Collective

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A CouchSurfing Collective is a group of people from all over the world working together and living in a cooperative environment with a goal of improving CouchSurfing. It has roots on the idea of self organizing organizations. We can create our projects, build our own teams.

There have been collectives in Montreal and Vienna and the latest was in New Zealand. See the official Collectives page on our website.

Contents 1 Current Collectives 1.1 Thailand CSC 2 Coming Collectives 2.1 Paris Collective 3 Past Collectives 3.1 We want your feedback 4 Proposed Collectives 4.1 Detmold Collective 4.2 Barcelona 2007 4.3 More distant future 5 What is the Collective?

Current Collectives

Thailand CSC

December 01, 2007 to April 01, 2008. see Collective Faq

Coming Collectives

Paris Collective

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• see the Paris collective planning group

The Parisian crew built a proposal from September to November 2006 and is about to release it within the coming days. They also held a meeting on Saturday November 18th and have already started to gather a few volunteers as an Assistant Organization Team plus to get donations through a CS meeting, which has allowed to gather 195 euros already on November 21st. The NZ Collective also communicates with the Paris crew via conference calls.

Image:Caution icon.png The Paris Collective 2007 has been canceled, to be rescheduled likely in summer of 2008. see group posting

Past Collectives

• The Rotterdam Tech Collective - June & July 2007, in Rotterdam, Netherlands
• The New Zealand Collective - October 2006 through March 2007
• The European CSC 06 from July 20th - July 30th 2006
• The Montreal CSC 06 from June - September 2006

We want your feedback

• Testimonials about the CouchSurfing Collective, write yours up!
• Collectives Feedbacks: what worked, what didn't...
• and Desires for Future Collectives.

Proposed Collectives

There are several projects to have CouchSurfing Collectives in Europe over the Summer 2007. Post your projects here.

Detmold Collective

July 2007, in Germany ,near Bielefeld

• see the detmold collective planning group
• The Detmold Collective did not happen

Barcelona 2007

Some people are working on a proposal for a Collective in Barcelona.

More distant future

• Collective in India
• The Permanent CSC
• Mini Collective

What is the Collective?

• A Collective is a safe place for participants to work on personal development
• A Collective is about learning to communicate effectively
• A Collective is a place for learning, for training CS volunteers

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