How About a Global Rally?

Hi. We’ve received a bunch of requests from people outside the US looking to join the Rally. In fact, we’ve had visitors from over 80 countries since launch! We’ve always thought a web-based international collaboration to reduce CO2 would be outrageously cool. We just can’t believe we are seeing interest in this idea so quickly.

So, we’ve been putting our heads together here in Boston to determine how to offer international rally features, and fit them in with many other new features we are developing. Besides extending the maps, we’ll need to properly localize the challenges to the reflect the activities of each country. Still, getting the whole planet turned up is going to take some time.

Please bear with us. One near-term fix for our friends outside the US is to create a “rally embassy” for your country in a US city. For example, a team Japan has been started in San Francisco. We recognize that this is far from perfect, and that some of the US challenges simply wont make sense for people around the word. But, it’s a start. The existence of these embassy teams will also help us figure out which countries to focus on first in our international plans.

If you have any ideas on this topic, we’d love to hear them. You can use the comments section of this blog post of you like. Thanks.