Who, what, when, where and why

Collaboration, formats and remixing: the Booktype workshop at UCL

Hosting an academic workshop on open source software, Booktype, opens up the conversation about book publishing in a digital environment.

What is the future of the WYSIWYG editor?

WYSIWHAT? A free, one-day event for designers, writers, educators, journalists and anyone who produces text in the browser. Sourcefabric Berlin, Prinzessinnenstraße 20, Aufgang A, 10969 Berlin, Germany.

Building the next generation of journalism tools with #newsbeta

Open software for open media. Starting with a summer of collaborative projects, #newsbeta is an initiative that will help coders and non-coders work together to build tools for amazing independent media organisations.

From Perl to Django: how we developed an open source book platform

The development history of Booktype is a long one and involves Perl, Twiki, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis and more. Here's our journey...

Juba - the world's first open source city?

Juba is recognised as one of the fastest growing cities in the world, and is a hotbed of competing interests - oil, banking, construction, telecommunications. Could it become the world's first open source city? #OSJUBA intends to find out.

What collaborative book production looks like

Booktype software is used for a publication concerning The New Aesthetic in a Book Sprint style, collaborative design process in Rotterdam

Newscoop and Airtime hotfixes kick off a summer of open software

Sourcefabric has some important hotfixes for our Airtime and Newscoop communities, plus grand plans to get you involved in some core development and design for the next exciting evolutions in open source media tools.

Creating a theme for Newscoop 4

Newscoop 4 has an all-new theme management system which makes assigning new looks to your publications very easy. Here's how to create a theme file...

Why I like Information Architects

Information Architect's latest blogpost on the Neuen Zürcher Zeitung confirmed the web design agency's blog as one of my favourites out there. So, why do I like iA?

Booktype pioneers printing equations in a digital environment

On the Road to Frankfurt with Booktype

Sourcefabric embark on a mission to improve Booktype software development through collaborations with influential contemporary book designers.

NationTalk Radio connects Aboriginal communities in Canada

NationTalk is Canada's only native newswire service. Sourcefabric was involved at every stage of Airtime's implementation and credit the Airtime team's great work with documentation and an intuitive UI