Category: Comunes news
Presentation of Master Thesis: Technological Needs of Social Movements
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” […]
October & November face-to-face open meeting
UPDATE: Meeting on November 29th was moved to November 30th. Here we proceed to announce the next face-to-face meeting for Comunes projects, mainly Kune and Move Commons: An open meeting for the supporters and collaborators of Move Commons: October 25, 18:00, at Medialab-Prado (now in Matadero, space Intermediae), Madrid. An open meeting for the supporters and collaborators of Kune: October 25, 19:00, at Medialab-Prado (now in Matadero, space Intermediae), Madrid. Afterwards […]
Comunes on Wikipedia
We consider that Wikipedia entries are very important, and we have put effort for Comunes, Kune and Ourproject to be in Wikipedia. Keeping an entry on Wikipedia is complicated as it requires writing from a neutral point of view, add plenty of references, maintenance… otherwise it risks being deleted. In the Spanish Wikipedia we have tried […]
New Comunes events on April
We have a busy week full of events! Check them out: As announced previously, we already have the calls for the next two meetings of Kune and Move Commons, both on the same day, Tuesday April 24: An open meeting for the supporters and collaborators of Move Commons: 24th of April, 17:00, at Medialab-Prado, Madrid. […]
Letter in these times of change
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 […]
¡Help! Hardware issues
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 […]
What a month!
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 […]
Upcoming presentations of the projects of Comunes
During the month of October, Comunes has been invited to present some of its projects in three prestigious events: Free Culture Forum (Barcelona), presenting Kune and Move Commons, on Saturday October 29, 18:45-19:05. The FCForum is an international space in which to build and coordinate a global framework for action and a common agenda for […]
Ourproject boosts!
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 […]