Nominations for Jewish Free Culture Society's First Annual Kavod Awards
Aharon Varady
Announcing the Jewish Free Culture Society's First Annual Kavod Awards, recognizing individual and community contributions in Open Source Judaism and the Free Culture Movement.
We are opening up nominations for the Jewish Free-Culture Society's
first ever KAVOD recognition awards. The purpose of these awards is to
bring recognition to the dedication,
hard work, commitment, and achievement of individual contributors and
community projects in growing the Jewish Free Culture movement.
Nominations are open to everyone. Please email me at: aha...@jewishfreeculture.org with the name of your nominees in any or all of the categories below. Information on this award is posted at http://jewishfreeculture.org/projects/
Nominations will end on Tu Bish'vat 5776 (January 25th, 2016). Award recipients are announced on Rosh Ḥodesh Nissan. Voting participants are permitted to nominate anyone (including themselves) for any of the following categories:
- Open-source Judaism evangelist of the year
- Open-source backend developer of the year
- Open-source UI/UX developer of the year
- Open Content contributor of the year for original textual work
- Open Content contributor of the year for original translation
- Open Content contributor of the year for original art
- Open Content contributor of the year for curriculum design
- Libre Open Access contributor of the year for original scholarship
- Open-source community project of the year
- Open Content contributing project of the year
- Libre Open Access publisher of the year
- Individual Lifetime Achievement to Open-source Judaism
- Community project historical achievement to Open-source Judaism
- Libre Open Access publisher historical contribution to Open-source Judaism
- Recognition of an individual or community project working outside the world of open-source Judaism
Eligible recipients will have shared copyright resources under licenses compatible with the standard definition of Open-source as maintained by the Open Source Initiative <http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd>, the definition of Open as maintained by the Open Knowledge Foundation <http://opendefinition.org/>, and the definition of Free Cultural Works as maintained by the Free-Culture Foundation <http://freedomdefined.org/Definition>. For Libre Open Access, please see the article by Peter Suber <http://www.sparc.arl.org/resource/gratis-and-libre-open-access>.
Nominations will be reviewed and voted on by the Jewish Free Culture Society's nominations committee. Any member of the Jewish Free Culture Society in good standing is eligible to participate on the nomination committee.
For annual membership in the Jewish Free Culture Society, donate $18 to https://www.razoo.com/story/Opensiddurproject fiscally sponsored by the Center for Jewish Culture & Creativity.
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the Open Siddur Project
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