On the EmergingUMC blog, which chronicles the intersection of Methodism and the emergent/missional church, there is a lengthy and intricate post discussing open source liturgy.

The premise is to model liturgical development after the LINUX model of Open Source.  LINUX uses a number of developers who work together to achieve goals and a level of quality that is much higher and more user friendly than companies like Microsoft, for instance.  This produces a product that "manages to be good as a desktop and nearly unparalleled as a server," as our webmaster Joshua Benner says.

Taking from a model that has produced the software that runs over 25% of new servers sold this year is a good idea. 

The principles of this new liturgical endevour are:

---Liturgy is the work of the people.
---Liturgy is the work of the whole Christian community in all times and places.
---Liturgical resources that will be “official” or even “recommended” must be tested, refined and validated by large numbers of Christians across the diversity of the church.

I will try to keep updates coming as the project progresses.