OpenCouchSurfing.org » veit club 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 Hospitality Club Dictatorship http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/08/02/hospitality-club-veit-dictatorship/ http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2009/08/02/hospitality-club-veit-dictatorship/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:14:15 +0000 robino http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/?p=456

Seriously, since the beginning this is one of my most important dogmas for the HC: no official structure for decision taking. I will always discuss issues openly with the people involved and with knowledge to come to good decisions that are the best for the network. But the final decision will always be with me.

This excerpt is from an e-mail by Veit Kühne (dated, 19 Jan 2005) as an answer to a Hospitality Club volunteer discussion. It has now been published on Wikileaks. According to Wikileaks’ “Latest Leaks and Censored Media”, Hospitality Club founder Veit Kühne planned organizational dictatorship for life and the e-mail “describes his plans for the power structure of the club: a benevolent dictatorship for life”.

Three and a half years after writing this e-mail, Veit also publicly gave away his strategy for taking over BeWelcome, the democratic hospitality exchange network that was started as a result of Veit’s ignorance towards members and volunteers of Hospitality Club.

Read the full e-mail “HC democracy and strategy” at Wikileaks.

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Hospitality Club: termination of your membership

Hello grappig,

you seriously abused our rules as outlined on http://rules.hospitalityclub.org, therefore we had to terminate your membership to protect other members and our network.

Greetings,

the Hospitality Club Abuse Team

–
The Hospitality Club
… bringing people together!

http://www.hospitalityclub.org

Rock on Veit!

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