| 21.08. ITMC Tourism student Peter Heesakkers is nominated for two thesis awards in the Netherlands with his study on CouchSurfing.
02.05. CouchSurfing Collective - Thailand 2008 Achievements are available now
06.04. CouchSurfing reaches 500.000 members (see cs statistics).
25.03. CouchSurfing offers various Collective volunteer jobs via idealist.org. Positions include Fundraising Coordinator, Community Communications Team Member, User Experience Research Coordinator, House Manager and House Chef.
19.03. Hosp.Ex Ne>>t Wiki updated and integrated in the page again. The picture section removed and some blog feeds included.
15.03. Actually, do HospEx Networks really facilitate ‘Intercultural Understanding’ successfully?, by adia, March 2008
24.02. CouchSurfing experiences quite some down time lately.
22.02. It seems as some more people got kicked out from HospitalityClub and their profiles got deleted.
29.11. It seems like HC is back on the level where it was two years ago, looking on the statistics of
alexa.com, while hospitality exchange is still gaining in popularity.
25.11. CouchSurfing handed in its 501(c)(3) status request.
03.11. Ex-HC Volunteer claudiaab got kicked out of HC. There is no statement from HC side. The Spam Record of her was 0,0 and she thinks it was because she is involved in the BeWelcome Project and wanted to organize a HC Meeting in Aachen (she was still Local Volunteer at this time).
25.10. Veit created a new HospitalityClub group on [Facebook]. It seams like that he did not like that the other group is owned by his brother Kjell. A quick censor check reveled the old HC fact, all links and names of other networks get deleted immediately.
.20.10. Thanks to MrTweek who updated this wiki!
17.10. You might have noticed, since a day or two, CouchSurfing has more members than HospitalityClub and is therewith the largest hospitality exchange organisation. At this point, HospitalityClub has 328.629 members and CouchSurfing has 339.673 members.
16.10. CouchSurfings Organizational Policies are always worth an visit, many questions you have might be answered, new ones might arise.
10.10. CouchSurfing might be faced by an law suite ("CouchSurfing has been represented as a charity without being one, and has thus violated the law.", see original post or a copy on OpenCS).
28.09. BeWelcome is public and OpenSource.
15.09. TripUp created a 'couch swap' app for Facebook
15.08. HospitalityClub might go OpenSource.
03.08. CouchSurfing Now Hiring for Full-time Developer Position
25.06. BeWelcome updated the design/layout. Check it out, it is worth it.
12.06. HospitalityClub has 300.000 member.
05.06. HospitalityClub experienced a big database problem and lost some data.
27.05. HospitalityClub is up again, but has performance problems. "Sorry, the HC server has a big temporary load - Please try to reconnect in a few minutes"
26.05. HospitalityClub is down.
22.05. "It is important to note that CouchSurfing is not now, nor will it be in the foreseeable future, an OSS organization. [..] We welcome it, in fact, as a means to grow and improve our business practices and our community as a whole." Chris (TechTeam Leader) and The CouchSurfing Leadership Team on group/open-couchsurfing.
07.05. After there has been some internal discussions about making some parts of the CS code public, this campaign attempts to do this from the outside. opencouchsurfing.org is an initiative for a more open, free and inclusive CouchSurfing.
04.05. Since around noon today the Website of HC is online again.
02.05. The site of Hospitality Club is unreachable now for 24 hours. A mailing list for stranded travellers has been put up: http://groups.google.com/group/hcemergency.
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