JOTI in Finland

The first big JOTI event was arranged in Finland in 1997. After that an association called The Netscouts of Finland was formed. One of its tasks is to maintain this JOTI website joti.partio.net.

In 2004 there are several JOTI events around the country. Finnish scouts and guides chat on Scoutlink channels where the main channel is #suomi. Also IRCnet channels #partio, #joti and #scouting are very popular.

In Finland we have our own JOTI badge which requires making a JOTI webpage. We use also nordic JOTA/JOTI badge. Rangers and rovers have an ?extreme badge? called IRC-lilja (IRC-lily), whose different levels include spending 18 to 42 hours (!) on IRC.

On this website there are also the JOTI-kartta (=JOTI map), where JOTI participants collect their JOTI contacts. You can see there contacts on maps of Finland (scouting districts) and of the world (scouting countries). On JOTI 2002 on Finnish participant made contact to scouts and guides in 66 countries! Present JOTI-kartta users are shown on the map on the right side of this page.

ps. Visit also The Scouting Dictionary www.partio.net/dict/.