Imagine a printing press and book arts studio shared by everyone in the world looking to design and craft their own siddur.
The Open Siddur Project is building it, online, on the web: a collaborative digital-to-print publishing application where you can make your own siddur, share your work, and adopt, adapt, and redistribute work shared by others — work intended for creative reuse and inclusion in new siddurim and related works of Jewish spiritual practice. Imagine a social network focused on publishing built around privacy, collaboration, and a public database and digital library of Jewish liturgy in a format that can easily show historical variations and changes across Jewish traditions, manuscripts, and facsimile editions. Imagine a collection of text and recordings, freely licensed for creative reuse in every language Jews pray in or have ever prayed. Reimagine your siddur, custom tailored to your practice, replete with your insights and those selected from your friends, family, and the complete corpus of Jewish tradition, and a record of your family’s and community’s minhagim and nusaḥ. We’re not there yet. (Progress towards version 1.0 is tracked on our development roadmap; we’re currently at 0.4.4.1). In the meantime, take a look at the prayers, translations, exercises, art, and recordings that folk are already sharing with free/libre licenses that permit their creative reuse. That means that you can use these works right now in the creation of new siddurim (alas, offline) while we continue developing the Open Siddur web application. There’s a list of free/libre and open source software and fonts that can help you do that right now. Please start a conversation with us, join this project by sharing your own work, introduce yourself on our technical and non-technical discussion lists, and begin to imagine the siddur and spiritual practice you’ve always wanted. . . . → Read More: Welcome to the Open Siddur Project
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The Open Siddur is an open source project and anyone can join by helping to code, transcribe, translate, scan books and facsimile editions, and compose new work shared with a free culture license. The project is non-denominational and non-prescriptive. What unites us is our intention to share our work on the Siddur and in Jewish . . . → Read More: Who we are General Questions What is a siddur? What is in a siddur? What is the purpose of the Open Siddur Project? What do you mean by open? What is “free”? How do I start using this project? What is the status of the project? Organizational Questions Who are you? How do I volunteer? How can I . . . → Read More: Frequently Asked Questions 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 . . . → Read More: Development Status (2010-02-15) Once again, the Open Siddur Project has been mentioned in the press, this time by Steve Lipman in the Jewish Week. The Open Siddur is a volunteer driven project to create a free resource for folks crafting their own siddur (Jewish prayer book). We intend to collaboratively build an archive of material that makes up . . . → Read More: Welcome Jewish Week Readers! The Open Siddur is a volunteer driven project creating a free resource for folks crafting their own siddur (Jewish prayer book). We are collaboratively building a digital library of material comprising the siddur — liturgy, translations, instructional material, commentaries, essays, art, and other associated media. Along with this library, we are developing the software that . . . → Read More: How you can help What a great morning! We’re honored to have our project the focus of an article in Tablet. The Open Siddur is a volunteer driven project to create a free resource for folks crafting their own siddur (Jewish prayer book). We intend to collaboratively build an archive of material that makes up the siddur — texts, . . . → Read More: Welcome Tablet Readers 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 . . . → Read More: Invitation to Young Technologists As an open source and free software project, the Open Siddur would not be possible at all were it not for the in-kind contributions of its volunteer developers, transcribers, translators, commentators, artists, designers, and promoters. We look forward to thanking you. Please join our community and contribute to the Open Siddur by transcribing or translating . . . → Read More: Thank You  Comments are closed  |
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