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Sourcefabric website redesign tours Belgrade and B92 studios

by Kristin Trethewey 3.04.2013
Welcome to Beograd | Photo credit Flickr Sourcefabric (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Welcome to Beograd | Photo credit Flickr Sourcefabric (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

We travelled to Belgrade and hashed out plans for an overhaul of our print and web materials.This brought members of our internal team together, combining their skills in design, website implementations and communications. 

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What makes a good news app? Thoughts from a media hackathon

by Adam Thomas 22.03.2013
Media house in the mountains; the view from Russmedia Digital. Credit: Adam Thomas CC NC-BY-SA 2.0
Media house in the mountains; the view from Russmedia Digital. Credit: Adam Thomas CC NC-BY-SA 2.0 (photo: Adam Thomas CC NC-BY-SA 2.0 )

We've been building tools for content creators since 1999. What lessons have we learnt from over a decade of building news apps?

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Sourcefabric News: Live Blog 1.0 released and tested in Switzerland

by Kristin Trethewey 18.03.2013
SXSWedu, Photo credit Flickr Anna Hanks (CC BY 2.0)
SXSWedu, Photo credit Flickr Anna Hanks (CC BY 2.0)

This week TagesWoche used Live Blog to report on Basel events, we attended SXSWedu with Booktype, updated the Airtime 2.3 manual in Russian, Nyandeng Malek Dielic visited Sourcefabric in Berlin and there were new jobs announced at Sourcefabric.


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How do you make money with open source? The short answer: Services

by Fabienne Riener 1.03.2013
Lemonade stand | Photo credit Flickr Steven Depolo (CC BY 2.0)
Lemonade stand | Photo credit Flickr Steven Depolo (CC BY 2.0)(photo: Steven Depolo)

Sourcefabric has been working with existing content producers all over the world for years. We have a lot of expertise and a number of cool toys. But seriously – how do we pay our bills? The simple answer is this: Services.

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Newscoop recipe: handling multilingual strings in templates

by Micz Flor 27.02.2013

Managing multilingual websites is one of the strengths of Newscoop. If you are running a site with more than one language in Newscoop, all content inside, articles, sections, article fields, can be translated by the editors in the admin interface. Here you learn how to manage stings in multilingual templates.

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JUSNews prepares the next generation of journalists with Newscoop

by Kristin Trethewey 20.02.2013
JUSNews at the University of Sheffield | Photo credit: Xingtong Chen
JUSNews at the University of Sheffield | Photo credit: Xingtong Chen

JUSNews is a student run online publication focussing on local journalism.  I spoke with Hadrian Cawthorne, IT Manager at the Department of Journalism Studies about how the students benefit from the experience of running an online news site with Newscoop. 

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The early days of Resonance FM with Chris Weaver

by Chris Weaver 18.02.2013
Chris Weaver
Chris Weaver

Resonance FM and Sourcefabric began brainstorming ideas for a 'perfect' open source radio automation software back in 2010. Chris Weaver tells us about his first days at the station and how independent radio has impacted him. 

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Why community radio should be like a jukebox, not a lecture

by Amy O'Donnell 12.02.2013
Jukebox
Jukebox

Guest writer, Amy O' Donnell of FrontlineSMS discusses why radio is becoming more of an interactive platform for communities to share ideas. When it comes to the tools radio stations use to manage both content scheduling and audience interaction, she says, the next step to consider is how to make sure these tools are as multi-platform as the conversations happening around them. 

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The global Sourcefabric community celebrates World Radio Day 2013

by Kristin Trethewey 7.02.2013
Photo credit Flickr Craig Morey (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Photo credit Flickr Craig Morey (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In 2013 Sourcefabric plans to celebrate World Radio Day with five events around the world as well as radio content from Minsk and presentations in Guatemala.  Here's what we have in store for Wednesday, February 13.

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