JOTI

Scouts at JOTI.

The Jamboree on the Internet (JOTI) is an event that annually celebrates the Scout movement founded by Robert Baden-Powell through the network, bringing together more than 500,000 young people each year.

Like the Jamborees that the Scout movement holds every four years, this event aims to bring together young people from different parts of the world, so that they can meet and exchange experiences, ideas and projects, contributing to spreading the Scout brotherhood.

Date

This event takes place simultaneously with the JOTA (Jamboree On The Air) on the third weekend of October each year. Being able to organize extraordinary meetings on other dates for a special event. Likewise, Scoutlink's chat channels are enabled throughout the year, so it is common to find Scouts there any day of the year.

Duration

The duration of the event is 48 hours, starting at 0:00 on Saturday, and ending at 24:00 on Sunday, using the participant's local time.

Participants

This event is designed to take place within the scope of the Scout Group, so commonly the participating Scouts are camping, or cantonment at their group's premises, however this is an open event, so that any Scout with an internet connection can participate.

How do you participate?

The most common way to participate is by chatting through the IRC program, for which the event organization opens special channels for the different languages in which the participants' conversations take place, mainly using the chat network provided by Scoutlink.net, a chat network run by Scouts for Scouts, providing greater security for participants by having greater monitoring. You can also find other networks, or channels dedicated to this event.

You can also participate by visiting Scout group pages and signing guest books, exchanging contact cards via email, or on their Web page. Other ways to participate is by posting photos of the event on the web.

DVD

Starting from the 10th JOTI in 2006, based on an idea from Scouting Nederland, the Netherlands Scouting and Guide Movement, the JOTI organization encouraged participating Scout groups to make their own Web, where they could easily keep a log of the event, share photos, QSL JOTA cards, experiences and anecdotes of what was happening. At the end of the event, all the weblogs made were compiled on a DVD, to be distributed free of charge to the member associations of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.