This text concerns specific tasks that non-developer collaborators for ourproject / Kune / Comunes or any other initiative under our Comunes Association could take care of. That is, no technical expertise is needed for the majority of these tasks.

There are just a few of us who are concentrated in the “big” time-consuming daily tasks (administration of equipments, development, etc), so we don’t have time for a lot of the tasks of this list, still very important.

If you feel confortable help us in any of these task, please contact us. Here it’s the list:

• Join our multiple discussions in many topics:
  • Future of Kune
  • Ideas for Kune and Comunes
  • Definition of the role of Comunes
  • Discussing improvements of wave robots and gadgets that will be integrated in Kune
  • General discussions (e.g. definition of activism types)
• Management and Legal support: Our activities usually require professional support in economical management, legal issues, logistics…
• Searching for other collaborators: Trying to find people that might help in any of the all these tasks is a crucial task.
• Searching for other groups, projects and associations that, sharing our ideals, may be interested in joining efforts with us. Maybe even the groups you participate in. Establishing contact with them and encouraging mutual collaboration is essential.
  • Search groups and build a list of possible groups to collaborate with (extending the list of “Commons” initiatives)
  • From the list of groups, pick one and explore it. Afterwards, write a summary of their actions and aims, so the rest don’t need to explore the same webpages.
• Donating or encouraging donations (with ideas or spreading the word). We are having economical issues nowadays, and any help is welcome.
  • http://ourproject.org/op/donate.php
• Explore other sources of funding compatible with our ideals. That is, no enterprise sponsorship, no advertising, no profit-seeking policies. Possibilities:
  • Extending some of our programs, such as emite (a part of Kune) for specific purposes in exchange for funding. Of course, every change must still be free/open source software.
  • Find grants or economical support from social philantropy as defined in http://www.ted.com/talks/katherine_fulton_you_are_the_future_of_philanthropy.html
    • Example: http://www.ashoka.org
  • Find contests/prizes that promote free/open source software projects for social change in which we can participate… if they are compatible with our ideals.
• Improving visibility.
  Nowadays mainly ourproject, as Kune and Comunes are work in progress:
  • Blog posts
  • Blog links (in a blogroll, for instance)
  • Wikipedia pages in English (ourproject)
  • Wikipedia pages in Spanish (non-existent)
  • Wikipedia pages in other languages? (non-existent)
• Creation of web content:
  • Writing of posts on The Commons for comunes.org
• Web management:
  • Inclusion of the new materials/posts
  • Checking bugs, localisation…
• Improving the current translations of:
  • comunes.org
  • kune.ourproject.org
  • ourproject.org
• Addition of missing full translations, especially Spanish->English and English->Spanish. That is, synchronizing all the languages, so all show the same content (there is a lot of material just in one language):
  • comunes.org
  • kune.ourproject.org
  • ourproject.org
• Testing Google Wave robots and gadgets that will be integrated in Kune
• Providing additional documentation
  • Writing summaries of current content
  • Writing manuals
• Artistic content and design
  • Logos improvement
  • Icons for Kune
  • Webpage look
    • comunes.org
    • kune.ourproject.org
    • ourproject.org