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Loading 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 kavannah, as it were) to achieve the following goals: gaining expert understanding of the licensing and technical challenges for developing partnerships between creative projects . . . 
LoadingUPDATE APRIL 2013: SECOND-PASS PROOFREAD COMPLETE! We’ve transcribed and proofread our first collection of Jewish prayers! If you can read German, we need your help. We’ve transcribed Fanny Neuda’s Stunden Der Andacht, an important Jewish women’s book of prayers (tkhines) first published in 1855, and we need proofreaders who can read German, and who can . . . Loading 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 . . . In education, technology is a means to an end, not an end in itself. There are some problems technology can solve, and others it can’t. As Joel Grishaver said better than I can, technology is a “plus” not “or” proposition. Learners will have different success rates using technological solutions, such as distance learning, and the use of computers cannot take the place of a real-world social community. On the other hand, technology also has the potential to transform learning and learning environments and to make both learning materials and the teachers to guide their use accessible where they would not have otherwise been. . . . Loading The mark of a particularly valuable dictionary is how long it is still being used years after it’s introduced. Marcus Jastrow’s Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature (1903), Brown-Driver-Brigg’s Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), and James Strong’s Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible . . . Loading Given that one important aspiration of the Open Siddur Project is the development of a web application for anyone to edit, maintain, and share the content of a personal prayerbook that they can craft online, I’m very concerned at how well web browsers today display the Hebrew language with all of its diacritical (vowels, cantillation) . . . Loading Lead developer, Efraim Feinstein, recently contributed this helpful diagram of Open Siddur’s architecture. Loading Hello friends, Check out our progress! This development status update chronicles progress on the Open Siddur made since our last update, February 15, 2010. If you’d like to get news of Open Siddur Project development as it occurs, make sure to follow @opensiddur at Twitter, or join the opensiddur-announce email list. We also recommend following . . . Loading Open Siddur Project Development Status as of February 2010/Adar 5770 Friends, The communal project of Jewish spirituality can only be improved through cooperation and collaboration. The creative work used in our traditional liturgies is the common cultural heritage of the Jewish people. Most of this work resides in the public domain. The Open Siddur is . . . Loading 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 aharon@opensiddur.org 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 . . . Loading Open Siddur Project Development Status as of 9/22/2009 Our second development status covers progress on the Open Siddur made since our last update 8/23/09. Email aharon@opensiddur.org 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 . . . Loading Open Siddur Project Development Status as of 8/23/2009 This is our first development status post. Normally, this post will try to wrap up what we’ve achieved in the past week. Since this is our first, I’ll be summing up some of the progress we’ve made in the last month or so. It will serve . . . |
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