Support
In addition to the many individual contributors metavid is supported by:
In April of 2007 The Sunlight Foundation issued a major grant to the metavid project which will fund a full year of development and hardware infrastructure upgrades.
In December of 2006 The Sunlight Foundation, provided metavid with a small grant which supported a month of software development and some additional hardware.
CITRIS provides the rack-space for the metavid server
Professor Warren Sack's, NSF grant on deliberative democracy helped fund some research and development on metavid
The University of California Santa Cruz has provided hosting for the metavid project since January 06.
Metavid was originally developed in the DANM (Digital Arts and New Media) program at UCSC. DANM provided the initial hardware for the project.