Sourcefabric is a not-for-profit organisation based in Prague, Czech Republic, with branches in Berlin, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Sourcefabric was spun off from the Media Development Loan Fund

Media Development Loan Fund

Media Development Loan Fund is a New York-registered 501 non-profit corporation and investment fund that provides low-cost financing to independent news media in countries with a history of media oppression...

's Campware project in May 2010.

Software

It develops open source software for independent news media organisations. Its software products formerly included Campsite

Campsite (software)

Campsite is a free and open source multilingual content management system for news websites. Its localizable user interface was built with journalists, editors and publishers in mind, rather than computer experts, and it can be configured to suit different profiles of end users...

 and Campcaster

Campcaster

Campcaster is a free and open source radio management application for live broadcasting, remote broadcast automation , and program exchange between radio stations...

. On January 17th 2011, Sourcefabric

Sourcefabric

Sourcefabric is a not-for-profit organisation based in Prague, Czech Republic, with branches in Berlin, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Sourcefabric was spun off from the Media Development Loan Fund's Campware project in May 2010.-Software:...

 announced the renaming of Campsite to Newscoop

Newscoop

Newscoop is a free and open source multilingual content management system for news websites, formerly known as Campsite. On January 17, 2011, Sourcefabric announced the renaming of Campsite to Newscoop.-History:...

 and Campcaster to Airtime

Airtime

Airtime is a free and open source radio management application for remote broadcast automation , and program exchange between radio stations.-History:...

, plus the launch of a new product Superdesk. On November 10th 2011, Sourcefabric

Sourcefabric

Sourcefabric is a not-for-profit organisation based in Prague, Czech Republic, with branches in Berlin, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Sourcefabric was spun off from the Media Development Loan Fund's Campware project in May 2010.-Software:...

 officially announced the development of Superdesk, a newsroom tool to manage the entire journalistic process.

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 (Senegal, Zimbabwe), various EU countries and in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Implementations

In April 2011, Sourcefabric worked alongside West Africa Democracy Radio

West Africa Democracy Radio

West Africa Democracy Radio is a trans-territorial, sub-regional broadcaster based in Dakar, Senegal. WADR is a project of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa set up in 2003 to protect and defend the ideals of democratic and open societies by disseminating development information through...

 to build a news platform for the station using Airtime

Airtime

Airtime is a free and open source radio management application for remote broadcast automation , and program exchange between radio stations.-History:...

, Newscoop

Newscoop

Newscoop is a free and open source multilingual content management system for news websites, formerly known as Campsite. On January 17, 2011, Sourcefabric announced the renaming of Campsite to Newscoop.-History:...

 and Soundcloud

SoundCloud

SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform which allows collaboration, promotion and distribution of audio recordings.-History:SoundCloud was originally started in Stockholm, Sweden, but was established in Berlin, Germany in August, 2007 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss...

 integration. TagesWoche

TagesWoche

TagesWoche is a hybrid online and print Swiss newspaper published in Basel by Neue Medien Basel AG. A daily edition appears online, and a weekly edition in print on Fridays...

, 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

The West Africa Democracy Radio

West Africa Democracy Radio

West Africa Democracy Radio is a trans-territorial, sub-regional broadcaster based in Dakar, Senegal. WADR is a project of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa set up in 2003 to protect and defend the ideals of democratic and open societies by disseminating development information through...

 project was named as a special distinction winner in the 2011 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Airtime

Airtime

Airtime is a free and open source radio management application for remote broadcast automation , and program exchange between radio stations.-History:...

was nominated 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.