This post links to both the audio and slides from my talk at the 2010 NewCAJE, a conference for Jewish educators currently taking place at Gann Academy in Waltham, MA. My talk was in the first session and the crowd was small, but, thanks to the powers of the Internet and my small digital audio . . . → Read More: How you and your students can help build the Jewish library of the future (NewCAJE 1)
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The following is the unedited text of the speech I read at the Future of Jewish Non Profit Summit. There’s a for-fee video of the speech at Fora.tv. You can also listen to this audio recording. Efraim and I have made many of these points before, so if you’re so inclined check out more of . . . → Read More: Some thoughts on how Jewish nonprofits can improve the world and themselves with open source 
“Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems.”[1] The importance of sharing documents with Unicode 4.0+ compliant Hebrew fonts was underlined for us in early 2010, after the liturgy of a popular siddur was contributed to the Open Siddur Project . . . → Read More: Unicode Compliant and Free/Libre Open Source Licensed Hebrew Fonts Is spirituality important to a meaningful Jewish identity? If spirituality describes an intimate and evolving experience within and between individuals, then what might a meaningful resource look like that is both rooted in tradition and respects the integrity of personal and communal growth? Most Jews would say such a resource does not yet exist. The . . . → Read More: Spirituality, as our hearts are stirred to create and share Working on the Open Siddur Project has afforded me the opportunity to meet some amazing people, communities, and institutions. On Rosh Chodesh Nissan, 5770, (March 16th) this year, I was honored to speak before the good folk at the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR). AJR is a non-denominational Rabbinical College in Riverdale, New York committed . . . → Read More: Presenting the Open Siddur Project at the Academy for Jewish Religion Think of a favorite book, or siddur, and think of the style of the letters in it. Fonts are used to forms the words and portray the liturgy, poetry, and other texts. More often than not, these fonts are not free. They are licensed from typographic designers for a fee or used with permission. Sometimes . . . → Read More: Culmus Project’s Ancient Semitic Scripts Fonts Now Licensed GPL with “font exception” Over at Darim Online‘s blog, Phillip Brodsky reflects on Apple’s release of the iPad and asks some leading questions concerning the future of the book with the “People of the Book”, similar to J.T. Waldman’s posts on JPS’ blog last June and July last year. Considering e-readers and e-book formats, Brodsky asks, How might the . . . → Read More: Access, sharing, and innovation through digitization There are two principles on which the success of data on the contemporary web rests: the web makes content available, and it adds value to that content by linking it to other related information. When considering bringing old content online, both of these aspects are important. A first level of digitization involves simply making data . . . → Read More: An Economic Argument for Free Primary Data The free culture community has developed mechanisms to make sharing and collaborative development easier. The principles that define works of free culture are:
Note that these freedoms do not discriminate on the basis of endeavor, and all free culture works allow creation of derivative works and commercial use. . . . → Read More: Jewish Content, Free Culture and “Content Compatibility” One question I’ve been asked a number of times about the Open Siddur Project is: why are you developing all that software? It’s a fair question. After all, the siddur is just text. There are other do-it-yourself siddur kits out there. They sell you (or, more accurately, license you) a text. You open the text . . . → Read More: Why all the software? |
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