Add source{d} to awesome-open-company list

[marnovo]

Add source{d} to opencompany/awesome-open-company list.

Given the description of an Open Company, seems we're eligible:

What is an open company?

An open company is defined, for the purposes of this list, as a for-profit organization whose core practices are guided by principles of openness, transparency and interoperability. This philosophy can be summarized by the maxim:

Share as much as possible, charge as little as possible.

derived from the original formulation by Gittip (now Gratipay).

In practice, this often means:

• releasing its products as
  free and open source software,
  open content,
  or open source hardware
• using open standards
  and inter-operable formats
• developing its products openly, using public communication channels
• publishing as much financial and operational data as possible, without compromising customer privacy.
• etc.

The following pages provide a more detailed overview of this concept:

• Open business: Wikipedia article
• Open business: from the P2P Foundation wiki

From their inclusion guidelines, we might have to find the most appropriate pages to direct people to (Openness Pledge & Statement). Possibly the guide itself?

There's currently only one explicit requirement for adding a new company to the list, which is having a page or section on their website describing their commitment to openness and transparency as a core element of the company's operation (rather than as an additional practice parallel to their main business model).

This could be an "about" page, a dedicated "openness"/"transparency" page, a "values" page, or something else along those lines, and should be easily reachable -- either present in the main navigation menu, or otherwise reachable within 1-2 clicks from the home page. See the current list for examples.

Beyond that, the assessment is of course subjective. It can help to try answering the following questions:

• Can this company be described as following the mantra "share as much as possible, charge as little as possible"?
• Do they describe why they strive for openness, not merely how?
• Do they practice several of the (applicable) example criteria described here?

[bzz]

Let's add!

[eiso]

Definitely! Cool find.

[hnarasaki]

Claimed! :)

[hnarasaki]

Added Source{d} to https://github.com/opencompany/awesome-open-company. Created/Merged PR hnarasaki/awesome-open-company#1. @marnovo Is there a way I can create a PR to the Source{d} repo for this for the Source{d} Hacktoberfest?

[smola]

@hnarasaki That pull request was in your own fork. The point here is adding it to opencompany/awesome-open-company repository.

Anyway, I think this is probably something we'll want to handle internally.