Software for Overworked People

Summary
The Metaist is expanding its operations to write open source software for people who have too much to do.

We're also selling t-shirts.

Clean up top, party on the sides. Or not.
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Announcement
After a year of sporadic blogging, The Metaist is taking up the plight of the overworked professional. The point of metaist.com is to build software for people who are being distracted from doing their jobs because they are overworked.

Our first project, HebPhonics, is targeted at teachers of Hebrew fluency. Teachers, in general, tend to work a lot when they get home either grading tests or preparing lesson plans. HebPhonics was proposed by Shoshana Zazula as a way to create individually-tailored worksheets for students with special needs in an semi-automated fashion. By automating the drudgery of making worksheets, teachers can pay more attention to the actual work of improving fluency.

Oh, and by the way, we'll be funding these activities by selling t-shirts (or whatever you else you might want). We're somewhat limited in what we can offer, but we're open to suggestions.

Meta
Do you have ideas for Metaist projects? Let us know.

See Also

• Happy Hour is 9 to 5 by Alexander Kjerulf for an excellent discussion of happiness and work.
• HebPhonics for the Hebrew fluency tools.