Comments on: BeWelcome http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2007/05/30/bewelcome/ The campaign for a truly open CouchSurfing organisation Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:00:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Florian http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2007/05/30/bewelcome/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Florian Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:54:51 +0000 http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2007/05/30/bewelcome/#comment-196 Well, trusting people (especially if you don t know them) is always a challenge and it needs good communication skills to find out about motivations in the first place. However, I really thing BeWelcome is the project you describe above, and Kasper, you didn't apply for a specific team with BeWelcome, that's why you didn't get wiki access. Either way, you will understand that 6 months ago (and until recently) the project was in such an early stage that teams first had to be build and goals defined. For example now we have a volunteer management team and they will make sure that you (if you want to be a volunteer for BeWelcome) will find the right team and can join it asap. Right now there is A LOT of work done, and the focus is on the practical steps. It just takes time to develop a project like BeWelcome, but apart from all the work it is a lot of fun too :-) Well, trusting people (especially if you don t know them) is always a challenge and it needs good communication skills to find out about motivations in the first place.

However, I really thing BeWelcome is the project you describe above, and Kasper, you didn’t apply for a specific team with BeWelcome, that’s why you didn’t get wiki access. Either way, you will understand that 6 months ago (and until recently) the project was in such an early stage that teams first had to be build and goals defined. For example now we have a volunteer management team and they will make sure that you (if you want to be a volunteer for BeWelcome) will find the right team and can join it asap.

Right now there is A LOT of work done, and the focus is on the practical steps. It just takes time to develop a project like BeWelcome, but apart from all the work it is a lot of fun too :-)

]]> By: Jared Sacks http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2007/05/30/bewelcome/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Jared Sacks Thu, 31 May 2007 00:27:16 +0000 http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2007/05/30/bewelcome/#comment-189 I'm very excited about BeWelcome. I've read their statement of values, their tentative constitution and bylaws, etc. I believe that BeWelcome will be the CS that I've always wanted: open, transparent, accountable, against competition, pro-volunteer, etc. Lets hope it stays that way once it comes to fruition. But I dont see the OpenCS campaign going anywhere because Casey has issues with trusting people and wants to make CS the biggest hospitality network at the expense of all the other hospitality networks (and their users). So I'm headed over to BeWelcome. Hope they'll be some good/dedicated programmers joining as well. I’m very excited about BeWelcome. I’ve read their statement of values, their tentative constitution and bylaws, etc. I believe that BeWelcome will be the CS that I’ve always wanted: open, transparent, accountable, against competition, pro-volunteer, etc. Lets hope it stays that way once it comes to fruition. But I dont see the OpenCS campaign going anywhere because Casey has issues with trusting people and wants to make CS the biggest hospitality network at the expense of all the other hospitality networks (and their users).

So I’m headed over to BeWelcome. Hope they’ll be some good/dedicated programmers joining as well.

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