Open Siddur Project Seeks Volunteers
The Open Siddur Project is a collaboratively developed open source and
free culture project. We are putting together an archive of traditional
and non-traditional Jewish prayer texts, translations, commentaries,
instructions, art and other siddur-related materials.
We are also developing all the infrastructure required to disseminate
our texts over the Internet, including a web interface for individuals
or groups to craft their own custom siddurim based on our shared content
and content our users upload for their own or shared use.
We are looking for developers interested in helping us make the project
a reality. Those of you with and without technical backgrounds can help.
Skills we're looking for include:
- Typing accurately in Hebrew with vowels (we can help you if you want
to learn how!)
- Making high quality scans of public-domain liturgical materials
(Requires access to the Harvard, MIT, or other university libraries with
high speed book scanners)
- Writing and proofreading end-user or technical documentation
- Testing software and documentation
- Programming (or wanting to learn to program) in any of the following
languages: Java, Javascript/jQuery framework, XSLT, XQuery
- System/database administration: Linux, eXist
For more information, see our development wiki at
http://wiki.jewishliturgy.org or our blog at http://opensiddur.net
If you're interested, please fill out our survey at
http://opensiddur.net/join-us
and join our email discussion list.