What is the Open Web?

Defining it with wordsThe open web is made up of four primary ingredients:

•Freedom: built with technology and content that anyone can study, use or improve.•Participation: anyone can participate or innovate without asking permission from others.•Decentralization: the architecture is distributed and control is shared by many parties.•Generativity: we can make new ideas from old ones. As we use, we also hack and innovate.

Mark Surman, http://commonspace.wordpress.com/

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Defining it with examples

Wikipedia

jQuery

OpenStreetMap

identi.ca

DVCS

CreativeCommons

Apache

GNU

Wikileaks

greasemonkey

Firefox

WikimediaCommons

OpenClipart

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The Open Web•is about freedom, participation, decentralization and generativity.•is materialized in different ways in our online lives.

How can we make people aware of it?How can we make people start to care about it?

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Open Web Badges

•I do not prevent you to download my content•I give you freedom to reuse my content•Built with technologies that you are Free to use•You can participate in the conversation•You can improve or contribute content•I protect your Freedom of speech•I respect your privacy•I am built with disabled people in mind•I give you control•I ease creation of new content•...

Project's objectives 1. Create a set of badges which help people understand the nature and the benefits of an Open Web.

2. Find a unified way to let Open Web enthusiasts proudly display their badges to the rest of the world.

3. Find a way to let people award badges to other websites and gather details about Open Web technologies in use.

4. Develop light pieces of software, if required.

5. Reach hundreds of enthusiasts, thousands of websites, and even more average Internet users, to start with.

Why it will be adopted•No matter how childish it can seem, we love to collect badges.

Foursquare, Amazon, Osnapz, Miso, ...

•Web developers like to know what technology is used on the websites they browse.

Library Detector, Framework Detector

Jump In!•Give us ideas of badges, detail criteria to earn them.•Comment on other propositions•Draw your badges if you can!