Welcome to the Campcaster Developers Page!

Campcaster is a free and open source automation system for radio stations. It provides live studio broadcast capabilities as well as remote automation in one integrated system.

Campcaster has been developed by an international consortium of developers and designers led by the Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF), at its Center for Advanced Media Prague (CAMP) as part of its Campware Initiative.

For Users

• Campcaster Home Page: Latest News, Screenshots
• Download the latest release : Download Campcaster
• Note: The current beta packages for Campcaster 1.4 “Monrovia” only work with Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy”. They will not work with 8.10 “Intrepid” due to a known issue.

User Documentation

• Installation, Setup and Useful Tricks
• Installing Campcaster from the Repositories CD
• Version 1.1.0: Known Bugs and Bug Workarounds
• Read the User’s Manual or watch the video tutorial
• How to connect to a Campcaster “Network Hub”
• Help with setting up Campcaster on two separate computers
• View all bugs/tickets by milestone
• Instructions for localizers
• Want to build an ideal PC for working with Campcaster? Check our Hardware Reference Platform.
• Using Campcaster with the Jack server for streaming without sound cards, by Philippe Drouot (original in French is here)
• Helpful information on making GTK themes for Campcaster
• Campware Radio Package Setup
• Getting Campcaster to run on Windows under VMWare

For Developers

• Installing the Campcaster development environment version

• Discussion and Specs for Twitter feeds from Campcaster
• Campware PHP Coding Conventions
• Developer Guide and FAQ (was: Testing; links to the testing checklist)
• Campcaster XMLRPC Cookbook (Developers Guide) – use this guide if you are developing against our XMLRPC interface
• Developer Documentation including the C++ API, the instructions to create a release and the XML-RPC interface
• Find out about the weekly Developer Meetings
• Subversion stats for the code base
• Guidelines for Ticket Prioritization
• How to Write a Press Release
• LookAndFeelCustomization

Developers: Specs

• The Radio Package
• Please take a look at and help us improve our UseCases
• Description of our limited SMIL format
• Module documentation
• The Future of Campcaster Studio
• Python vs. Ruby
• Notes on the migration to Gstreamer 0.10
• Ideas on Campcaster-Drupal integration

Developers: Design and Mockups

• Mockups and Screen-designs
• Campcaster’s visual identity and UI style guide (under construction)
• GTK themes

Want to access the latest code?

To access the subversion repository, use this URL (for anonymous access):

svn checkout svn://source.campware.org/campcaster/trunk/campcaster