Ourproject.org

Ourproject was founded in 2002 with the aims of hosting and boosting the cooperative work done in multiple domains (cultural, artistic, educational{{cite book|last=Kleinberg|first=David|title=Handbook for Language Learning Resources at Winthrop University|year=2008|publisher=Winthrop University|location=South Carolina, USA|url=http://www2.winthrop.edu/modernlanguages/HANDBOOK%20-%20Language%20Learning%20Resources%20at%20Winthrop%20University.pdf|access-date=2011-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215135212/http://www2.winthrop.edu/modernlanguages/HANDBOOK%20-%20Language%20Learning%20Resources%20at%20Winthrop%20University.pdf|archive-date=2010-12-15|url-status=dead}}), with one specific condition: the results of the projects should remain freely accessible under a free license.{{cite news|title=Como crear un Proyecto Libre (How to create a Free/Libre Project)|url=https://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=4544|access-date=3 February 2011|newspaper=Rebelión|date=13 September 2004}} This is understood in a broad way, as not all the available licenses are cataloged as free/libre (such as several Creative Commons licenses).{{Cite journal

| volume = 15

| issue = 1

| last = Rodríguez Mederos

| first = M.

| title = The dissemination of creations in the digital era: the Copyleft as a means to distribute creations in the digital era

| journal = Acimed

| year = 2007

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| publisher = IOS Press

| isbn = 9781614990642

|last1= Mass Araya|first1= Elizabeth Roxana |last2= Borsetti Gregorio Vidotti|first2= Silvana Aparecida

|editor1-first= Ana Alice|editor1-last=Baptista

|editor2-first= Peter|editor2-last= Linde

|editor3-first= Niklas|editor3-last= Lavesson

|editor4-first=Miguel |display-editors = 3 |editor4-last= Abrunhosa de Brito

| title = Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the Interplay Between Culture and Technology

|chapter-url= http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=30613

|chapter= Creative Commons: a Convergence Model Between the Ideal of Commons and the Possibilities of Creation in Contemporary TimesOpposed to Copyright Impediments

| date = 15 July 2012

|access-date= 19 August 2012

|pages= 3–11

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Its non-profit perspective is partially imposed on its online community of projects, as no advertising is allowed in the hosted webpages. Thus, Ourproject projects have mainly been carried out by social movements, university-supported groups,{{cite journal|last=De Pedro|first=Xavier|title=Writing documents collaboratively in Higher education using Traditional vs. Wiki methodology (I)|journal=The Fourth Congress of the International University Teaching and Innovation (IV CIDUI).|year=2006|volume=10|display-authors=etal}} some free software related projects,{{cite news|title=Linux, para todos los públicos|url=https://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/Linux/todos/publicos/elpportec/20060512elpepunet_6/Tes|access-date=3 February 2011|newspaper=El País|date=12 May 2006}} cooperatives,{{cite news|title=Las 'slow cities' abanderan la utopía del decrecimiento|url=http://www.publico.es/dinero/140988/las-slow-cities-abanderan-la-utopia-del-decrecimiento|access-date=3 February 2011|newspaper=Público|date=9 August 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520165511/http://www.publico.es/dinero/140988/las-slow-cities-abanderan-la-utopia-del-decrecimiento|archive-date=20 May 2013}} artist collectives,{{cite news|title=Jornada de Apoyo al Pueblo Palestino (Madrid)|url=http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/72835/jornada-apoyo-pueblo-palestino-madrid|access-date=3 February 2011|newspaper=Kaos en la Red|date=6 November 2008}} activist groups,{{cite news|title=Reclama las calles contra el desalojo de La Alarma|url=http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia.php?id_noticia=38436|access-date=3 February 2011|newspaper=Kaos en la Red|date=16 July 2007}} informal groups{{cite news|title=Unos 3.000 ciclistas se concentrarán en Madrid entre hoy y el domingo en una nueva edición de 'La criticona'|url=http://www.que.es/madrid/201004280550-unos-3.000-ciclistas-concentraran-madrid.html?anker_1|access-date=3 February 2011|newspaper=Europa Press news agency|date=28 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720143930/http://www.que.es/madrid/201004280550-unos-3.000-ciclistas-concentraran-madrid.html?anker_1|archive-date=20 July 2011|url-status=dead}} and non-profits.{{cite news|title=Se abre una nueva cooperativa agroecológica en San Martín de la Vega|url=http://www.rebelion.org/hemeroteca/otromundo/040129madrid.htm|access-date=3 February 2011|newspaper=Rebelion|date=29 January 2004|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233521/http://www.rebelion.org/hemeroteca/otromundo/040129madrid.htm|url-status=dead}}

As of December 2016, Ourproject.org was hosting 1,733 projects and had 5,969 users, with a constant linear growth rate.{{cite news|title=Ourproject home|url=http://ourproject.org|access-date=1 December 2016|newspaper=Ourproject.org|date=1 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226005437/http://ourproject.org/|archive-date=26 February 2011|url-status=dead}} and had a PageRank of 6{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ourproject.org |title=Alexa traffic details of Ourproject.org |date=September 10, 2009 |access-date=September 10, 2009 |archive-date=June 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621144548/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ourproject.org |url-status=dead }} and the 14th position on public Gforge sites,{{cite web|url=http://gforgesites.infoether.com/|title=Sites Using GForge|date=September 10, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209085842/http://gforgesites.infoether.com/|archive-date=February 9, 2009}} being the first of them not restricted to just free software projects. In fact, the GNU Project highlights it as "Free knowledge & free culture" project.{{cite web |url=https://www.gnu.org/links/ |title=The GNU project links Ourproject.org cataloging it as "Free knowledge & free culture"}} It claims to be the most successful wiki farm with full free version and without ads (comparison). It has presence especially in Spain, Latin America and China.{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ourproject.org |title=Alexa traffic details of Ourproject.org |date=December 15, 2011 |access-date=September 10, 2009 |archive-date=June 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621144548/https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ourproject.org |url-status=dead }}

Relevant projects that are using Ourproject infrastructure include:

• the Critical Mass movement pages reference for the Hispanic movement{{cite web|url=http://bicicritica.ourproject.org/|title=Spanish bicycle Critical Mass movement|date=December 15, 2011|access-date=December 15, 2011|archive-date=January 17, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117055951/http://bicicritica.ourproject.org/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/lacriticona/|title= World call for the bicycle Critical Mass movement |date=December 15, 2011}}{{cite conference | first = Giuseppe | last = Caprarelli | title = A Plus in Quality of Life | book-title = Workshop 3a: Self-Organized European Bike Workshops | year = 2007 | location = Rome, Italy }}
• The Spanish cooperative for Organic farming "Bajo el Asfalto está la Huerta", reference in the food sovereignty movement{{cite web |url=https://bah.ourproject.org/|title= Spanish bicycle Critical Mass movement |date=December 15, 2011}}{{Cite journal

| volume = 32

| issue = 3

| pages = 1

| last = Machado

| first = H.

|author2=A. Suset |author3=GJ Martín |author4=FR Funes-Monzote

| title = From the reductionist approach to the system approach in Cuban agriculture: a necessary change of vision

| journal = Pastos y Forrajes

| year = 2009

}}{{Cite journal

| volume = 12

| issue = 3

| pages = 335–358

| last = Fominaya

| first = C.F.

| title = Autonomous Movements and the Institutional Left: Two Approaches in Tension in Madrid's Anti-globalization Network

| journal = South European Society & Politics

| year = 2007

| doi = 10.1080/13608740701495202

| s2cid = 219696345

}}

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| pages = 159

| last = Vivas

| first = E.

| title = El consum agroecològic a l'Estat espanyol: una opció política1

| journal = Reflexions Sobre les Alimentacions Contemporànies

| year = 2010

}}

• the Kune project, a federated collaborative social network{{cite web |url=http://kune.ourproject.org|title= Kune Project collaborative platform|date=December 15, 2011}}{{cite web|title=Kune project in Ohloh|url=http://www.ohloh.net/p/kune|access-date=3 February 2011|archive-date=14 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514141205/http://www.ohloh.net/p/kune|url-status=dead}}
• the main Free Software association of Argentina{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/solar/|title= Solar, Free Software association of Argentina|date=December 15, 2011}}{{Cite journal

| last = Saravia

| first = D.

|author2=H. Solar

| title = Diccionario conceptual del conocimiento libre

}}

• The community website of the Ubuntu Spanish community {{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/ubuntu-es-web/|title= Ubuntu-ES community website workgroup|date=December 15, 2011}}
• the internal work group of the P2P Foundation.{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/p2p/|title= Work group and mailing lists of the P2P Foundation|date=December 15, 2011}}

During 2011, it has attracted interest by the new wave of protesting social movements in several areas:

• It has hosted several projects related to the Arab Spring movements from Lebanon,{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/bds/|title= Workgroup for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in Beirut, Lebanon|date=December 15, 2011}} Palestine{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/palest-ref-lb/|title= Work group for a campaign for the Palestinian refugees|date=December 15, 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://pylconf.ourproject.org/|title= Palestinian Youth Conference |date=December 15, 2011}} and Syria.{{cite web |url=https://beirutstreets.ourproject.org|title= 'Beirut Streets', pro-Syrian revolution protests in Beirut|date=December 15, 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://lebcrackdown.ourproject.org/|title= Pro-Syrian revolution news|date=December 15, 2011}}
• The social movement of 2011 Spanish protests repeatedly used its services.{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/acampadavlc15m/|title= Work group of the 15-M Movement camp in Valencia, Spain|date=December 15, 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/tietar15m/|title= Work group of the 15-M Movement in the Tietar area, Spain|date=December 15, 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/quincemlaboral/|title= Work group of the 15-M Movement focused on workers|date=December 15, 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/indignatssineu/|title= Work group of the 15-M Movement in the Sineu area, Spain|date=December 15, 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/edu15m-mallorca/|title= Work group of the 15-M Movement focused on education in the Mallorca area, Spain|date=December 15, 2011}}
• The American Occupy movement is recommending its use in its howto{{cite web |url=https://howtooccupy.org/|title= #HowToOccupy, howtos, methods, techniques and knowledge for the Occupy movement|date=December 15, 2011}} and it recently began being used.{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/occufr/|title= Work group of the Occupy movement focused on communication in the Fredericton area, Canada|date=December 15, 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://ourproject.org/projects/ncsudcsoccupy/|title= Study group of the North Carolina State University focused on the Occupy movement|date=December 15, 2011}}

Ourproject.org uses a multi-language multiple-topic adapted version of FusionForge. Its aim is to widen the spectrum of free software ideals, focusing on free social and cultural projects more than on free software. Thus, its software was originally a kind of social and multiple-topic forge following the free-culture movement. Nowadays, the Ourproject community has been involved in the development of the collaborative environment Kune and eventually this would cover all current Ourproject functionalities.

The main condition for hosting projects at OP is that the content created during the project must be released under one of these licenses:

• Creative Commons, Attribution
• Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike
• Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
• GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
• Open Publication License
• Libre Designs General Public License (LDGPL)
• Design Science License
• Free Art License
• Artistic License
• GNU General Public License (GPL)
• GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
• GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL)
• BSD License
• Mozilla Public License
• Public Domain
• No license

OP provides several free Internet services to free/libre projects collaborators:

• Web hosting with subdomain (projectname).ourproject.org or Virtual Hosting
• Mailing list
• Web Forums
• SSH account for full customization
• MySQL database
• permanent file archival (FTP)
• Wiki {{cite web |url=http://www.wikiindex.org/Ourproject.org_wiki |title=Characteristics of OP wiki|publisher=wikiindex.org}}
• Web-administration
• E-mail Alias @users.ourproject.org
• Periodical full backups
• For software projects: SCM (CVS, SVN)

Other secondary services:

• Task management
• News service
• Documentation management
• Surveys
• Registering
• File publication system
• Stats

Ourproject developed partnership with several organizations:

• GRASIA (Group of Software Agents, Engineering & Applications):{{cite web|title=Grasia Research Group homepage|url=http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/main/|access-date=3 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504221922/http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/main/|archive-date=4 May 2012}} Research group of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, it is offering joint grants to students and providing hardware resources.{{cite web|title=Comunes Acknowledgements|url=http://comunes.org/behind/|access-date=15 December 2011}}
• American University of Science and Technology (Beirut): offering students the chance of collaborating with Ourproject receiving trainings in administration, or framing their senior project and Master theses in this environment.
• IEPALA Foundation:{{cite web|title=IEPALA Foundation homepage|url=http://www.iepala.es|access-date=3 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405110717/http://www.iepala.es/|archive-date=5 April 2012|url-status=dead}} It has joined Ourproject, together with other free software initiatives, to build a common Data Center.{{cite web|title=Building a collective Data Centre|url=http://comunes.org/787/building-a-collective-data-centre/|access-date=15 December 2011}}
• Xsto.info: Free software cooperative{{cite web|title=Xsto.info free software cooperative homepage|url=https://xsto.info/|access-date=15 December 2011}} that has been providing technical infrastructure to Ourproject without charge, and recently joined the mentioned collective Data Center.

• Comunes Collective
• Free content
• Copyleft
• Open content
• Free software movement
• Open educational resources
• Gratis versus Libre
• Comparison of wiki farms

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