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 […]
After several years of work, we can finally introduce the first release of Kune. Kune is a free software (AGPLv3) that focuses on building free/libre contents collaboratively, focused on organization work and web content publishing. You can check out a summary about Kune features below, and afterwards we encourage you to play with a demo. […]
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, […]
Clay Shirky: “Cognitive surplus (…) represents the ability of the world’s population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on large, sometimes global, projects (…) The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects. (…) Now, that free time existed in the 20th century, but we didn’t […]