Welcome to PubForge.org

PubForge is an open space for collaborating on solutions and best practices for public broadcasting on the web. We've got lots of smart people throughout the system who can figure things out on their own, but why reinvent things? The spirit of this space is collaboration and the sharing of ideas, solutions, and code. If you're into that, welcome aboard PubForge!


Call for Projects

PubForge is looking for open-source software projects focused on the needs of public broadcasters to feature and distribute. What have you built lately? Project Inquiry.

Use Public Media Manager CMS

PubForge contains a fully functioning version of Public Media Manager 1.3. Any visitor can see the features in operation on pages created by demo users. To access the CMS and post your own stories, Request Login privileges.

Upcoming Project

PMM Community Calendar: A full-featured events manager that integrates with Public Media Manager. Includes venue management, outside posting, PSAs, syndication tools for distributing event information by community, region and category, plus more. See it live at ncpr.org.


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PubForge Blog

Stupid API Tricks

What have we done with the new NPR API? This would be a good place for people to share examples of cool mashups and apps they’ve devised to tap NPR’s open content. Or to suggest ideas on which we could perhaps collaborate. Here’s one of mine: What if I...
Published: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:45:36 +0000

The PBCore Saga: An Update

Those of us consumed with passion about metadata for A/V objects (and who isn’t…) have been excited by the emergence of the PBCore. We present here an update. In our last dramatic PBCore episode, CPB funded a multi-year project to develop a standard for shareable...
Published: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:30:13 +0000

Public Broadcasting Open Source Best Practices Google Group

Re: Web Standards

Jack,
I would say that web standards, microformats and ajax etc. are all fair game
and that there is not really a progression from talking about one topic
first, before talking about the other. While a lot of things break down if
the html code is not
...
Published: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:13:10 UT

Web Standards

What are web standards and why should we care? Lately I've been
thinking that many of us (most?) at this point understand the
importance of building our sites based on valid (x)html and css, with
correct structure (using header elements properly for
...
Published: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:14:17 UT