Opencast Community

URL = http://opencast.org/

Description

"The Opencast community is a collaboration of individuals, higher education institutions and organizations working together to explore, develop, define and document best practices and technologies for management of audiovisual content in academia. The community shares experiences with existing technologies and practices as well as identifying future approaches and requirements. The community seeks broad participation in this important and dynamic domain, to allow community members to share expertise and experience and collaborate in related projects.

The Opencast community also supports community-driven projects to solve common issues in management of academic audiovisual content as identified by the community.

Today, the prime example is the Opencast Matterhorn project, an open source software development project to develop video capture and management technologies that are of primary importance to the Opencast community’s mission. The project seeks participation from committers and contributors who engage to forward effective development of the project."