PresenTense Institute Summer Workshop (Aharon Varady 2009)

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Date: 2009-06-16

Last Updated: 2025-03-27

Categories: Development

Tags: PresenTense

Excerpt: The inaugural first post here at the Open Siddur Project website. . . .

Content:

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 kavvanah, as it were) to achieve the following goals:

gaining expert understanding of the licensing and technical challenges for developing partnerships between creative projects founded on works in the public domain
learning about how to manage and sustain non-commercial open source projects, and
cultivating relationships with future partners and users of the Open Siddur and its affiliate projects.

Contributor: Aharon N. Varady

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Name: Aharon N. Varady
Bio: Aharon Varady is the founding director of the Open Siddur Project. A community planner (M.C.P, DAAP/University of Cincinnati.) and Jewish educator (M.A.J.Ed., the William Davidson School of Education), his work in open-source Judaism has been written about in the Yiddish Forverts, the Atlantic Magazine, Tablet, and Haaretz. If you find any egregious mistakes in his work, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also transcribes and translates prayers, besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project.)
Website: https://aharon.varady.net
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/aharon-varady

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Title: Ignited by Presentense
Caption: "Ignited by Presentense" (Presentense 2009)