DaruDar
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DaruDar is an international community
where people give away things, their skills and time to each other for absolutely free requiring nothing in return.
The community is based on principles of self-organization. Main condition of participation is following the rules of gift giving and communication set on the site. The global mission of DaruDar is to create a widespread social practice of gift-giving, to make it a daily and routine act. Words like “lot”, “exchange
”, “freebie”, “junk
”, “crap
” are considered obscene on DaruDar.
On 22 September 2008 service was launched in Russian. It was created by four friends who had worked with Habrahabr project earlier. They were inspired by flashmob
, Kropotkin
and Gandhi ideas.
With collaborative help of the community service was translated into English in 2010.
Only those offers which simultaneously satisfy all three of the following conditions and cannot exist without them should be considered gifts on Darudar:
For example text or image file cannot be a gift as in fact they both are gifts for all. Despite the fact that formally it may be a gift some of them should not be given away on Darudar.
Furthermore comembers can help and guide each other using disapproval tools, public responses, vox populi and wardens help.
Community
The term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...
where people give away things, their skills and time to each other for absolutely free requiring nothing in return.
The community is based on principles of self-organization. Main condition of participation is following the rules of gift giving and communication set on the site. The global mission of DaruDar is to create a widespread social practice of gift-giving, to make it a daily and routine act. Words like “lot”, “exchange
Trade
Trade is the transfer of ownership of goods and services from one person or entity to another. Trade is sometimes loosely called commerce or financial transaction or barter. A network that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and...
”, “freebie”, “junk
Waste
Waste is unwanted or useless materials. In biology, waste is any of the many unwanted substances or toxins that are expelled from living organisms, metabolic waste; such as urea, sweat or feces. Litter is waste which has been disposed of improperly...
”, “crap
Crap
Crap may refer to:*Crap, a slang word for feces, also used to describe something substandard*Craps, a casino dice game*Crap Grisch, a mountain in the Lepontine Alps, situated near Vals in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland...
” are considered obscene on DaruDar.
On 22 September 2008 service was launched in Russian. It was created by four friends who had worked with Habrahabr project earlier. They were inspired by flashmob
FlashMob
FlashMob is a band formed in Nashville, Tennessee featuring Meghan Kabir. The band signed a record deal with Warner Brothers in spring 2010....
, Kropotkin
Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian prince and anarchist.Kropotkin may also refer to:*Pyotr Nikolayevich Kropotkin , Soviet/Russian geologist, tectonician, and geophysicist*Mount Kropotkin, a peak in Antarctica...
and Gandhi ideas.
With collaborative help of the community service was translated into English in 2010.
Basic concept of the community
Darudar users call themselves comembers (means "community members"). DaruDar gift is a thing, skill or service of a comember that he/she wants to give away to someone. In order to offer a gift a comember creates a publication describing what he gives. Other comembers can wish it. Later the gift giver chooses someone to promise their gift. Every gift can be commented, wished, promised and thanked.Only those offers which simultaneously satisfy all three of the following conditions and cannot exist without them should be considered gifts on Darudar:
- It can be wished
- It can be promised
- It can be given
For example text or image file cannot be a gift as in fact they both are gifts for all. Despite the fact that formally it may be a gift some of them should not be given away on Darudar.
Features of the service
The main feature of this gift-giving service is it's mechanisms enable people to make clever choices about whom to give their things to (what they feel are appropriate). Due to this mechanisms things are distributed to be as useful for people as the things could be at the time.Search & Filtering
Darudar as a service of gift giving has a search and filtering tools. Looking for interesting or wanted things, skills or services by search you can optionally specify results by geographical location, possibility of sending by post, thematic categories, languages etc.Groups
Groups are a collaborative comember-created filters. Each group brings together people of similar interests. Group members can cooperate to filter and recommend gifts of special interest for them to the group.Thanks
The gift giver promises their gift to one of the wishers. After meeting and receiving the gift the wisher should write thanks for this gift. It can contain text, image or video which will prove that the gift handover was fulfilled. All written thanks are collected into comember's profile.Gift crossing
You can keep giving away the gift you have received and get involved into "gift crossing". All gifts involved into the gift-crossing have their own individual story. One can always see who gave this gift away to whom.Daronomics
Daronomics is a global statistical section of community gift giving. It shows how many cities are involved into the gift giving, global pulse of gift giving for the past three months, the number of comembers registered on the site, the total number of gifts etc. The same information is available for each city.Principles of self-organization
Each comember has to follow the traditions of DaruDar. Essentially there is a list of principles how the gift giver or the wisher should behave in certain cases. In addition to the basic principles, traditions also include the following issues:- Community Mission
- Code of ethics
- Not for gift giving
Furthermore comembers can help and guide each other using disapproval tools, public responses, vox populi and wardens help.
See also
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– an open sourceOpen sourceThe term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
and non-profit hospitality exchange network - CouchSurfingCouchSurfingCouchSurfing International Inc. is a corporation based in San Francisco that offer its users hospitality exchange and social networking services. It is a for-profit private corporation, planning to go public. With more than 3 million profiles in 246 countries and territories, CouchSurfing has an...
- for-profit hospitality exchange network - Hospitality ClubHospitality ClubThe Hospitality Club is an international, Internet-based hospitality service of appr. 300,000 members in 226 countries Its members use the website HospitalityClub.org to coordinate accommodation and other services, such as guiding or regaling travelers....
- gift-giving community of hospitality - BookCrossingBookCrossingBookCrossing is defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise." The term is derived from bookcrossing.com, a free online book club which began in order to encourage the practice, aiming to "make the whole world a library."The...
- gift-giving community of books - PostcrossingPostcrossingPostcrossing is an online project that allows its members to send and receive real postcards from all over the world. The project's tag line is "send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person somewhere in the world!” Its members, also known as Postcrossers, send postcards to other...
- gift-giving community of postcards - The Freecycle NetworkThe Freecycle NetworkThe Freecycle Network is a non-profit organization registered in the state of Arizona, USA, and separately registered as a UK charity, that organizes a worldwide network of "gifting" groups, aiming to divert reusable goods from landfills...
- gift-giving community - Social softwareSocial softwareSocial software applications include communication tools and interactive tools. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing and presentation of communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video as well. Interactive tools handle mediated interactions between a...
- ReuseReuseTo reuse is to use an item more than once. This includes conventional reuse where the item is used again for the same function, and new-life reuse where it is used for a different function. In contrast, recycling is the breaking down of the used item into raw materials which are used to make new...
- SharingSharingSharing the joint use of a resource or space. In its narrow sense, it refers to joint or alternating use of an inherently finite good, such as a common pasture or a shared residence. It is also the process of dividing and distributing. Apart from obvious instances, which we can observe in human...
- Gift economyGift economyIn the social sciences, a gift economy is a society where valuable goods and services are regularly given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards . Ideally, simultaneous or recurring giving serves to circulate and redistribute valuables within the community...
External links
- DaruDar on YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
- DaruDar (english) on TwitterTwitterTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
Publications
- «Лицо. Максим Каракулов» article in «Афиша» magazine on 20 October 2008
- Интервью c Максимом Каракуловым on «Radio MayakRadio MayakRadio Mayak is a radio broadcasting company in Russia, owned by VGTRK. Mayak is the Russian word for "lighthouse" or "beacon". As well as Radio Mayak proper , the company is also responsible for the youth music channel Radio Yunost.Radio Mayak was established in August 1964 as a major All-Union...
» radio on 24 October 2008 - «Будь щедрее!» article on Look At Me site on 9 November 2008
- «…То есть даром» article on the site of «Итоги» magazine on 24 November 2008
- Mentioned in «Прогресс» TV cast on «5-tv» channel (Saint-Peterburg) on 8 February 2009
- Mentioned in «Телепорт» TV cast on «MTV RussiaMTVMTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
» channel on 17 June 2009 - Essay in «Site of the day» section in «VedomostiVedomostiVedomosti is a Russian language business daily. It is a joint venture between Dow Jones, the Financial Times and Sanoma, publishers of The Moscow Times....
» newspaper on 5 August 2009 - Article «Подарю лошадь. С доставкой на дом» in «Komsomolskaya PravdaKomsomolskaya PravdaKomsomolskaya Pravda is a daily Russian tabloid newspaper, founded on March 13th, 1925. It is published by "Izdatelsky Dom Komsomolskaya Pravda" .- History :...
» newspaper on 13 September 2010 - Передача Эхонет on «Echo of MoscowEcho of MoscowEcho of Moscow is a Russian radio station based in Moscow, broadcasting in many Russian cities, in some of the former-Soviet republics , and via the Internet, which some observers describe as "the last bastion of free media in Russia"...
» radio on 7 February 2011 - «Дару–дар - новый способ стать счастливее» article in «Cosmopolitan Saint-PeterburgCosmopolitan (magazine)Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
» magazine on 8 February 2011 - «Почтальоны мечты» article in «Вечерняя Москва» newspaper on 21 February 2011
- TV report in «За окнами» programm on the «STBSTB (Channel)STB is a Ukrainian commercial television network. Today, the coverage area of the network is 85% of Ukraine's territory. It is broadcast in all oblast centers and all Ukrainian cities with a population greater than 50,000...
» channel on 30 March 2009 - TV report in «КультУРА» programm on the «7 канал» channel (Kharkiv) on 13 October 2009
- TV report in «ТСН» programm on «1+11+1- History :TV channel "1+1" was founded in August 1995, headed by its original President Alexander Rodnyansky who also was its general director from 1996 to 2002...
» channel on 15 August 2010 - TV report in «Prime Time Russia» programm on «Russia TodayRussia TodayRussia Today may refer to:* Russia Today, an English language 24-hour television news channel from Russia. It was launched in 2005 and is not related to an online news service of the similar name operated by EIN News...
» channel on 28 March 2011