Openness
Openness, in the context of peer production, governance and property, refers generally to the availibility of the raw material for the social cooperation to occur. If such material is indeed "open", then it means that individuals and communities are "free" to use and modify it.
The open/free paradigm is part of the three processes that are necessary for the social reproduction of peer to peer processes, see the Circulation of the Common
List of Open Concepts and Practices
Open
- Open API;
- Open Access
- Open Access Books
- Open Architecture Strategies
- Open Archives
- Open Biology
- Open Business
- Open Business Models
- Open Business Process Initiative
- Open Capital
- Open City Guides
- Open Company Models
- Open Content
- Open Content Licenses
- Open Cores
- Open Courseware Initiative
- Open DRM
- Open Data
- Open Design
- Open Distribution
- Open Document Format
- Open Documentaries
- Open Editorial Meetings
- Open Education
- Open Educational Resources
- Open Fiction
- Open Film Business Models
- Open Futures
- Open Genomics
- Open GeoData
- Open Hardware
- Open Hardware Licence
- Open Health
- Open Infrastructure
- Open Internet
- Open Knowledge
- Open Learning
- Open Licenses
- Open Media Standards
- Open Money
- Open Music Business Models
- Open Music Model
- Open Networked Learning Model
- Open Organization
- Open Peer Review
- Open Peer to Peer Design
- Open Platforms
- Open Politics
- Open Privacy
- Open Problems
- Open Public Data
- Open Radio
- Open Science Licenses
- Open Social Networking Standards
- Open Social Networks
- Open Space Technology
- Open Spectrum
- Open Spreadsheets
- Open Standards
- Open Textbooks
- Open Value Metrics
- Open Value Networks
- Open WAP
Open Source
- Open Source
- Open Source Approaches - Generalities
- Open Source Architecture
- Open Source Beer
- Open Source Biotechnology
- Open Source Business Models
- Open Source Car
- Open Source Cities
- Open Source Commercialization
- Open Source Development Model
- Open Source Disaster Recovery
- Open Source Drug Discovery
- Open Source Ecology
- Open Source Economics
- Open Source Film Making
- Open Source Hardware
- Open Source Industrial Design
- Open Source Initiative
- Open Source Judaism
- Open Source Knowledge Building
- Open Source Leadership
- Open Source Licenses
- Open Source Network Analysis
- Open Source Parking
- Open Source Prospecting
- Open Source Record Label
- Open Source Religion
- Open Source Research
- Open Source Service Companies
- Open Source Software
- Open Source Spying
- Open Source Telephony
- Open Source Unionism
- Open Source Virtual Worlds
- Open Source War
- Open Source Warfare
- Open Source Yoga
- Open Source for Artisans
More Information
- See the defintion of Open Knowledge, at http://www.opendefinition.org/1.0
- And also: Free Software Principles, and the Free Content Definition