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                                    Awesome Open Company !Awesome (https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg) (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
A community-curated list of awesome open companies (#what-is-an-open-company),
inspired by the many awesome-x lists (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) out there.

(click here (#companies) to jump straight to the list below.)

Contributions to this list are welcome! Just edit the README.md (../../edit/master/README.md) (this document) and send the changes as a pull request. Guidelines (../../wiki/Inclusion+guidelines) are available.

Table of contents
1. What is an open company? (#what-is-an-open-company)
2. Companies (#companies)
3. Resources (#resources)
  1. Books (#books)
  2. Articles (#articles)
  3. Videos (#videos)
4. Similar lists (#similar-lists)
5. License (#license)

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 (http://blog.gittip.com/post/26350459746/the-first-open-company/) by Gittip (now Gratipay (http://gratipay.com)).

In practice, this often means:
- releasing its products as
  free and open source software (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software),
  open content (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content),
  or open source hardware (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware)
- using open standards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard)
  and inter-operable formats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interoperability)
- 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_business): Wikipedia article
- Open business (http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Business): from the P2P Foundation wiki

Companies

Company      | Openness Pledge | Open Product  | Statement     | Open Finance
------------ | --------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------
!Arduino LLC favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=arduino.cc) Arduino LLC (https://www.arduino.cc) | Arduino - Introduction (https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction) | :octocat:Arduino (https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/) |  |
!Atlassian favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=atlassian.com) Atlassian (https://www.atlassian.com/) | Company values — Atlassian (https://www.atlassian.com/company/about/values) | N/A |  |
!Axem favicon (https://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons?domain_url=https://axemsolutions.io/) Axem (https://axemsolutions.io) | DEM (https://axemsolutions.io/dem_doc/index.html) | :octocat:DEM (https://github.com/axem-solutions/dem) |  |
!Balsamiq favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=balsamiq.com) Balsamiq (https://balsamiq.com/) | Company — Balsamiq (https://balsamiq.com/company/#goodcitizen) | N/A |  |
!Bevry favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=bevry.me) Bevry (https://bevry.me) | Bevry (https://bevry.me) | DocPad (https://github.com/docpad/docpad) |  |
!Buffer favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=buffer.com) Buffer (https://buffer.com/) | Buffer's transparency dashboard: Public salaries, equity and more (https://buffer.com/transparency) | :octocat:Misc 
(https://github.com/bufferapp/) |Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup (http://joel.is/why-we-have-a-core-value-of-transparency-at-our-startup/)| Revenue (https://open.buffer.com/buffer-public-revenue-dashboard/)
!CodeCombat favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=codecombat.com/) CodeCombat (http://codecombat.com/) | CodeCombat - Learn how to code by playing a game (http://codecombat.com/legal) | :octocat:CodeCombat 
(https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat) |Why you should open-source your startup (http://blog.codecombat.com/why-you-should-open-source-your-startup)|
!Couchbase favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=couchbase.com) Couchbase (http://www.couchbase.com/) | Open Source Projects (http://www.couchbase.com/open-source) | :octocat:All Products (https://github.com/couchbase) |  |
!Dangerous Prototypes favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=dangerousprototypes.com) Dangerous Prototypes (http://dangerousprototypes.com/) | About - DP (http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/About) | Projects 
(https://code.google.com/archive/p/dangerous-prototypes-open-hardware/) |  |
!Daytona favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=daytona.io) Daytona (https://www.daytona.io/) | Open Source (https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona/blob/main/README.md) | Daytona (https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona) |  |
!Documenso favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=documenso.com) Documenso (https://documenso.com/) | The Documenso Manifest (https://documenso.com/blog/manifest) | :octocat:Documenso (https://github.com/documenso/documenso) | 
Announcing Open Metrics (https://documenso.com/blog/pre-seed) | Open Metrics (https://documenso.com/open/)
!Dreamwidth favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=dreamwidth.org) Dreamwidth (http://www.dreamwidth.org/) | About Dreamwidth Studios (http://www.dreamwidth.org/about) | :octocat:Dreamwidth (https://github.com/dreamwidth/) |  |
!Elastic favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=elastic.co) Elastic (https://elastic.co) | Openness, transparency, and collaboration are at the heart of all that we do. (https://www.elastic.co/about/free-and-open) | :octocat:Misc 
(https://github.com/elastic/) |  |
!Gitlab favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=gitlab.com) GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/) | About Us — GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/about/) | GitLab (https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org) |  |
!Gratipay favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=gratipay.com) Gratipay (https://gratipay.com/) | Welcome to Gratipay (https://web.archive.org/web/20171023221922/http://inside.gratipay.com/big-picture/welcome) | :octocat:All Products 
(https://github.com/gratipay) |The first open company (http://blog.gittip.com/post/26350459746/the-first-open-company/)| Finance (https://github.com/gratipay/finances#readme)
!Growstuff favicon (http://growstuff.org/assets/favicon-2f083c214b9adaf9e2ce78bcd532e4c9.ico) Growstuff (http://www.growstuff.org/) | (archive) Values - Growstuff Wiki 
(http://web.archive.org/web/20150906064358/http://wiki.growstuff.org/index.php/Values) | :octocat:Growstuff (https://github.com/Growstuff/growstuff) |Why Growstuff is open source 
(https://web.archive.org/web/20151015172213/http://blog.growstuff.org/2013/02/20/why-growstuff-is-open-source/)|
!Lichess favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=lichess.org) Lichess (https://lichess.org/) | Lichess terms of service (https://lichess.org/terms-of-service) | Lichess source code (https://lichess.org/source) | Why Lichess will always 
be free (https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/why-lichess-will-always-be-free/YF-ZORQA) | Costs (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSkHLJKJkb0ZuI4/preview)
!LulzBot favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=lulzbot.com) LulzBot (https://lulzbot.com/) (formerly Aleph Objects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_Objects))| Choosing a Free License for Your 3D Project 
(https://lulzbot.com/learn/choosing-a-free-license-for-your-3d-project) | LulzBot 3D (https://gitlab.com/lulzbot3d) |  |
!MapBox favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=mapbox.com) MapBox (http://mapbox.com/) | Open Source - MapBox (http://mapbox.com/about/open) | :octocat:Misc (https://github.com/mapbox) |  |
!Neocities favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=neocities.org) Neocities (https://neocities.org/) | (archive) Neocities - stats (http://wayback.archive.org/web/20150907143713id_/https://neocities.org/stats) | :octocat:Neocities.org 
(https://github.com/neocities/neocities) |The first Neocities Open Company report (https://neocities.org/blog/open-company-progress-report-2014)|
!New Vector favicon (https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=vector.im) New Vector (https://vector.im/) | Work in the open (https://vector.im/) | :octocat:Misc (https://github.com/vector-im/) |  |
!Niteo favicon (https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=niteo.co) Niteo (https://niteo.co/) | Niteo Handbook (https://github.com/niteoweb/handbook) | :octocat:Pareto Security (https://github.com/paretoSecurity/) |  |
!OpenCraft favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=opencraft.com) OpenCraft (http://opencraft.com/) | OpenCraft — Open edX Development & Hosting Services (http://opencraft.com/) | N/A |  |
!ProtonMail favicon (https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=protonmail.ch) ProtonMail (https://protonmail.ch) | ProtonMail is Open Source! (https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-open-source/) | Web Client 
(https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient); OpenPGPjs (https://github.com/openpgpjs/openpgpjs) | ProtonMail Open Source Cryptography (https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-open-source-crytography/) | |
!Read the Docs favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=readthedocs.org) Read the Docs (https://readthedocs.org/) | Read the Docs Open Source Philosophy (https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/open-source-philosophy.html) | :octocat:
readthedocs.org (https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org) |  | Funding (http://blog.readthedocs.com/read-the-docs-2017-stats/#funding) |
!Red Hat favicon (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=redhat.com) Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/) | Red Hat Jobs - Our culture (https://www.redhat.com/en/jobs/life/culture) | Misc (https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source/communities) |  |
!RStudio (http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=rstudio.com) RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com) | What makes RStudio different? (https://www.rstudio.com/about/what-makes-rstudio-different/) | RStudio - About (https://www.rstudio.com/about)
!Sentry favicon (https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=sentry.io) Sentry (https://sentry.io/) | About Sentry (https://sentry.io/about/) | Sentry (https://github.com/getsentry/sentry) | Driven by Open Source 
(https://blog.sentry.io/2015/06/30/driven-by-open-source) | |
!SoftwareMill favicon (https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=softwaremill.com) SoftwareMill (https://softwaremill.com/) | 40 CEOs in 1 company (https://blog.softwaremill.com/40-ceos-in-one-company-teal-organisation-interview-21124c34c16) | 
:octocat:Misc (https://github.com/softwaremill) | | Open finances (https://softwaremill.com/finances-in-company/?utm_source=GitHub&utm_medium=teal) |
!Tessel favicon (http://i.imgur.com/Xe9AYlw.png) Tessel (https://tessel.io/) | Open Source - Tessel (https://tessel.io/opensource) | :octocat:Tessel (https://github.com/tessel/project) |  |
!Transloadit favicon (https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=transloadit.com) Transloadit (https://transloadit.com/) | Open Source (https://transloadit.com/open-source/) | :octocat:Uppy (https://uppy.io) | Jobs & Culture 
(https://transloadit.com/jobs/) |
!wemake.services favicon (https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=wemake.services) wemake.services (https://wemake.services/) | wemake-services/meta § Purpose (https://github.com/wemake-services/meta/blob/master/README.md#purpose) | :octocat:
wemake.services (https://github.com/wemake-services) |
!watermelon favicon (https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=watermelontools.com) Watermelon (https://www.watermelontools.com/) | Promoting Openness, Starting With the Codebase 
(https://www.watermelontools.com/post/promoting-openness-starting-with-the-codebase) | :octocat:Watermelon (https://github.com/watermelontools/watermelon) |

Pioneers

Company      | Openness Pledge | Open Product  | Statement     | Open Finance
------------ | --------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------
Clarify (https://web.archive.org/web/20201130045805/https://www.clarify.so/) | Clarify - Launch and manage your career | N/A |  |

Resources

Books
- Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams: Wikinomics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinomics)
- James M. Whitehurst: The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance (https://www.redhat.com/en/explore/the-open-organization-book)
- The Open Organization Field Guide (https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/field-guide)

Articles
- Paul Graham: What business can learn from open source (http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html)
- Massimo Menichinelli: Business models for open hardware (http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2011/open-design/business-models-for-open-hardware/)
- Roger Clarke: Open source software and open content as models for eBusiness (http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/Bled04.html)
- Chris Anderson: A business model for open source hardware (http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/01/a-business-mode.html)
- The Economist: Open-source business: Open, but not as usual (http://www.economist.com/node/5624944)
- Chad Whitacre: The second open company (https://medium.com/gratipay-blog/the-second-open-company-4cbab7ca1a47)
- Timothy Cook: Why open companies? A new culture of business (https://medium.com/open-companies/why-open-companies-fdb74d1b4f0f)
- Shereef Bishay: The open enterprise manifesto (http://www.opencompany.org/resources/whitepaper.pdf)

Videos
- BetterMeans introduction (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlnMWlvw9g)

Similar lists
- The Open Company Initiative directory (http://www.opencompany.org/directory/) (OCI):
  A group of companies which explicitly adopted OCI's openness pledge
  - (dormant)
- The Open 100 (http://wayback.archive.org/web/20110824041839/http://www.openbusiness.cc/category/directory/openbusiness/): a competition held in 2009-2010 (http://wayback.archive.org/web/20120727175118/http://www.openbusiness.cc/open100/about/) 
to find the top 100 open innovation companies
  - (defunct — these links are from the Web Archive)
- The VAR Guy's The Open Source 50 (https://web.archive.org/web/20171002071840/http://thevarguy.com/var-guy/var-guys-open-source-50) (2009 list 
(http://wayback.archive.org/web/20121118155240/http://www.thevarguy.com/the-open-source-50/the-open-source-50-listed-a-to-z/), 2010 list 
(http://wayback.archive.org/web/20120509194329/http://www.thevarguy.com/the-open-source-50/the-open-source-50-a-to-z-2010-edition/), 2012 update 
(https://web.archive.org/web/20171027055302/http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/top-50-open-source-companies-where-are-they-now))
  - (unmaintained)
- Awesome Open (https://github.com/paulhendricks/awesome-open):
  A curated list of organizations, projects and initiatives that maintain open codebases and datasets

License
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