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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❥ Oh! Check this out: Fanny Neuda's Prayerbook for Women, scanned and (mostly) transcribed by Google Books http://bit.ly/c8bKjK
❥ Much thanks to R' Klatzkin of Dayton, Ohio for introducing @aharonium to Eric Friedland http://bit.ly/dmdP24
❥ All siddurim eventually enter the Public Domain. Only 32 years more for Morris Silverman's High Holiday Prayer Book. Share your work today.
❥ Share liturgy composed in response to dire catastrophes, e.g. floods. Other congregations and minyanim want to know. http://bit.ly/9AYqIh
❥ The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy(1909) by David Werner Amram now freely available from the Internet Archive: http://bit.ly/9lp1so
❥ What's ours is yours and what's yours is yours...but please share your insights and innovations with everyone. Our riff on Pirkei Avot 5:13
❥ Cheers for Open Source Yoga Unity and India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library http://bit.ly/byFfnc
❥ @velveteenrabbi that is why we remove the shade from our eyes and open them to the wonders of the world when we say Borukh shem kavod... in reply to velveteenrabbi
❥ Abe Katz translates the Intro to Dalia Marx's new book WHEN I SLEEP & WHEN I WAKE: ON PRAYERS BETWEEN DUSK AND DAWN http://bit.ly/bWJ0Y1 pdf
❥ Check out this great mainly free (no derivs) Biblical Hebrew Textbook CC-BY-ND: http://ancienthebrewgrammar.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/bhii/
❥ CSS3 Fonts discussion at Typecon 2010: http://blog.mozilla.com/nattokirai/2010/08/20/css3-fonts-discussion-at-typecon-2010/
