Civic crowdfunding platform based in Kansas City, MO.

UK-based crowdfunding platform for public space projects.

The autonomous squatted social center LA CASIKA is an old and big house sited in the center of Mostoles, a town closed to Madrid (17 km). In these years of history have been a lot of groups working from the social side, like feminist, antifascists, ecologist, youth or just neighbors, making of La Casika a very well known space. In fact, we can say that now it´s a reference for the squatter movement in Madrid: everybody knows, and everybody loves it.

Since its inception, the intent is to develop a network based on a network of cooperatives, individual projects and housing in a collectivised area.This seeks to facilitate the sharing of ideas, goods and resources to foster synergies in a natural way. A place for social innovation, technology and policy based on self-responsibility and cooperation. A project where the productive economies are in the service of people allowing their needs for access to resources and tools are not obstacles to the realization of their creative potential.

GIMP is a part of the GNU Project. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything.

The Freecycle Network is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by local volunteers.

"Ensancha el Huerto" is an initiative to create a community vegetable garden in Alcorcón (Madrid, Spain).

The first ever set of microtasking apps specifically customized for digital humanitarian response. If you’re new to microtasking in the context of disaster response, then I recommend reading this, this and this. The purpose of our web-based microtasking apps (we call them Clickers) is to quickly make sense of all the user-generated, multi-media content posted on social media during disasters. How? By using microtasking and making it as easy as a single click of the mouse to become a digital humanitarian volunteer.

P2P Lab is an independent media lab interested in interdisciplinary research on free/open source technologies and practices.

The RepRap project is an initiative to develop a 3D printer that can print most of its own components. RepRap (short for replicating rapid prototyper) uses a variant of fused deposition modeling, an additive manufacturing technique. The project calls it Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) to avoid trademark issues around the "fused deposition modeling" term.