Building the Opencast Community

Opencast is a global community of higher education institutions, individuals, and other organizations working together to develop and exchange best practices and technologies for managing audiovisual content in academia. The Opencast Community also supports community-driven projects, such as Opencast Matterhorn, an Open Source Software supporting the scheduling, capture, managing, encoding and delivery of educational audio and video content. It is being developed in an international cooperation of 13 academic partners.

 This talk will discuss the use of open development methodologies in fostering the global collaboration between academic partners, highlight challenges in this endeavour and spotlight the value for higher education in the adoption of and participation in a transparent and inclusive approach to software development.

 

Session time: Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 2:00pm - 2:40pm

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Slides

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About the Speaker

Olaf A. Schulte
Product Manager, Opencast Matterhorn, ETH Zurich

After his studies in communication science, Olaf A. Schulte joined a research team looking into the communicative structures of videoconferencing at the Universitaet of Essen in 2000. In 2002, he joined the E-Competence-Team there, counselling lecturers in E-Learning, especially synchronous communication and collaboration.

In 2005, he joined the NET – Network for Educational Technology at ETH Zurich as Head of the Media Centre, focussing on videoconferencing, teleteaching, and e-collaboration. In 2006, he took charge of the newly formed production and distribution group within ITS Multimedia Services, dealing with all aspects of academic video.

As of June 2009, he is also Product Manager for the Opencast Matterhorn Project.


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