Comunes Collective Explained

Comunes Collective
Type:Non-profit association
Founded Date:September 2009
Location:Madrid, Spain
Origins:Ourproject.org
Area Served:Worldwide
Focus:Commons
Method:Free/libre web tools and free resources
Homepage:Comunes.org

Comunes is a nonprofit organization aiming to encourage the commons and facilitating grassroots work through free software web tools. Previously known as Ourproject.org, this collective established itself as a legal entity in 2009, forming Comunes. Nowadays it serves as an umbrella organization for several projects related to the Commons.[1]

Philosophy and Values

The objectives of the Communes include providing legal protection[2] to member projects, together with technical infrastructure. The organization claims[3] to be inspired by Software in the Public Interest organization, which provides similar protection to free software projects. Comunes member projects must focus on encouraging the protection or expansion of the Commons.[4] Comunes Manifesto[5] shows a view on the social movements as nodes in a social network, analysing which problems this ecosystem has[6] and proposing Comunes web tools for diminishing them.

Projects

Ourproject.org

Ourproject.org[7] is a web-based collaborative free content repository. It acts as a central location for offering web space and tools for projects of any topic, focusing on free culture and free knowledge. It aims to extend the ideas and methodology of free software to social areas and free culture in general. Thus, it provides multiple web services (hosting, mailing lists, wiki, ftp, forums, etc.) to an online community of social,[8] cultural,[9] artistic,[10] and educational[11] projects as long as they share their contents with Creative Commons licenses (or other free/libre licenses). Active since 2002, Ourproject.org hosts 1,200 projects and its services receive more than 1 million monthly visits.[12]

Kune

Kune[13] is a software platform for federated social networking and collaborative work, focusing on workgroups rather than in individuals.[14] [15] Kune aims to allow the creation of online spaces of collaborative work, where organizations and individuals can build projects online, coordinate common agendas, set up virtual meetings and join organizations with similar interests. It is programmed using GWT, on top of the XMPP protocol and integrating Wave-In-A-Box. Licensed under AGPL, it has been under development since 2007[16] [17] and it launched a beta and production site in April 2012.

Move Commons

Move Commons (MC)[18] is a web tool for initiatives, collectives, and NGOs to declare and make visible their core principles.[19] [20] The idea behind MC follows the same mechanics of Creative Commons tagging cultural works,[21] providing a user-friendly, bottom-up, labelling system for each initiative, with four meaningful icons and some keywords. It aims to boost the visibility and diffusion of such initiatives, and build a network among related initiatives/collectives, allowing mutual discovery. Additionally, newcomers could easily understand the collective approach in their website, or discover collectives matching their field/location/interests with a semantic search. It has been presented in several forums.[22] [23] [24] [25] [26] Nowadays it is in beta version, but there are already a few organizations using their MC badges.[27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]

Other projects

Comunes includes other newer projects such as Alerta,[33] the community-driven alert system, Plantaré,[34] the community currency for seed exchange, and others.[35]

Partners

Comunes has developed partnership with several organizations:

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: IOS Press. 9781614990642. Mass Araya. Elizabeth Roxana . Borsetti Gregorio Vidotti. Silvana Aparecida. Ana Alice. Baptista. Peter. Linde. Niklas. Lavesson. Miguel . Abrunhosa de Brito. 3. Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the Interplay Between Culture and Technology. http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=30613. Creative Commons: a Convergence Model Between the Ideal of Commons and the Possibilities of Creation in Contemporary TimesOpposed to Copyright Impediments. 15 July 2012. 19 August 2012. 3–11.
  2. Web site: P2P Foundation on the Comunes Association. 3 February 2011.
  3. Web site: About the Commons. Comunes Association. 3 February 2011.
  4. Web site: Comunes Legal Statutes. 3 February 2011.
  5. Web site: Comunes Manifesto. 5 February 2011.
  6. Web site: Challenges to connecting nodes in the ecosystem of social movements. 5 February 2011.
  7. Web site: Ourproject.org Homepage. 2 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110226005437/http://ourproject.org/. 26 February 2011. dead.
  8. News: Unos 3.000 ciclistas se concentrarán en Madrid entre hoy y el domingo en una nueva edición de 'La criticona'. 3 February 2011. Europa Press news agency. 28 April 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720143930/http://www.que.es/madrid/201004280550-unos-3.000-ciclistas-concentraran-madrid.html?anker_1. 20 July 2011. dead.
  9. Book: Kleinberg, David. Handbook for Language Learning Resources at Winthrop University. 2008. Winthrop University. South Carolina, USA. 2011-02-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20101215135212/http://www2.winthrop.edu/modernlanguages/HANDBOOK%20-%20Language%20Learning%20Resources%20at%20Winthrop%20University.pdf. 2010-12-15. dead.
  10. News: Jornada de Apoyo al Pueblo Palestino (Madrid). 3 February 2011. Kaos en la Red. 6 November 2008.
  11. De Pedro. Xavier. Writing documents collaboratively in Higher education using Traditional vs. Wiki methodology (I). The Fourth Congress of the International University Teaching and Innovation (IV CIDUI).. 2006. 10. etal.
  12. News: Ourproject boosts!. 13 December 2011. Comunes Blog. 2 October 2011.
  13. Web site: Kune Homepage. 3 February 2011.
  14. News: Das neue Internet. Niels. Boeing. Die Zeit. Germany. 31 August 2012. 5 September 2012. German. The new internet.
  15. News: Software libre, hardware libre, ¿servicios libres?. 3 February 2011. Libertonia News. 27 May 2009.
  16. Web site: Kune project in Ohloh. 3 February 2011. 14 May 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120514141205/http://www.ohloh.net/p/kune. dead.
  17. Web site: Colabora con Kune! Llamado a desarrolladores/as. Peru Free Software Association. 3 February 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100822025949/http://www.apesol.org/news/341. 22 August 2010.
  18. Web site: Move Commons Homepage. 3 February 2011.
  19. News: Move Commons te ayuda a definir públicamente tus proyectos. 4 February 2011. Barrapunto (Spanish Slashdot). 26 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101124160327/http://barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=10%2F07%2F26%2F0658215. 24 November 2010. dead.
  20. News: Move Commons, un nouveau système de marqueurs pour les initiatives du libre et au-delà. 4 February 2011. LinuxFR (French Slashdot). 29 December 2010.
  21. News: Move Commons: Moving Beyond Creative Commons. 3 February 2011. Glyn Moody's blog "Open...". 23 July 2010.
  22. News: Medialab-Prado debate on Move Commons (video). 3 February 2011. 25 November 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110113113725/http://medialab-prado.es/article/move_commons. 13 January 2011. dead.
  23. Web site: Mozilla Drumbeat platform: page for Move Commons project and its supporters. 3 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20101223062603/https://www.drumbeat.org/project/move-commons. 23 December 2010. dead.
  24. News: Move Commons activity scheduled in Mozilla Drumbeat Festival 2010. 3 February 2011. 5 November 2010.
  25. Web site: James. Nathaniel. Drumbeat Festival Evaluation 1: Objectives & Outcomes. 4 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110123152720/http://nathanieljames.org/blog/2010/12/06/drumbeat-festival-evaluation-1-objectives-outcomes/. 23 January 2011. dead.
  26. News: Creative Commons Grant proposal of Move Commons. 3 February 2011. 30 June 2010.
  27. Web site: Seeks project homepage (with MC badge). 3 February 2011.
  28. Web site: Derecho Internet homepage (with MC badge). 3 February 2011.
  29. Web site: Engineers without frontiers - Youth (Asturias, Spain) (with MC badge). 3 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20100916235845/http://asturias.isf.es/juvenil/. 16 September 2010. dead.
  30. Web site: Alifa free Culture Magazine (with MC badge). Alifa. 3 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110215113950/http://alifa.org/. 15 February 2011. dead.
  31. Web site: Asturias Bicycle association (with MC badge). 3 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20080709054852/http://www.asturiesconbici.org/web/. 9 July 2008. dead.
  32. Web site: White book of Free Software - Hispanic Calendar of Free Events (with MC badge). 3 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110302231819/http://libroblanco.com/cms/. 2 March 2011. dead.
  33. Web site: Alerta! service homepage. 3 February 2011. https://archive.today/20120701121417/http://alerta.ourproject.org/. 1 July 2012. dead.
  34. Web site: Plantaré project homepage. 3 February 2011.
  35. Web site: Comunes list of projects. 3 February 2011.
  36. Web site: Grasia Research Group homepage. 3 February 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120504221922/http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/main/. 4 May 2012.
  37. Web site: Comunes Acknowledgements. 3 February 2011.
  38. Web site: Medialab-Prado (Madrid) homepage. 3 February 2011.
  39. Web site: Comunes profile in Medialab-Prado. 3 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120424020630/http://medialab-prado.es/person/comunes. 24 April 2012. dead.
  40. Web site: Medialab-Prado "Commons Lab" list of workgroups in 2011. 3 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110207065357/http://medialab-prado.es/article/laboratorio_del_procomun_grupos_de_trabajo_2011#move. 7 February 2011. dead.
  41. Web site: IEPALA Foundation homepage. 3 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120405110717/http://www.iepala.es/. 5 April 2012. dead.
  42. Web site: Kune node in IEPALA Foundation domain. 3 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720141422/http://kune.beta.iepala.es/. 20 July 2011. dead.
  43. Web site: Xsto.info free software cooperative homepage. 3 February 2011.

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