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Development Status (08/15/2010)

16-Aug-10

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 [...]

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A Demonstration of our Transliteration Engine

30-Jul-10

Part of our project of digitizing Jewish liturgy is to provide a resource to convert the consonants and vowels of Hebrew into any other script. Ultimately this will be a standard feature in the web application we are building to help folk craft their own siddur, machzor, bentscher or other useful prayer book. Our lead [...]

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Testing Our Transliteration Engine with help from James Strong’s Biblical Hebrew Dictionary

28-Apr-10

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 [...]

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Culmus Project’s Ancient Semitic Scripts Fonts Now Licensed GPL with “font exception”

21-Mar-10

Think of a favorite book, or siddur, and think of the style of the letters in it. Fonts are used to forms the words and portray the liturgy, poetry, and other texts. More often than not, these fonts are not free. They are licensed from typographic designers for a fee or used with permission. Sometimes [...]

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Development Status (02/15/2010)

16-Feb-10

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 [...]

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Architecture of the Open Siddur

18-Dec-09

Lead developer, Efraim Feinstein, recently contributed this helpful diagram of Open Siddur’s architecture.

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Development Status (11/11/2009)

11-Nov-09

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 [...]

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Why all the software?

02-Nov-09

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 [...]

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Development Status (9/22/2009)

22-Sep-09

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 [...]

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Invitation to Young Technologists

28-Aug-09

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 [...]

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