opencast project update at open apereo 2015
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Open Apereo 2015Higher Education ... Open Source in a New Age
Opencast: State of the Project
Stephen Marquard
Opencast Board | University of Cape Town
The Opencast Community is…
Universities, companies and people:• concerned with academic video• attracted to the Opencast values of openly exchanging
ideas, experience, knowledge and code• committed to building and maintaining a robust, flexible,
high-quality open source lecture capture and academic video management solution.
Now also part of
Opencast is
A free, flexible, open-source video management solution to meet the many needs academic institutions have with respect to video.
Institutions use Opencast to produce lecture recordings, preserve and manage existing video, serve designated distribution channels, and provide user interfaces to engage students with educational videos.
Why is academic video important?
Class recordings are highly valued by students.
Recordings are a safety-net for students: a second chance to go over difficult material, or catch up on missed events.
Video provides an important way of engaging learners in online and blended e-learning courses.
But video can be complex to produce, manage and preserve.
“If the lecturer’s going too fast through
something you don’t understand, you can
slow it down. So, you’re not forced to learn at
the pace of others; you can fly through what
you find easy and concentrate on what
you find hard.”
(University of Cape Town student, May 2014)
Beyond lectures and outside education
Opencast is also used for:
Preparing educational content in advance in high-quality studio environments.
Video recording for formative assessment of student technique in medical exercises, therapy sessions, interview techniques, patient interactions and simulation labs.
Communicating board meetings and special events in the non-profit sector
Who uses Opencast?Around the world, with especially strong adoption in Europe.
43 Adopters with public information (May 2014)
30+ commercial partner clients
http://opencast.org/matterhorn-adopters
Opencast consists of
Board
Committers
Contributors
Community
Commercial partners
Sponsors
Related Projects
Archive
LTI, SSO, REST APIs
Capture Agent API
Any video
Project milestones for 2015
Apereo incubation
Almost complete!
Opencast 2.0 code licensed with ECL2, Apereo Foundation copyright
Simpler, better branding and communication
Phasing out “Matterhorn” in favour of “Opencast” as the single brand
Launching a new website and logo soon
Opencast 2.0 comes with a brand new admin UI for a unified look
CodeCode governance largely follows Apache model; decisions taken by committers;
committers proposed and elected
Code in bitbucket (using GitFlow branching model), issues in JIRA
Detailed development process
https://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Development+process
Pull requests with strict peer review
http://pullrequests.opencast.org/
Successful transition to date-driven releases (major release every 6 months)
1.6.x released Dec 2014, 2.0 scheduled for June 2015; 2.1 scheduled for Dec 2015
Feature Roadmap
https://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Matterhorn+Road+Map
Commercial ecosystem
Capture Agents and hardware
Support and Development
Hosted solutions
Sponsorship
Capture Agent & Appliance Vendors
Contract support and development
Support your deployment of Opencast by
• Implementation planning• Providing immediate support for critical production problems• Toolkits for managing production systems• Contract development to solve specific bugs or implement new
features• Support for other commercial partners (e.g. capture agent vendors)
Vendors
• Entwine• Teltek
Hosted services
You install the capture agents; hosting provider runs Opencast
Client hosting:
EntwineNCastTeltek
Hosting for a defined user community:
SWITCH (Swiss National Research and Education Network)
First crowd-funded development project
Goal: Modernize the Opencast OSGI Technology Stack
Proposer and implementer: Entwine
Value: $50,000
Time to reach funding goal: 10 weeks
Funded by: Harvard University, University of Cape Town, Universität Ulm, Universität Köln, SWITCH, Universität Stuttgart, ELAN e. V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Ghent University, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Entwine
Sponsors
Contributions from Opencast sponsors help support community activities that benefit everyone, such as Quality Assurance.
Project ecosystemOpen source projects that extend Opencast, or provide complementary or alternative functionality, including:
Lecturesight (http://lecturesight.org)Automated, affordable presenter tracking for PTZ cameras using image recognition
Paella (http://paellaplayer.upv.es/)A multi-stream HTML5 Opencast-compatible video player from UPV
PyCA (https://github.com/lkiesow/pyCA)A simple Python capture agent for Raspberry Pi and other devices (also, turn anything with a REST API into a capture agent!)
TheREC / MHRI (http://zentrum.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/therec/)Windows-based desktop capture agent with upload to Opencast
Adopter HighlightsFive examples of Opencast production deployments, illustrating Opencast’s flexibility:
ManchesterLargest Opencast deployment, up to 350 CAs, 20,000 hours per semesterOpt-out model, highly automated, high-volume throughput.
Harvard DCEHigh production values, professional A/V hardware. Active contributors, runs Opencast in AWS instances.
UCTAffordable, DIY deployment scaling up to over 50 venues.Support from Teltek and Entwine.
OsnabrueckPioneer and early adopter, involves many postgraduate students in research projects that contribute to Opencast or become their own projects
UCBModernized the webcast@berkeley platform with Opencast, publishes to Youtube
Opencast 2.0 Highlights (June 2015)
Reconceptualized and redesigned user interface (i18n)
New HTML5 multi-stream video player (“Theodul”)
Support for extended metadata
Workflow and efficiency improvements
Completely new admin UI
Transformed user experience, flexible roles
Designed by EspressLabs
Built by Entwine with AngularJS
Translations via crowdin (Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Spanish)
Theodul HTML5 Multi-stream Player
Planned for Opencast 2.1 (Dec 2015)OSGI updateVideo-croppingExternal Application APIAsset management layerScheduling with extended metadataParticipation management module (supporting opt-out models)Capture Agent API 2.0Cover Image Workflow OperationIngest of partial tracksOAI-PMH repository based on the asset manager with publish and retract workflow operationsSupport for secured downloads and streams through URL signingWorkflow operation to strip media files from the archiveSupport service toolsYoutube v3 API upgrade
Get involved today!Opencast website
http://opencast.org/ (read the adopter stories!)
Mailing lists
[email protected] (low frequency)
[email protected] (implementers, users)
[email protected] (developers)
IRC
#opencast (irc.freenode.net)
Source code, issue tracking, documentation
https://bitbucket.org/opencast-community
http://opencast.jira.com
http://docs.opencast.org
Weekly technical meetings and monthly adopter meetings (BigBlueButton)
Opencast community summits and participation in conferences
Commercial support for Matterhorn:
Entwine
entwinemedia.com
Teltek
www.teltek.es
and others.
