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About this project
Cooperative, collaborative and decentralised cloud, alternative to the proprietary software platforms
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Infrastructure
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Servers
The rent of servers to run the various applications and databases.
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$ 1,123 | |
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Backup servers
Backup servers with encrypted files.
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$ 374 | |
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Goteo + bank commission costs
That'll be 4% + 2% approximately.
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$ 374 | |
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Second server
In order to provide better quality of service, we will need a second server where we can scale up the running applications.
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$ 936 | |
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Second backup server
With a growing number of users we will need to expand the backup server capacity.
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$ 374 | |
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If we receive more contributions, we will also have more commission costs for Goteo and the banks
4% + 2%
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$ 561 |
Task
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Developers
Developers and sysadmins. We share the work between different persons within the Alliance.
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$ 1,559 | |
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Platform coordinator
Assure that we extract the maximum from the platform to fulfil the users' needs.
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$ 520 | |
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Communication and design
Visual design and minimum adaptation of the webinterface + communication activities coordinated to make sure that we all row in the same direction in the social networks and other communication channels.
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$ 936 | |
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Introduction workshops
We organise awareness workshops about the GAFAM platforms and how to use the CommonsCloud platform.
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$ 312 | |
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Promotion of the campaign
Support to promote the campaign
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$ 260 | |
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Superadmins
There will be more work to optimise and maintain the applications. We will share the work between different persons from the Alliance.
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$ 2,807 | |
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Platform coordinator
We want that everything is understood well and that the different tools are discovered easily and that the users participate in the selection of tools and definition of continued development.
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$ 1,040 | |
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Platform initiation workshops
We organise workshops to raise awareness of the GAFAM platforms and how to use the CommonsCloud one.
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$ 832 | |
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Coordination of communication
We continue to do communication tasks between all of us, as a team, and even more coordination effort is required to row all in the same direction in different networks and channels.
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$ 1,040 | |
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CommonsCloud replication workshop
In these workshops we go through some of the free software options and help participants to replicate part or all of the CommonsCloud platform.
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$ 624 |
Material
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T-shirts
They will be nice ones!
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$ 312 | |
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Ingredients for the BBQ
We will organise a party with the pioneers, and that will require good ingredients!
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$ 260 | |
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Printed materials
Stickers, posters etc
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$ 208 | |
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T-shirts (òptim)
They will be very very good ones!
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$ 468 | |
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BBQ ingredients
A party with the pioneers requires the best ingredients!
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$ 364 | |
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Printerd materials
Stickers, posters and translated materials in various languages.
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$ 312 | |
| Total | $ 6,237 | $ 15,593 |
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General information
CommonsCloud is already operational! It is an online collaborative platform, the alternative to proprietary software platforms like Google Drive, but respectful with privacy and it doesn't commercialise your data.
But we still need to grow and improve it! With your donation you can contribute to complete it. I want to contribute (I want to make this a reality, even though I don't necessarily want to use it fully, at the moment) I want to be part of it (I want to be part of the early adopters or testers), look at the bounties we have for every contribution. In either way you will be part of an ambitious project: your observations as a user will define and prioritise the improvements that we will be integrating, all new functionalities will benefit everyone, in order to make the platform a real digital commons!
CommonsCloud integrates three collaborative services into one platform:
- an online OFFICE where you can store, share and edit documents and agendas in real time,
- a PROJECT manager that facilitates online collaboration between communities, organisations and collectives, and
- AGORA, a debating space that allows to hold debates and collective decisionmaking between participants.
One unified user account that allows you to get access to all three platforms.
Main features and goals of the crowdfunding campaign
How will we organise CommonsCloud?
- We select and integrate the best existing collaborative tools in the world of free (as in freedom) software
- We maintain an integrated service of these tools in continuous evolution and update them
- We give trainings so that everyone can learn to use the platform
- We mutualise the platform, inviting the users to become members of the cooperative
CommonsCloud also serves to raise awareness about the massive dependence on large proprietary platforms such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple or Microsoft, and on the risks involved. We organise workshops about the importance of protecting privacy and to give visibility to free software alternatives.
That's why we do not create a startup that can be sold to the corporate giants, instead we keep collective ownership through our cooperative.
How you can contribute:
We offer different options to make a donation, either as an individual ("I want it to happen" or "I want to be part of it") or as a collective or organisation: ("We want it to happen" or "We want to be part of it").
Why this is important
CommonsCloud is directed both at individual persons as well as at organisations and collectives; a critical mass of users in the social and solidarity economy. from NGOs or associations that work with volunteers, of groups of freelancers who work in a network and many other citizen initiatives that grow spontaniously as digital commons.
With an individual donation you can choose between different modalities of file storage capacity in a locally encripted server. With a collective or organisational donation you can choose between the pack that best suits your needs depending on the number of users and storage capacity on our servers. Take the leap to online collaboration and agile collective working methodologies and benefit from the CommonsCloud training workshops and a workshop for hackers on how to replicate the whole system in a self-managed server.
The more people we are, the more people contribute, the more services we will be able to develop and integrate in our platform. With your support you get access to the platform and help to recover control over your data and our freedom as society in the digital age.
Together we can create an alternative! Take the leap!
CommonsCloud is driven by the cooperative "Fem Procomuns" and has the support of an alliance of organisations and groups that believe in technological sovereignty. We have created a very active community with different professional backgrounds, from programmers, computer and encryption specialists, to designers, communicators and translators. We all contribute to the common goal of updating and continuously improving this free software project.
FemProcomuns
The cooperative FemProcomuns (freely translated: "Let's create commons-based projects"), is the promoter of CommonsCloud. It is formed by a dozen people with decades of experience in the world of free software, design, communication and social and economic development.
CommonsCloud Alliance
A set of organisations and collectives in Barcelona has been defining and developing the platform "CommonsCloud", including: Free Knowledge Institute, UOC / Dimmons, Jamgo, CoopDevs, LleialTEC, Barcelona Software, La Mar De Bits and LliureTIC.
Social commitment
Citizen participation
The commitment of CommonsCloud is multiple:
1) Facilitate social relations to co-create collective projects in a distributed and solidary way;
2) Work with free, libre and open knowledge and with agile methods;
3) Produce, document and share the knowledge generated in a structured way and under free licenses, both of the platform itself (which can be replicated) and of the projects that participate in the platform.
Sustainable Development Goals
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Decent Work and Economic Growth
Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs.
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Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Investments in infrastructure are crucial to achieving sustainable development.
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Sustainable Cities and Communities
There needs to be a future in which cities provide opportunities for all, with access to basic services, energy, housing, transportation and more.
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Responsible Production and Consumption
Responsible Production and Consumption