The Open Siddur Project

Why, davka, an Open Siddur Project

Shared by Aharon Varady on ו׳ בתמוז ה׳תשס״ט (June 28, 2009)

The Open Siddur is an online tool for individuals and groups to craft the siddur they’ve always wanted. The Open Siddur will provide content (translations, transliterations, art, tfillot, piyutim, and other source texts) from an archive of current and historic nusḥaot (both well-known and obscure) and enable users to adapt, contribute new content, and share . . . → Read More: Why, davka, an Open Siddur Project

First Pitch from the Hotseat

Shared by Aharon Varady on כ״ו בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (June 18, 2009)

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

Shared by Aharon Varady on כ״ד בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (June 16, 2009)

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

Shared by Aharon Varady on כ״ד בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (June 16, 2009)

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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