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OurProject.org 
Motto Free Software and Free Knowledge for a Free Society Formation 2002 Type Non-profit Purpose/focus Educational Headquarters Madrid Region served Worldwide Membership private persons Main organ Assembly Affiliations Member 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]. It claims to extend the ideas and methodology of free software[2] to social areas and free culture in general[3][4]. Since September 2009, Ourproject is under the Comunes Association umbrella[5].
Contents
Philosophy
OP was funded in 2002 with the aims of hosting and boosting the cooperative work done in multiple domains (cultural, artistic, educational[6]...), with one specific condition: the results of the projects should remain freely accessible under a free license[7]. However, not all the offered licenses are catalogued as free (such as several Creative Commons licenses).
Its non-profit perspective is partially imposed on its online community of projects, as no advertising is allowed in the hosted webpages. Thus, OP projects have mainly been carried out by social movements, university-supported groups[8][4], some free software related projects[9], cooperatives[10], artist collectives[11], activist groups[12], informal groups[13] and non-profits[14]. As of August 2011, OurProject.org is hosting 955 projects and has 3,181 project admins, with a constant linear growth rate. It has a PageRank of 6[15] and the 14th position on public Gforge sites[16], being the first of them not restricted to just free software projects.
Software used
OurProject.org uses a multi-language multiple-topic adapted version of Gforge. Its aim is to widen the spectrum of Free Software ideals, focusing in free social and cultural projects more than in Free Software. Thus, its software was originally a kind of social and multiple-topic Sourceforge following the Free culture movement.
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:
- Creative Commons, Attribution
- Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike
- Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
- Open Publication License
- Libre Designs General Public License (LDGPL)
- Design Science License
- Free Art License
- Artistic License
- GNU General Public License (GPL)
- GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
- Affero General Public License (AGPL)
- BSD License
- Mozilla Public License
- Public Domain
- No license
Services
OP provides several free internet services to free/libre projects collaborators:
- Web hosting with subdomain (projectname).ourproject.org or Virtual Hosting
- Mailing list
- Web Forums
- SSH account for full customization
- MySQL database
- permanent file archival (FTP)
- Wiki [17]
- Web-administration
- E-mail Alias @users.ourproject.org
- Periodical full backups
- For software projects: SCM (CVS, SVN)
Other secondary services:
- Task management
- News service
- Documentation management
- Surveys
- Registring
- File publication system
- Stats
See also
- Libre knowledge
- Free content
- Copyleft
- Open content
- Free software movement
- Open educational resources
- Gratis versus Libre
- Comparison of wiki farms
References
- ^ "Definition and creation of free projects". libreprojects.ourproject.org. http://libreprojects.ourproject.org/article.php3?id_article=15.
- ^ "There's Life after Microsoft - Free Software Advocates". Inter Press Service News Agency. 24 January 2004. http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22073. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ "The GNU project links Ourproject.org cataloguing it as "Free knowledge & free culture"". http://www.gnu.org/links/.
- ^ a b "Extrapolando la filosofía del Software Libre a otras áreas del conocimiento". Presentation of ourproject in the World Cultural Forum. http://www.softwarelibre.cl/drupal//?q=node/862. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ "The Comunes Association is the current umbrella organisation for OurProject". http://comunes.org/en/.
- ^ Kleinberg, David (2008). Handbook for Language Learning Resources at Winthrop University. South Carolina, USA: Winthrop University. http://www2.winthrop.edu/modernlanguages/HANDBOOK%20-%20Language%20Learning%20Resources%20at%20Winthrop%20University.pdf.
- ^ "Como crear un Proyecto Libre (How to create a Free/Libre Project)". Rebelión. 13 Septiembre 2004. http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=4544. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ De Pedro, Xavier; et al (2006). "Writing documents collaboratively in Higher education using Traditional vs. Wiki methodology (I)". The Fourth Congress of the International University Teaching and Innovation (IV CIDUI). 10.
- ^ "Linux, para todos los públicos". El País. 12 May 2006. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/Linux/todos/publicos/elpportec/20060512elpepunet_6/Tes. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ "Las 'slow cities' abanderan la utopía del decrecimiento". Público. 9 August 2008. http://www.publico.es/dinero/140988/las-slow-cities-abanderan-la-utopia-del-decrecimiento. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ "Jornada de Apoyo al Pueblo Palestino (Madrid)". Kaos en la Red. 6 November 2008. http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/72835/jornada-apoyo-pueblo-palestino-madrid. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ "Reclama las calles contra el desalojo de La Alarma". Kaos en la Red. 16 July 2007. http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia.php?id_noticia=38436. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ "Unos 3.000 ciclistas se concentrarán en Madrid entre hoy y el domingo en una nueva edición de 'La criticona'". Europa Press news agency. 28 April 2010. http://www.que.es/madrid/201004280550-unos-3.000-ciclistas-concentraran-madrid.html?anker_1. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ "Se abre una nueva cooperativa agroecológica en San Martín de la Vega". Rebelion. 29 January 2004. http://www.rebelion.org/hemeroteca/otromundo/040129madrid.htm. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ "Alexa traffic details of Ourproject.org". September 10, 2009. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ourproject.org.
- ^ "Sites Using GForge". September 10, 2009. http://gforgesites.infoether.com/.
- ^ "Characteristics of OP wiki". wikiindex.org. http://www.wikiindex.org/Ourproject.org_wiki.
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