Sourcefabric is a

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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

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's Campware project in April 2010. Sourcefabric is a
affiliate member
of the

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Software

Notable free and open-source software developed by Sourcefabric include: * Superdesk, a headless content management system 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 content management system 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 West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) is a trans-territorial, sub-regional broadcaster based in Dakar, Senegal. WADR is a project of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) set up in 2003 to protect and defend the ideals of democratic and ...

to build a news platform for the station using Airtime, Newscoop and

SoundCloud SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform and music sharing website that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio. Founded in 2007 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, SoundCloud is one of the largest music streaming s ...

integration.

TagesWoche ''TagesWoche'' is a Swiss German-language online newspaper, with a weekly Friday printed edition, published in Basel, Switzerland by Neue Medien Basel AG. History and operation The newspaper's first edition appeared on 28 October 2011. It was cr ...

, 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

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 ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

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 The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences or IADAS is an international organization founded in 1998 in New York City to help drive the creative, technical, and professional progress of the Internet and evolving forms of interactive and ...

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 The Leipzig Book Fair (german: Leipziger Buchmesse) is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually over four days at the Leipzig Trade Fairground in the northern part of Leipzig, Saxony. ...

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