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DaruDar 
URL darudar.org Slogan Give away and receive as a gift to make the world better Commercial? No Type of site Giving-away service, Community Registration Invite or Application Available language(s) Multilingual Launched September 22, 2008 Revenue Donations and Google AdSense Current status Active DaruDar is an international community where people give away things, their skills and time to each other for absolutely free requiring nothing in return. The community is based on principles of self-organization. Main condition of participation is following the rules of gift giving[1] and communication[2] set on the site. The global mission of DaruDar[3] is to create a widespread social practice of gift-giving, to make it a daily and routine act. Words like “lot”, “exchange”, “freebie”, “junk”, “crap” are considered obscene on DaruDar.
On 22 September 2008 service was launched in Russian. It was created by four friends who had worked with Habrahabr project earlier. They were inspired by flashmob, Kropotkin and Gandhi ideas.
With collaborative help of the community service was translated into English in 2010.
Contents
Basic concept of the community
Darudar users call themselves comembers (means "community members"). DaruDar gift is a thing, skill or service of a comember that he/she wants to give away to someone. In order to offer a gift a comember creates a publication describing what he gives. Other comembers can wish it. Later the gift giver chooses someone to promise their gift. Every gift can be commented, wished, promised and thanked. Only those offers which simultaneously satisfy all three of the following conditions and cannot exist without them should be considered gifts on Darudar:
- It can be wished
- It can be promised
- It can be given
For example text or image file cannot be a gift as in fact they both are gifts for all. Despite the fact that formally it may be a gift some of them should not be given away on Darudar[4].
Features of the service
The main feature of this gift-giving service is it's mechanisms enable people to make clever choices about whom to give their things to (what they feel are appropriate). Due to this mechanisms things are distributed to be as useful for people as the things could be at the time.
Search & Filtering
Darudar as a service of gift giving has a search and filtering tools. Looking for interesting or wanted things, skills or services by search you can optionally specify results by geographical location, possibility of sending by post, thematic categories, languages etc.
Groups
Groups are a collaborative comember-created filters. Each group brings together people of similar interests. Group members can cooperate to filter and recommend gifts of special interest for them to the group.
Thanks
The gift giver promises their gift to one of the wishers. After meeting and receiving the gift the wisher should write thanks for this gift. It can contain text, image or video which will prove that the gift handover was fulfilled. All written thanks are collected into comember's profile.
Gift crossing
You can keep giving away the gift you have received and get involved into "gift crossing". All gifts involved into the gift-crossing have their own individual story. One can always see who gave this gift away to whom.
Daronomics
Daronomics is a global statistical section of community gift giving[5]. It shows how many cities are involved into the gift giving, global pulse of gift giving for the past three months, the number of comembers registered on the site, the total number of gifts etc. The same information is available for each city.
Principles of self-organization
Each comember has to follow the traditions of DaruDar[1]. Essentially there is a list of principles how the gift giver or the wisher should behave in certain cases. In addition to the basic principles, traditions also include the following issues:
Furthermore comembers can help and guide each other using disapproval tools, public responses, vox populi and wardens help.
See also
- BeWelcome – an open source and non-profit hospitality exchange network
- CouchSurfing - for-profit hospitality exchange network
- Hospitality Club - gift-giving community of hospitality
- BookCrossing - gift-giving community of books
- Postcrossing - gift-giving community of postcards
- The Freecycle Network - gift-giving community
- Social software
- Reuse
- Sharing
- Gift economy
References
- ^ a b Traditions
- ^ a b Code of ethics
- ^ a b Mission
- ^ a b Not for gift giving
- ^ Daronomics
External links
Publications
- «Лицо. Максим Каракулов» article in «Афиша» magazine on 20 October 2008 (Russian)
- Интервью c Максимом Каракуловым on «Radio Mayak» radio on 24 October 2008 (Russian)
- «Будь щедрее!» article on Look At Me site on 9 November 2008 (Russian)
- «…То есть даром» article on the site of «Итоги» magazine on 24 November 2008 (Russian)
- Mentioned in «Прогресс» TV cast on «5-tv» channel (Saint-Peterburg) on 8 February 2009 (Russian)
- Mentioned in «Телепорт» TV cast on «MTV Russia» channel on 17 June 2009 (Russian)
- Essay in «Site of the day» section in «Vedomosti» newspaper on 5 August 2009 (Russian)
- Article «Подарю лошадь. С доставкой на дом» in «Komsomolskaya Pravda» newspaper on 13 September 2010 (Russian)
- Передача Эхонет on «Echo of Moscow» radio on 7 February 2011 (Russian)
- «Дару–дар - новый способ стать счастливее» article in «Cosmopolitan Saint-Peterburg» magazine on 8 February 2011 (Russian)
- «Почтальоны мечты» article in «Вечерняя Москва» newspaper on 21 February 2011 (Russian)
- TV report in «За окнами» programm on the «STB» channel on 30 March 2009 (Ukrainian)
- TV report in «КультУРА» programm on the «7 канал» channel (Kharkiv) on 13 October 2009 (Ukrainian)
- TV report in «ТСН» programm on «1+1» channel on 15 August 2010 (Ukrainian)
- TV report in «Prime Time Russia» programm on «Russia Today» channel on 28 March 2011 (English)
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