The 2nd International Hitch-hiking Conference

The 2nd International Hitch-hiking conference

Date: 07 March, 1998
Town: Warsaw University, Warsaw (Poland)
Organiser: Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club
Participants: There were 19 participants from Lithuania, Russia and Poland. Mostly participants were from Lithuanian and Russian hitch-hiking clubs VHHC, "Kelio broliai", Team "ULTRA Autostop", Saint Petersburg Autostop Guild and "eXtreme Trip".

Bernd's Wechner's article about the conference at www.suite101.com

Themes discussed at the conference

1) Creation and activities of Hitch-hiking clubs;
2) Preparation of World Hitch-hikers Association's regulations and activities.
3) Creation of Free Hitch-hikers' Accommodation Exchange Database. It's rules, participation and moderating;
4) Creation of database of countries and cities for hitch-hikers.

Work

1) creation and activities of Hitch-hiking clubs

It was decided not to speak a lot on this theme, because most of the participants were from clubs and know about the usefulness of those clubs.

2) preparation of World Hitch-hikers Association's regulations and activities.

There was founded the working group, which will work in this field. They will prepare the regulations of membership, voting, participating, ruling, etc. Members of the working group:

1. Vladas Sapranavicius - VHHC,
2. Filipp Leontieve - Team "ULTRA Autostop" (Saint Petersburg),
3. Mikhail Gumenik - Saint Petersburg Autostop Guild,
4. Arunas Pozera - "Kelio Broliai" (Kaunas, Lithuania),
5. Alexandre Statnikov - "eXtreme Trip" (Moscow).

3) creation of Free Hitch-hikers' Accommodation Exchange Database. It's rules, participation and moderating

This database was opened in 1 September 1998. It was hosted in VHHC's server. Visit it here and become a member..

4) creation of database of countries and cities for hitch-hikers

This another database is useful for all: who are hitch-hiking first and for an experienced hitchers. Visit it here. Also you may visit a "WhoMay" page in the case you need some human help...

Participants of the conference