Open Business - Main Ideas

Main Ideas

Central to the concept are:

• Open learning/sharing — a fundamental tenet is open collaboration at all levels in all locations
• Open participation — open invitation to join the organization (similar to SourceForge, Blender community, where individual/team input within the community framework can help to build individual income)
• Individual rights — each person is supported and encouraged to identify and optimise their personal development, i.e. technical, personal, spiritual, etc.
• Community focus — productivity activities are seen as part of a range of normal human activities e.g. family life, community life, religious commitments, etc.
• Institution free — the organization is not based on any existing institution - state, religious or otherwise. Members can hold whatever views or affiliations they like.
• Open knowledge — the free exchange of knowledge by making use -as much as possible- of open standards, open source and open content principles.
• Open member details — including open access to the contact details of all other members in a convenient form (i.e. once the range and depth of those details have been approved for release by that particular member)
• Open financials — all accounting information including the compensation of others