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  Comunes is a non-profit collective dedicated to facilitating the use of free/libre web tools and resources to collectives and activists alike, with the hopes of encouraging the Commons. We encourage you to check our Manifesto which explains our approach.   A quick summary of our initiatives is as follows: Web Tools & Services Ourproject.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 on 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 ...

Move Commons, one of the initiatives under the Comunes umbrella, has began to spread the word and will be presented in the following events: Mozilla Drumbeat Festival, Nov 3-5, Barcelona Medialab-Prado, Nov 25, Madrid Chaos Communication Congress, Dec 27-30, Berlin

The Commons keep attracting the interest of researchers from multiple perspectives. A very interesting example of this is the Quality Commons workshop that took place a few days ago (28/29 of Jan 2010) in Paris. This workshop, an initiative from the Centre for Research in Social Simulation, approaches from a multidisciplinary perspective the problem of defining quality collectively, especially concerning common goods. That is, the process of emergence of quality when it is not defined by the top but constructed in a decentralized way: "In many areas, people collectively develop shared representations of the quality of artefacts. Scientific communities produce collective ...

The enclosure movement in England during the 15th and 16th centuries limited the access to land and its benefits to its owners, thus making it inaccessible to the public as it had been traditionally. This initiated the process of the privatization of common human necessities. Subsequently, the world was ruled under the logic of the capitalistic system of production, in which everything can be transformed into money, and industrialization engendered mass production. The process of privatization, linked to an unrestrained mercantilization, aggravated greed and competition. As a result, nowadays, the human civilization is in crisis ; one that could inevitably lead ...