Partners

The Internet Archive has been archiving the entire accessible World Wide Web since 1997, archiving text and images as a way to preserve the early days of this transformational technology. The Archive provides Ourmedia with free storage and free bandwidth as a way to help foster and advance the personal media revolution. The Archive and its staff are housed in a spare building in San Francisco's Presidio; it also has operations in the Netherlands and Alexandria, Egypt.

Outhink Media has been helping to support Ourmedia since 2006, with development and by providing us with servers. Based in San Francisco, the company offers a free peer-to-peer application for file sharing and social networking. For a free download, go to Spinxpress.com.

Drupal is an open source content management system that enables anyone — from individuals to businesses and organizations — to easily build and maintain a dynamic website with an online community. Ourmedia developers will continue to release all code built for the site back into the Drupal community.

Before there was Creative Commons, there was chaos on the intellectual property front in cyberspace. Was every copy of a copyrighted text or image a violation of national law? Under what circumstances could users rip, mix and burn creative material? Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, brings copyright law into the digital age, allowing creators to fine-tune their copyrights and decide how and whether they want others to view, sample and recirculate their works.

Revver was one of the early, key supporters of Ourmedia during our troubled youth. Revver is a video-sharing platform that helps support independent producers. Its unique technology tracks and monetizes videos as they spread virally across the web, so no matter where your creativity travels, you benefit. The service connects video makers and sharers with sponsors in a free and open marketplace.

Broadband Mechanics is the digital lifestyle aggregator company, offering customizable modules and open source components. The consultancy builds and manages digital lifestyle components for corporate clients. The company contributed to the architecture and social software makeup of Ourmedia.

Ourmedia.org leases its domain name from the owner of The Global Commons project, a community-minded network of sites whose goal is to foster open media, civic spaces, social consciousness and public discourse.