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[edit] Checklist components

Checklist on Open Education

Checklist on Open Business

Checklist on Open Publishing

Checklist on Open Video

Checklist on Open Research

[edit] About the checklist

From Heather Ford's update: 'One of the outputs that we'll be developing through the iSummit this year is a 'Checklist on openness' -- a user-friendly guide for those who are wanting to 'go open' but don't know 'how'. In the same way that some communities have developed guides for implementing environmental sustainability in their work (Tom Chance pointed me to a great one that we're using for the iSummit here: http://www.bioregional.com/take_action/take_action_bus.htm), the 'Checklist on openness' will be a valuable resource for government officials wanting to apply open standards to public information, for curriculum developers wanting to publish open textbooks, for videographers wanting their film resources to be as open to remixing as possible, for Internet entrepreneurs wanting to apply openness to their Web 2.0 businesses, and for researchers wanting to apply open philosophy to the development and publishing of their research.

Many participants at the iSummit know that there is a lot more to 'going open' than applying a Creative Commons license to selected works. Openness is an 'approach' rather than a 'product' - something that involves every aspect of the way we design informative and creative projects - from the software that we use to build the product, the policies that govern how and by whom the product is created, the licenses that tell others how they can use and re-use copyrightable products, the rules that govern trademark and patents associated with the product, and in which format, and to whom the final product is distributed.

The Checklist that we will begin producing with participants at this year's iSummit will form a valuable resource that we will revisit in the months and years to come, and that will form a practical accompaniment to declarations and policy statements like the Cape Town Open Education Declaration (http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/) by showing how those who know nothing about the commons can implement the lofty ideas that such instruments express.'

[edit] Checklist resources

Here are some good resources to look at when designing your checklist:

• [This] is especially interesting with regard to open business
• See [this], also from p2pfoundation.net, to find out about openness of web services generally and [this] for open definitions