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Bringing hacks and hackers together in the best way: Media Party

by Douglas Arellanes 8.09.2015

Hacks/Hackers speaker, JSK Stanford Fellow and friend of Sourcefabric Nuno Vargas leads a design thinking workshop for kids at the Media Party in Buenos Aires. Kids came up with products to solve problems in their lives. | Photo by Douglas Arellanes(photo: Douglas Arellanes)

The Buenos Aires chapter of the worldwide Hacks/Hackers community just hosted their annual Media Party event which did not disappoint. With over 1,000 daily attendees, there was no shortage of keynotes, workshops, lightning talks, exhibitions of interesting projects, and hackathons.

Introducing two new Superdesk developers

by Magdalena Klein 2.09.2015

Our new Superdesk developers: Nemanja (on the left) and Aleksandar (on the right) I Photo by Sourcefabric

Among the latest additions to our organisation were three new developers. We’ve already introduced Oleg, the Booktype developer. Here’s the joint team profile of the two Superdesk developers: Aleksandar and Nemanja.

Making waves in the South Caucasus

by Jan Michael Ihl 27.08.2015

Mount Ararat seen from Yerevan. Mount Ararat is the assumed place where Noah’s Ark landed | Photo by: Letizia Gambini

A tale from microwav.fm, a Sourcefabric project promoting an independent, non-partisan, international youth-oriented online radio platform in the South Caucasus.

A How-To guide to Storyteller for Newscoop

by Emma Van Sant 25.08.2015

Questions, so many questions... | Photo by Abigail Keenan (CC BY 1.0)

The nitty gritty details to getting started with Storyteller, a Newscoop theme for longform journalism.

The ultimate Sourcefabric book list about journalism

by Letizia Gambini 18.08.2015

Summer reading in a park I Photo by flickr user pmillera4/ (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

For as many books as exist, there are also any number of different reading types, and you may or may not fall into more than one category. We compiled for you a list of books we thought you’d like to spend time with.

Live Blog 3.0 first public release is here

by Holman Romero 11.08.2015

We've revamped Live Blog and we want you to test it I Photo by Sourcefabric

Live Blog 3.0 alpha has just been released and we invite you to test it.

New Belarusian media is based on journalists’ initiative

by Magdalena Klein 7.08.2015

Team members of Belrynok I Photo by Belrynok

Belrynok is an online news organisation that was established quite unexpectedly earlier this year. Here’s the background on how it was born.

Storyteller through the eyes of a developer

by Ljuba Ranković 30.07.2015

Peek behind the scenes into the world of a developer | Photo by Luis Llerena (CC BY 1.0)

A developer faces challenges that go unnoticed by the typical frontend user. The average user expects a program to work and to do so flawlessly, but what are some of the challenges in getting to a final product? How did Storyteller become, well, Storyteller?