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Last week´s Bike Bike meeting and invite to join in next Wednesday´s call / La reunión Bici Bici de la semana pasada e invitación a sumarse a la reunión del próximo miércoles
by Angie Libertad 22 Jul '25

22 Jul '25

Hi everyone, Last Wednesday we had an online meeting to discuss the next Bike Bike with attendance from folks in Mexico City, Texas, Arizona, California, Guadalajara, Argentina, Colombia and Canada . It is the first of several planned meetings to discuss how to better communicate and organize collectively the next Bike Bike gathering(s)in 2025 and as a wide network of bike collectives. The most up to date minutes from this last week´s meeting can be found here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/BIKEBIK32025-keep Also if you´d like to learn what B!B!E! has been up to since 2021, check out the bike collectives wiki: https://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/Meetings_and_minutes#November_2021 The next meeting will be next Wednesday November 13th at 5PM EST (Tijuana)/ 7PM CDMX-CST (Texas)/ 8PM EST (NYC). You can join the meeting using this link: https://i.meet.mayfirst.org/BB2025 . The plan is to share the meeting agenda a few days before next Wednesday here and on the rest of the channels. Thank you to everyone who participated in last Wednesday´s meeting and for your patience as we get over some humps and bring back the wide Bike Bike community together. We look forward to everybody joining in the call next week! ******* Hola a todes, El miércoles pasado tuvimos una reunión en línea para discutir el próximo Bici Bici con asistencia de personas de CDMX, Tejas, Arizona, California, Guadalajara, Argentina, Colombia e incluso Canadá. Es la primera de varias reuniones planeadas para discutir cómo comunicarnos mejor y organizarnos colectivamente la(s) próxima(s) reunión(es) de Bici Bici en 2025 y como una red amplia de bici colectivos. Las minutas más actualizadas de la reunión de la semana pasada se pueden encontrar aquí: https://pad.riseup.net/p/BIKEBIK32025-keep También si quieren saber lo que B!B!E! ha estado haciendo desde 2021, échale un vistazo a la wiki de colectivos de bicis: https://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/Meetings_and_minutes#November_2021 La próxima reunión será el próximo miércoles 13 de noviembre a 5PM EST (Tijuana)/ 7PM CDMX-CST (Tejas)/ 8PM EST (NYC). Puedes unirte a la reunión usando este enlace: https://i.meet.mayfirst.org/BB2025 . El plan es compartir la agenda de la reunión unos días antes del próximo miércoles aquí y en el resto de los canales. Gracias a todos los que participaron en la reunión del miércoles pasado y por su paciencia mientras pasamos los baches y volvemos a reunir a la comunidad amplia de Bici Bici. ¡Esperamos que todos se sumen a la llamada de la semana que viene!

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Webhosting/domains
by Bike City 24 Mar '25

24 Mar '25

Well, I recently threw together some hand-written HTML and slapped it onto a free (and ad-less) webhost. This seemed great at first, regardless of the weird URL. But after lots of other publicity and potential traffic, I've seen it get hacked twice (by a radical Islamic group after the whole host, nothing personal), and lately it's either painfully slow to load or completely down. So, I haven't done this for about a decade and I'm out of the loop. I'm really not willing to suffer any ads, but since our budgeted is obcenely limited for such fluff, does anyone have recommendations? Are there any more reliable ad-free free hosts? (Probably not, for obvious reasons.) Otherwise, how do you guys handle web hosting? How much does it cost? What's a good balance between reliable and affordable? How much is domain registration nowadays? We don't have our 501(c)(3) status yet so we won't get a deal until later this year, by the way. Anyway, please help. It's rough to find time to FTP an update and find the site's down. Thanks, andrea Bike City Recyclery of Fayetteville, Arkansas http://bikecity.uuuq.com/ (hahaha)

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Organizing a Bike!Bike! : organisational guidelines and up-to-date financial cues
by martin_labrosse.gabriel＠courrier.uqam.ca 01 Mar '25

01 Mar '25

Hello fellow CBS organizers and volunteers, I won't beat around the bush, there is a good chance a Montreal bid will be proposed at B!B!CDMX '25. Alain Deschamps and I wanted to propose in Tijuana but we stepped down seing the already great bids placed and the big conversation that ensued. We already had some sort of idea of how a B!B! is organized but I would like to see org charts, sheets and docs used for preping this wonderfull event- I've seen the docs from the B!B! in Colorado on here, but would love to see other ones. Would also like to know how much we can expect to pay to organize the B!B! in 2026. Is there any money left if the fund to help the orgarnizers or it's empty? Thanks and hopefully we see eachother in August! Gabriel ML, BQAM-E

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Bike!Bike! 2025 Announcement + Meeting Recap
by Josh Bisker 05 Jan '25

05 Jan '25

Hello pals, and happy new year! Español abajo. This message follows our Bike!Bike! Assembly on December 11, 2024, with a recap on what happened and what's coming up. Here's the headline though: *Resiste Pedál in Mexico City will host Bike!Bike! 2025!* *Resiste Pedál in Mexico City will host Bike!Bike! 2025!* *Resiste Pedál in Mexico City will host Bike!Bike! 2025!* The dates will be sometime in August. Future updates will come from the organizers. I think it was a pretty healing, invigorating, and community-building meeting. The CDMX organizers had an opportunity to reintroduce themselves to the greater gathering, demonstrate their collective's many strengths, and restate their vision for hosting the conference. Alongside them, an organizer from Bogotá presented a separate compelling pitch for hosting B!B! in Colombia, showcasing a different vision of how the conference could thrive there. The many people in the assembly had opportunities to ask detailed questions, share lingering grievances, and talk with both each other and the presenters about how to work through the challenges of restarting Bike!Bike! as an in-person conference. Ultimately, we voted to move ahead with Mexico City. Speaking personally, I'm really proud of and grateful to everyone who showed up to the assembly and the previous meetings. Many people invested a lot of time, skill, and vulnerability to this delicate and sometimes frustrating process. Thanks to your love, skill, and dedication, we're able to come back together in this movement for justice. I'd like to reflect too that I believe this has been a meaningful moment for our community—one where we used trust, skill, and communication to overcome a challenging transition in the way we work together internationally. I think that we've done really fine work for ourselves, and that we can look forward to more healing, collaboration, and adventure as we push for the revolution. Great job, everyone. Below are the meeting's tldr highlights. You can find the full notes here <https://pad.riseup.net/p/Notas_asamblea_BB2025>. * Oh! And a really sincere special thanks to everyone who interpreted, took notes, and kibbitzed with me on a back-channel with both facilitation support and moral support throughout the meeting. Thank you. * - 26 to 31 people joined the discussion - There were two comprehensive and compelling pitches: - Daniela, Dandy, and Valeria from Resiste Pedál in Mexico City, Mexico. - Armando from EMBYMAC in Bogotá, Colombia. - People asked questions about the proposals, the collectives involved, the cities and circumstances, and more. - People discussed each proposal's strengths and challenges, aired reservations, and also heard responses from the presenters in light of these discussions. - Eventually, we took a "temperature check" vote that showed 16 to 5 for CDMX over Bogotá. - Subsequently, we took a "more real" vote that showed only 2 for Bogotá, and the rest for CDMX. - Full notes here. <https://pad.riseup.net/p/Notas_asamblea_BB2025> ******** ¡Hola amigos y feliz año nuevo! Este mensaje sigue a nuestra Asamblea Bike!Bike! del 11 de diciembre de 2024, con un resumen de lo que sucedió y lo que viene. Sin embargo, este es el titular: *Resiste Pedál en la Ciudad de Mexico City será anfitrión de Bike!Bike! 2025!* *Resiste Pedál en la Ciudad de Mexico City será anfitrión de Bike!Bike! 2025!* *Resiste Pedál en la Ciudad de Mexico City será anfitrión de Bike!Bike! 2025!* Las fechas serán en algún momento de agosto. Las futuras actualizaciones vendrán de los organizadores. Creo que fue una reunión bastante sanadora, vigorizante y de construcción de comunidad. Los organizadores de CDMX tuvieron la oportunidad de volver a presentarse a la reunión más grande, demostrar las muchas fortalezas de su colectivo y reafirmar su visión para albergar la conferencia. Junto a ellos, un organizador de Bogotá presentó un discurso convincente por separado para albergar B!B! en Colombia, mostrando una visión diferente de cómo la conferencia podría prosperar allí. Las muchas personas en la asamblea tuvieron oportunidades de hacer preguntas detalladas, compartir quejas persistentes y hablar entre sí y con los presentadores sobre cómo superar los desafíos de reiniciar Bike!Bike! como una conferencia en persona. Finalmente, votamos para seguir adelante con la Ciudad de México. Hablando personalmente, estoy muy orgulloso y agradecido con todos los que se presentaron a la asamblea y las reuniones anteriores. Muchas personas invirtieron mucho tiempo, habilidad y vulnerabilidad en este proceso delicado y a veces frustrante. Gracias a su amor, habilidad y dedicación, podemos volver a unirnos en este movimiento por la justicia. También me gustaría reflexionar que creo que este ha sido un momento significativo para nuestra comunidad, uno en el que usamos la confianza, la habilidad y la comunicación para superar una transición desafiante en la forma en que trabajamos juntos a nivel internacional. Creo que hemos hecho un trabajo realmente bueno para nosotros mismos, y que podemos esperar más sanación, colaboración y aventura a medida que impulsamos la revolución. Buen trabajo, todos. A continuación, se muestran los puntos destacados de la reunión. Puede encontrar las notas completas aquí. <https://pad.riseup.net/p/Notas_asamblea_BB2025> * ¡Ah! Y un agradecimiento especial muy sincero a todos los que interpretaron, tomaron notas y charlaron conmigo en un canal secundario con apoyo de facilitación y apoyo moral durante toda la reunión. Gracias. * - De 26 a 31 personas se unieron a la discusión - Hubo dos presentaciones completas y convincentes: - Daniela, Dandy y Valeria de Resiste Pedál en la Ciudad de México, México. - Armando de EMBYMAC en Bogotá, Colombia. - La gente hizo preguntas sobre las propuestas, los colectivos involucrados, las ciudades y circunstancias, y más. - La gente discutió las fortalezas y desafíos de cada propuesta, expresó reservas y también escuchó las respuestas de los presentadores a la luz de estas discusiones. - Finalmente, tomamos una votación de "control de temperatura" que mostró 16 a 5 para CDMX sobre Bogotá. - Posteriormente, tomamos una votación "más real" que mostró solo 2 para Bogotá y el resto para CDMX. - Notas completas aquí. <https://pad.riseup.net/p/Notas_asamblea_BB2025> Josh Bisker | 914-500-9890 <http://voice.google.com/calls?a=nc,%2B19145009890>

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