Kune (software)

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FieldValue
nameKune
logo[[File:Kune-logo.svg
screenshot[[File:Concurrent-edit-and-chat.png
collapsibleyes
authorComunes Collective
developerComunes Collective, IEPALA Foundation
released
latest release version1.0.0 (Codename "free-riders")
latest release date
latest preview date
programming languageJava-based Google Web Toolkit
platformCross-platform
languageMulti-language (more than 10)
genreWeb application Collaborative software Distributed social network
licenseAGPLv3
website
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| name = Kune | logo = [[File:Kune-logo.svg|frameless|upright]] | screenshot = [[File:Concurrent-edit-and-chat.png|frameless|center]] | caption = | collapsible = yes | author = Comunes Collective | developer = Comunes Collective, IEPALA Foundation | released = | discontinued = | latest release version = 1.0.0 (Codename "free-riders") | latest release date = | latest preview version = | latest preview date = | frequently updated = | programming language = Java-based Google Web Toolkit | operating system = | platform = Cross-platform | size = | language = Multi-language (more than 10) | genre = Web application Collaborative software Distributed social network | license = AGPLv3 | website = Kune was a free/open source distributed social network focused on online real-time collaborative editing, decentralized social networking and web publishing in workgroups. It aimed to allow for the creation of online spaces for collaborative work where organizations and individuals can build projects online, coordinate common agendas, set up virtual meetings, publish on the web, and join organizations with similar interests. It had a focus on Free Culture and social movements needs.{{cite news | title = Das neue Internet | first = Niels | last = Boeing | url = http://www.zeit.de/zeit-wissen/2012/05/Das-alternative-Netz/komplettansicht | newspaper = Die Zeit | location = Germany | date = 31 August 2012 | access-date = 5 September 2012 | language = de |trans-title=The new internet

Technical details

Kune was programmed using the Java-based GWT in the client-side, integrating Apache Wave (formerly Google Wave) and using mainly the open protocols XMPP and Wave Federation Protocol. GWT Java sources on the client side generates obfuscated and optimized JavaScript conforming a single page application. Wave extensions (gadgets, bots) run on top of Kune (as in Facebook apps) and can be programmed in Java+GWT, JavaScript or Python.

The last version was under development since 2007 until 2017. The code was hosted in the GIT of Gitorious,{{Cite web |title=Kune repository in Gitorious |url=https://gitorious.org/kune | access-date = 2 September 2012 | publisher = Gitorious | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121024191020/https://gitorious.org/kune | archive-date = 2012-10-24}} with a development site and its main node{{Cite web |title=Kune node "Kune.cc" |url=http://kune.cc/ |access-date=5 September 2012 |publisher=Maintained by Comunes Collective |archive-date=13 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121213023537/http://kune.cc/}} maintained by the Comunes Collective.

Kune is 100% free software and was built only using free software. Its software is licensed under the AGPL license, while the art is under a Creative Commons BY-SA.

Philosophy

Kune was born in order to face a growing concern from the community behind it. Nowadays, groups (a group of friends, activists, a NGO, a small start-up) that need to work together typically will use multiple free (like beer) commercial centralized for-profit services (e.g. Google Docs, Google Groups, Facebook, Wordpress.com, Dropbox, Flickr, eBay ...) in order to communicate and collaborate online. However, "If you're not paying for it, you're the product". In order to avoid that, such groups of users may ask a technical expert to build them mailing lists, a webpage and maybe to set up an etherpad. However, technicians are needed for any new list (as they cannot configure e.g. GNU Mailman), configuration change, etc., creating a strong dependency and ultimately a bottleneck.

Kune aims to cover all those needs of groups to communicate and collaborate, in a usable way and thus without depending on technical experts. It aims to be a free/libre web service (and thus in the cloud), but decentralized as email, so a user can choose the server they want and still interoperate transparently with the rest.

Opposite to most distributed social networks, this software focuses on collaboration and building, not only on communication and sharing. Thus, Kune does not aim to ultimately replace Facebook, but also all the above-mentioned commercial services. Kune has a strong focus on the construction of Free Culture and eventually facilitate Commons-based peer production. | publisher = IOS Press | isbn = 978-1-61499-064-2 |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

History

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VersionCode nameRelease date
0.0.1--o
0.0.915Mo
0.1.099%o
0.2.0Ostromo
1.0.0"Free-riders"c
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The origin of Kune relies on the community behind Ourproject.org. Ourproject aimed to provide for Free Culture (social/cultural projects) what SourceForge and other software forges meant for free software: a collection of communication and collaboration tools that would boost the emergence of community-driven free projects.{{Cite book | last = Camino | first = S. |author2=F. Javier |author3=M. Jiménez Gañán |author4=S. Frutos Cid | chapter = Collaborative Development within Open Source Communities | title =Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations |publisher= IGI Global, Information Science Reference |isbn = 978-1-59904-885-7 | year = 2008 | title = Towards a new manager of free projects (Hacia un nuevo gestor de proyectos libres) | publisher = Ourproject.org | date = 6 December 2005 | url = http://ourproject.org/moin/Hacia_un_nuevo_gestor_de_Proyectos_Libres | access-date = 22 April 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120317171921/http://ourproject.org/moin/Hacia_un_nuevo_gestor_de_Proyectos_Libres | archive-date = 17 March 2012

The first prototypes of Kune were developed using Ruby on Rails and Pyjamas (later known as Pyjs). However, with the release of Java and the Google Web Toolkit as free software, the community embraced these technologies since 2007. In 2009, with a stable codebase and about to release a major version of Kune, Google announced the Google Wave project and promised it would be released as free software. Wave was using the same technologies of Kune (Java + GWT, Guice, XMPP protocol) so it would be easy to integrate after its release. Besides, Wave was offering an open federated protocol, easy extensibility (through gadgets), easy control versioning, and very good real-time edition of documents. Thus, the community decided to halt the development of Kune, and wait for its release... in the meanwhile developing gadgets that would be integrated in Kune later on.{{cite web | title = MassMob: Meetings and Smart Mobs | publisher = Comunes Collective | year = 2009 | url = http://massmob.ourproject.org/ | access-date = 22 April 2012 }}{{cite web | title = Troco project: an experimental peer-to-peer currency | publisher = Comunes Collective | orig-date =2009| year =2010 | url = http://troco.ourproject.org/ | access-date = 22 April 2012 }}{{cite web | title = Karma: A Reputation Rating System | publisher = Comunes Collective | orig-date = 2009| year = 2010 | url = http://karma.ourproject.org/ | access-date = 22 April 2012 }} In this same period, the community established the Comunes Association (with an acknowledged inspiration in Software in the Public Interest) as a non-profit legal umbrella for free software tools for encouraging the Commons and facilitating the work of social movements. The umbrella covered Ourproject, Kune and Move Commons,{{cite news |title=Move Commons, crowdfunding y etiquetado de proyectos sociales |url=http://www.misapisportuscookies.com/2011/12/move-commons/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129192312/http://www.misapisportuscookies.com/2011/12/move-commons/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=January 29, 2013 |access-date=11 April 2012 |newspaper=Mis APIs por tus Cookies |date=1 December 2012

In November 2010, the free Apache Wave (previously Wave-in-a-Box) was released, under the umbrella of the Apache Foundation. Since then, the community began integrating its source code within the Kune previous codebase,{{Cite web | url = http://ecosistemaurbano.org/castellano/move-commons-y-kune-herramientas-libres-para-el-activismo-y-la-colaboracion/ | title = Move Commons & Kune: free tools for activism and collaboration (Move Commons y Kune: herramientas libres para el activismo y la colaboración) | access-date = 11 April 2012 | last = Toledo | first = Jorge | date = 14 February 2012 | publisher = Ecosistema Urbano | title = Presenting status of Kune development Jan-2011 | date = 24 January 2011 | url =http://kune.ourproject.org/2011/01/status-jan2011/ | access-date = 22 April 2012 }} Kune released its Beta and moved to production in April 2012.

Since then, Kune has been catalogued as "activism 2.0"{{Cite web | url = https://pilargonzalo.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/activismo-2-0-y-empoderamiento-ciudadano-en-red-i/ | title = Activism 2.0 and citizen empowerment in the net (I) (Activismo 2.0 y empoderamiento ciudadano en red (I)) | access-date = 11 April 2012 | last = Gonzalo | first = Pilar | date = 4 November 2011 |title=Cooperation, Collaboration and citizen power (Cooperación, colaboración y poder ciudadano) |url=http://www.sindikos.com/2012/01/cooperacion-colaboracion-y-poder-ciudadano/ |access-date=11 April 2012 |newspaper=Sindikos |date=20 January 2012 |archive-date=27 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427034317/http://www.sindikos.com/2012/01/cooperacion-colaboracion-y-poder-ciudadano/

| url = http://www.democraciaycooperacion.net/contenidos-sitio-web/espanol/fidc/entre-foros/iii-taller-internacional-del/informacion-398/article/las-redes-de-organizaciones | title = Las redes de organizaciones sociales del CIS generan propuestas para la internacionalización de la acción | access-date = 11 April 2012 | date = 5 March 2011 | publisher = Foro Internacional Democracia y Cooperación | archive-date = 27 September 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130927095207/http://www.democraciaycooperacion.net/contenidos-sitio-web/espanol/fidc/entre-foros/iii-taller-internacional-del/informacion-398/article/las-redes-de-organizaciones

|author = |date = February 2012 |title = Document Summary of the Rapporteur of Second Regional Workshop Latin America and the Caribbean |url = http://www.democraciaycooperacion.net/IMG/pdf/Summary_Rapporteur_and_context.pdf |publisher = Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Spain) |location = Mexico City |page = 15 |access-date = 12 April 2012 |archive-date = 14 January 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150114174138/http://www.democraciaycooperacion.net/IMG/pdf/Summary_Rapporteur_and_context.pdf

| url = http://www.contenidosenred.com/blog/kune/ | title = Kune | access-date = 11 April 2012 |author=Lucrecia Baquero |author2=Clara Alba | date = 17 February 2012 | publisher = Contenidos en Red | archive-date = 14 January 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150114175831/http://www.contenidosenred.com/blog/kune/

|url = http://jotarp.org/2011/10/internet/contra-las-redes-sociales.html |title = Against social networks (Contra las redes sociales) |access-date = 11 April 2012 |last = Palacios |first = J. Ramón |date = 24 October 2011 |publisher = Jotarp |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111027220109/http://jotarp.org/2011/10/internet/contra%2Dlas%2Dredes%2Dsociales.html

|archive-date = 2011-10-27 | url = https://semillasdeinnovacion.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/sobre-la-necesidad-de-acercar-la-ciudad-al-campo-y-viceversa/ | title = On the need to bring closer city and country (Sobre la necesidad de acercar la ciudad al campo y viceversa) | access-date = 11 April 2012 |author=Lucrecia Baquero |author2=Clara Alba | date = 13 March 2012 | publisher = Semillas de Innovación |title = Open website of the week: Kune |url = http://mentesabiertas.uoc.edu/webabiertas/webabiertadelasemanakune?lang=en |access-date = 11 April 2012 |newspaper = Open Minds, Open University of Catalonia |date = 5 March 2012

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150114202749/http://mentesabiertas.uoc.edu/webabiertas/webabiertadelasemanakune?lang=en |archive-date = 14 January 2015 |title= Radical Community Manager |url=https://ncomuneszgz.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/radical-community-manager/ |access-date=11 April 2012 |newspaper=Nociones Comunes |date=17 March 2012

| last = Camino | first = S. |author2=F. Javier |author3=M. Jiménez Gañán |author4=S. Frutos Cid | chapter = Collaborative Development within Open Source Communities | title =Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations |publisher= IGI Global, Information Science Reference |isbn = 978-1-59904-885-7 | year = 2008

| volume = 32 | issue = 3 | pages = 1–1 | 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

|access-date=11 April 2012 |date=29 January 2004

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Feature list

  • All the functionalities of Apache Wave, that is collaborative federated real-time editing, plus
  • Communication

    • Chat and chatrooms compatible with Gmail and Jabber through XMPP (with several XEP extensions), as it integrates Emite{{cite web | title = Emite: XMPP & GWT | url = http://emite.googlecode.com/ | access-date = 22 April 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080828004519/http://emite.googlecode.com/ | archive-date = 28 August 2008

    • Social networking (federated)

  • Real-time collaboration for groups in:
    • Documents: as in Google Docs
    • Wikis
    • Lists: as in Google Groups but minimizing emails, through waves
    • Group Tasks
    • Group Calendar: as in Google Calendar, with ical export
    • Group Blogs
    • Web-creation: aiming to publish contents directly on the web (as in WordPress, with a dashboard and public view) (in development)
    • Bartering: aiming to decentralize bartering as in eBay
  • Advanced email
    • Waves: aims to replace most uses of email
    • Inbox: as in email, all your conversations and documents in all kunes are controlled from your inbox
    • Email notifications (Projected: replies from email)
  • Multimedia & Gadgets
    • Image or Video galleries integrated in any doc
    • Maps, mindmaps, Twitter streams, etc.
    • Polls, voting, events, etc.
    • and more via Apache Wave extensions, easy to program (as in Facebook apps, they run on top of Kune)
  • Federation
    • Distributed Social Networking the same way as e-mail: from one inbox you control all your activity in all kunes, and you can collaborate with anyone or any group regardless of the kune where they were registered.
    • Interoperable with any Kune server or Wave-based system
    • Chat interoperable with any XMPP server
  • Usability
    • Strong focus on usability for any user
    • Animated tutorials for each tool
    • Drag&Drop for sharing contents, add users to a doc, change roles, delete contents, etc.
    • Shortcuts
  • Free culture
    • Developed using free software and released under AGPL
    • Easy assistant for choosing content licenses for groups. Default license is Creative Commons BY-SA.
  • Developer-friendly
    • Debian/Ubuntu package for easy installation
    • Wave Gadgets can be programmed in Java+GWT, JavaScript or Python

Supporters and adopters

Kune has the active support of several organizations and institutions:

References

References

  1. (2015-03-18). "Released Kune Version 1.0.0 Codename "free-riders"".
  2. (22 August 2011). "Presentando el proyecto Kune, redes sociales y colaboración libre para grupos". Barrapunto (Spanish Slashdot).
  3. (23 August 2011). "Presentando el proyecto Kune, redes sociales y colaboración libre para grupos". Menéame (Spanish Digg).
  4. "Kune FAQ".
  5. (2023-01-04). "Kune". Comunes.org.
  6. Ohloh. "Kune project in Ohloh".
  7. "Kune development site".
  8. (23 November 2010). "If You're Not Paying for It; You're the Product". Lifehacker.
  9. (4 August 2011). "Kune 0.0.9 published (codename "15M")". Kune Blog.
  10. (27 May 2009). "Software libre, hardware libre, ¿servicios libres?". Libertonia News.
  11. (24 April 2012). "Kune new release "99%" & production site". #Occupy Tech News.
  12. (26 November 2012). "New release of collaborative distributed social network Kune: "Ostrom"". #Occupy Tech News}}{{Dead link.
  13. (24 January 2004). "There's Life after Microsoft - Free Software Advocates". Inter Press Service News Agency.
  14. (26 January 2008). "Video: Status of Kune development (Jan 2008)".
  15. (5 May 2009). "¡Colabora con Kune! Llamado a desarrolladores/as". Peru Free Software Association.
  16. (9 November 2011). "Free Culture Forum 2011". Radio Onda Expansiva.
  17. (2012). "Free Knowledge: Collective intelligence for developing free tools and community resources (Conocimiento libre: Inteligencia colectiva para desarrollar herramientas libres y recursos comunitarios)". ¡Rebelaos!.
  18. "#Occupy Tech projects".
  19. "IEPALA Foundation homepage".
  20. "Grasia Research Group homepage".
  21. "Medialab-Prado (Madrid) homepage".
  22. "Comunes profile in Medialab-Prado".

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