What is open source?
Simon Carter
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Does anyone want to help?. I am currently working on content for a website soon to be launched. We've put this up for the moment, but haven't shared it, It's got a long way to go. www.just.coop/home
The green panel will be changed to have a heading of 'A Vision For a New Economy' Five Emerging Trends' one of which I have headed as 'World wide web, an open source solution'. What I now want to do is write an accessible page for the average person to help them understand the significance of open source on the future. Only problem is, I'm not entirely sure what is it's significance.
I don't want or need loads, as I say the goal is something that will make sense to the layperson, Bullet points might work well. The other four headers provisionally are 'Social enterprise, Why we are a coop. Relocalisation in a global village. The sharing & the gift economy, no money required & finally Reclaiming the commons, everyone a commoner.
Michel Bauwens Sun 12 Nov 2017 11:52AM
I've collated various definitions and characterizations of open(ess) here:
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Open#Open_Definitions
Danyl Strype · Sun 12 Nov 2017 9:43AM
This is a good definition @stevehuckle , in fact it's the original definition (based on Bruce Perens work on the Debian Free Software Guidelines). But it describes "open source" as applied specifically to the development of software. It doesn't describe the broader "open source everything" definition that includes the crowdsourced development of things like encyclopedias (Wikipedia), maps (OpenStreetMap), and so on, as used at Open Source // Open Society, for example.
EDIT: Added example