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Welcome Haaretz Readers!

Raphael Ahren wrote a nice article on the project in this week’s Anglo File Section of Haaretz that appeared both online and in-print (pdf). Please read the article at Haaretz (support Raphael’s page views!), and return here to comment — below the reprint.

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By Raphael Ahren Tags: Aharon Varady, Israel News . . . → Read More: Welcome Haaretz Readers!

First Pitch from the Hotseat

Busy days this week at the PresenTense (PT) hub for the Open Siddur project. Wednesday was the heaviest and began in earnest with work on a website, opensiddur.org, from late Tuesday night into the lonely hours before the sunrise.

Each Wednesday, PT encourages its fellows by requiring the submission of a deliverable. The first was . . . → Read More: First Pitch from the Hotseat

Digitizing Siddurim

One of the enduring challenges of the Open Siddur and its sister, the Jewish Liturgy Project, has been acquiring digitized siddur content that is in the public domain (or which is at least distributed with a very permissive copyright license such as CC-BY-SA). Our greatest advance so far been attaining a digitized copyleft version of . . . → Read More: Digitizing Siddurim

PresenTense Institute Summer Workshop 2009

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W00t! First post!

Over the course of the summer I will be in Jerusalem attending the PresenTense Institute‘s summer workshop. Before I arrived I set in mind an intention, (or kavanah, as it were) to achieve the following goals:

gaining expert understanding of the licensing and technical challenges for developing partnerships between creative projects founded . . . → Read More: PresenTense Institute Summer Workshop 2009

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