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{{Infobox software
|name                       = Kune
|logo                       = [[Image:Kune-logo.svg|200px]]
|screenshot                 = [[Image:Concurrent-edit-and-chat.png|300px]]
|caption                    =
|collapsible                =
|author                     = [[Comunes Collective]]
|developer                  = [[Comunes Collective]], IEPALA Foundation
|released                   = {{start date|2011|5|13}} 
|discontinued               = 
|latest release version     = Codename Occupy
|latest release date        = {{release date and age|2012|04|13}} 
|latest preview version     =
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|frequently updated         =
|programming language       = Java-based [[Google Web Toolkit]]
|operating system           = 
|platform                   = [[Cross-platform]]
|size                       =
|language                   = Multi-language
|status                     = Beta
|genre                      = [[Web application]] [[Collaborative software]] [[Distributed social network]]
|license                    = [[Affero General Public License|AGPLv3]] 
|website                    = [http://kune.ourproject.org http://kune.ourproject.org] [http://kune.cc http://kune.cc]
}}

'''Kune''' is a [[free software|free/open source]] distributed social network focused on collaboration rather than just in communication<ref>{{cite web|title=Kune Homepage|url=http://kune.ourproject.org|accessdate=3 February 2011}}</ref>. That is, it focuses on online [[Collaborative real-time editor|real-time collaborative editing]], [[Distributed social network|decentralized social networking]] and web publishing, while focusing on workgroups rather than just in individuals<ref>{{cite news|title=Presentando el proyecto Kune, redes sociales y colaboración libre para grupos|url=http://barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=11/08/21/2240235|language= Spanish|accessdate=28 August 2011|newspaper=Barrapunto (Spanish Slashdot)|date=22 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Presentando el proyecto Kune, redes sociales y colaboración libre para grupos|url=http://www.meneame.net/story/presentando-proyecto-kune-redes-sociales-colaboracion-libre|language= Spanish|accessdate=28 August 2011|newspaper=Menéame (Spanish Digg)|date=23 August 2011}}</ref>. It aims to allow the creation of online spaces of collaborative work, where organizations and individuals can build projects online, coordinate common agendas, set up virtual meetings, publish in the web, and join organizations with similar interests. It has a special focus on [[Free Culture]] and [[social movements]] needs.

== Technical details ==

Kune is programmed using the [[Java]]-based [[Google Web Toolkit|GWT]] in the client-side, integrating [[Apache Wave]] (former [[Google Wave]]) and using mainly the open protocols [[XMPP]] and [[Wave Federation Protocol]]. GWT Java sources in the client side generates [[Code obfuscation|obfuscated]] and deeply 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 current version has been under development since 2007<ref name="video2008">{{cite video |people= |date= 26 January 2008|title= Video: Status of Kune development (Jan 2008)|url=http://kune.ourproject.org/2008/01/status-jan08/|format= AVI |medium= |language= English |trans_title= |publisher= |location= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |accessdate=28 August 2011|time= |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= |ref= }}</ref>, with a constant, stable growth and a established codebase<ref>{{cite web|title=Kune project in Ohloh|url=http://www.ohloh.net/p/kune|author=[[Ohloh]]|accessdate=28 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
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Kune is 100% free software and was built only using free software. Its software is licensed under the [[Affero GPL]] 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|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 a [[etherpad]]. However, technicians are need for any new list (as they cannot configure e.g. [[GNU Mailman]]), configuration change, etc, creating a strong dependency and ultimately a bottle-neck <ref>{{cite web|title=Kune 0.0.9 published (codename “15M”)|url=http://kune.ourproject.org/2011/08/kune-0-0-9-published-codename-15m/|accessdate=12 April 2012|publisher = Kune Blog|date=4 August 2011}}</ref>. 

Kune aims to cover all those needs of groups to communicate and collaborate together, in an usable way and thus without depending on technical experts
<ref>{{cite news|title=Software libre, hardware libre, ¿servicios libres?|url=http://libertonia.escomposlinux.org/story/2009/5/27/12014/3120|accessdate=3 February 2011|newspaper=Libertonia News|date=27 May 2009}}</ref>. It aims to be a free/libre web service (and thus in [[Internet|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]].

== History ==

The origin of Kune relies on the community behind [[Ourproject.org]]. Ourproject<ref>{{cite news|title=There's Life after Microsoft - Free Software Advocates|url=http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22073|accessdate=3 February 2011|newspaper=Inter Press Service News Agency|date=24 January 2004}}</ref> aimed to provide for [[Free Culture]] (social/cultural projects) what [[Sourceforge]] and other [[software forge|software forges]] meant for [[free software]]: a collection of communication and collaboration tools that would boost the emergence of community-driven free projects<ref>{{Cite book
| last = Camino
| first = S.
| coauthors = F. Javier, M. Jiménez Gañán, 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
}}</ref>. However, although Ourproject was relatively successful, it was far from the original aims. The analysis of the situation in 2005<ref>{{cite press release
 | 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
 | accessdate = 22 April 2012
}}</ref> concluded that only the groups that had a [[geek|techie]] among them (who would manage [[Mailman]] or install a [[Content Management System|CMS]]) were able to move forward, while the rest would abandon the service. Thus, new free collaborative tools were needed, more usable and suitable for anyone, as the available free tools required a high technical expertise. It was the birth of Kune, whose name means "together" in [[Esperanto]].

The first prototypes of Kune were developed using [[Ruby on Rails]] and [[Pyjamas (software)|Pyjamas]]. However, with the [[Java (software platform)#Licensing|release of Java]] and the [[Google Web Toolkit]] as free software, the community embraced these technologies since 2007<ref name="video2008" />. In 2009, with a stable codebase and about to release a major version of Kune<ref>{{cite news|title=¡Colabora con Kune! Llamado a desarrolladores/as|url=http://www.apesol.org/news/341|publisher=Peru Free Software Association|date=5 May 2009|accessdate=3 February 2011}}</ref>, 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<ref>{{cite web
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 | accessdate = 22 April 2012 }}</ref>. 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]]<ref>{{cite interview |last =  |first =  |subjectlink = Interview to [[Comunes Collective]] |interviewer = Serotonina EH |title = |url = http://ondaexpansiva.net/?p=1001  |program = Free Culture Forum 2011 |callsign = Radio Onda Expansiva |city = [[Burgos]], [[Spain]] |date = 9 November 2011 |accessdate =11 April 2012 }}</ref>. The umbrella covered Ourproject, Kune and Move Commons<ref>{{cite news
|title=Move Commons, crowdfunding y etiquetado de proyectos sociales
|url=http://www.misapisportuscookies.com/2011/12/move-commons/
|accessdate=11 April 2012
|newspaper=Mis APIs por tus Cookies
|date=1 December 2012
}}</ref>, together with some other minor projects.

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<ref>{{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)
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| first = Jorge
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Since then, Kune has been catalogued as "activism 2.0"<ref>{{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))
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}}</ref> and citizen tool <ref>{{cite journal|title=Free Knowledge: Collective intelligence for developing free tools and community resources (Conocimiento libre: Inteligencia colectiva para desarrollar herramientas libres y recursos comunitarios)|journal=¡Rebelaos!|year=2012|volume=1|pages=10|accessdate=11 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|title= Cooperation, Collaboration and citizen power (Cooperación, colaboración y poder ciudadano)
|url=http://www.sindikos.com/2012/01/cooperacion-colaboracion-y-poder-ciudadano/
|accessdate=11 April 2012
|newspaper=Sindikos
|date=20 January 2012
}}</ref>, a tool for NGOs<ref>{{Cite web
| 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
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| url = http://jotarp.org/2011/10/internet/contra-las-redes-sociales.html
| title = Against social networks (Contra las redes sociales)
| accessdate = 11 April 2012
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| url = https://semillasdeinnovacion.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/sobre-la-necesidad-de-acercar-la-ciudad-al-campo-y-viceversa/
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}}</ref>. It was selected as "open website of the week" by the [[Open University of Catalonia]] <ref>{{cite news
|title= Open website of the week: Kune
|url=http://mentesabiertas.uoc.edu/webabiertas/webabiertadelasemanakune?lang=en
|accessdate=11 April 2012
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|title= Radical Community Manager
|url=https://ncomuneszgz.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/radical-community-manager/
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== Feature list ==

* All the funcionalities 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<ref>{{cite web
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** 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:
* [[Comunes Association]], whose community is behind Kune development. It hosts a Kune server for free projects: [http://kune.cc http://kune.cc] 
* IEPALA Foundation<ref>{{cite web|title=IEPALA Foundation homepage|url=http://www.iepala.es|accessdate=22 April 2012}}</ref>, which is supporting the development with economical and technical resources. It hosts a Kune server for [[non-governmental organizations]]: [http://social.gloobal.net "Social Gloobal"] (previously EuroSur). 
* Grasia Software Agent Research Group<ref>{{cite web|title=Grasia Research Group homepage|url=http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/main/|accessdate=22 April 2012}}</ref> of the [[Complutense University of Madrid]] has provided technical resources. It seeks to host a Kune server for academic article collaboration. 
* Interns from the Master of Free Software from the [[King Juan Carlos University]] are participating in the development.
* Trainees from the [[American University of Science and Technology]] (Lebanon) participate in the system administration.
* [[Paulo Freire Institute]] in Brazil participated in the early design and prototypes.
* The Kune workgroup of the Medialab Prado<ref>{{cite web|title=Medialab-Prado (Madrid) homepage|url=http://medialab-prado.es|accessdate=22 April 2012}}</ref> are participating in the beta-testing<ref>{{cite web|title=Comunes profile in Medialab-Prado|url=http://medialab-prado.es/person/comunes|accessdate=22 April 2012}}</ref>.

== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}

== See also ==
* [[Comunes Collective]]
* [[Apache Wave]]
* [[Wave Federation Protocol]]
* [[Distributed social network|Distributed social network (comparison)]]
* [[Ourproject.org]]

== External links ==
* [http://kune.cc Kune.cc main site]
* [http://kune.ourproject.org Kune information webpage]
* [http://kune.beta.iepala.es/ws/ Kune demo for testing]

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