OurProject.org
Motto	Free Software and Free Knowledge for a Free Society
Formation	2002
Type	Non-profit
Purpose/focus	Educational
Headquarters	Madrid
Region served	Worldwide
Membership	private persons
Main organ	Assembly
Website	OurProject.org

Ourproject.org (OP) is a web-based collaborative free content repository. It acts as a central location for the construction and maintenance of projects, focusing in free knowledge^[1]. It claims to extend the ideas and methodology of free software to social areas and free culture in general^[2].

Contents 1 Philosophy 2 Software used 3 Licenses allowed 4 Services 5 Some examples 5.1 Educational 5.2 Cooperation & NGO 5.3 Free Knowledge 5.4 Green cooperative 5.5 Artistic activism 5.6 Political 5.7 Activism 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Philosophy

OP was funded in 2002 with the aims of hosting and boosting the cooperative work done in multiple domains (cultural, artistic, educational...), with one specific condition: the results of the projects should remain freely accessible under a free license. However, not all the offered licenses are catalogued as free (such as several Creative Commons licenses).

Its non-profit perspective is partially imposed on their projects, as no advertising is allowed in the hosted webpages. Thus, OP projects have mainly been carried out by social movements, informal groups and non-profits. As of September 2009, Ourproject.org is hosting 613 projects and 2,106 users, with a constant linear growth rate. It has a PageRank of 6^[3] and the 14th position on public Gforge sites^[4], being the first of them not restricted to just free software projects.

[edit] Software used

Ourproject.org uses a multiple-topic adapted version of Gforge. Its aim is to widen the spectrum of Free Software ideals, focusing in free social and cultural projects more than in Free Software. Thus, its software was originally a kind of social and multiple-topic Sourceforge following the Free culture movement.

[edit] Licenses allowed

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

[edit] Services

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
• MySQL database
• permanent file archival (FTP)
• Wiki ^[5]
• Web-administration
• E-mail Alias @users.ourproject.org
• Full backups
• For software projects: SCM (CVS, SVN)

Other secondary services:

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

[edit] Some examples

Some well-known projects hosted in ourproject.org:

[edit] Educational

• Escuela Verde (Social and Political Ecology Workshop in Málaga, Spain): http://escuelaverde.ourproject.org

[edit] Cooperation & NGO

• Materiales Euskal Gorrak (Federation of Basque Deaf Associations): http://euskalgorrak.ourproject.org
• Fojune, Forum de Juventude Negra (Brazilian Forum of Black Youth People) http://fojune.ourproject.org
• Tacurú, Red de Economía Solidaria (Argentinian network of Solidarity economy): http://tacuru.ourproject.org

[edit] Free Knowledge

• Grup pel Coneixement Lliure a la UB (Free Knowledge Group of the University of Barcelona): http://gclub.ourproject.org

[edit] Green cooperative

• Bajo el Asfalto está la Huerta (Agroecology cooperative): http://bah.ourproject.org
• Taller Cooperativo de Permacultura (Buenos Aires Permaculture group): http://cooperma.ourproject.org
• ONG Ecodesarrollo (Ecologist NGO): http://ecodesarrollo.ourproject.org

[edit] Artistic activism

• Rebelarte (Uruguay photography activists): http://rebelarte.ourproject.org
• ¿Quieres Callarte? (Spanish photography activists) http://quierescallarte.ourproject.org

[edit] Political

• Anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in Tarragona, Catalonia: http://cnt-tarragona.ourproject.org

[edit] Activism

• Bici Crítica (Madrid Critical Mass bike movement): http://bicicritica.ourproject.org
• Initiative of victims by Repsol activities: http://repsolmata.ourproject.org
• La Casika: A squad in Madrid: http://lacasika.ourproject.org

[edit] See also

• Libre knowledge
• Free content
• Copyleft
• Open content
• Free software movement
• Open educational resources
• Gratis versus Libre (free as in freedom)
• Comparison of wiki farms

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Ourproject.org main website
• Ourproject FAQ
• Presentation about Ourproject.org in the Cultural World Forum in Rio do Janeiro