Freeshow: A Free and Open-source ProPresenter alternative(github.com)
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Freeshow: A Free and Open-source ProPresenter alternative
https://github.com/vassbo/freeshow
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It's always strange to me when I find live event or broadcast software or hardware and one of the main use-cases is...church? Nothing against it to be clear (having high production value in church that is, plenty against the church), I just never knew it was a big enough thing to drive a whole new category of broadcast software.
Could it be that a combination of sense of community, willingness (or pressure) to volunteer gratuitously and encouragement to share increases the likelihood of people stepping up and contributing software (and other things)?
Awesome! As someone who uses a lot of ProPresenter this looks really impressive.
The calendar view looks like a useful innovation.
Thanks for sharing it! I use Looks, NDI, and Resi in ProPresenter most of the time yet I am eager to see where this project goes for all kinds of new productions.
The calendar view looks like a useful innovation.
Thanks for sharing it! I use Looks, NDI, and Resi in ProPresenter most of the time yet I am eager to see where this project goes for all kinds of new productions.
A good open source alternative to ProPresenter is desperately needed and is what I always wanted to work on. Right now I don't have time for it and it's not ready yet for our needs, but I will keep an eye on this project.
Love it. Always happy to see interesting OpenSource project and so exciting to see one usable for church. Currently using WorshipTools Presenter and it's great for the cost (being a fairly small church) but I wish I could do a little more. I will definitely be following this project and messing around with it
Super cool!
Readme desperately needs screenshots.
There are many on the website: https://freeshow.app/
I was a high schooler back then. After that came 10 years of formal computer science education and another 12 years of a professional computer science career.
Ironically, out of all the software I wrote in those 22 years, this one might be the one that got the most use, as they held on to it for a very long time.
On one hand, it doesn't exactly speak to how stellar my career has been.
On the other, it shows how easy it was back then, compared to how hard it is now, to find profitable and unserved niche applications for computers. If I had dropped out of school and concentrated on improving and marketing my application back then, my career might have turned out very different. Lots of churches were rolling out computer-based projection screens for the first time back then, so there was a real market opportunity, and it was barely served by anyone.
When I graduated with a Ph.D. 10 years later, all that economic opportunity that motivated my getting into computer science in the first place was seemingly gone as I graduated right into a recession.
Today, I'd give my left nut to be able to carve out an existence reminiscent of a 90s-era indie software developer. Your choices today are pretty much limited to: (1) a pawn in digital platform serfdom (2) a support-function in a corporation (3) meat for the trivial innovation meat grinder.