Dear ecotopians!!
We hope the summer has been full of inspiration for you!!! :)
Aaaaaand we also hope that you feel inspired to contribute with a little
of your own motivation and ideas to next year's biketour! Everyone's
contribution is truly important, because we want the biketour collective
to reflect the activism and diversity of all of its participants!
This email covers some practical information on how to get involved for
2023!
The first step would be to join the chat group. We use this chat group
to facilitate quick and informal discussions. You can join the chat
either through a Signal account or a Matrix account. The two platforms
are linked and the messages of one are automatically copied to the
other.
Click on the links below to join the chat :
Signal group :
https://signal.group/#CjQKIEMEMxYSMYS9XYaNwO-HoNXafttiKz3b8k-barwholEyEhBha…
Matrix room :
https://matrix.to/#/!YynCDvqgsTNOsiUQAB:ecotopiabiketour.net?via=ecotopiabi…
(write us an e-mail with your Matrix ID to get invited to the room)
The second step is to send a message (email or chat) describing what
motivates you to join, where you are based (country, region, city) and
the areas you would like to get involved in (routing, networking,
artwork, trailers, webpage, translations, IT infra, workshops, admin,
funding, hosting, events, etc...). You can respond directly to the
biketour 2023 email address (2023(a)ecotopiabiketour.net).
If you aren't yet on the biketour orga mailing list (bt-org(a)eyfa.org)
and would like to be added, please let us know.
The third step is to reflect on the locations where you think the
biketour should go in 2023. We have created a collaborative map to use
for the biketour planning : https://facilmap.org/bt23edit.
For reference, here's a list of the countries the biketour has visited
since 1990: https://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net/Countries
We will discuss the choice of countries and rough routing during the
winter meeting this year (see info below).
For those that are new to ecotopia, you can find more general
information about the biketour on these sites:
Ecotopia webpage : https://www.ecotopiabiketour.net
Ecotopia wiki : https://wiki.ecotopiabiketour.net
For those that will want to get more involved in the orga, we have a few
online tools that we use to get organized! :) We will do a small
workshop on ecotopia tech and tools during the winter meeting so that
you can become familiar with them :)
As is the ecotopian tradition, we will organize two meetings in
preparation for the biketour : one meeting in the winter (November or
December 2022) and another meeting in the spring (March or April 2023).
We would need to confirm the location and dates of the winter meeting.
If you have any thoughts or proposals, feel free to share them. Here's a
pad to brainstorm ideas :
https://pad.rankenste.in/p/bt23_wintermeeting_plan
We aim at making a final decision for the winter meeting by mid-October
so that those who wish to get involved have enough time to organize
their travel and stay.
In solidarity,
The Ecotopia Biketour Collective