National JOTA - JOTI Stories

With your help, the World Scout Bureau can compile a world-wide overview of the weekend and make it available to all participants. Of course, the information has to come from the participating Scout groups in your country. So you may want to ask them to prepare for that and send a short story of their activities to their National Organizer after the event. Good (colour) photographs will help to illustrate the event. Ask the help of a Scout photographer at your station.

National organizers are kindly requested to send “the story” of their country to the World Scout Bureau soon after the event. Please write us your ideas and comments, suggestions for future programmes and a description of the most exiting contacts.

To help you compile your story, a form will be available for download from the NJO-network web server before the event. A paper version is no longer included with the circular, but can be send to you upon request. Please contact the World Scout Bureau should you want to receive the paper form. The figures that are requested on the form will be used to compile some statistics. A reasonable estimate would be appreciated if they cannot be specified accurately.

Photographs showing Scouts in uniform at the microphone or keyboard and of other activities like electronic kit building, foxhunting, semaphore, map plotting and the like are most welcome. Please note that we do not need all your photographs (some Associations sent CD’s full of them in the past), a selected set of e.g. the 5 best ones is greatly appreciated. So are clippings of local newspapers carrying the story of JOTA - JOTI in your local community.

To note also the on-line web log service where Scout groups can document their participation details (available via the registration system). A web log is a on-line diary which is displayed in journal style on a website. Reports and photos can be added here as well as special JOTA-JOTI information like longest or interesting contact. Since Scouts do have a powerful tool with the web log software, documentation of the weekend is very easy. National Organizers can use the web log as a source for making their National JOTA-JOTI story. Also, the World Scout Bureau will be able to use it to supplement the world report.

We look forward to receive your input before the publishing deadline of:

15 December 2008.

We kindly ask you to please respect this deadline, as we unfortunately cannot guarantee publication of material received after this date.

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