Dear friends, We are contacting you for updating you on a new way of collaborating in the growth of our community. As you know, Comunes, Ourproject, Kune y Move Commons have lived an extraordinary growth in the last times. This growth has required to increase the capacity of the servers and infrastructure of Comunes. In this line, we joined other similar collectives to form a Collective Data Centre, with enough resources for all of us. However, this implies a continuous economic effort. Furthermore, the time has come to renew our servers, that have already shown serious signals and issues. That's why we ...

Bad news... The Comunes collective has several servers to handle the initiatives under its umbrella: Ourproject.org, Kune, Move Commons, etc. Well, a few days ago two hard disks (from a RAID) failed. Translation for non-geeks: serious issues with our machines. Our servers are somehow old (several years) and this is a clear warning: it's time to replace several components. Besides, the forthcoming release of Kune "in production" (for the use of everyone, not just in a demo) means that we need a new server that can handle the load. Thus, we ask the community for urgent support in donations, hardware spare ...

Ourproject.org is Comunes first child, born in 2002. Nowadays it's a grown-up, pretty independent, and providing several web services to multiple initiatives. Looking at the forthcoming Kune, Ourproject geek-only technology looks old and rusty. However, it seems as if these days it's shouting out loud that it's still very alive and attractive for many. Ourproject has had since November 2009 a steady average of 500,000 non-unique visits per month. This summer 2011 though, it has boosted: July: 758,314 visits August: 1,198,483 visits September: 1,153,841 visits UPDATE: October: 1,360,126 November: 1,134,068 visits December: 1,054,232 visits January: 1,052,043 visits Good work!