Sourcefabric is a non-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 a
affiliate member
of the Open Source Initiative.

Software

Notable

free and open-source software Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source ...

developed by Sourcefabric include: * Superdesk, a headless

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for websites, aimed at news organisations. * Superdesk Publisher, a digital publishing platform that exports content from Superdesk and other sources to multiple output formats, including the web. * Live Blog, a liveblogging SaaS platform for news organisations. *

Airtime Air time or airtime may refer to: *Air time (broadcasting), also spelled "airtime", available hours for broadcast or time purchased for broadcast *Air time (mobile phone), also spelled "airtime", top-up for mobile roaming services *Air time, also ...

(formerly known as

Campcaster Airtime is a radio management application for remote broadcast automation (via web-based scheduler), and program exchange between radio stations. Airtime was developed and released as free and open-source software, subject to the requirements o ...

, renamed in 2011), a radio station automation and management software. Sourcefabric no longer develops the open source version, having pivoted to Airtime Pro, a SaaS platform.

Legacy software

Newscoop Newscoop (formerly Campsite) is a free and open source multilingual content management system for news websites. Its localizable user interface was built with journalists, editors and publishers in mind, rather than computer experts, and it can be ...

(formerly known as Campsite, renamed in 2011), a

for news websites *

Booktype Booktype is a free and open source software for authoring, collaborating, editing, and publishing books to PDF, ePub, .mobi, and HTML formats. It was launched by Sourcefabric in February 2012 when Booktype evolved from the Booki software, whi ...

, a book publishing tool, developed in collaboration with the FLOSS Manuals Foundation. * Citizen Desk, a tool for managing content created by citizen journalists.

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).

Implementations

In April 2011, Sourcefabric worked alongside West Africa Democracy Radio to build a news platform for the station using

, Newscoop and SoundCloud integration. 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.

Awards and nominations

* The West Africa Democracy Radio project was named as a special distinction winner in the 2011 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. *

was nominated as a finalist in the Packt Open Source Multimedia Software Awards 2011. * Superdesk was nominated for the 2011 Ashoka Google Citizen Media Global Innovation Competition in November 2011. * Airtime won '' The Guardians Digital Innovation Award 2012 in the category Best Use of Technology for Social Change. * In November 2012 Sourcefabric was one of the winners of the African News Innovation Award for Citizen Desk in Mozambique. *

won Silver in the Lovie Awards 2012 in the category Web Services & Applications. * In 2017, Booktype won the Neuland 2.0 jury award for innovation in media and book publishing at the Leipzig Book Fair.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.sourcefabric.org/ Free and open-source software organizations Non-profit organizations based in the Czech Republic Organizations established in 2010 2010 establishments in the Czech Republic