real life open-source projects examples

The OScar ProjectDeveloping a car according to Open Source principles.

http://www.theoscarproject.org/

Open Architecture NetworkBring people together to collaborate on innovative and sustainable

designs that will improve the lives of the impoverished and marginalized. www.openarchitecturenetwork.org

BurdastyleFree exchange of designs and patterns and to provide a showcase

for clothes designers from amateur to professional. www.burdastyle.com/

Open ClipartA vast archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used.

www.openclipart.org

CC mixterA community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact

with music in whatever way you want. ccmixter.org

GroovesharkMillions of songs. Find yours.

grooveshark.com

New Assigment“Open platform” journalism, distributed reporting and what’s now

called “crowdsourcing”.www.newassigment.net

HablaGuatePeriodismo ciudadano. www.hablaguate.com

Open ColaDefies all the laws of business by disclosing its ’secret’ recipe to

the public. www.wikihow.com/Make-OpenCola

Open Prosthetics ProjectAims to innovate in the field of prosthetics through collaborations

between users, designers and funders.openprosthetics.org

MakerbotStart the printing revolution from your desktop.

www.makerbot.com

Free Beer Project

freebeer.org