Ourproject.org

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OurProject.org
Formation2002
TypeNon-profit
PurposeEducational
Headquarters Madrid, Spain
Region served
Worldwide
Main organ
Assembly
AffiliationsMember project of Comunes organization
Website OurProject.org

OurProject.org (OP) is a web-based collaborative free content repository. It acts as a central location for the construction and maintenance of social/cultural/artistic projects, providing web space and tools, and focusing in free knowledge. [1] [2] It claims to extend the ideas and methodology of free software [3] to social areas and free culture in general. [4] [5] Since September 2009, Ourproject is under the Comunes Association umbrella, [6] and gave birth to the Kune collaborative social network for groups.

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Philosophy

Ourproject was founded in 2002 with the aims of hosting and boosting the cooperative work done in multiple domains (cultural, artistic, educational [7] ), with one specific condition: the results of the projects should remain freely accessible under a free license. [8] This is understood in a broad way, as not all the available licenses are cataloged as free/libre (such as several Creative Commons licenses). [9] [10]

Its non-profit perspective is partially imposed on its online community of projects, as no advertising is allowed in the hosted webpages. Thus, OurProject projects have mainly been carried out by social movements, university-supported groups, [5] [11] some free software related projects, [12] cooperatives, [13] artist collectives, [14] activist groups, [15] informal groups [16] and non-profits. [17]

Current situation/Condition

As of December 2016, OurProject.org was hosting 1,733 projects and had 5,969 users, with a constant linear growth rate. [18] and had a PageRank of 6 [19] and the 14th position on public Gforge sites, [20] being the first of them not restricted to just free software projects. In fact, the GNU Project highlights it as "Free knowledge & free culture" project. [21] It claims to be the most successful wiki farm with full free version and without ads (comparison). It has presence especially in Spain, Latin America and China. [22]

Relevant projects that are using Ourproject infrastructure include:

During 2011, it has attracted interest by the new wave of protesting social movements in several areas:

Software used

OurProject.org uses a multi-language multiple-topic adapted version of FusionForge. Its aim is to widen the spectrum of free software ideals, focusing on free social and cultural projects more than on free software. Thus, its software was originally a kind of social and multiple-topic forge following the free-culture movement. Nowadays, the Ourproject community has been involved in the development of the collaborative environment Kune and eventually this would cover all current Ourproject functionalities.

Licenses allowed

The main condition for hosting projects at OP is that the content created during the project must be released under one of these licenses:

Services

OP provides several free Internet services to free/libre projects collaborators:

Other secondary services:

Partners

Ourproject developed partnership with several organizations:

See also

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