Open Siddur Project Development Status as of February 2010/Adar 5770
Friends,
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Category Archives: Development
Development Status (02/15/2010)
16-Feb-10Illustrating the Open Siddur
17-Jan-10Since Lead Developer Efraim Feinstein drew up a helpful flowchart describing the technical architecture for the Open Siddur Project, I felt another flowchart might still be useful in illustrating how data flows between end users, collaboration groups, Jewish source texts, other free culture projects, and the goal of a more vibrant Jewish culture. So I [...]
Architecture of the Open Siddur
18-Dec-09Lead developer, Efraim Feinstein, recently contributed this helpful diagram of Open Siddur’s architecture.
Development Status (11/11/2009)
11-Nov-09Open 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.net 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 [...]
Why all the software?
02-Nov-09One 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 [...]
Development Status (9/22/2009)
22-Sep-09Open 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.net 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 [...]
Invitation to Young Technologists
28-Aug-09The 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 Jewish [...]
Development Status (8/23/2009)
23-Aug-09Open 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 as [...]
Why, davka, an Open Siddur
28-Jun-09The 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 [...]
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 on works [...]
