nutshellpedia

We are your intuitive encyclopedia.

Short and sweet + informative.

Explaining only the core essence of things in under 500 characters.

All entries licensed Creative Commons share-alike, so anyone can share and improve Nutshellpedia content!

Sample entry:


Open source

lets everyone inspect, change, and share your creation and its blueprints after you've licensed those as open source.

Anyone who publicly uses, changes, or shares your creation must include its blueprints along with your license – and the best method to recreate everything (including any new changes)

History: The GNU Project kicked off the open source movement in 1983.

Partial source: (Pingdom)


more...