* The Open University of Tanzania is a fully fledged and accredited public Institution of Higher learning, mandated to conduct academic programmes leading to Certificates, Diplomas, Undergraduate and Postgraduate qualifications.

Raymond became a prominent voice in the open source movement and co-founded the Open Source Initiative in 1998, taking on the self-appointed role of ambassador of open source to the press, business and public.

* Open enrollment is the process of allowing parents to choose which public school their child attends instead of being assigned one ( provided the school has not reached its maximum capacity number for students ).

Neorealism exploded soon after the war, with unforgettable works such as Rossellini's trilogy Rome, Open City ( 1945 ), Paisà ( 1946 ), and Germany, Year Zero ( 1948 ), and with extraordinary actors such as Anna Magnani, as an attempt to describe the difficult economic and moral conditions of Italy and the changes in public mentality in everyday life.

* 2002 – The Budapest Open Access Initiative, one of the cornerstones of the Open access movement, was released to the public.

* Open Spaces Society, a UK registered charity championing public paths and open spaces

Open enrollment also refers to educational policies which allow residents of a state to enroll their children in any public school, provided the school has not reached its maximum capacity number for students, regardless of the school district in which a family resides.

In contrast, Open Law crafts its arguments in public and releases them under a copyleft.

* Werner Schweer The Goldberg Variations, MuseScore Edition created for the Open Goldberg Variations Project and released as public domain.

Banners are also used to communicate the testimony of Jesus Christ by evangelists and public ministers engaged in Open Air Preaching.

Since the expiry of the lease in 2009, the house has been open to the public for one day a year as part of Open House London.

The Mettawa Open Lands Association ( MOLA ) is a non-profit organization which promotes quality open space within the Village and encourages the protection of public and private open lands.

* May: Doors Open Lowell-a celebration of preservation, architecture, and design where many historic buildings that normally have limited public access are open for viewing

Open to the public for many years, the old Scaroon Manor site is now owned by the state, and access is limited to those who pay for a day pass.

Open to the public for tours, the Marugg Company was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

To win my first Open in front of the British public is the greatest feeling ever.

The new version allows the general public to apply for editing privileges at Open Site.

* Open up space for public argumentation.

Starting at the annual meeting in January 2003 in Davos, an Open Forum Davos, co-organized by the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches, was held in parallel, opening up the debate about globalisation to the general public.

The Open Forum has been held in the local high school every year, featuring top politicians and business leaders, and is open to all members of the public free of charge.

Members of the public have free access to Parliament Piece, which is owned by the Open Spaces Society and leased to Warwick District Council.

* A private residence, The Clock House in Chestnut Road, contains a clock museum which opens to the public during London Open House each September.

# Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.

The development of Free and Libre Open Source Software FLOSS is an example of collective action where individuals create a public good: the source code freely available to everyone.

Open societies can take many forms, and within very broad limits recipients must be free to set their own goals and to devise their own institutions to achieve those goals.

The Open Group released Motif in 2000 as OpenMotif under a " revenue sharing " license that does not fully meet either the open source or free software definitions.

) In 2006, a petition was created asking The Open Group to release the source code for CDE and Motif under a free license.

It currently has dependencies on non-free software, as it requires either the proprietary Motif widget toolkit, or the alternative royalty-free ( but not free software ) Open Motif toolkit.

Red Hat normally licenses the Cygwin library under the GNU General Public License version 3 with an exception to allow linking to any free and open source software whose license conforms to the Open Source Definition.

* Open Document Architecture, a free and open international standard document file format maintained by the ITU-T to replace all proprietary document file formats.

After this Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens founded the Open Source Initiative ( OSI ), to promote the term " open-source software " as an alternative term for free software.

Some free software advocates use the term Free and Open Source Software ( FOSS ) as an inclusive compromise, drawing on both philosophies to bring both free software advocates and open source software advocates together to work on projects with more cohesion.

This was also used by Open Source Initiative ( OSI ) under the name " The Open Source Definition ", the only change being that use of the term " free software " was replaced by OSI's alternative term for free software, " open-source software ".

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licences, with a few minor exceptions.

People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File ( which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr .).

De Icaza endorsed Microsoft's Office Open XML ( OOXML ) document standard, disagreeing with a lot of the widespread criticism in the open source and free software community.

However, such a definition would exclude the Open Content License ( OPL ) because that license forbade charging ' a fee for the itself ', a right required by free and open source software licenses.

Open content allows for a free way of obtaining higher education that is " focused on collective knowledge and the sharing and reuse of learning and scholarly content.

However, the narrower definition used in the Open Definition effectively limits open content to libre content ; any free content license would qualify as an open content license.

À travers champs, 2005, 440 p. ISBN 2-7099-1564-2 Open Archives: book in free access / in French

One popular set of free open-source software licenses are those approved by the Open Source Initiative ( OSI ) based on their Open Source Definition ( OSD ).

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licenses, with a few minor exceptions.