A developer's guide to combining Newscoop and SoundCloud, taken from the Newscoop 3 Cookbook - Developer's Guide - a free resource available online, in print, as pdf and as epub via the Sourcefabric website.
For a couple of weeks in March and April 2011, the world's eyes were turned towards West Africa. One media outlet delivered exceptional coverage throughout, keeping West Africa and its diaspora informed, whilst at the same time making some news of its own by launching an new, innovative news platform. That organisation was West Africa Democracy Radio. Their new platform is founded on...
There's been a huge amount of furious scribbling and typing going on in the Sourcefabric team. With two new product manuals, a new online manual library and platform, new printed manuals, two extensive Newscoop developers guides and a booksprint in the planning, no wonder. So, without further ado, here's the official field guide to Sourcefabric documentation.
Launched in 2005, West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) promotes democratic and open societies. This article highlights a pioneering new project in Dakar, illustrates the political environment WADR works in, and outlines open source organisation Sourcefabric’s contribution in the form of open source technology, training and consultancy.
The European Broadcasting Union hosted the Digital Radio Week event in Geneva, Switzerland. Standardization around an open source and royalty-free codec could be just what the radio industry needs to make the switch from analogue to digital happen on a global scale.