Openness
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Openness is related to open source and is a philosophy that is being used as the basis of how various groups and organizations operate. It is a relatively new term to describe this general way of doing things.
It is typified by communal management, and open access to the information or material resources needed for projects; openness to contributions from a diverse range of users/producers/contributors, flat hierarchies, and a fluid organisational structure.
Communal management is usually done with decisions being made by some form of consensus decision-making or voting.
It is now being put forward to facilitate the growth of the open source and freeware programming communities. As well as others, particularly activist groups.
[edit] See also
- Transparency (humanities)
- Openness as a dimension of Personality
- Open system (system theory)
- Open theism
- University of Openess
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