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״ט בטבת ה׳תשע״א (December 26, 2010) Development of the Open Siddur Project “Siddur Builder” application has now reached the 0.4.4.1 milestone, a pre-alpha, feature-limited demonstration of the technology we’ve developed to compile textual content from our public database. (Barring any serious bugs, with current resources, we anticipate reaching an alpha-quality milestone at v.0.6.4 by the end of 2012.) The user interface . . . → Read More: Siddur Builder (pre-alpha, v.0.4.4.1 demo)
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 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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