In the meeting of this Friday N30, we will have David Arroyo among us. David did his internship and Master Thesis of the Master of Social Research Methodology in the frame of Comunes. David will present us his Thesis, with title “Technological Use, Attitudes and Needs of the Social Movements in the city of Madrid” […]
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 […]
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 […]
As it was mentioned previously, Comunes has been moving around presenting its projects. In Contact (New York) we presented Kune, in the Free Culture Forum (Barcelona) we reviewed the approach and projects of Comunes, in “Building Digital Commons” (Barcelona) we focused on Move Commons. We have been meeting with people from Occupy Wall Street concerning […]
Move Commons, the Comunes project for labelling social initiatives, has just began a 40 days campaign for crowdfunding and search for collaborators. It is using the new crowdfunding platform “Goteo“, which just helps projects which provide a return to the Commons. The campaign aims to attract funding to boost the project and collaborators in different […]
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 […]
What we have seen these days in the movement 15M in the Spanish cities (and extensible to the Arab revolutions), has been a similar scenario to what we have lived all these years in ourproject.org, but condensed in a few days. When a person or collective needs to have a space in internet: Either they […]
Comunes launched a while ago its Trainings as a way of allowing students and contributors to get introduced in free open source software & leading technologies while contributing in real projects… which are pretty interesting, actually 😉 Nowadays we have: Six students of Computer Science from the American University of Science & Technology (Beirut, Lebanon) […]
In times of crisis, the Commons cannot be forgotten. In fact, they become more essential than ever. In the recent uprising in Egypt, protesters have taken over Cairo and other cities. The brutal state police, overwhelmed by the situation, is not anymore trying to “maintain order” and for several days has simply left. In fact, […]
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