Sourcefabric is a Czech not-for-profit organisation that develops open source software for independent news media organisations. It is based in

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, 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

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Software

Notable

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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

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platform for news organisations. * Airtime (formerly known as Campcaster, renamed in 2011), a radio station automation and management software. Sourcefabric no longer develops the open source version, having pivoted to Airtime Pro, a

platform.

Legacy software

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

for news websites * Booktype, 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 (

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Implementations

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

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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. * Airtime 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 ''

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s 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. * Booktype 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