Live Blog

Sourcefabric's Live Blog is an open source web app that enables journalists to provide immediate and ongoing coverage on evolving news events. Find out more here: https://www.sourcefabric.org/en/liveblog/.

See an example of Live Blog in action here: http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-09/bundestagswahl-2013-live

License: AGPLv3

Copyright: Sourcefabric z.ú.

Features

• Access to sources: Drag and drop search results from social media and other content networks into your Live Blog timeline.
• Themes: Customise Live Blog to match your site’s design and make it look great on mobile and tablet.
• User roles: Build a team workflow for multiple collaborators with appropriate sign-offs and permissions.
• Easy embedding: Simply copy and paste an embed code from the Live Blog interface and start spreading the news.
• Blog chaining: Connect several blogs to syndicate your content to other media outlets.
• SEO solution: With our new embed plugin you can integrate an html version of the blogs into your website: https://github.com/liveblog/plugin-liveblog-embed-server/tree/master

Installation

Please check the installation guide: https://github.com/superdesk/Live-Blog/blob/master/INSTALL.md

Documentation

• Live Blog RESTful API documentation: http://docs.sourcefabric.org/projects/live-blog-restful-api/en/latest/

Manuals and Tutorials

• Manual for journalists: https://www.sourcefabric.org/en/liveblog/manuals/
• How to create your own themes: http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/community/blog/2097/Building-themes-for-Live-Blog.htm

Superdesk

Live Blog is based on Superdesk technology.

How To Contribute

Commit messages

Every commit has to have a meaningful commit message in the form:

[JIRA ref] [JIRA Title] or [Title]
<empty line>
[Description]

Where JIRA ref is the Issue code eg. LB-13.

For trivial changes you can ommit JIRA ref or Description or both eg. Add travis.yml files

Pull requests

Every pull request has to have a meaningful message and if not specified in the commits, a good description of what has been done.