Shared by Efraim Feinstein on ד׳ באדר ב׳ ה׳תשע״א (March 10, 2011) 
This post continues the series of advocacy posts directed at Jewish content creators and aggregators. Other parts of the series discussed the global communal benefit of free primary data resources and issues of copyright license compatibility and the connection between copyright licensing and remixability. While my previous post briefly mentioned the non-free Creative Commons licenses, this post details why you should choose a free culture license. In particular, it urges you to avoid the licenses with the non-commercial-use only (NC) terms. . . . → Read More: Just say NO to NC — choose a *free* Creative Commons license
Shared by Efraim Feinstein on י׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (November 17, 2010) In an insightful blog post on eJewish Philanthropy — which you should read if you haven’t already — Russel Neiss writes “[w]hile we have had many illuminating conversations since our presentation [at the JFNA General Assembly], the questions and feedback we have received overwhelmingly surrounds the first value of “Open, Discoverable and Accessible.”” He refers . . . → Read More: Openness, remixability, and free culture
Shared by Efraim Feinstein on כ״ח באב ה׳תש״ע (August 8, 2010) Last week, I attended the first NewCAJE conference for Jewish educators and the young professionals retreat that followed. I met a lot of good people who chose an often under-appreciated profession; all of them dedicated to what they do: teaching the next generation of young Jews what it means to be Jewish. In recent days, . . . → Read More: NewCAJE 1: Post-conference thoughts and appeal to technologists
Shared by Efraim Feinstein on כ״א באב ה׳תש״ע (August 1, 2010) 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)
Shared by Efraim Feinstein on כ״ה בשבט ה׳תש״ע (February 9, 2010) 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
Shared by Efraim Feinstein on א׳ בטבת ה׳תש״ע (December 18, 2009) Lead developer, Efraim Feinstein, recently contributed this helpful diagram of Open Siddur’s architecture.
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Shared by Efraim Feinstein on ב׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (November 19, 2009) The free culture community has developed mechanisms to make sharing and collaborative development easier. The principles that define works of free culture are:
- the freedom to use the work and enjoy the benefits of using it
- the freedom to study the work and to apply knowledge acquired from it
- the freedom to make and redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of the information or expression
- the freedom to make changes and improvements, and to distribute derivative works
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”
Shared by Efraim Feinstein on ט״ו במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (November 2, 2009) 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?
Shared by Efraim Feinstein on ח׳ באלול ה׳תשס״ט (August 28, 2009) The Open Siddur Project is a free and open source software project founded around a community of folk passionate about the siddur. We are developing an online collaborative publishing platform for crafting custom siddurim, for preserving the diversity of Jewish prayer traditions, and for sharing translations, commentary, t’fillot, meditations, and art in the siddur.
The . . . → Read More: Invitation to Young Technologists
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