It’s been a while and we know we’re a bit late since we announced the relaunch and starting the booster phase for team registrations for early June. Sorry for the circumstances, sometimes things take a little longer as expected…anyways, after months of preparations and all kind of thoughts we’re more than happy today to be back on the road and officially start the Project Tramprennen 2012 – with you! For us it’s always a special moment – and believe us, every single team registration that reaches our mailbox will put the biggest smile you can imagine on our faces! 🙂
It’s the 5th Tramprennen this year for Viva con Agua and back in 2008 when we started the first race with 11 people to Spain, we never thought about such things like team registration and donate systems, we did not even think about a website to be honest. This year we prepared a race that suits for 150 potential participants! Isn’t that crazy shit?!??! =) We have 6 routes, starting in Germany, Danmark and Belgium. It’s the first time that Tramprennen really becomes an European hichhike race with hitchhikers from all over the continent!
And now: fire from all holes!!!
We want you to be part of Tramprennen 2012 and share two great weeks on the road with you! Register a team and race with many many other hitchhikers to Romania for Viva con Agua and a water project in India! It doesn’t matter whether you’ve hitchhiked 100000km or never before, doesn’t matter where you come from and how old you are (well, you should be older than 18 or hitch with your parents! ;)…)! Find a hitchmate and join us! We’re looking for you, looking forward for dumb-ass teamnames and profile pictures, looking forward for every single cent that goes into the water projects of Viva con Agua and last but not least to kick your ass on the roads to Romania! 🙂
What you need to know now
Check out the FAQ for further information and skim through the beautiful new redesign! You can register a team from now on! We’ll then provide you with everything necessary via mail.
These are the basic steps:
1. Find a hitchmate and register a team (one person needs to be male at least)
2. Do your homework: fill your team profile, send the liability waiver form, transfer the money for the hitchpackage
3. Choose your route
4. Find TeamSponsors and Owners for the WASH-Project of Viva con Agua in India 🙂
Behind the Website, into the Code and the future of this project
You probably wonder why it has taken so long for us to relaunch the website and everything you see is another design. The majority of the new stuff are backend functions that help us to organize the race sustainable and beyond Tramprennen 2012. Still, the website is now smartphone compatible and staffed with many more cool and helpful features.
Two years ago we implemented every team profile and sponsor manually, in 2011 they were already automatically. Same with mails. This year we can easily set up a new route with as many stages and possible teams as we want to. That means further, that anyone with a good reason can organize or request a hitchhiking race via our platform – the Hitchhiking Hub. Wouldn’t that be amazing, a hitchhike race in Canada or in Australia? The new plugin is able to realize this idea and can provide the technical background. A milestone in the evolution of the whole project for us. For the first reason, because we want to spread the word about hitchhiking – and there is no better way to do so with a hitchhiking race. Secondly, because we always wanna integrate new and interested people into the project Tramprennen and make it independet from a certain group of people (well,us :P).
In the future we’ll add more features on the hitchhikinghub.org. New ways of demonstrating the art of hitchhiking, blog systems for hitchhikers and probably even an app for smartphones where you’ll be able to track your hitchhiking trips without big effort.
It’s a big dream and we strongly believe in it: hitchhiking makes the world a better place. It builts friendship and trust among people all over the world. We think this is a good reason to keep working on such a project. And we’re happy to have you on board on this wonderful journey! 🙂
That’s it for the moment! Are you ready?!
Cheeeers, Tramprennen 2012 Crew!
Is that Jim Carrey hitchhiking? :)
/in Tramprennen 2012The number of teams and participants is rapidly growing: 34 teams registered, 15 teams are already confirmed and so far we’re going to hitch down to Romania with 69 hitchhikers! In practice: more than 3 of the existing 6 routes are full! And one important question: Is that Jim Carrey hitchhiking? 😉
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Just to remember – a quick guide through the registration process:
1. Every Hitchhiker has to create his own account on tramprennen.org
2. Register a team
3. Log in and go to your Team Dashboard and invite your Hitchmate(s)
4. Wait until your Hitchmate(s) confirmed your invitation
5. Every participant has to do some homework: Send the Liability Waiver form and transfer 25 Euro for the Hitchpackage
6. Choose your route!
7. Go nuts! 🙂
8. Raise funds for Viva con Agua and the WASH-Project in India! 🙂
If you haven’t found a Hitchmate to hitch with yet, have a look at our Hitchmate X-Change Pinboard
That’s it for the moment. Within the next weeks we’re going to publish our plans for a magazine, spread a fundraising guide and keep on working behind the scenes: finetuning of the website, finding meeting points in the checkpoint cities (usually a fountain, church or well-known public place), contact newspapers and radio statios and some more stuff 🙂
If you have any question, get in touch with us: gro.nennerpmartnull@ofni . We’re happy to answer every question! 🙂
Cheeeers, Tramprennnen 2012-Crew
New: Hitchmate X-Change Pin Board
/in Trainingslager (Tramp-Geschichten)Heya! Since we received quite a few mails of people still searching for hitchmate we decided to set up a pin board. Login and write some sentences (where you from, which route you wanna hitch, etc) and leave a contact information, so other hitchhikers can get in touch and register a team together with you!
Check the Hitchmate X-Change Pin board
Cheeeers, Tramprennen 2012-Crew!
Registration bug is fixed
/in Tramprennen 2012Whoop!
The registration bug from the past days should be fixed now and you can register without any problems again. Make sure to invite your hitchmates via mail and follow the instructions in our mail, how to do your homework etc. You might need to re-invite your hitchmates if you’ve invited them before the bug occured. Sorry for the circumstances, we’re trying our best to make it as smooth as possible for everyone 🙂
We keep on working on other features like the platform to find a hitchmate and some more stuff that makes a hitchhiker smile 🙂
That’s it for the moment!Cheeeers
Tramprennen 2012 Crew
First teams online; finding a Hitchmate; Choosing a route
/in Tramprennen 2012Heya Hitchhikers!
It’s not even 2 weeks and already 15 teams registered for the race! Awesome! Maybe you’ve wondered why you can’t see most of the team profiles online on the website yet: Every team has to do some homework, before their profile will be published. Three hard workers made it in the meantime and sent their liability waivers and transferred the money for the Hitchpackage and their teams appeared online today! They are onlince since today! Welcome! Yeeahaw!
Finding a Hitchmate
We received several mails of people asking for Hitchmates in the last days. We will provide a small platform for Hitchmate requests soon on tramprennen.org and hope all the people looking for someone to hitch with will find someone soon! Just give us a couple of days since we also need to do some homework which is on our priority list :).
Please remember: Every participant needs his own account to join a team. Login and click the invitation Link you received from your Hitchmate via Mail. Otherwise you’ll never complete the team registration and can’t take part in Tramprennen 2012 😉
Choosing a route
Some people were confused about choosing their routes. You can register a team and choose and switch your route as many times as you wish until August 4th. So don’t hesitate do register your team if you’re not sure yet which route you wanna hitch! There is still time to decide… 🙂
That’s it for the moment!
Cheeeers, Tramprennen 2012 Crew
Let the good times roll! Tramprennen 2012 can begin! Registrations can start NOW! :)
/in Tramprennen 2012It’s been a while and we know we’re a bit late since we announced the relaunch and starting the booster phase for team registrations for early June. Sorry for the circumstances, sometimes things take a little longer as expected…anyways, after months of preparations and all kind of thoughts we’re more than happy today to be back on the road and officially start the Project Tramprennen 2012 – with you! For us it’s always a special moment – and believe us, every single team registration that reaches our mailbox will put the biggest smile you can imagine on our faces! 🙂
It’s the 5th Tramprennen this year for Viva con Agua and back in 2008 when we started the first race with 11 people to Spain, we never thought about such things like team registration and donate systems, we did not even think about a website to be honest. This year we prepared a race that suits for 150 potential participants! Isn’t that crazy shit?!??! =) We have 6 routes, starting in Germany, Danmark and Belgium. It’s the first time that Tramprennen really becomes an European hichhike race with hitchhikers from all over the continent!
And now: fire from all holes!!!
We want you to be part of Tramprennen 2012 and share two great weeks on the road with you! Register a team and race with many many other hitchhikers to Romania for Viva con Agua and a water project in India! It doesn’t matter whether you’ve hitchhiked 100000km or never before, doesn’t matter where you come from and how old you are (well, you should be older than 18 or hitch with your parents! ;)…)! Find a hitchmate and join us! We’re looking for you, looking forward for dumb-ass teamnames and profile pictures, looking forward for every single cent that goes into the water projects of Viva con Agua and last but not least to kick your ass on the roads to Romania! 🙂
What you need to know now
Check out the FAQ for further information and skim through the beautiful new redesign! You can register a team from now on! We’ll then provide you with everything necessary via mail.
These are the basic steps:
1. Find a hitchmate and register a team (one person needs to be male at least)
2. Do your homework: fill your team profile, send the liability waiver form, transfer the money for the hitchpackage
3. Choose your route
4. Find TeamSponsors and Owners for the WASH-Project of Viva con Agua in India 🙂
Behind the Website, into the Code and the future of this project
You probably wonder why it has taken so long for us to relaunch the website and everything you see is another design. The majority of the new stuff are backend functions that help us to organize the race sustainable and beyond Tramprennen 2012. Still, the website is now smartphone compatible and staffed with many more cool and helpful features.
Two years ago we implemented every team profile and sponsor manually, in 2011 they were already automatically. Same with mails. This year we can easily set up a new route with as many stages and possible teams as we want to. That means further, that anyone with a good reason can organize or request a hitchhiking race via our platform – the Hitchhiking Hub. Wouldn’t that be amazing, a hitchhike race in Canada or in Australia? The new plugin is able to realize this idea and can provide the technical background. A milestone in the evolution of the whole project for us. For the first reason, because we want to spread the word about hitchhiking – and there is no better way to do so with a hitchhiking race. Secondly, because we always wanna integrate new and interested people into the project Tramprennen and make it independet from a certain group of people (well,us :P).
In the future we’ll add more features on the hitchhikinghub.org. New ways of demonstrating the art of hitchhiking, blog systems for hitchhikers and probably even an app for smartphones where you’ll be able to track your hitchhiking trips without big effort.
It’s a big dream and we strongly believe in it: hitchhiking makes the world a better place. It builts friendship and trust among people all over the world. We think this is a good reason to keep working on such a project. And we’re happy to have you on board on this wonderful journey! 🙂
That’s it for the moment! Are you ready?!
Cheeeers, Tramprennen 2012 Crew!