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title: "Open source"
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== Agriculture, economy, manufacturing and production ==
Open-source appropriate technology (OSAT), is designed for environmental, ethical, cultural, social, political, economic, and community aspects
Open-design movement, development of physical products, machines and systems via publicly shared design information, including free and open-source software and open-source hardware, among many others:
Open Architecture Network, improving global living conditions through innovative sustainable design
OpenCores, a community developing digital electronic open-source hardware
Open Design Alliance, develops Teigha, a software development platform to create engineering applications including CAD software
Open Hardware and Design Alliance (OHANDA), sharing open hardware and designs via free online services
Open Source Ecology (OSE), a network of farmers, engineers, architects and supporters striving to manufacture the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)
OpenStructures (OSP), a modular construction model where everyone designs on the basis of one shared geometrical OS grid
Open manufacturing or "Open Production" or "Design Global, Manufacture Local", a new socioeconomic production model to openly and collaboratively produce and distribute physical objects
Open-source architecture (OSArc), emerging procedures in imagination and formation of virtual and real spaces within an inclusive universal infrastructure
Open-source cola, cola soft drinks made to open-sourced recipes
Open-source hardware, or open hardware, computer hardware, such as microprocessors, that is designed in the same fashion as open source software
List of open-source hardware projects
Open-source product development (OSPD), collaborative product and process openness of open-source hardware for any interested participants
Open-source robotics, physical artifacts of the subject are offered by the open design movement
Open Source Seed Initiative, open source varieties of crop seeds, as an alternative to patent-protected seeds sold by large agriculture companies.

== Science and medicine ==
Open science, the movement to make scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiring society, amateur or professional
Open science data, a type of open data focused on publishing observations and results of scientific activities available for anyone to analyze and reuse
Open Science Framework and the Center for Open Science
Open Source Lab (disambiguation), several laboratories
Open-Source Lab (book), a 2014 book by Joshua M. Pearce
Open-notebook science, the practice of making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online as it is recorded
Open Source Physics (OSP), a National Science Foundation and Davidson College project to spread the use of open source code libraries that take care of much of the heavy lifting for physics
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
NASA Open Source Agreement (NOSA), an OSI-approved software license
List of open-source software for mathematics
List of open-source bioinformatics software
List of open-source health software
List of open-source health hardware

== Media ==
Open-source film, open source movies
List of open-source films
Open Source Cinema, a collaborative website to produce a documentary film
Open-source journalism, commonly describes a spectrum on online publications, forms of innovative publishing of online journalism, and content voting, rather than the sourcing of news stories by "professional" journalists
Open-source investigation
See also: Crowdsourcing, crowdsourced journalism, crowdsourced investigation, trutherism, and historical revisionism considered "fringe" by corporate media.
Open-source record label, open source music
"Open Source", a 1960s rock song performed by The Magic Mushrooms
Open Source (radio show), a radio show using open content information gathering methods hosted by Christopher Lydon
Open textbook, an open copyright licensed textbook made freely available online for students, teachers, and the public
CAD libraries - such as SketchUp 3D Warehouse and GrabCAD

== Organizations ==
Open Source Initiative (OSI), an organization dedicated to promote open source
Open Source Software Institute
Journal of Open Source Software
Open Source Day, the dated varies from year to year for an international conference for fans of open solutions from Central and Eastern Europe
Open Source Developers' Conference
Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a non-profit corporation that provides space for open-source project
Open Source Drug Discovery, a collaborative drug discovery platform for neglected tropical diseases
Open Source Technology Group (OSTG), news, forums, and other SourceForge resources for IT
Open source in Kosovo
Open Source University Meetup
New Zealand Open Source Awards

== Procedures ==
Open security, application of open source philosophies to computer security
Open Source Information System, the former name of an American unclassified network serving the U.S. intelligence community with open-source intelligence, since mid-2006 the content of OSIS is now known as Intelink-U while the network portion is known as DNI-U
Open-source intelligence, an intelligence gathering discipline based on information collected from open sources (not to be confused with open-source artificial intelligence such as Mycroft (software)).