw more arrows and some arrows under streetlights so that people who have to cycle in the dark have a bigger chance of seeing them. Sometimes the sign maker indicates more routes to the accommodation.<br />
<br />
=== trailors ===<br />
<br />
*This is a task for everyone<br />
**If you think the trailer will be too heavy, you can try to ask the other trailer carriers to help you by taking some of your trailer stuff on theirs<br />
**Usually the trailer fits in any bike, but you can check what your special one needs for carrying this very important BT tool!<br />
<br />
*If you chose to take the trailer you have to leave early with the food group.<br />
**You have the responsibility to carry the pots and will have to carry some food in them after the food crew went to shop with you.<br />
<br />
*After you arrive at the camp, you will put the trailer next to the fireplace and give the trailer attachment to the breakfast crew so that they can use the trailer in the morning.<br />
<br />
* When you are going to take the trailer next day<br />
** You should talk with the breakfast cleanup crew to make sure that they will have the pots and other stuff ready so that you can leave at your desired time.<br />
** Make sure that you don't forget stuff at the camp site, as it will be very difficult for non-trailer people to take it!<br />
<br />
In the history of Biketour it happened that people with a trailer ended up somewhere alone in the rain and on slippery roads in the mountains and were almost not able to continue. We ask everybody to take care about the people who take the trailers.<br />
<br />
===wakeup call===<br />
I saw people think: "ah, that is a nice task for me, that is easy!"<br />
<br />
A wake up call is a task that seems very easy.<br />
<br />
Like every task, you could choose to get it over with fast as possible.<br />
<br />
In that case you would start to scream "WAKE UP!!" at the appointed time for the wake up call and everybody will "hate" you, or at least your lack of creativity, for the rest of their lives.<br />
<br />
Talking about creativity, I know people who are loved because of their creative Wake up calls. (I recall a magical morning, in Croatia, Pula, where we were on the EYFA winter meeting. Uli from Germany and Andre from Portugal were sitting in stereo position beside me softly producing rhythmic sounds with their voices, allowing me to slowly open my eyes.<br />
<br />
The gentile contrast between the sweet, warm woman’s voice on the left and the deep, soft, men’s voice on the right made the step from dreaming into the real world nicer than it has ever been. "Ahhh, that’s a nice way to wake up on a sunny morning, Thank you!" I told my lovely alarm clock and jumped out of my sleeping bag. Once standing I was really surprised to find that the sun was hiding behind a big pack of clouds. These two angels went from person to person and sang pure love into our ears until all eyes had finally opened.<br />
<br />
This is a perfect example of the power you take into your hands by volunteering for the wake up call and I hope everybody will keep this in mind! You take the power of waking people up with a good or a bad mood! I am sure you can think about a thousand irritating ways to wake up. The challenge here lays in your ability to create a magically loving atmosphere in which people feel like they want to wake up.<br />
<br />
On 2004 winter meeting there was a kind of "competition" of who could wake up in the nicest way. Not to be the best, no. Everybody can win this competition for her- or himself, simply by the reward of a group full of smiling, energetic people, ready to start another beautiful day.<br />
<br />
Ideas to get your creativity started:<br />
* Singing;<br />
* Massaging ones head;<br />
* Guitar or other musical instrument;<br />
* Telling people softly about the beautiful day that has already started;<br />
* Reggae music, etc<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===volunteering===<br />
<br />
This seems to be the most difficult and time consuming task...<br />
<br />
its like Biketour:<br />
<br />
Just DO IT!</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Tasks&diff=91Tasks2007-03-11T18:53:41Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>==ideas:==<br />
<br />
a describtion of the tasks, also good to print in the booklet<br />
missing till now : <br />
the money person, facilitating the circle<br />
<br />
<br />
== text:==<br />
<br />
===breackfast and lunch or dinner cleanup===<br />
<br />
People HAVE TO BE MADE AWARE about how to use food! Too much food gets spilled, this attracts wasps and other animals, this results in people getting stung more often than necessary. Empty jars and jars that are not being used should be closed!<br />
<br />
This is something that you as a Cleanup crew have to try to solve. BE CREATIVE!<br />
<br />
Ask people friendly, tell in the morning circle after breakfast that you refuse to clean after such pigs, serve people jars filled with bees and confront them with the problem they are causing themselves. The cleaner you get the people to be the easier cleanup task gets done. (and thats how it should be, right?)<br />
<br />
====Breakfast and Lunch Cleanup====<br />
<br />
After Breakfast, the crew doesn’t really clean up yet because the lunch will be made soon after. They will put the lids onto the jars to prevent the insects from coming. They will also clean most of the spilled jam and other sweet stuff and can already clean empty packages.<br />
<br />
After the morning circle the lunch will be prepared and then you will clean everything, tables, floor, Biketour cutlery, pots used for tea and porridge (when empty). Everything used for breakfast and lunch. You will clean all jars and separate all possible waste on the garbage collection point with the beautiful signs, which are in the kitchen. It is also your task to dispose the garbage in a sound way.<br />
<br />
====Dinner Cleanup====<br />
<br />
When everybody ate:<br />
* The dinner cleanup team will clean everything used for dinner.<br />
* RECYCLE TO THE MAX!<br />
* The dinner cleanup team will inform the Break==PREPARING BREAKFAST AND LUNCH or DINNER==<br />
<br />
These tasks are carried out in a small group and needs some preparation.<br />
<br />
If you volunteered in the morning circle<br />
*to prepare breakfast means tomorrow’s breakfast.<br />
*dinner means today.<br />
<br />
There are a few things that seem to be hidden rules to a successful Biketour food preparation. Firstly, take your responsibility seriously. If you have promised to do something, do it. There are 40 people's meals depending on this...<br />
<br />
====How to get the food====<br />
<br />
*First of all: you look in the Biketour booklet if there are no addresses for stores or farmers. Maybe the Coordinators already managed to arrange some discount or free food.<br />
**If yes: perfect, you will have an easy job.<br />
**If no: YEEHAA, you are going to have a hell of an adventure:)<br />
<br />
*old info from 2004<br />
**This year we have a new wish: we want to make a how-to-life-4-free guide (Suggested change to: We would like to make as much use of other people's wasted food as possible)(in western european cities - in eastern europe it is not so easy and if you find free food you should think of whether there might be someone who needs it better than biketour).<br />
Once in the "shopping zone" you go out and see what wasted food you can get and then you will think with your crew about what the hell you are going to cook with that. Don’t be scared be creative!<br />
We ask every breakfast, lunch and dinner team to write a report of their quest for wasted food.<br />
<br />
*The best is to leave early with a group: all food people together and the trailer people.<br />
**You really need trailer people to carry your food, so you could make an appointment to meet up but this often results in a lot of waiting so it is much better to ride together. And make sure the person(s) with the pot clearly know that they have a special responsibility to turn up at the sleeping place on time, otherwise the cooking cannot start.<br />
<br />
*You see on the map in what place we will stay that evening and try to predict where you can find stores or farmers. Think carefully about opening times. Don't assume you can get to the sleeping place and then buy food, this will result in either a very late dinner or no dinner at all.<br />
<br />
*You take off and have a normal cycling day with all the same fun and breaks, but because you left early you can make sure to be in time in the places where you will look for food!<br />
<br />
*You might find locals selling home made products along the way. It is VERY OK to support these small businesses (they suffer a lot from the big corporations). So please do so if we have the money to spend.<br />
<br />
*You also might encounter wild fruit trees and herbs for tea, don’t hesitate to stop for a while, eat some and than collect a whole lot for the group so we don’t have to buy it. (Self supporting.)<br />
<br />
*You might want to find:<br />
*#Organic stores and farmers: they are often friendly and helpful.<br />
*#*(If you think it is appropriate to ask for food donations), Wait till a moment when there are no or not so many customers in the store and than go in and tell your creative story about who we are and what we stand for or you can give them a special "Food4Free" Flyer and hope for the best, practice a song, or maybe even put up a small theater play in case you don’t speak the language that fluently:) (Talk about strategies with your group)<br />
*#It is also a good idea for the Breakfast and Lunch crew to search Bakeries and try to secure some free bread for tomorrow in the same way as described above.<br />
*#*Containers from big corporations (this is nothing strange or new, it is called dumpster diving): they are often filled with stuff that is still perfectly useful, only the consumer society Brainwashed most of us and now we think that a small spot on an apple is going to kill us. Just find the containers somewhere around the shops, they might be hidden away behind a fence or even locked. If you can get to the container, just give it your best try (one person might want to check out if there is something to get) If somebody tells you to go away or the containers are locked, ask for the chief and do your Biketour thing.<br />
<br />
*Do you think there are more ways to get food for free (maybe it is better to not steal food for 50 people) please demonstrate them on the Biketour and write a nice, funny, adventurous report about it so we can share this information with the world.<br />
<br />
'''''GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!'''''<br />
<br />
Now the dinner crew has to decide if they have enough food, if they want to search for more free food or if they want to buy the remaining food.<br />
<br />
* ''The breakfast and lunch crew doesn't have to buy anything yet (only if we are going to sleep in the middle of nowhere and it would be to far to cycle in the morning) but has ideally established some good contacts in town. (You can offer friendly people to come and have a look at our camp).''<br />
<br />
====How to cook the food====<br />
When the dinner crew enters the camp:<br />
<br />
# A spontaneous volunteer should have already made a fire.<br />
# They go to the fireplace with the trailers and start to cook.<br />
# They will basically be the first who will produce waste, so they are expected to create a waste collection point, somewhere close to the fire (not to close but good visible, clean and structured on a central point.)<br />
# More spontaneous volunteers help to chop up vegetables (Hint for silent people: to volunteer spontaneously is a good way to mix with the group, it is highly appreciated within a community)<br />
# Dinner crew calls for food and then counts the people or asks if someone is missing (we have to save food for everybody who isn't there yet)<br />
# Explanation of how much from everything you get<br />
# The dinner crew will start serving.<br />
# The dinner crew writes down how many kilos or pieces of whatever was needed to feed what number of people and if it was enough.<br />
<br />
====after dinner====<br />
When everybody ate (in a circle where every body is able to sit in and is on the same distance from the fire):<br />
<br />
# The dinner cleanup team will clean everything used for dinner.<br />
# The dinner cleanup team will inform the Breakfast and lunch crew about the leftovers, they have to try to find a way to deal with the leftovers. We don’t like to throw things away and especially no food! Often you get tasteful bread spread if you throw all old food together and MASH it. You can optimize the taste of the spread with a bit of salt. The making of the spread can be best done in the evening already so more people can help with making it tasteful.<br />
#* (WRITE DOWN WHAT KIND OF FOOD YOU MANAGED TO TURN INTO A NICE SPREAD AND HOW! This is essential information for the rest of Biketour's existence)<br />
# Than the Breakfast and Lunch crew has to get the trailers, and the trailer attachments and lock them to their bikes. It is not nice to have to wake up people too early in the morning.<br />
<br />
===breakfast - lunch - dinner=== <br />
<br />
====morning====<br />
In the morning the Breakfast and Lunch crew has to:<br />
<br />
# Wake up first,<br />
# Maybe restart the fire for tea,<br />
# See what things were left over from yesterday's breakfast and decide what you need to buy. (People like to eat porridge or muesli in the morning. Learn from the list of last breakfast how much milk, bread, spread, vegetables and fruit you need to buy.)<br />
# Buy it healthy and cheap.<br />
# The crew has to write down how many breads they bought, how many liters of milk, how much of everything and add this to the Breakfast and Lunch paper.<br />
# Make sure the breakfast is in time.<br />
# Make sure the breakfast is not being started less than 20 minutes after wakeup call.<br />
<br />
====other ideas====<br />
<br />
The task of taking care about food is clearly calling for your responsibility.<br />
<br />
When you are ignorant, the whole group will eat unhealthy<br />
<br />
Try to make healthy food that will give us the power to cycle.<br />
<br />
And please, think about vegans, they need more attention paid to proteins and calcium than other people. If you are not sure what to get, ask them.<br />
<br />
Fresh flower salads?<br />
<br />
=== call for the circle===<br />
*This is a task, which is necessary when the group doesn't feel the importance of circles.<br />
<br />
*Ideally, the morning circles will take a bit longer in the beginning from the Biketour. When everybody participates from the beginning and tells her or his opinion about the discussed issues to work out a common code, there will not be so long morning circles and more time to talk about nice things.<br />
<br />
*Experience teaches that people who have the nice habit to come to the morning circle will automatically start to call for a morning circle. The call works the best if you ask the people personally and very friendly, but this can easily forgotten when you have to ask the same people, personally everyday.<br />
<br />
*The sooner that people get to the circle, the faster it is over.<br />
<br />
=== camp cleanup ===<br />
<br />
u walk somewhere on the campground and you see some dirt on the ground; you feel an urge to pick this up.<br />
**The same when you break down your tent, or just pack your things. When there is some waste lying in front of your feet,even if it looks like it is laying there already for a long time, just make your decision, live the perfect example, bend over and pick it up!<br />
**Take a hike to the Biketour recycling site and that’s that.<br />
<br />
*Normally the cleanup person gets help from the last people.<br />
<br />
*After the camp is cleaned and the waste is disposed of in a sound way, the cleanup person gets to the owner and proudly shows Biketour respect for the place, by leaving it cleaner than we found it.<br />
<br />
=== sign maker===<br />
<br />
Every day a main route is discussed.<br />
<br />
*The Sign maker mainly leaves in the front, follows this route and makes signs mainly through cities and on crucial points.<br />
**Basically, you don’t make a sign if you go straight, if you follow the main road or if there is a bike trail sign that you are following.<br />
**You make a sign when make a turn, when you change the surface of a road, in case of any difficulties.<br />
<br />
*The sign maker can also indicate special points of interest like "Bà Ice Cream" is a appreciated sign.<br />
**The sign maker can be asked to use creativity to make a sign.<br />
***Every sign maker is collecting bricks to draw arrows on the street but sometimes you don’t have a brick anymore or you are on a sand road. Use you imagination than.<br />
***I saw beautiful arrows made from branches, leaves, grass, stones and even Cardboard attached to streetlights.<br />
**But consider that the point of making signs is that they are seen by other participants.<br />
***It's tricky to rely on signs and not being able to find any because either the cars or the rain wipe them out...<br />
<br />
*When close to the accommodation, you might want to draw more arrows and some arrows under streetlights so that people who have to cycle in the dark have a bigger chance of seeing them. Sometimes the sign maker indicates more routes to the accommodation.<br />
<br />
=== trailors ===<br />
<br />
*This is a task for everyone<br />
**If you think the trailer will be too heavy, you can try to ask the other trailer carriers to help you by taking some of your trailer stuff on theirs<br />
**Usually the trailer fits in any bike, but you can check what your special one needs for carrying this very important BT tool!<br />
<br />
*If you chose to take the trailer you have to leave early with the food group.<br />
**You have the responsibility to carry the pots and will have to carry some food in them after the food crew went to shop with you.<br />
<br />
*After you arrive at the camp, you will put the trailer next to the fireplace and give the trailer attachment to the breakfast crew so that they can use the trailer in the morning.<br />
<br />
* When you are going to take the trailer next day<br />
** You should talk with the breakfast cleanup crew to make sure that they will have the pots and other stuff ready so that you can leave at your desired time.<br />
** Make sure that you don't forget stuff at the camp site, as it will be very difficult for non-trailer people to take it!<br />
<br />
In the history of Biketour it happened that people with a trailer ended up somewhere alone in the rain and on slippery roads in the mountains and were almost not able to continue. We ask everybody to take care about the people who take the trailers.<br />
<br />
===wakeup call===<br />
I saw people think: "ah, that is a nice task for me, that is easy!"<br />
<br />
A wake up call is a task that seems very easy.<br />
<br />
Like every task, you could choose to get it over with fast as possible.<br />
<br />
In that case you would start to scream "WAKE UP!!" at the appointed time for the wake up call and everybody will "hate" you, or at least your lack of creativity, for the rest of their lives.<br />
<br />
Talking about creativity, I know people who are loved because of their creative Wake up calls. (I recall a magical morning, in Croatia, Pula, where we were on the EYFA winter meeting. Uli from Germany and Andre from Portugal were sitting in stereo position beside me softly producing rhythmic sounds with their voices, allowing me to slowly open my eyes.<br />
<br />
The gentile contrast between the sweet, warm woman’s voice on the left and the deep, soft, men’s voice on the right made the step from dreaming into the real world nicer than it has ever been. "Ahhh, that’s a nice way to wake up on a sunny morning, Thank you!" I told my lovely alarm clock and jumped out of my sleeping bag. Once standing I was really surprised to find that the sun was hiding behind a big pack of clouds. These two angels went from person to person and sang pure love into our ears until all eyes had finally opened.<br />
<br />
This is a perfect example of the power you take into your hands by volunteering for the wake up call and I hope everybody will keep this in mind! You take the power of waking people up with a good or a bad mood! I am sure you can think about a thousand irritating ways to wake up. The challenge here lays in your ability to create a magically loving atmosphere in which people feel like they want to wake up.<br />
<br />
On 2004 winter meeting there was a kind of "competition" of who could wake up in the nicest way. Not to be the best, no. Everybody can win this competition for her- or himself, simply by the reward of a group full of smiling, energetic people, ready to start another beautiful day.<br />
<br />
Ideas to get your creativity started:<br />
* Singing;<br />
* Massaging ones head;<br />
* Guitar or other musical instrument;<br />
* Telling people softly about the beautiful day that has already started;<br />
* Reggae music, etc<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===volunteering===<br />
<br />
This seems to be the most difficult and time consuming task...<br />
<br />
its like Biketour:<br />
<br />
Just DO IT!</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Old_Website&diff=90Old Website2007-03-11T18:33:17Z<p>Morlaa: /* texts */</p>
<hr />
<div>our webpresent is evolving slowly<br />
<br />
==texts ==<br />
<br />
we have a lot of texts floating around: on this wiki, our old website [[http://www.thebiketour.net/old/index.html]], on the 2005 wiki<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
and<br />
the 2004 wiki<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]<br />
with quite some texts in czech and german.<br />
<br />
i worked on a strukture of the website and will put all the ideas for texts to write here. those pages are divided in two part: first you will find the ideas behind this page, things to mention or to explain in detail, then the text. please work on both and discuss your ideas on the discussion part of that page - see it up there between article and edit.<br />
<br />
[[home]]<br />
[[help]]<br />
[[tasks]]<br />
<br />
== design ==<br />
<br />
how do you like the disign so far ? i want to add a menu at the left and maybe also change the redish clouds behind the logo to some bikeparts, e.g. chainwheels.<br />
<br />
== ez template ==<br />
<br />
next big chunk of work is the ez-template. <br />
<br />
== contact jan: morlaa at web dot de if you can help! ==<br />
<br />
== domainname descision: ==<br />
<br />
we decided to take www.ecotopiabiketour.net as our new domain name if dirk does not cooperate...<br />
suggestions where :<br />
<br />
www.ecotopiabiketour.org - jan, vita<br />
<br />
www.ecotopiabiketour.net - jan*, vita*<br />
<br />
www.thebiketour.org - sapi*</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=International_Coordinator&diff=89International Coordinator2007-03-11T18:28:46Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
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<div>'''Guidelines for an ''International Coordinator'''''<br />
<br />
The international coordinator is the key person of biketour organising. he/she is like the spider on the information net, he/she has the overview, knows what is going on where, pulls the ropes to make things happen.<br />
He/she is not the one to decide everything, decisions are taken by the organising bt community on meetings or on-line,<br />
but he/she is the one to make sure, that those decisions and the distributed tasks are being done, as he/she has to carry the load of responsibility. He/she has to find people to do things (or people to find people ...), as all left-over tasks will be left to him/her. The better he/she manages to delegate, the smaller his/her work load will be in the end, and be sure it will be big anyways, as its hard to realise all the nice ideas coming up.<br />
<br />
The tasks of an International Coordinator (IC) might include:<br />
<br />
* shaping the project<br />
* finding national and local coordinators,<br />
places of interest, campaigns 2 join, possible actions<br />
* fundraising<br />
* work on the information flow in the project<br />
* visa's<br />
* (international) press<br />
* outreach<br />
* maintaining the bt-archive<br />
* guiding participants during the tour<br />
<br />
<br />
'''1:) shaping the project'''<br />
<br />
this should not be done by you, but in the first meeting after biketour. here we will talk about how the next year could look like, define the first rough route etc. take your inspiration from here and from the following meetings, when the face of this year will slowly unveil.<br />
<br />
'''2:) finding people'''<br />
<br />
first you will have to find national organisers for a country we are going to pass. send out a mass email to all the known networks - find some on our [[networklist]]. ask friends and friendly groups for contacts and contact those via phone. invite people to the next meeting, e.g. the wintermeeting in january/february. try to have one national coordinator for every country after the winter meeting or continue searching.<br />
Experienced bt-participants would be the best option, but you will have some enthusiastic new people on board as well. You need to take your time to introduce to them the bt-spirit. Tell them what it is all about and what is expected from them. They decide about the face of bt in their country, trust their ideas.<br />
They will have to search for local organizers, sleeping places and action coordinators in their country, but you might be a great help, because international contacts often jump over borders in the national scene. the experienced bt-participants might as well have good contacts, ask on the list and specific people personally. <br />
try to have a team of national organisers and to know them. people stop working for various reasons, because their life is taking a different route and needs their attention or because they did promise too much. it is good to have several people to talk to in case someone does not answer and you do not know what is going on.<br />
"in 2005 we had nobody in Romania except radu, whom we reached via email and who is highly experienced in organising bike tours, he even claimed to have helped with a former bt in RO. Well, he just did not do his job. There was quite a bit of misscommunication involved and it seems to be a pattern in eastern europe, that you tend to get people via mail, who know a lot and promise much but then do not do their things. In Ukraine 2003 it was the same. Those persons then block interested local organisers. So you have to encourage them now."<br />
It is really difficult to find trustworthy, dedicated, motivated organisers of any kind. Start as early as possible and as massive as possible with searching for help! Don���?�t make the mistake not to! It���?�s fairly difficult to organize anything big without a good team.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''3:) fundraising'''<br />
<br />
To have money is very nice, but there is a hell lot of work connected to it. I Will not write a fuindraising guide here. Be sure, that bt can survive on a 15 [[ecorate]] participation fee and nothing more to finance it. But you might have low quality food and no money to make meetings while organising. You can ask the EU or other funders like (inter)national foundations, embassies, local, regional or national governments, bt is a very appealing project. You can ask bt-people to do do concerts or other fundraising activities. Ask your parents or other rich people you know.<br />
<br />
'''4:) work on the information flow'''<br />
<br />
you will have to deal with the different national organiser teams, the international people helping, [www.worldcarfree.net wcn], [www.eyfa.org eyfa], interested subjects who want to participate or offer a sleeping place or a srceaming(?) organise next year.<br />
<br />
You have to find your way to structure and store the information you create or receive so that you can always find what you need in no time. You need to provide all necessary and possible information on the web so that you can answer questions by sending people a link to the online text with the answer. This really saves you a lot of time and encourages people to read the information better.<br />
<br />
try to make all information easy accessible on the web for your fellow organisers or interested groups, so that they do not have to ask you personally, but can find it themselves. people will put their things on the net as they think - you can put it in some kind of order for everyone easy to understand.<br />
<br />
keep in touch with your fellow organisers, let them know, what your are doing and ask them, where they stand. phone them regularly! phoning is not work, its fun. find out, where they need help, and try to help them/ organise some help for them.<br />
<br />
"2005 we had skype for the first time, and that was just great. i had 2-hour calls to banja luka and was totally informed. inspirations flowered in these calls, and in the end the bosnian part was the best organised that year."<br />
<br />
keep the information flowing !<br />
<br />
"2004 we had quite a sophisticated infrastructure on the web - but one thing is clear: personal communication is always better ! meet people, when you can, or phone them - do not rely too much on email. people tend to ignore them, or misunderstand you. info is only flowing into one direction, email are seldom inspiring."<br />
<br />
Make sure to have several e-mails prepared in case anybody replies to your call for help.<br />
This means that you have several different emails, explaining what will be the exact task for each replying person.<br />
<br />
and again : phoning and meeting people is much better than emails. it is more easy to spread emails far, but many people only respond to them, when thy feel really appealed or involved. but if you ask someone personally he will answer, you can ask questions resulting from his answers, he will feel more involved ...<br />
<br />
'''5:) visa :('''<br />
<br />
keep the visa situation in mind. visa can be sooo tricky, reserve them a lot of space in your timetable. find out about visa rules and harass people from affected countries to register early. you will need invitations from the tour countries, maybe even more papers, the visa might have to be applied for and picked up personally at an embassy for away. but maybe there is some funding to pay visa costs ?<br />
<br />
'''6:) (international) press'''<br />
<br />
before the tour facilitate people to write articles for their local scene magazine.<br />
<br />
for the tour coordinate an international press release, which can be translated into the local languages and adapted to local customs. it would be nice to have one person per country who can not join the tour but can serve a contact point for the media, who can be asked to send out press release and photos, answer questions etc.<br />
<br />
'''7:) outreach'''<br />
<br />
as soon as the rough route is know make some email outreach - invite people from eyfa, wcn and other networks ->[[networklist]]. inspire people to write articles for their local magazines.<br />
during the tour you should have at least a flyer in the local language, translated from a common english version. but poster, sticker and an exhibition fixed to the trailors are also very nice to have. think of a t-shirt, and put the web address on all material you produce. keep the website up to date<br />
<br />
8:) maintaining the archive<br />
<br />
use the wiki to archive every text you produce, someday someone can use it as inspiration or not to write the same thing again. keep it up to date and in good structure. during the tour collect everything you can get: receipts, pictures, articles ...<br />
<br />
'''9:) guiding participants'''<br />
<br />
we do have the idea, that during the tour there are no organisers anymore, everyone helps etc. but you are a high profile member of the bt community, have more info and will be addressed by participants to answer questions and help out somehow. it is your decision how far you wanna let that get, but be aware that it will not be easy to escape.<br />
<br />
'''10:) conclusion'''<br />
<br />
bt is a low cost project which can run on very basic things - basically a route. but it is the nicer, the more facilities we do have. so do your best to get a good tour together, but do not fear holes in the schedule, trust in bt ability to organise things on the spot. do not stress yourself too much to get a perfect tour, leave space for creativity.</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=National_Coordinator&diff=88National Coordinator2007-03-11T18:27:26Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''Guidelines for a National Coordinator (NC) '''<br />
<br />
NC is a person who is responsible for the route in one country or at least a part of it (Germany had 3 NCs in Biketour 2004). You will coordinate <br />
<br />
*the planning & testing of the route<br />
*the search for sleeping-places, actions, events, fellow organisers, participants<br />
*holding of meetings<br />
*produce/translate bt-material like flyers or poster<br />
*presswork <br />
*fundraising<br />
*visa invitations<br />
*guide the tour through your country <br />
*what ever else you take on during meetings.<br />
<br />
Obviously those tasks are a few to many for one person to take care about. You are the coordinator - find people to get involved, and delegate tasks. The more you delegate the less the work load to expect in the month before the tour. read the part about the 'spider in the net' and 'information flow' of the [[internationalcoordinator]] howto. you are in that role for your country.<br />
<br />
'''1:) the route'''<br />
the route will evolve during winter, spring and early summer - from counries to regions to towns to sleepingplaces - from aproximate weeks to actual days. we do want to visit the most interesting projects, see the most beautiful nature sites, most living cities and meet most nice local groups to do the best actions with them. you will get a day when the tour enters your country and another one when it leaves it and the inbetween is up to you. plan carefully from the beginning, since small changes in "your" schedule may result in big changes on an international level! <br />
we try to do ~50km per cycling day. certainly biketour can do more, and you can certainly suggest extended routes for people who want to do more, but there is just more going on if not all energy is spent on cycling, when people have time for workshops and other group activities. on action or restdays, we do less. if u need bt to do more to reach a special sleepingplace, that is ok, but try to keep it as an example and better plan a day more to cycle. bt is able to organise sleepingplaces on its own, somewhere in nature or in a village. cities are not that easy. do not make it a rule, but if u have difficulties to find a specific sleepingplace, just leave it for the tour to solve. it brings in a nice sence of spontaniety and selfempowerment.<br />
<br />
do test the route ! you will find out a lot about the region, you are going to travel - road conditions, shops, potential host and action groups, parties, festivals. try early to find people to test the route - you could fundraise to pay them some travel-expenses<br />
<br />
''' 2:) sleeping places'''<br />
<br />
try to find local/regional groups, who help u with sleeping places. try to find nice spots, beautiful nature or interesting projects. <br />
the basic bt sleepingplace inludes some space for tents. basic features which sould not miss with any organised sleppingplace are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bikeshops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
another type of sleeping place are scools and sporthalls or camping places, which have quite some facitlities. make sure, there is place for a cooking fire !<br />
we try not to pay for the sleeping places, or if get a big reduction, as we are an ecotopur with poor people from eastern europe joining. 2â�??¬/person/night seems an ok price. exept we decide to support that project we are being hosted by. <br />
<br />
'''3:) actions & events'''<br />
<br />
we do want to help local groups bringing attention to their campaigns by doing actions together. most of the time it will be traffic related, but it does not have to. find some local group and let them prepare some stuff. try to be informed, what they arepalnning and tell the paticipants - then bt can add its own bit. we can offer some people on bikes, some flyers, inspired people, who might have prepared something and the big attration that bt as an international group has for the massmedia and for the general public. bt can also do actions on its own, and often did. those are actions to show that bt is in town and what we stand for.<br />
other events might include conferences or talks, infoevenings, filmscreenings, slideshows, meetings with officials, press conferencesor the opening of cycle paths - but also parties, concerts or tourist stuff like a tour through the museum/town. <br />
but be aware of the chaotic nature of biketour. do not plan a too tight scedule. tell the hosts/action organisers/press/ that bt is rarely on time. things will change til the last moment.<br />
Every event is possible in Biketour, as long as it involves some of the following : education, activism, community, awareness, personal growth, networking, supporting local, national and international struggles, parties, massaging, workshops, film projections, discussion groups, Fun, Group Spirit Building, intercultural exchanges, etc.<br />
but do not forget, how time-consuming biketour itself is. do not go for a tight scedule - cooking, shoping, circles and getting lost take its time. plan actions, workshops or tours a round the campsite as flexible as possible, make appointments to phone with the hosts a day before coming , the day of arrival - doing the actual phoning can be a task for a volunteer.<br />
<br />
'''4:)fellow organisers and participants'''<br />
<br />
if you start from scratch, try to find fellow organisers first. ask your friends, in political groups, cycling groups, on the bt-mailinglist, on eyfa-lists or -events like the winter-meeting, write articles in scene newspapers/ngo-magazines. send out a mail calling for volunteers and asking for ideas/cooperation about actions and sleepingplaces - circulate it in sympathetic mailing lists<br />
Calling is always better than emailing, although it takes more time. call important people like the senior bt-oraniser or the woman, who knows everyone in the biking scene<br />
think of how many people ignore mails, which do not really need their attention right now a call involves people more personally, you can answer their imediate questions and might persuade them to get involved. invite people to a meeting, maybe with a slideshow, about last & next bt - you might find participants or organisers. talk about ideas - route, events, organising scedule, whom to ask for help - and follow them up til the next meeting<br />
If you find groups interested in working together with us or potential hostsmake sure to write down as mcuh contact data as possible, you could send them a kind of registration form because we need a lot of detailed information like:<br />
Name of the org and the town, the contacts from the contact person, address, , phonenumbers, e-mail, websites, if they have accommodation place; in/outside & for how many people, if there is a toilet and shower, if there is drinking water, kitchen / fireplace, internet possibility, electricity for laptops/telephones/cameraâ�?��?�s, what kind of event they can organize (workshop, presentation, demonstration, Critical Mass, discussion group, movie, partyâ�?�¦), cycle paths and streets, local bio shoping possebility, prize, places of interest, green groups around, reasons for actions , reasons for restdays, sleeping places near , bikeshops around, nice places for breakfast<br />
<br />
You should also do outreach for participants from your countries. not only that they might help with organsing, they will alsi help you during the tour. you will not be the only one who speaks the language, so you will not be the only one to be asked stuff :)<br />
<br />
'''5:) meetings'''<br />
<br />
meetings are most inspiring. hold meetings on national level to get people involved and go to the international meetings to get energy and inspiration. maybe you want to invite the next international meeting to your country?<br />
<br />
'''6.:) materials'''<br />
<br />
most materials should be produced in an international efford. it is work that people can do, who are not situated in the countries we pass. u will have provide the info about your country and translate things into your language and the care for the printing.<br />
''oputreach'': bt needs a flyer to explain people on the street what it is all about. most of the time this flyer will be produces internationally and then translated. also nice is a poster, stickers and t-shirts. for flyer and poster for a design which is also nice in black and white photocopy style, just in case u have to produce some somewhere on the road. and on the poster leave some free space - for the local groups to add their info like when and where bt comes to town.<br />
''internal'': there should be a biketour booklet, telling participants the bt-rules, the detailed route, specialities and events, the important phonenumbers and interesting stuff. then it is good, if u have photocopied maps tohand out to the participants and also an sheet of paper with a describtion of the route, dates of appointments and special sites on the route to visit.<br />
<br />
'''7:) press'''<br />
<br />
usually the press loves the biketour. have an international pressrelease, translate it and spice it up for your country. best situation would be to nhave someone at home, who can take care about press inquiries. another useful thing is a part on the website dedicated to the press with photos, interviews and pressreleases. send the pressrelease to all important national press and tell your regional/local people to do it aswell, with the date of their special event added. make sure to add the bt mobile number, but be aware that mobiles on bt might refuse to work. <br />
<br />
'''8:) fundraising'''<br />
<br />
while the international coordinator will be occupied with fundraising, you might also have good chances to get money or stuff. ask the authorities on national, regional or local level if they want to support us, we are so international, environmentally aware, peaceful, integrating and sportive. the support must not be with money. mayors might be good to get us discounts in shops, at farmers or the camping. ask local groups to ask farmers for food, to go to the market and ask for the 'ugly' veggies, which can not be sold anymore.<br />
you can also try sponsoring and ask companies for their support. but discuss it before - some people have quite some problems with quite a lot of companies.<br />
<br />
'''9:) visa invitations'''<br />
<br />
if people need visa for your country, u will need to invite them. u might need an organisation for that and will officially take responsability for them. in GB 2002 lots of people used bt to get a visa and then did not turn up.. do not know how we could prevent that.<br />
<br />
'''10:) guiding the tour'''<br />
<br />
we do expect u to wait join bt, latest on the border. u know the route, the programm and the sleepingplaces, announce them in the mornign circle. u will be bombarded with questions from participants during the day, will handle the sleepimngplace owners and the local groups and be just the central person. make sure, that u can have some relaxing times after your part is finished. maybe u can divide your country into parts and have several regional coodinators ?<br />
<br />
'''11:) and whatever u take on during on of the meetings '''<br />
<br />
well, that is your responsebility ....</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=What_bt_is&diff=87What bt is2007-03-11T18:25:43Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>the ecotopia biketour is an eco-moblie action community on its way to or from ecotopia.<br />
some 10 to 50 bikers from different backgrounds - nationality, age, language, experience - cycle together towards ecotopia, doing actions on their way and meet up with environmentally minded people and groups. they carry all equipment for camping on their bikes and trailors. it is a totally chaotic tour, with constanly changing sleeping places, group composition and food quality, but with some common things like:<br />
consensus based decision making, all tasks devided between the participants, a sleeping place every night and breakfast, lunch and dinner for a participation fee calculated in ecos and collected by sigmund, our magic hat.<br />
<br />
'''1:) sleeping places'''<br />
<br />
the basic bt sleeping place includes some space for tents.<br />
as nothing more is really needed, we made the experience that we can organise our sleeping places during the tour, during the day. this is nice sometimes - it strengthens the group feeling when people work together to find the place and to make up for its downsides.<br />
<br />
basic features which sould not miss with any organised sleppingplace are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
<br />
also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bikeshops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
<br />
another type of sleeping place are scools and sporthalls, which have quite some facitlities.<br />
make sure, there is place for a cooking fire !<br />
<br />
we try not to pay for the sleeping places, or if get a big reduction, as we are an ecotopur with poor people from eastern europe joining. 2 euro/person/night seems an ok price. exept we decide to support that project we are being hosted by -then we like to pay more ~ if we can afford it.<br />
<br />
'''2:) food'''<br />
<br />
we buy our food on local markets or from farmers we pass by, as eco as possible and cook on wood fire, if we do not have access to a big kitchen. nothing to organize for that, except that a local group might ask beforehand for food donations ...<br />
<br />
'''3:) registration'''<br />
<br />
people come and go on biketour. only some of them register, and only some registered people come. plans change... it is hard to get a proximate number to count on - 10 to 50 is quite accurate.<br />
<br />
'''4:) the route'''<br />
<br />
we do preferre quiet asphalt roads in a beautiful screnery, slightly downhill. ~50 km per day. and take this serious. a day with 30 km is very nice to fluff around and enjoy the not cycling sides of life. do less on action days and none on restingdays, where we should have 2 per week. not that there bt can not do more, it is good to get people to go over their borders sometimes, but a slow pace gives more time for the nice things of biketour, the brakes and workshops and a deeper picture of the sleepingplaces. if u can not find a sleepingplace to cover that 90km hole between those 2 verny nice ones, just leave it open to the group to find one. if people want to cycle more, they are always welcome to do that on their own account.<br />
<br />
'''5:) consensus'''<br />
<br />
we experiment with consensuns based decision making. we do that snce years, and we think, that all decisions should be based on consensus. but we do also know, that none of us learned this in scool and that there are certain human qualities which take care, that we will always have decision makers and people sitting quiet in the circle. cultural and language barriers, human group behaviour, gender specific behaviour, highly motivated or very lazy people and the constantly changing group structure are standing against our try, but i think, it is important to train our communication and decision making skills and be patient during long morning circles, try new structures and experiment with the whole thing to live an alternative to what governments present as democracy.<br />
<br />
'''6:) local involvment'''<br />
<br />
we want to bring an exchange between the biketourers and the locals. good sleeping places are organised by local groups, who need help with some action or wanna present their project. a possebility to present ourself is always appreciated, and some party/concert/dancing make some ppl happy. but not that bt is totally chaotic and famous for its ability to be late. great if local people join us for some days, or at least for the campfire or the pub. to get more lopcal intergration of the tour it is also important to have a good national outreach for participants, so that there are quite some people speaking the local language on the tour.<br />
<br />
'''7:) organising community'''<br />
<br />
usually we do have ainternational coordinator in the center he should have the overwiev. this year noone was willing to take the job, do we gave it to the [[WHEEL]] instead. this is a body meeting every second week via skype, a forum to exchange between all active parties, and for all the lazy bums to give their two cents.<br />
<br />
then there are the national teams with their national coordinators, sometimes several in a big country. those work on their national route and stuff, but also together on the common international stuff. and there are some veterans, who help out organising or can at least be asked for advice.<br />
<br />
it is so cool, there is a strong international biketour community. it is just not so visible via internet, works more with personal knowledge. some people like cycling more than typing.but we have 15 years of history and lots of people have been enthusiastic about bt during this time. she was on biketour 19.. is prelude to a nice freindship, and u can travel europe surfing bt-couches.<br />
<br />
'''8:) money'''<br />
<br />
sometimes we are very lucky with funding, but generally we are the poor type. asking for free entry or reduction everywhere, as we are a big international group with poor eastern europeans and should get everything for free. on the otherhand there are really nice project on our way and we want them to profit from our stay. not only through the higher media interest, but if possible by leaving some money. but even more valuable are friendship and inspiration exchanged between participants and locals.<br />
<br />
'''9:) conclusion'''<br />
<br />
There is quite some magic happening around biketour, chaos everywhere, things not working out, being different than expected and a lot of improvisation. but in these rooms, this not oranised part, which people have to cope with together, will be filled with the nicest minutes and be the time, when friendships grow. leave place for creativity, bt itself cost a lot of time and energy per day, trust in the biketours ability to work things out herself:]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=What_bt_is&diff=86What bt is2007-03-11T18:24:23Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>the ecotopia biketour is an eco-moblie action community on its way to or from ecotopia.<br />
some 10 to 50 bikers from different backgrounds - nationality, age, language, experience - cycle together towards ecotopia, doing actions on their way and meet up with environmentally minded people and groups. they carry all equipment for camping on their bikes and trailors. it is a totally chaotic tour, with constanly changing sleeping places, group composition and food quality, but with some common things like:<br />
consensus based decision making, all tasks devided between the participants, a sleeping place every night and breakfast, lunch and dinner for a participation fee calculated in ecos.<br />
<br />
'''1:) sleeping places'''<br />
<br />
the basic bt sleeping place includes some space for tents.<br />
as nothing more is really needed, we made the experience that we can organise our sleeping places during the tour, during the day. this is nice sometimes - it strengthens the group feeling when people work together to find the place and to make up for its downsides.<br />
<br />
basic features which sould not miss with any organised sleppingplace are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
<br />
also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bikeshops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
<br />
another type of sleeping place are scools and sporthalls, which have quite some facitlities.<br />
make sure, there is place for a cooking fire !<br />
<br />
we try not to pay for the sleeping places, or if get a big reduction, as we are an ecotopur with poor people from eastern europe joining. 2 euro/person/night seems an ok price. exept we decide to support that project we are being hosted by -then we like to pay more ~ if we can afford it.<br />
<br />
'''2:) food'''<br />
<br />
we buy our food on local markets or from farmers we pass by, as eco as possible and cook on wood fire, if we do not have access to a big kitchen. nothing to organize for that, except that a local group might ask beforehand for food donations ...<br />
<br />
'''3:) registration'''<br />
<br />
people come and go on biketour. only some of them register, and only some registered people come. plans change... it is hard to get a proximate number to count on - 10 to 50 is quite accurate.<br />
<br />
'''4:) the route'''<br />
<br />
we do preferre quiet asphalt roads in a beautiful screnery, slightly downhill. ~50 km per day. and take this serious. a day with 30 km is very nice to fluff around and enjoy the not cycling sides of life. do less on action days and none on restingdays, where we should have 2 per week. not that there bt can not do more, it is good to get people to go over their borders sometimes, but a slow pace gives more time for the nice things of biketour, the brakes and workshops and a deeper picture of the sleepingplaces. if u can not find a sleepingplace to cover that 90km hole between those 2 verny nice ones, just leave it open to the group to find one. if people want to cycle more, they are always welcome to do that on their own account.<br />
<br />
'''5:) consensus'''<br />
<br />
we experiment with consensuns based decision making. we do that snce years, and we think, that all decisions should be based on consensus. but we do also know, that none of us learned this in scool and that there are certain human qualities which take care, that we will always have decision makers and people sitting quiet in the circle. cultural and language barriers, human group behaviour, gender specific behaviour, highly motivated or very lazy people and the constantly changing group structure are standing against our try, but i think, it is important to train our communication and decision making skills and be patient during long morning circles, try new structures and experiment with the whole thing to live an alternative to what governments present as democracy.<br />
<br />
'''6:) local involvment'''<br />
<br />
we want to bring an exchange between the biketourers and the locals. good sleeping places are organised by local groups, who need help with some action or wanna present their project. a possebility to present ourself is always appreciated, and some party/concert/dancing make some ppl happy. but not that bt is totally chaotic and famous for its ability to be late. great if local people join us for some days, or at least for the campfire or the pub. to get more lopcal intergration of the tour it is also important to have a good national outreach for participants, so that there are quite some people speaking the local language on the tour.<br />
<br />
'''7:) organising community'''<br />
<br />
usually we do have ainternational coordinator in the center he should have the overwiev. this year noone was willing to take the job, do we gave it to the [[WHEEL]] instead. this is a body meeting every second week via skype, a forum to exchange between all active parties, and for all the lazy bums to give their two cents.<br />
<br />
then there are the national teams with their national coordinators, sometimes several in a big country. those work on their national route and stuff, but also together on the common international stuff. and there are some veterans, who help out organising or can at least be asked for advice.<br />
<br />
it is so cool, there is a strong international biketour community. it is just not so visible via internet, works more with personal knowledge. some people like cycling more than typing.but we have 15 years of history and lots of people have been enthusiastic about bt during this time. she was on biketour 19.. is prelude to a nice freindship, and u can travel europe surfing bt-couches.<br />
<br />
'''8:) money'''<br />
<br />
sometimes we are very lucky with funding, but generally we are the poor type. asking for free entry or reduction everywhere, as we are a big international group with poor eastern europeans and should get everything for free. on the otherhand there are really nice project on our way and we want them to profit from our stay. not only through the higher media interest, but if possible by leaving some money. but even more valuable are friendship and inspiration exchanged between participants and locals.<br />
<br />
'''9:) conclusion'''<br />
<br />
There is quite some magic happening around biketour, chaos everywhere, things not working out, being different than expected and a lot of improvisation. but in these rooms, this not oranised part, which people have to cope with together, will be filled with the nicest minutes and be the time, when friendships grow. leave place for creativity, bt itself cost a lot of time and energy per day, trust in the biketours ability to work things out herself:]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=What_bt_is&diff=85What bt is2007-03-11T18:21:57Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>the ecotopia biketour is an eco-moblie action community on its way to or from ecotopia.<br />
some 10 to 50 bikers from different backgrounds - nationality, age, language, experience - cycle together towards ecotopia, doing actions on their way and meet up with environmentally minded people and groups. they carry all equipment for camping on their bikes and trailors. it is a totally chaotic tour, with constanly changing sleeping places, group composition and food quality, but with some common things like:<br />
consensus based decision making, all tasks devided between the participants, a sleeping place every night and breakfast, lunch and dinner for a participation fee calculated in ecos.<br />
<br />
'''1:) sleeping places'''<br />
<br />
the basic bt sleepingplace inludes some space for tents.<br />
as nothing more is really needed, we made the experience that we can organise our sleepingplaces during the tour, during the day. this is nice sometimes - it strengthens the groupfeeling when people work together to find the place and to make up for its downsides.<br />
<br />
basic features which sould not miss with any organised sleppingplace are drinking water supply, a fire place to cook and wood in reach.<br />
<br />
also appreciated by participants are hot showers/sauna, a lake/ place to swim, toilets, a roof, a breakfast room, a kitchen equipped for big groups, some contact and exchange with locals, an action, internet facilities, information about the surroundings - bikeshops, (eco)markets, where to get products from local farmers, tourist traps ...<br />
<br />
another type of sleeping place are scools and sporthalls, which have quite some facitlities.<br />
make sure, there is place for a cooking fire !<br />
<br />
we try not to pay for the sleeping places, or if get a big reduction, as we are an ecotopur with poor people from eastern europe joining. 2â�??¬/person/night seems an ok price. exept we decide to support that project we are being hosted by.<br />
<br />
'''2:) food'''<br />
<br />
we buy our food on local markets or from farmers we pass by, as eco as possible and cook on wood fire, if we do not have access to a big kitchen. nothing to organise for that, except that a local group might ask beforehand for food donations ...<br />
<br />
'''3:) registration'''<br />
<br />
people come and go on biketour. only some of them register, and only some registered people come. plans change... it is hard to get a proximate number to count on - 10 to 50 is quite accurate.<br />
<br />
'''4:) the route'''<br />
<br />
we do preferre quiet asphalt roads in a beautiful screnery, slightly downhill. ~50 km per day. and take this serious. a day with 30 km is very nice to fluff around and enjoy the not cycling sides of life. do less on action days and none on restingdays, where we should have 2 per week. not that there bt can not do more, it is good to get people to go over their borders sometimes, but a slow pace gives more time for the nice things of biketour, the brakes and workshops and a deeper picture of the sleepingplaces. if u can not find a sleepingplace to cover that 90km hole between those 2 verny nice ones, just leave it open to the group to find one. if people want to cycle more, they are always welcome to do that on their own account.<br />
<br />
'''5:) consensus'''<br />
<br />
we experiment with consensuns based decision making. we do that snce years, and we think, that all decisions should be based on consensus. but we do also know, that none of us learned this in scool and that there are certain human qualities which take care, that we will always have decision makers and people sitting quiet in the circle. cultural and language barriers, human group behaviour, gender specific behaviour, highly motivated or very lazy people and the constantly changing group structure are standing against our try, but i think, it is important to train our communication and decision making skills and be patient during long morning circles, try new structures and experiment with the whole thing to live an alternative to what governments present as democracy.<br />
<br />
'''6:) local involvment'''<br />
<br />
we want to bring an exchange between the biketourers and the locals. good sleeping places are organised by local groups, who need help with some action or wanna present their project. a possebility to present ourself is always appreciated, and some party/concert/dancing make some ppl happy. but not that bt is totally chaotic and famous for its ability to be late. great if local people join us for some days, or at least for the campfire or the pub. to get more lopcal intergration of the tour it is also important to have a good national outreach for participants, so that there are quite some people speaking the local language on the tour.<br />
<br />
'''7:) organising community'''<br />
<br />
usually we do have ainternational coordinator in the center he should have the overwiev. this year noone was willing to take the job, do we gave it to the [[WHEEL]] instead. this is a body meeting every second week via skype, a forum to exchange between all active parties, and for all the lazy bums to give their two cents.<br />
<br />
then there are the national teams with their national coordinators, sometimes several in a big country. those work on their national route and stuff, but also together on the common international stuff. and there are some veterans, who help out organising or can at least be asked for advice.<br />
<br />
it is so cool, there is a strong international biketour community. it is just not so visible via internet, works more with personal knowledge. some people like cycling more than typing.but we have 15 years of history and lots of people have been enthusiastic about bt during this time. she was on biketour 19.. is prelude to a nice freindship, and u can travel europe surfing bt-couches.<br />
<br />
'''8:) money'''<br />
<br />
sometimes we are very lucky with funding, but generally we are the poor type. asking for free entry or reduction everywhere, as we are a big international group with poor eastern europeans and should get everything for free. on the otherhand there are really nice project on our way and we want them to profit from our stay. not only through the higher media interest, but if possible by leaving some money. but even more valuable are friendship and inspiration exchanged between participants and locals.<br />
<br />
'''9:) conclusion'''<br />
<br />
There is quite some magic happening around biketour, chaos everywhere, things not working out, being different than expected and a lot of improvisation. but in these rooms, this not oranised part, which people have to cope with together, will be filled with the nicest minutes and be the time, when friendships grow. leave place for creativity, bt itself cost a lot of time and energy per day, trust in the biketours ability to work things out herself:]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=84Main Page2007-03-11T18:15:19Z<p>Morlaa: /* organising next biketour */</p>
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<div>==welcome to the Ecotopedia - the wiki of the ecotopia biketour==<br />
<br />
====organising next biketour====<br />
this is a selforganised tour! no club, no ngo, no political party. just some people followinbg an idea - since 1993! does this appeal to you and you want to do your share of bt-organising ? <br />
the best is you come to the [[nextmeeting]], online or in real, to get an idea of the people and tasks, or browse through the [[meeting minutes]]. 2007 we will cycle spain and portugal - here are some ideas about the [[route]].<br />
if you live next to it or know great places to visit, talk to joao [[http://eyfa.org/wiki/Bt06Contacts]]. we also compiled some texts about [[what bt is]] and how to [[organise biketour]] and collected some nice [[ideas]] about improving bt. right now we are also working on the [[website]]. and where the hell is our [[stuff]]?<br />
you can also help us online, even if you do not live next to the route. We do need help with moving pages from our old wikis and websites - have a look down to archive - to this wiki, Also the [[website]] needs doing: writing, desiging and creating an ez-publish template.<br />
<br />
====Last years tour====<br />
<br />
[[diary06]], [[booklet 06]], [[pressrelease06 eng]], [[outreachmail participants 06 eng]]<br />
<br />
[[traveltips to lithuania and poland]], [[short route describtion]], [[flyer06 eng]]<br />
<br />
====archive====<br />
<br />
camp fire [[recipies ]]<br />
<br />
[[texts about bt]] - '''well this is intended to be a collection of all texts about bt we have here - but who knows if everyone thinks of mentioning her text here ?'''<br />
<br />
the 2005 wiki - bosnia, serbia, romaina and moldova:<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
<br />
the 2004 wiki, quite some texts in czech and german:<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Organise_biketour&diff=83Organise biketour2007-03-11T18:15:18Z<p>Morlaa: /* howtos */</p>
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<div>===howtos===<br />
<br />
some texts to help people who want to organise stuff for bt<br />
just that you see, what biketour is expecting from you ;)<br />
'''''please, if you organised for bt, fill in the wholes in the texts with your experiences !!!'''''<br />
<br />
be confident you know [[what bt is]] before you read one of thew following documents:<br />
*howto for a [[localgroup]] <br />
*howto for a [[regionalcoordinator]] <br />
*howto for a [[nationalcoordinator]] <br />
*howto for a [[internationalcoordinator]]<br />
<br />
much more complicated than u might think : [[visa]]<br />
<br />
===text templates===<br />
<br />
some texts we used during organsing - you might also find them usefull<br />
<br />
[[OutreachMailPossibleNC]]<br />
<br />
[[OutreachMailaccommodation]]<br />
<br />
[[RegiFormAccommodations]]<br />
<br />
[[RegiFormActions]]</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Webpage_05_Help&diff=82Webpage 05 Help2007-03-11T18:11:10Z<p>Morlaa: /* ideas: */</p>
<hr />
<div>== ideas: ==<br />
<br />
i found this text somewhere<br />
it needs the car busters office cut out<br />
the places to ask questions filled in<br />
the help ideas made more concrete<br />
what can some potential participant help with from home?<br />
<br />
== text: ==<br />
Places to ask questions :<br />
<br />
<br />
It is hard to explain such a vibrant living thing as Ecotopia Biketour. Hopefully we did not confused you too much. Before you ask your questions please try to search this site, have a look at our forum, the wiki or search the mailinglist archive .<br />
<br />
If your question wasnot answered there the best place to ask is our mailinglist - the second best are the forum, the chat, or you try to skype organisers.<br />
<br />
Biketour needs your help:<br />
<br />
<br />
As a real DIY-project the organisers crew is chronically overworked and can only realise ten percent of their ideas about the Biketour. So we depend on you to help us make this happen.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* You can help us by doing some outreach in your own country. Spread the word about biketour! Apart from spreading the word through posters, flyers and emails, it would be great if you could activate your press contact to report about you joining the biketour. <br />
<br />
* You can help us with fundraising. Maybe you feel like organising a concert or a party, and at the same time you can raise some money for the biketour. <br />
<br />
* We need help with this site - if you want to write texts for the website orhelp with the design for the website. contact morlaa <at> web dot de. <br />
<br />
* You could work out ideas for a bt-performance and actions we could do <br />
<br />
* Or bring a banner to the tour <br />
<br />
* organise bt-flags <br />
<br />
* Then the biketour needs some common equipment, like trailors, bit pots, big knives and other useful kitchen equipment. You could also go and ask local bikeshops and the like for donations, like tubes or locks or tools or whatever they want to give. Also useful and easily self-made are templates for the t-shirt spraying. <br />
<br />
<br />
Donations<br />
<br />
<br />
If you want to contribute to the biketour project by donating us some money, please do so by sending the money to the Biketour bank account:<br />
<br />
<br />
account holder: World Carfree Network<br />
<br />
bank: HVB Bank Czech Republic<br />
<br />
bank address: Jugoslavska 29, 120 01, Praha 2, Czech Republic<br />
<br />
account number: 48846-080<br />
<br />
bank code: 2700<br />
<br />
SWIFT code: BACXCZPP<br />
<br />
<br />
And please do write a littel document containing:<br />
<br />
your name and address, a sentence like " i donate 1000 euro to the ecotopia biketour 2004" and your signature.<br />
<br />
Please send or fax it to :<br />
<br />
<br />
Ecotopia Biketour 2004<br />
<br />
World Carfree Network<br />
<br />
International Coordination Centre<br />
<br />
Kratka 26<br />
<br />
100 00 Prague 10<br />
<br />
Czech Republic<br />
<br />
Fax: +420 274 816 727<br />
<br />
<br />
we need this for the office, we have to justify every money that comes in.<br />
<br />
Thank you !<br />
<br />
<br />
Last updated 6.4. 2005</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Webpage_05_Help&diff=81Webpage 05 Help2007-03-11T18:10:38Z<p>Morlaa: </p>
<hr />
<div>== ideas: ==<br />
<br />
i found this text somewhere<br />
it needs the car busters office cut out<br />
the places to ask questions filled in<br />
the help ideas made more concrete<br />
what can some potential participant help with from home?<br />
produce materials, help with online stuff, get us money<br />
<br />
== text: ==<br />
Places to ask questions :<br />
<br />
<br />
It is hard to explain such a vibrant living thing as Ecotopia Biketour. Hopefully we did not confused you too much. Before you ask your questions please try to search this site, have a look at our forum, the wiki or search the mailinglist archive .<br />
<br />
If your question wasnot answered there the best place to ask is our mailinglist - the second best are the forum, the chat, or you try to skype organisers.<br />
<br />
Biketour needs your help:<br />
<br />
<br />
As a real DIY-project the organisers crew is chronically overworked and can only realise ten percent of their ideas about the Biketour. So we depend on you to help us make this happen.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* You can help us by doing some outreach in your own country. Spread the word about biketour! Apart from spreading the word through posters, flyers and emails, it would be great if you could activate your press contact to report about you joining the biketour. <br />
<br />
* You can help us with fundraising. Maybe you feel like organising a concert or a party, and at the same time you can raise some money for the biketour. <br />
<br />
* We need help with this site - if you want to write texts for the website orhelp with the design for the website. contact morlaa <at> web dot de. <br />
<br />
* You could work out ideas for a bt-performance and actions we could do <br />
<br />
* Or bring a banner to the tour <br />
<br />
* organise bt-flags <br />
<br />
* Then the biketour needs some common equipment, like trailors, bit pots, big knives and other useful kitchen equipment. You could also go and ask local bikeshops and the like for donations, like tubes or locks or tools or whatever they want to give. Also useful and easily self-made are templates for the t-shirt spraying. <br />
<br />
<br />
Donations<br />
<br />
<br />
If you want to contribute to the biketour project by donating us some money, please do so by sending the money to the Biketour bank account:<br />
<br />
<br />
account holder: World Carfree Network<br />
<br />
bank: HVB Bank Czech Republic<br />
<br />
bank address: Jugoslavska 29, 120 01, Praha 2, Czech Republic<br />
<br />
account number: 48846-080<br />
<br />
bank code: 2700<br />
<br />
SWIFT code: BACXCZPP<br />
<br />
<br />
And please do write a littel document containing:<br />
<br />
your name and address, a sentence like " i donate 1000 euro to the ecotopia biketour 2004" and your signature.<br />
<br />
Please send or fax it to :<br />
<br />
<br />
Ecotopia Biketour 2004<br />
<br />
World Carfree Network<br />
<br />
International Coordination Centre<br />
<br />
Kratka 26<br />
<br />
100 00 Prague 10<br />
<br />
Czech Republic<br />
<br />
Fax: +420 274 816 727<br />
<br />
<br />
we need this for the office, we have to justify every money that comes in.<br />
<br />
Thank you !<br />
<br />
<br />
Last updated 6.4. 2005</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Old_Website&diff=80Old Website2007-03-11T18:07:08Z<p>Morlaa: /* texts */</p>
<hr />
<div>our webpresent is evolving slowly<br />
<br />
==texts ==<br />
<br />
we have a lot of texts floating around: on this wiki, our old website [[http://www.thebiketour.net/old/index.html]], on the 2005 wiki<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
and<br />
the 2004 wiki<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]<br />
with quite some texts in czech and german.<br />
<br />
i worked on a strukture of the website and will put all the ideas for texts to write here. those pages are divided in two part: first you will find the ideas behind this page, things to mention or to explain in detail, then the text. please work on both and discuss your ideas on the discussion part of that page - see it up there between article and edit.<br />
<br />
[[home]]<br />
[[help]]<br />
<br />
== design ==<br />
<br />
how do you like the disign so far ? i want to add a menu at the left and maybe also change the redish clouds behind the logo to some bikeparts, e.g. chainwheels.<br />
<br />
== ez template ==<br />
<br />
next big chunk of work is the ez-template. <br />
<br />
== contact jan: morlaa at web dot de if you can help! ==<br />
<br />
== domainname descision: ==<br />
<br />
we decided to take www.ecotopiabiketour.net as our new domain name if dirk does not cooperate...<br />
suggestions where :<br />
<br />
www.ecotopiabiketour.org - jan, vita<br />
<br />
www.ecotopiabiketour.net - jan*, vita*<br />
<br />
www.thebiketour.org - sapi*</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Old_Website&diff=79Old Website2007-03-11T18:06:41Z<p>Morlaa: /* texts */</p>
<hr />
<div>our webpresent is evolving slowly<br />
<br />
==texts ==<br />
<br />
we have a lot of texts floating around: on this wiki, our old website [[http://www.thebiketour.net/old/index.html]], on the 2005 wiki<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
and<br />
the 2004 wiki<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]<br />
with quite some texts in czech and german.<br />
<br />
i worked on a strukture of the website and will put all the ideas for texts to write here. those pages are divided in two part: first you will find the ideas behind this page, things to mention or to explain in detail, then the text. please work on both and discuss your ideas on the discussion part of that page - see it up there between article and edit.<br />
<br />
[[home]]<br />
[[help]]<br />
[[empty page]]<br />
<br />
== design ==<br />
<br />
how do you like the disign so far ? i want to add a menu at the left and maybe also change the redish clouds behind the logo to some bikeparts, e.g. chainwheels.<br />
<br />
== ez template ==<br />
<br />
next big chunk of work is the ez-template. <br />
<br />
== contact jan: morlaa at web dot de if you can help! ==<br />
<br />
== domainname descision: ==<br />
<br />
we decided to take www.ecotopiabiketour.net as our new domain name if dirk does not cooperate...<br />
suggestions where :<br />
<br />
www.ecotopiabiketour.org - jan, vita<br />
<br />
www.ecotopiabiketour.net - jan*, vita*<br />
<br />
www.thebiketour.org - sapi*</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Old_Website&diff=77Old Website2007-03-11T18:05:04Z<p>Morlaa: /* texts */</p>
<hr />
<div>our webpresent is evolving slowly<br />
<br />
==texts ==<br />
<br />
we have a lot of texts floating around: on this wiki, our old website [[http://www.thebiketour.net/old/index.html]], on the 2005 wiki<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
and<br />
the 2004 wiki<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]<br />
with quite some texts in czech and german.<br />
<br />
i worked on a strukture of the website and will put all the ideas for texts to write here. those pages are divided in two part: first you will find the ideas behind this page, things to mention or to explain in detail, then the text. please work on both and discuss your ideas on the discussion part of that page - see it up there between article and edit.<br />
<br />
[[homepage]]<br />
[[help]]<br />
[[empty page]]<br />
<br />
== design ==<br />
<br />
how do you like the disign so far ? i want to add a menu at the left and maybe also change the redish clouds behind the logo to some bikeparts, e.g. chainwheels.<br />
<br />
== ez template ==<br />
<br />
next big chunk of work is the ez-template. <br />
<br />
== contact jan: morlaa at web dot de if you can help! ==<br />
<br />
== domainname descision: ==<br />
<br />
we decided to take www.ecotopiabiketour.net as our new domain name if dirk does not cooperate...<br />
suggestions where :<br />
<br />
www.ecotopiabiketour.org - jan, vita<br />
<br />
www.ecotopiabiketour.net - jan*, vita*<br />
<br />
www.thebiketour.org - sapi*</div>Morlaahttps://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/index.php?title=Old_Website&diff=76Old Website2007-03-11T18:04:35Z<p>Morlaa: /* texts */</p>
<hr />
<div>our webpresent is evolving slowly<br />
<br />
==texts ==<br />
<br />
we have a lot of texts floating around: on this wiki, our old website [[http://www.thebiketour.net/old/index.html]], on the 2005 wiki<br />
[[http://bt05.seedwiki.com/wiki/bt05/?CFID=5513191&CFTOKEN=69760497&jsessionid=c2302637811172265372968]]<br />
and<br />
the 2004 wiki<br />
[[http://bike_tour.seedwiki.com/wiki/bike_tour/?CFID=5513188&CFTOKEN=25088710&jsessionid=c2301409891172265371765]]<br />
with quite some texts in czech and german.<br />
<br />
i worked on a strukture of the website and will put all the ideas for texts to write here. those pages are divided in two part: first you will find the ideas behind this page, things to mention or to explain in detail, then the text. please work on both and discuss your ideas on the discussion part of that page - see it up there between article and edit.<br />
[[homepage]]<br />
[[help]]<br />
[[empty page]]<br />
<br />
== design ==<br />
<br />
how do you like the disign so far ? i want to add a menu at the left and maybe also change the redish clouds behind the logo to some bikeparts, e.g. chainwheels.<br />
<br />
== ez template ==<br />
<br />
next big chunk of work is the ez-template. <br />
<br />
== contact jan: morlaa at web dot de if you can help! ==<br />
<br />
== domainname descision: ==<br />
<br />
we decided to take www.ecotopiabiketour.net as our new domain name if dirk does not cooperate...<br />
suggestions where :<br />
<br />
www.ecotopiabiketour.org - jan, vita<br />
<br />
www.ecotopiabiketour.net - jan*, vita*<br />
<br />
www.thebiketour.org - sapi*</div>Morlaa