Sourcefabric

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Sourcefabric is a Czech not-for-profit organisation that develops open source software for independent news media organisations. It is based in Prague, Czech Republic, with branches in Berlin, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Sourcefabric was spun off from the Media Development Investment Fund's Campware project in April 2010. Sourcefabric is an affiliate member of the Open Source Initiative.

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Software

Notable free and open-source software developed by Sourcefabric include:

Legacy software

Training

Sourcefabric also provides training for journalism students as well as professional journalists on how to use new media tools. It has had training and consulting activities in Africa (Mali, Senegal, Zimbabwe), various EU countries and in the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). [2]

Implementations

In April 2011, Sourcefabric worked alongside West Africa Democracy Radio to build a news platform for the station using Airtime, Newscoop and SoundCloud integration. [3] TagesWoche, a Swiss online and print newspaper, launched in October 2011 on a new version of the Newscoop platform with the new features Print Desk and Feed Ingest. [4]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. Charman-Anderson, Suw (14 February 2012). "Booktype: Book collaboration made easy". Forbes.
  2. "New open source company aimed at journalists". 19 January 2011.
  3. "WADR launches new website". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
  4. "TagesWoche Portrays New Future for Swiss Media Landscape". Archived from the original on January 14, 2012.
  5. "Storify Wins Knight-Batten Award". Archived from the original on 2011-08-09.
  6. "2011 Knight-Batten Winners Include Storify, Andy Carvin". PBS . Archived from the original on October 28, 2011.
  7. "Open Source Radio Station Management Software Airtime Sees New Release". 3 October 2011.
  8. "Superdesk Brings Digital Newsroom to Independent Media Organisations". Archived from the original on 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
  9. "Guardian Awards for Digital Innovation - winners 2012". The Guardian. London. 23 March 2012.
  10. "ANIC Winner 2012".
  11. "2nd Annual Lovie Honourees". Archived from the original on October 28, 2011.
  12. "Neuland 2.0: Abook und Booktype holen Startup-Preise der Leipziger Buchmesse". 26 March 2017.