Airtime, Audio and Action

A radio focus in this edition of the newsletter which sees yesterday’s release of Airtime 1.6 level the playing field for low power FM stations, community radios, digital broadcasters and online radio stations everywhere with our latest professional, stable automation software now available.

1. Airtime 1.6 released
2. Lights, Camera, Action!
3. Newscoop Manual
4. Developer Snapshot

 

Airtime 1.6 released

The Local Community Radio Act passed last year in the US could see thousands of new community stations springing up all over the country. Whether you happen to be behind one of these, or whether you’re running a old-school freeform radio station in Europe, a cross-borders broadcast group in West Africa, or a university radio network in Latin America, Airtime 1.6 could be just the thing you’re looking for.

Firstly, it improves your workflow through scheduling and remote access. Secondly, it’s open source (good for karma). Thirdly, it contains all the stability and core features you need to automate and run your radio station, from anywhere, through any browser. Finally, it’ll cost you nothing.

To find out more about Airtime, our open radio software for scheduling and remote station management, visit http://airtime.sourcefabric.org where you can demo and download.

 

Lights, Camera, Action!

Actually, you won’t really need lights or a camera to get involved in the latest Sourcefabric contribution to improving the way journalists work. We’ve uploaded the first of our screencasts in a new section on our site. They show you how to title and produce your own tutorials, demos and mini masterpieces using only a laptop and our website.

We’re looking for tips, tricks, workarounds, how-to guides and more on Newscoop and Airtime, our open source tools for journalists. This is your call to action - it’s free and will benefit the rest of the community from Shinjuku to Sao Paolo. (By the way our website had visits from 137 countries last month. That’s around 70% of the world!)

There’s also a host of videos up from our Test Signals event in Berlin - dive into the tactics and magic of radio with leading experts from around the world at our Vimeo site.

 

Newscoop Manual

‘Newscoop for Editors and Journalists’ is out now! A real labour of love and a thing of beauty, the manual contains over 180 screenshots, detailed installation guides and much more. It can be read online, downloaded as an epub or converted with one click to a pdf (meaning you can take it to any printer and get yourself a beautifully bound copy should you wish.)

http://new.flossmanuals.net/newscoop/index

Huge thanks to Daniel James, who’s already busy at work on the equivalent tome for Airtime.

 

Developer Snapshot

Toronto, Prague and Cluj enter a new phase this week, with the milestone releases of Newscoop 3.5 and Airtime 1.6 behind them, they can start looking at feature requests and improvements in time for the next releases in a few months.

There’s been a lot of debate in the team recently about how often to release and naming the releases. We’re still discussing the finer points, but we’ll certainly be having a regular release agenda and not postponing for late feature requests. This means greater reliability and stability for our users throughout the year. login.sourcefabric.org is the place to get involved in all our dev stuff - wikis, repos and bug trackers all under one roof.

 

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