It acts as a central location for the construction and maintenance of social/cultural/artistic projects, providing web space and tools, and focusing in free knowledge.

[4][5] Since September 2009, Ourproject is under the Comunes Association umbrella,[6] and gave birth to the Kune collaborative social network for groups.

Ourproject was founded in 2002 with the aims of hosting and boosting the cooperative work done in multiple domains (cultural, artistic, educational[7]), with one specific condition: the results of the projects should remain freely accessible under a free license.

[9][10] Its non-profit perspective is partially imposed on its online community of projects, as no advertising is allowed in the hosted webpages.

[22] Relevant projects that are using Ourproject infrastructure include: During 2011, it has attracted interest by the new wave of protesting social movements in several areas: OurProject.org uses a multi-language multiple-topic adapted version of FusionForge.