Openness
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'''Openness''' 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 [[community|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 [[hierarchy|hierarchies]], and a fluid organisational structure.
Communal management is usually done with decisions being made by some form of [[consensus decision-making]] or [[vote|voting]]. With open repositories like [[git (software)|git]], individuals can take projects in their own direction without necessarily hindering the progress of others.
It is now being put forward to facilitate the growth of the open source and [[free software]] [[computer programming|programming]] communities. As well as others, particularly [[activism|activist groups]], or as in the philosophy of [[extropianism|extropy]] ([http://extropy.org/principles.htm]).
==See also==
*[[Glasnost]]
*[[Open Knowledge Foundation]]
*[[Open system (systems theory)]]
*[[Open theism]]
*[[Openness to experience|Openness as a dimension of personality]]
*[[Transparency (humanities)]]
==External links==
* [http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/cooksey.pdf Open as Ontological Concept]
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