Librecast Studio approved for NGI0 Commons funding

Librecast has been accepted into the NGI Zero Commons fund to continue building Librecast with Librecast Studio.

This is great news for the project, as this means we can continue our work on Librecast through to 2027. As a project, we couldn’t have made it this far without the support of our community. From the people who spend their time packaging us to the folks cheering us on each time we put our a release. Every contribution helps us so we’d like to say thank you.

As part of our application to Zero Commons we published a draft plan for Studio. This is a collection of ideas and is a work in progress. We aim to work with you, our wider community to create the foundations for a space that you create and bring your tools to so we can each collaborate on our own terms.

Our current landscape of remote collaborative tooling is restrictive and one size doesn’t fit all.

With the acceptance into the Zero Commons Fund, our ideas must become more concrete so we spent some time to understand the starting point for this.

We had design discussions for Librecast Studio, and the idea of building what we’re calling The Construct (see: Matrix, 1999) was formed. The Construct is a neutral, virtual space that allows multiple connected parties to collaborate. Each party can bring resources with them (CPU, disk, network, applications) and can use their own local applications to view and process data. Building this, rather than a specific single-purpose application, will be the main product of the NGI Zero Commons work that we do. This relies heavily on the multicast overlay we are working on currently.