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a community-grown, libre Open Access archive of Jewish prayer and liturgical resources — for those crafting their own prayerbooks and sharing the content of their practice
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a community-grown, libre Open Access archive of Jewish prayer and liturgical resources — for those crafting their own prayerbooks and sharing the content of their practice
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2009 —⟶ November 🡄 (Previous month) :: 📅 October 2009 📅 December 2009 :: (Next month) 🡆 📅 Resources published in November 2009 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? 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. 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 in a word processor, make a few stylistic changes, and voila, you have your own custom siddur. The “advanced” ones may even hand you one copy of a “nusaḥ Ashkenaz” siddur, one copy of a “nusaḥ Sefard” siddur, and one copy of a “nusaḥ Edot Hamizrah” siddur, giving you some choices. All good, right? So, once again, why does the Open Siddur need so much software? Open Siddur Project Development Status as of 11/11/2009 Our third development status covers progress on the Open Siddur made since our last update 9/22/09. Email [email protected] if you want to include something we haven’t covered. For now we’ll be sending these out once a month but if you’d like to get news of Open Siddur […] | ||
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