OpenCouchSurfing.org » adia http://www.opencouchsurfing.org The campaign for a truly open CouchSurfing organisation Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:57:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Scalability… http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/07/06/scalability/ http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/07/06/scalability/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:56:00 +0000 adia http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/?p=439 The latest high season welcome message on CouchSurfing… I get it about 70% of the time I try to log on… hm… scalability problems? Let`s hope it is easy to solve!

]]> http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/07/06/scalability/feed/ 0 Drupal Communities meet Real Life http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2008/11/10/drupal-communities-meet-real-life/ http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2008/11/10/drupal-communities-meet-real-life/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:49:07 +0000 adia http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/?p=288 I just read midsch’s posting about his helplessness in the hospitality exchange scene… He described the different situations quite good. However, my view on it and the possibilities connected to it are not as dark than his are…

It does not matter if CouchSurfing, HospitalityClub, GlobalFreeLoaders, BeWelcome… hospitality exchange pages have numerous times been described as the most useful sites in the web as they bring people together in real life. Since then numerous new hospitality exchange communities popped up to establish their own community.

But why establish your own community in times of Facebook APIs, Open Social and Drupal? Why not connect all those different communities together? Why not develop a Drupal module (http://www.drupal.org) that
offers all those established communities the possibilities to meet each other in real life?

I started a project on Amazee.com (as I have been around there when I wanted to bring the thing on paper), devoted to the development of a Drupal module for decentralized hospitality sites. Let us continue to learn from each other – here in the web, but also in real life. So why not spent our energy in this way?

http://www.amazee.com/drupal-communities-meet-real-life

]]> http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2008/11/10/drupal-communities-meet-real-life/feed/ 11 Actually, do HospEx Networks really facilitate ‘Intercultural Understanding’ successfully? http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2008/03/13/do-hospex-networks-really-facilitate-intercultural-understanding-successfully/ http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2008/03/13/do-hospex-networks-really-facilitate-intercultural-understanding-successfully/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:43:08 +0000 adia >t]]> http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2008/03/13/do-hospex-networks-actually-promote-intercultural-understanding/ As it seems interesting to set the things here in a wider frame (see, a.o., “Is travelling noble? Or: “The Emperor’s New Clorths” by PickWick), and some thoughts around this theme come up a couple of times recently (e.g. we vs. them), I would like to continue with this and publish more thoughts in this direction. I hope that this post is appreciated and will, hopefully, function as an opening to an interesting discussion and to new insights. And maybe even more people do so in future. Those lines have been first published, by me, on the HospEx Ne>>t Wiki under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

 

 

 

 

‘Prejudice and Discrimination will always be with us.’
Hospitality Exchange Travel Networks a respond to this?

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

 

After a short introduction to Hospitality Exchange Networks, prejudice and discrimination and their relationship to each other, this essay will examine two widely known psychological theories that can be relevant in the reduction of prejudice. At the end, the relevance to Hospitality Exchange Networks will be evaluated.

 

Read the whole essay on HospEx Ne>>t Wiki.

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Interesting Further Reading

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