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About this project
Collaborative platform of research and learning in the field of Open Design, Upcycling and self-assembly.
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Platform update
Update to the latest version of Wordpress, improve platform security, integration and adaptation of Buddypress components. Development and migration of data to a new template.
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$ 520 | |
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Interface design
Redesign of navigability, accessibility and graphic aspects of the public interface (front end) and user management (back end).
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$ 1,039 | |
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Reorganization, browsing and content filter
Reorganization, browsing and content filter:
In order for the platform to function effectively, the resources need to be easily located. New content categories and tags will be created to allow users to find resources more easily. The platform's visual structure will be modified in order to facilitate access to information; incorporation of shortcuts, new filters and temporary featured sections.
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$ 416 | |
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Development of user and social network profiles
The community will be developed on social networks, where each user (with an extended profile) will be able to communicate with other members via an internal messaging system and establish “friendships” with other members in order to follow their activity. A comment system will be set up, as well as tools for evaluating the platform's contents (recipes).
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$ 623 | |
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Improvement of recipe editing/management system
More personalized recipe management options for users. Revision, improvement and expansion of recipe classification: ingredients, tools, object typology, construction techniques, activities. New recipe assessment system: Done it! Remixed it! Favorite! Shared it!
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$ 312 | |
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Communication and diffusion
Completing the new version isn't the only important thing, we also have to make people aware of it! This area will be dedicated to creating graphic communication material, writing articles, contacting other collectives and groups in order to promote new collaborations, as well as promoting the crowdfunding campaign.
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$ 779 | |
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Technical Support · Minimum
A pack of 30 initial hours for the person in charge of servicing and technical support for our user community.
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$ 779 | |
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Minimum Financing Commission
4% basic commission for services rendered by Goteo and an average of 2% for monetary transactions, whether they be via Point of Sale or Paypal.
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$ 291 | |
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Extra Commission in the case of Optimum Financing
In the case that we achieve our optimum financing target, Goteo will receive an extra 4% by means of commission for services rendered and an average of 2% for monetary transactions, whether they be via Point of Sale or Paypal.
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$ 374 | |
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MOTIVATOR
A pack of 100 hours to employ a person dedicated to manage and feed the social networks and to dinamize the platform through complementary actions in the physical space.
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$ 2,598 | |
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Technical Support · Additional
A pack of 30 additional hours for the person in charge of servicing and technical support for our user community.
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$ 1,818 | |
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Geo-localization
Introduce a geo-localization tool which will allow users to search for and contact other platform members in their area.
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$ 312 | |
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Multi-lingual Platform
Modification of the platform to include several language options. To begin with, users will be able to upload content in Spanish and English.
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$ 416 | |
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Interchange-Sales tool
Implement a new tool which allows users who also design their own products to interchange or sell their physical objects, by means of a sustainable economic model, to other designers and producers.
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$ 831 |
Material
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Rewards
Design and production of individual rewards.
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$ 312 | |
| Total | $ 5,070 | $ 11,419 |
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General information
El-Recetario.net is an open-access repository made up of how to “recipes” for the construction of objects, furniture, spaces and systems using upcycled and discarded materials.
Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions and gives detailed descriptions of the “ingredients” and tools needed, as well as of the knowledge and techniques necessary for the object's construction.
When an item of furniture's "source code" is uploaded onto the El-Recetario.net platform, construction processes are opened up and in turn, the know-how and techniques relative to the recuperation of raw materials and the object's construction, which is the main immaterial cultural heritage sustaining the platform. In the majority of cases, construction involves artisan processes and manual production, always with detailed instructions, enabling the user to create new objects from discarded goods (resources).
El-Recetario.net currently has a community of 680 members and 450 recipes and is a national and international reference in the field of Open Design and Upcycling. Since the creation of the platform in 2007 until the present day, all work related to the development and upgrading of El-Recetario.net has been carried out voluntarily by the members of the collective Makea Tu Vida, as well as collaborators and developers who have helped us along the way and brought their knowledge and support to the table.
El-Recetario.net is only possible thanks to the experience and support of its users. For this reason, our current goal is to expand the platform by introducing various improvements such as: tools for evaluating content (distributed quality control), improved navigation, more ways to manage the recipes, increasing our presence on social networks and thereby increasing interaction among users, reorganization of the interface and better advertising, among others. All these improvements would be made with a view to:
- Open heritage: Facilitate access, learning and use of construction techniques.
- Sustainability: Raise awareness about resources, objects and the spaces we inhabit.
- Learning: Break the chain between producer and consumer through open and collaborative learning.
- Cooperation: Promote synergy between the creative, production and educational sectors as well as with the community.
- Circular economy: Create a sustainable economic model within a wide-ranging network of designers and producers.
Main features and goals of the crowdfunding campaign
El-Recetario.net is a collaborative platform centered on the investigation, experimentation and exploitation of discarded objects for the construction of furniture and accessories for the home, where a creative community of users share what they do and how they do it, learning from each other and collaborating together.
In our society's current climate of uniformity, where consumption and production are standardized and en masse, knowledge of traditional craft techniques and the ability to make something with our own two hands are being lost. By documenting, digitalizing and preserving these techniques through the El-Recetario.net platform and by applying them to new processes and objects, we hope, in some way, to help conserve them. Creativity and craftsmanship are part of our immaterial cultural heritage and have played a crucial role in the collective intelligence.
The platform is free to use and open to all. The content of El-Recetario.net is open for anyone to use, adapt, remix or modify. Users are encouraged to contribute to the growth of the platform by sharing and redistributing its content. Users can choose between the different types of Creative Commons licenses with which to share their recipes. The recipe's intellectual property belongs to the author. Other users may elaborate the recipes as long as the conditions established in the chosen license are adhered to.
The platform is open to everyone. It is not designed only for people with specialized knowledge or qualifications; different levels of difficulty are specified for each recipe and range from easy to the more technical.
Our objective is to for El-Recetario.net to become a more efficient and easier to use tool; an attractive, high-quality platform whose contents can be easily used and shared and which functions as a self-managed channel of communication and exchange of knowledge between its users. Our aim is for the platform to establish itself as a reference for production and learning within the field of open design and recycling.
Why this is important
This campaign is aimed at all those with ambition for change and those who share our concern for the environment and want to play an active role in the construction of our habitat.
To those who are passionate about recycling and the collective construction of our environment: designers, makers, architects and lovers of DIY and self-assembly. To collective projects, institutions and educational, cultural or technological centers.
And finally, to all those who have participated in the various activities and workshops we've been involved in and with whom we share the belief that the documentation and sharing of our experiences is necessary so that others may learn from them.
Goals of the crowdfunding campaign
The main goal of this campaign is to implement new tools which will allow us to take one step further towards our objectives:
- Open access: Facilitate access, learning and use of construction techniques.
- Sustainability: Raise awareness about resources, objects and the spaces we inhabit.
- Learning: Break the chain between producer and consumer through open and collaborative learning.
- Cooperation: Promote synergy between the creative, production and educational sectors as well as with the community.
- Circular economy: Create a sustainable economic model within a wide-ranging network of designers and producers.
The Goteo campaign is structured in two phases. If we reach our minimum target, the proceeds will go towards updating database management, developing new user profiles which allow communication between users and the community, perfecting the public interface and the user operator panel, reorganizing content, incorporating new filters, categories and tags to facilitate browsing and searches, as well as a tool enabling users to evaluate the platform's content.
If we reach our optimum target, we will continue to develop the tool by adding extra functions, such as the opportunity for users to interchange/buy online, a geo-localization tool to identify designers and producers in the area and the implementation of a multi-lingual platform which will allow us to overcome language barriers and start to interact with individuals and communities all over the world.
You can find more details about our goals at: goteo.org/project/el-recetario-net/needs.
With the launch of this crowdfunding campaign we will start a series of actions directed to define this new version 4.0 of the platform.
You can follow the news in: https: // goteo.org/project/el-recetario-net/updates
Since the creation of the platform in 2007 until the present day, all work related to the development and upgrading of El-Recetario.net has been carried out voluntarily by the members of the collective Makea Tu Vida, as well as collaborators and developers who have helped us along the way and brought their knowledge and support to the table. El-Recetario.net currently has a community of 677 members and 454 recipes and is a national and international reference for Open Design and Recycling relative to constructive solutions for our habitat.
Makea Tu Vida was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit, cultural association by a group of people who actively participate in open design and recycling projects related to the collective construction of our habitat. Despite all being independent professionals in these fields, we consider ourselves eternal apprentices in this fascinating world of self-assembly, recycling and open source. Every day we learn something new thanks to the willingness of those we work with to interchange and share knowledge and ideas.
Over the years we have been lucky enough to carry out various activities related to open design and recycling: conferences and talks, giving workshops in cultural and educational centers, communication campaigns, strategy development, organizing meetings and exhibitions, etc.
You can find a register of all the activities carried out by the association and the projects in which we play an active role on our webpage: www.makeatuvida.net
Check out the platform's progress at: http://el-recetario.net/?page_id=4692
Social commitment
Free software
Shared materials
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THE PLATFORM
El-Recetario.net is a platform based in Wordpress, a free program with license GPLv2 developed and supported by its active community. We will document the way of integrating Wordpress's used plugins together with the contributions to the original code. The whole documentation will remain available in the platform itself.General Public License (v.2)
Licencia Pública General de GNU para la libre distribución, modificación y uso de software -
RECIPES AND TECHNIQUES
All the recipes and techniques included in El-Recetario.net for constructing upcycled objects, spaces and systems are under Creative Commons licenses.CC - Reconocimiento - CompartirIgual
Licencia Creative Commons (bienes comunes creativos) con reconocimiento de autoría y a compartir en idénticas condiciones
Sustainable Development Goals
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Quality Education
Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving people’s lives and sustainable development.
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Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Investments in infrastructure are crucial to achieving sustainable development.