Bike!Bike! Everywhere! 2022

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Workshops

Do you have an exciting skill to share with us? Want to chat about creating safe community spaces? Want to make sure we fit a good bike ride into the weekend? Propose a workshop! Don’t worry if you’re not an expert, we want to hear about everyone’s experience within the many configurations of community shops we’re coming from.

• B!B!E! Nuts and Bolts

  8 people are interested in this workshop

  Behind the Scenes

  Learn what makes Bike!Bike! Everywhere! possible:

  • Meet this year's organizers
  • Hard work and magic

  Planning

  Tech

  Budget

  Language Justice

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  • We need YOU! We are you!
  • Ability to speak & read in Spanish & English

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  • Three year commitments preferred

  Year 1 - learn & do

  Year 2 - teach & do

  Year 3 - be there for questions (with option to transfer into new role)

  • On-the-unpaid-job training
  • Letters of reference
  • Be a part of our sweet little community
  • All volunteers and former volunteers are invited to the B!B!E! Volunteer After-party
  • Help Bike!Bike! Everywhere! happen again next year
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  • We also are looking for facilitators for workshops on some specific topics for next year.

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• Bizi fanzine & rol por playas

  4 people are interested in this workshop

  Bizi fanzine: el único fanzine para niñes que les muestra la bici como un medio de transporte, además de ser un deporte o juego. El fanzine es gratuito en Tijuana y se comparte el archivo PDF para imprimir en donde sea. Hecho con collage y colaboraciones por artistas locales para colorear. 

  ¡Del papel a la acción! El fanzine se ha materializado con varias actividades, convivencias inclusivas y gratuitas, como Bike shower (tal cual lavar bicis en parque públicos) y la exhibición "Echa ojo: ¿Cómo elegir la bicicleta adecuada?. Además del paseo ciclista semanal "Rol por playas" donde pedaleamos niñes, adolescentes, adultes incluso personas autistas.

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• How we can end Built-to-Fail Budget Bicycles!

  21 people are interested in this workshop

  Since last year's Bike!BikeEverywhere workshop, our Petition to End the Manufacture and Sale of Built-to-Fail Budget Bicycles has received over 3,350 signatures from bicycle shops, co-ops, mechanics, and advocacy groups around the world, and has gotten some decent media attention! What comes next? We need your help!

  Join this workshop to learn how we can use this petition to slow or stop the flow of single-use bicycles into our communities while building infrastructure, institutions and policy that increase access to reliable and repairable bicycles instead!

  This facilitated community conversation will 1) remind us of the state of badly-constructed, unsafe, unrepairable budget bikes and the problems they are causing in our communities, and 2) look at system-wide solutions we can all move forward together that center poor and working class and rural populations - including ways to support and grow this current campaign.

  For more information, contact Mac Liman (she/her) at mac@bikestogether.org

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• Impact of Community Bicycle Shops from the Perspective of Patrons

  25 people are interested in this workshop

  Since 2018, members of the Bike!Bike! community have been working on an exploratory survey that aimed to identify the impacts of Community Bicycle Shops (CBS) from the perspective of patrons. The survey was sent to numerous CBS across North America. A total of 12 shops participated and 154 patrons responded to the survey. Building on presentations in Bike!Bike! 2018 and Bike!Bike!Everywhere! 2021, this workshop will officially launch the final report from the survey and make it available to all members of the Bike!Bike! community. Another goal of this workshop is to open up a discussion of CBS evaluation, what strategies have worked, challenges experienced, and what role(s) can the Bike!Bike! network play to facilitate CBS evaluation. 

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• Making Connections: How to use our Work and Values to Increase Community Support

  25 people are interested in this workshop

  The work that community bike shops and bike advocacy groups do is incredibly valuable in our respective communities. While some groups have cracked the code and are sustainably supported by their membership, allies, volunteers, and funding sources, others deal with constant turnover, lack of funding, and wavering community support. This workshop aims to lead a facilitated discussion on various strategies that may help increase the support for our initiatives and help with the sustainability of our organizations. Those who have had success or are struggling with recruitment and/or retention are encouraged to attend and share their experiences. Starting with the concept of branding and basic social marketing strategies, the workshop will then lead into a conversation which will hopefully serve as a knowledge sharing opportunity for the Bike!Bike! community.

  
  

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• Making the Big Guys Work for You

  34 people are interested in this workshop

  For those participating in mutual aid and community organizing, utilizing the resources of larger-scale organizations can do wonders for your capacity and reach. Join this discussion-based workshop to learn about the opportunities available to receive funds for your projects, involve communities in your work, increase cycling education, and make the world a better place.

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• Multiple resistances through the bicycle in Chile

  17 people are interested in this workshop

  The climate, social and cultural crises require urgent paradigm shifts around our relationship with our environment and communities. We use the bicycle as a tool to direct those paradigm shifts, changes in which we aim to facilitate its use, but also to carry out different initiatives, like mappings, community science, talks, discussions and to generate points of encounter and drive the changes the city needs.

  In this talk, we’ll show the activities we are carrying out in our cities, which changes have been generated, and which problems our communities are resisting.  

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• Raising children on a bicycle in the South of Chile

  7 people are interested in this workshop

  Bicycles have been part of my life since an early age: they gave me enough independence to get to school on my own (in a small city), get me out of the metro’s routine in Santiago and to discover the city; to use it as a clean, fast and budget-friendly form of transportation when we studied in London; and as a way to move around with our son and the one on the way in Coyhaique, Chile.

  The goal of this workshop is to talk about how we can move around the city with kids and to motivate others to do it. To share from our experience living with our son in Coyhaique, with its cold winters, how you can do it and to present different options we’ve tried. We’ll talk about the benefits of riding your bike as a way of transportation, also the limitations we’ve faced in the city and the challenges we have as a society to design cities that are friendly to children’s active mobility since early childhood.

  
  

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• Social Bike Rides

  20 people are interested in this workshop

  Social bicycle rides exist throughout the world and bring diverse communities of bicycle riders together. These go by many different names, such as Bike Party, Slow Roll, Bike Night, etc. In this workshop, I hope to bring together organizers, volunteers, and participants from these rides to discuss how these rides are organized, what works well for different rides, how to address challenges and difficult situations, and how these rides vary depending on the community in which they are hosted.

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• Software vs Paper II

  23 people are interested in this workshop

  Due to the success of Software vs Paper during B!B!E!2021, I am repeating the same format for 2022! This workshop occurred in two 45 minute sessions, but due to the popularity, presenters and discussion leaders had limited time, so please contact me ASAP at Jonathan Rosenbaum <bike@bikelover.org> so I can add you to a time slot in the schedule.

  In past Bike!Bike! conferences, I have presented the current state of Free Software designed specifically for the operation of Community Bike Shops, here and here . However, in this wonderful conference, the floor will be opened up to everyone who wants to discuss and/or show (screen share) their software operations and/or development, and/or ask questions and/or try to prove that paper is better and/or discuss what software has meant to the success of their organization during the pandemic, or more normal times. Software discussions are not limited only to Free Software. One of the results of this workshop last year was the formation of the B!B!E! tech team. The development the team has performed on our conference software, the proposed development under way on our next generation conference software, and how to become involved shall close out our discussion.

  Facilitator Background: I have been managing Positive Spin as a volunteer in Morgantown, WV, since 2013, after taking on the challenge in 2012 to save the 501(c)(3) organization from liquidation. Initially, everything was run with the original messy, ineffective, and highly error-prone paper based record system, which was re-entered into the open source accounting system, GnuCash, which replaced the previous spreadsheet method. By 2014, it was obvious we needed a Point of Sale tailored to the needs of a volunteer-run bike collective. Hence, began my adventure in finding that software. As a result, I developed the Reuse Bikes and Reuse Code website to provide demonstrations of existing software, as well as the Wiki Software page. Keeping this story short, I ended up developing a fork of the Yellow Bike Database (YBDB), which I strongly attribute to the viability of our organization since early 2015. As of early 2022, the shop now has a new "next generation" software system (currently an inventory component) I am actively developing called BikeShopi that I briefly demonstrated at B!B!E!2021, which has made operations even more positively, pleasant!

  Bike!Bike! with a Positive Spin!

  

  
  

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• The Digital Collective: The Opportunities and Challenges of New Media

  25 people are interested in this workshop

  Digital media sharing platforms present opportunities for bike collectives to gain more presence online. A strong online presence could result in greater reach, more supporters and more funding. But using these platforms also presents technical/operational issues, privacy concerns and artistic/creative challenges. This will be a facilitated discussion to outline the What/Why/How of using new media. The goal is to inspire individual collectives to better leverage digital media and furthermore inspire digital collaborations between Collectives around the globe.

  WHAT is new media? What are the different forms of new media available to/being used by collectives today?

  WHY use digital media? How could bike collectives (individually and as a group) be impacted positively/negatively from participating in these platforms?

  HOW does your organization use digital media? What are some ways to navigate privacy concerns, creative challenges and technical/operational issues?

  
  

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