Ourproject.org
Encyclopedia
OurProject.org is a web-based collaborative free content
repository. It acts as a central location for the construction and maintenance of social/cultural/artistic projects, providing web space and tools, and focusing in free knowledge. It claims to extend the ideas and methodology of free software
to social areas and free culture
in general. Since September 2009, Ourproject is under the Comunes Association umbrella.
. However, not all the offered licenses are catalogued as free (such as several Creative Commons licenses).
Its non-profit perspective is partially imposed on its online community of projects, as no advertising is allowed in the hosted webpages. Thus, OP projects have mainly been carried out by social movements, university-supported groups, some free software related projects, cooperatives, artist collectives, activist groups, informal groups and non-profits. As of August 2011, OurProject.org is hosting 955 projects and has 3,181 project admins, with a constant linear growth rate. It has a PageRank of 6 and the 14th position on public Gforge
sites, being the first of them not restricted to just free software projects.
. 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
.
Other secondary services:
Free content
Free content, or free information, is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content that meets the definition of a free cultural work...
repository. It acts as a central location for the construction and maintenance of social/cultural/artistic projects, providing web space and tools, and focusing in free knowledge. It claims to extend the ideas and methodology of free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
to social areas and free culture
Free Culture movement
The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content by using the Internet and other forms of media....
in general. Since September 2009, Ourproject is under the Comunes Association umbrella.
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 licenseFree license
A free license is a license which grants recipients rights to modify and redistribute the software or the content, which would otherwise be prohibited by copyright law.* Free software licence* Free content 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 its online community of projects, as no advertising is allowed in the hosted webpages. Thus, OP projects have mainly been carried out by social movements, university-supported groups, some free software related projects, cooperatives, artist collectives, activist groups, informal groups and non-profits. As of August 2011, OurProject.org is hosting 955 projects and has 3,181 project admins, with a constant linear growth rate. It has a PageRank of 6 and the 14th position on public Gforge
GForge
GForge is a free software fork of the web-based project-management and collaboration software originally created for SourceForge, called Savane...
sites, being the first of them not restricted to just free software projects.
Software used
OurProject.org uses a multi-language multiple-topic adapted version of GforgeGForge
GForge is a free software fork of the web-based project-management and collaboration software originally created for SourceForge, called Savane...
. Its aim is to widen the spectrum of Free Software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
ideals, focusing in free social and cultural projects more than in Free Software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
. Thus, its software was originally a kind of social and multiple-topic Sourceforge following the Free culture movement
Free Culture movement
The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content by using the Internet and other forms of media....
.
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 CommonsCreative CommonsCreative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
, Attribution - Creative CommonsCreative CommonsCreative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
, Attribution-ShareAlike - Creative CommonsCreative CommonsCreative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike - GNU Free Documentation LicenseGNU Free Documentation LicenseThe GNU Free Documentation License is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation for the GNU Project. It is similar to the GNU General Public License, giving readers the rights to copy, redistribute, and modify a work and requires all copies and...
(GFDL) - Open Publication LicenseOpen Publication LicenseOpen Publication License is a license open publications created by the Open Content Project, which now recommends using one of the Creative Commons licenses....
- Libre Designs General Public License (LDGPL)
- Design Science LicenseDesign Science LicenseDesign Science License is a copyleft license for free content such as text, images, music and other content but not for documentation or source code. The DSL was written by Michael Stutz.-External links:*...
- Free Art LicenseFree Art licenseThe Free Art License is a copyleft license that grants the right to freely copy, distribute, and transform creative works without needing the author's explicit permission.The Free Art License recognizes and protects these rights...
- Artistic LicenseArtistic LicenseThe Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License , a software license used for certain free and open source software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public...
- GNU General Public LicenseGNU General Public LicenseThe GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
(GPL) - GNU Lesser General Public LicenseGNU Lesser General Public LicenseThe GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License...
(LGPL) - Affero General Public LicenseAffero General Public LicenseThe Affero General Public License, often abbreviated as Affero GPL and AGPL , refers to two distinct, though historically related, free software licenses:...
(AGPL) - BSD License
- Mozilla Public LicenseMozilla Public LicenseThe Mozilla Public License is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation...
- Public DomainPublic domainWorks are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
- No license
Services
OP provides several free internet services to free/libre projects collaborators:- Web hosting with subdomain (projectname).ourproject.org or Virtual HostingVirtual hostingVirtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a server using a single IP address. This allows one server to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, in order to use its resources more efficiently....
- Mailing list
- Web Forums
- SSHSecure ShellSecure Shell is a network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client...
account for full customization - MySQLMySQLMySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
database - permanent file archival (FTP)
- Wiki
- Web-administration
- E-mail Alias @users.ourproject.org
- Periodical full backups
- For software projects: SCM (CVSConcurrent Versions SystemThe Concurrent Versions System , also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is a client-server free software revision control system in the field of software development. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers ...
, SVN)
Other secondary services:
- Task management
- News service
- Documentation management
- Surveys
- Registring
- File publication system
- Stats
See also
- Libre knowledgeLibre knowledgeLibre knowledge is knowledge which may be acquired, interpreted and applied freely. It can be re-formulated according to one's needs, and shared with others for community benefit....
- Free contentFree contentFree content, or free information, is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content that meets the definition of a free cultural work...
- CopyleftCopyleftCopyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...
- Open contentOpen contentOpen content or OpenContent is a neologism coined by David Wiley in 1998 which describes a creative work that others can copy or modify. The term evokes open source, which is a related concept in software....
- Free software movementFree software movementThe free software movement is a social and political movement with the goal of ensuring software users' four basic freedoms: the freedom to run their software, to study and change their software, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. The alternative terms "software libre", "open...
- Open educational resourcesOpen educational resourcesOpen educational resources are digital materials that can be re-used for teaching, learning, research and more, made available for free through open licenses, which allow uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone...
- Gratis versus LibreGratis versus LibreGratis versus libre is the distinction between two meanings of the English adjective "free"; namely, "for zero price" and "with little or no restriction"...
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