NewsCloud Open Source Media Platform
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Welcome to the NewsCloud Open Source Media Platform Wiki. NewsCloud is an open source media platform which you can use to launch your own grassroots media Web site. Or, you can get involved in the development of the NewsCloud platform.
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Get the code
Download the code and follow our blog for the latest platform news:
Get involved
Help us improve the NewsCloud platform.
We're looking for you:
- Web Developers
- Graphic Designers
- Editors
- Testers
- Technical writers
If you want to get involved in the development of the NewsCloud Media Platform, please review the NewsCloud Open Source Project Opportunities and feel free to contact us.
Contribute
- Make a donation to help us expand our efforts
Learn More
The following links will help you learn more about getting involved and/or download the code for your own project:
- NewsCloud Platform Overview
- NewsCloud Hosting Options
- Setting up your NewsCloud Development Environment
- NewsCloud Open Source Project Opportunities
Using our Web Services API
If you want to integrate components from NewsCloud into your own Web site, visit our Web Services API documentation. Our Web Services page has a number of examples with sample code that make it super easy to add NewsCloud features to your Web site. You can also visit our Web Services Project Page at Source Forge.
Links to further documentation
Please be patient with us as we have just begun writing more detailed public documentation for the site
- Administrating NewsCloud
- NewsCloud Source Code Documentation
- NewsCloud Database Structure Documentation
- Release Notes
About our GPL Licensing
The NewsCloud Media Platform is distributed under GPL. You are free to use the NewsCloud source code in your own projects as long as you provide credit back to our site. If you enhance the code for commercial uses, you must release your improvements back to us for integration into our primary source code.
