What is « open source »? A meaning in debate.

Project proposal: Open-Models/Brique#442

Knowledge base to explore the concept of « open source » and attempt to understand its meaning with the digital revolution. An open science tool for research to gather knowledge on this notion to promote debate on its unclear meaning, an open education tool to strengthen its mastery and improve approaches to digital technologies.

[Project just initiated; see proposal for more info on potential content and project orientation]

Need to build a structure for the knowledge base by figuring out meaningful and generic knowledge to grasp the notion.

• History of « Open Source »

Resources are collected to feed and think this knowledge base, which may be useful to dive further in the topic, to prepare references and bibliographies. Thanks for the sharing or production of meaningful resources for this project.

Check out the resource library to retrieve and store external resources.

Educational workshops can also be organised using available materials.

The democratisation of open source makes it a subject of growing interest for various people and organisations, with collaboration that can take shape both in the process of producing the content of the knowledge base and in different types of learning processes. You are invited to participate and contribute according to your skills and needs, you may be able to provide or receive appreciable support to push forward the understanding of « open source ».

The GitHub software forge is the place used to build this resource, with a discussion space to support interactions.

Copyright requiring ownership on « intellectual property », this intellectual resource is in the public domain as far as possible, under the Creative Commons licence CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

The knowledge base can be used, modified and shared for any purpose, with its sources available on GitHub.