Sourcefabric signs Australian news agency AAP to open source project

Prague, Czech Republic (PRWEB) November 12, 2014

Open source software developer Sourcefabric has signed Australian Associated Press to help develop an end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform.

The two parties are inviting other news publishers to participate in the project, called Superdesk.

Through Superdesk, AAP aims to better equip its editorial operations amid increasing cost pressure and ever-growing demands for innovative digital products and services.

AAP editor-in-chief Tony Gillies said, Over the past 10 years, our existing editorial platform has proven increasingly inflexible. The time is right for some true innovation in this area and we believe that Sourcefabric will set us on the right path.

Sava Tati, Sourcefabric managing director, said he was thrilled to be partnering with Australias national news agency.

Tati described the partnership as a great opportunity for Sourcefabric to showcase the power and flexibility of open source software to news and media organisations worldwide.

Sourcefabric is ready to serve as the custodian of the new code base for journalism, which will be open source, he said.

About Superdesk

Superdesk is a native editorial system for managing workflows and production in traditional, digital and converged news organisations. It has been designed specifically to be scalable to suit news operations of any size, and its modular approach makes it easily extensible without requiring rewrites of the base code.

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