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Comunes logoComunes is a non-profit collective dedicated to facilitate the collectives and activists work by providing free/libre web tools and resources, with the aim of encouraging the Commons.

We encourage you to check our Manifesto that explains our approach.

A quick summary of our initiatives follows:

Web Tools & Services

 
Ourproject logoOurproject.org 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 in 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…) to social/cultural/artistic projects as long as they share their contents with Creative Commons licenses (or other free/libre licenses). Active since 2002, nowadays it hosts 850 projects and its services receive 500.000 monthly visits.

Kune logoKune is a platform for encouraging collaboration, content sharing & free culture. It aims to improve/modernise/replicate the labor of ourproject.org does, but in an easy manner and expanding its features for community-building. It allows the creation of online spaces of collaborative work, where organisations and individuals can build projects online, coordinate common agendas, set up virtual meetings and join people/orgs with similar interests. It sums up the characteristics of online social networks with collaborative software, aimed for groups and boosting the sharing of contents among orgs/peers. It is still under development, with the support of the IEPALA Foundation.

Move Commons logoMove Commons (MC) is a simple web tool for initiatives, collectives and NGOs to declare and visibilise the core principles they are committed to. The idea behind MC follows the same mechanics of Creative Commons tagging cultural works, providing a user-friendly, bottom-up, labelling system for each initiative, with 4 meaningful icons, and some keywords. It aims at boosting the visibility and diffusion of such initiatives, and building a network among related initiatives/collectives across the world, allowing mutual discovery. Thus, it could facilitate them reaching critical mass. Besides, newcomers could easily understand the collective approach in their website, and/or discover collectives matching their field/location/interests with a simple search. Although there are a few initiatives already with their MC, it is still a beta-version under development, with the support of the Medialab-Prado Commons Lab .

Other projects

 

  • Alerta! is a community-driven alert system
  • Plantaré is a community currency for seed exchange
  • The World of Alternatives is a proof-of-concept initiative that aims to classify and document collectively alternatives of our “Another World is Possible” in Wikipedia
  • Karma is a proof-of-concept gadget for a decentralised reputation rating system
  • Massmob is a proof-of-concept gadget for calling and organising meetings and smart mobs
  • Troco is a proof-of-concept gadget of a peer-to-peer currency
  • Brick (temporal nickname) is a forthcoming initiative for guiding student assignments towards the solution of real problems and the sharing of their results for reusing/replicating/adapting the solutions
  • Ideas (temporal nickname) is a forthcoming initiative for brainstorming ideas of possible social projects related to the Commons

 
If you found interesting any of our projects, you should have a look at our Join page… who knows? Maybe you would like to join any of our activities! On the other hand, you might be a FLOSS geek: then this is your corner.

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