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Below are recent articles, blog posts and coverage of Opencast in the news, as reported by the Opencast Community.
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NCast announces software update for its Matterhorn lecture capture server

Feb
01
NCast - taking streaming further

NCast, an innovative leader in presentation capture and IP streaming, is proud to announce the Introduction of its video recorder / capture agent software update for the open source Matterhorn Lecture Capture Server.
See the NCast Software Update Press Release - Jan 2012 for details.

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Introducing Matterhorn's New QA Manager

Jan
26
Greg Logan

UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich are happy to announce that Greg Logan from the University of Saskatchewan has agreed to take over the post of QA Manager for the Opencast Matterhorn project. The position sponsored by UCB and ETH is to safeguard code quality by coordinating QA work across committers. 

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Mobile Matterhorn available in the Android Market

Dec
21
Matterhorn mobile app screenshot

Dear all,

I have the pleasure of announcing that the mobile Matterhorn application (Matterhorn2Go) is finally available in the Android market. We've fixed many bugs, design and usability issues since the release of the first test versions. Thanks for testing and your bug reports! iTool users please be patient - we are pretty close to also release the application to the Apple store soon.

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Opencast Matterhorn 2012 Unconference Sticky

Nov
30

The dates and location have been set for the first Opencast Matterhorn Unconference!

January 31-February 1, 2012
Oxford University
Oxford, UK

Please visit the Unconference 2012 website for details and registration.

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New board members announced

Nov
29

Earlier this month, the 5 newly-elected members of the Opencast board convened to select additional members to join the board. We are pleased to announce the addition of three new appointed members to the board:

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At University of Vigo a start-up was born providing Matterhorn-based academic media solutions

Nov
28
TelTek Video Research

The University of Vigo recently launched two new ongoing, very different, projects: Teltek and Galicaster.

TELTEK

TELTEK is a start-up company born at the University of Vigo (UVigo). TELTEK will be focused in providing open source IT-Media solutions for Academia.

As the developers and engineers working in TELTEK have been part of the team dedicated to the Opencast Matterhorn project on UVigo's behalf, one of TELTEK’s main goals will be the provision of Opencast Matterhorn solutions.

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Entwine and NCast Partner to Elevate Matterhorn

Sep
29

Press release from SF Gate covering the partnership of Entwine, a provider of custom lecture capture solutions and NCast, provider of industry-leading solutions for capturing, distributing and archiving high-resolution, mixed media content to improve and enrich Opencast Matterhorn.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/09/28/prweb8832290.DTL#ixzz1ZMWOp3h7

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Announcing the Opencast Board Results

Sep
28

We are pleased to announce the results of our first board election!

As this was our first election, all 5 elected positions were open. All registered adopting organizations (http://opencast.org/matterhorn-adopters) were invited to cast their votes over the past 2 weeks. We had fantastic turn-out at the polls with all committing organizations voting and twelve adopting organizations casting votes. A big thank you to all participants!

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Software-based lecture capture with BigBlueButton + Matterhorn

Sep
23
BigBlueButton

The BigBlueButton project announces integration of BigBlueButton with Matterhorn (1.1 and 1.2), providing an software-based lecture capture solution for Matterhorn.

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Voting is now open for the 2011 Opencast Board

Sep
13

In accordance with the new governance model, developed, vetted and adopted for the Opencast Community earlier this year, we are holding the first Opencast board elections. Voting is now open! Registered voters can view a list of the 2011 candidates and proceed to log in and cast your vote by September 23rd, 2011.

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Matterhorn 1.2 Released!

Sep
02
Announcing Matterhorn 1.2

We are very pleased to announce the release of Matterhorn 1.2!

The most prominent feature in the Opencast Matterhorn 1.2 release is the addition of Authorization capability for viewing recordings, allowing administrators to determine which groups have access to particular series of recordings.

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New Opencast and Matterhorn websites

Aug
25
Matterhorn homepage screenshot

I'm pleased to welcome you to the freshly re-designed Opencast Community website, and a brand new sister site dedicated to Opencast Matterhorn.

The goals behind the redesign and decision to split www.opencastproject.org into 2 sites were:

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Partner for More

Aug
19
I was cleaning my office to head off on vacation and ran across the article I wrote last year for the Continuing Higher Education Review about the work UC Berkeley ETS has done in our Opencast project and our engagement in higher education community source projects. “Partner for More: Creating and Sustaining Collaboration to Support [...]
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Sakai Conference 2011

Jun
16

Wrapped up the 2011 Sakai Conference in Los Angeles today. It started on Monday with a full day Opencast Matterhorn workshop. We had a packed room to start the day and it ebbed and flowed throughout the day. Bootcamp, implementation stories, speed dating… There is an impressive small group of vendors starting to come together [...]

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Demo Capture Agent Hardware Configuration

Apr
18
To get more acquainted with Matterhorn, the decision was made to use  version 1.0 as a learning and testing ground. The basic configuration was used in the Capture agent. Here are the specifications of the Capture Agent system: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz Ram 4GB Cache size : 6144 KB 220GB of Hard …

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Matterhorn 1.0 and 1.1

Apr
15
There has been a lot of speculation about the release date of version 1.1.  With the support for HD webcams, the 1.1 version of Matterhorn turns out to be the the perfect pick for the school like Texas A&M University-Commerce. Although the 1.0 and 1.1 has huge difference in interface and functionality, we figured out the …

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Opencast Matterhorn @ CeBIT 2011

Mar
07

Since 2009 , the Opencast Matterhorn project members develop a next generation lecture -recording and -management system. Now we’re near completion of the 1.1 release and present Matterhorn on Lower-Saxonys Booth at CeBIT 2011 (Hall 9, Booth 24).

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Integrate with Matterhorn

Dec
21

The release of Matterhorn 1.0 paved the way for integration work to begin. Matterhorn is designed with the enterprise in mind, with the understanding that Matterhorn is but one cog (or several, in some cases) in the machine. We are especially excited at the prospect of those implementations of Matterhorn toward building a more coherent learning experience for students.

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Opencast Matterhorn Community-Driven Roadmap for the Future

Dec
21
As a community-driven project, the further development of Opencast Matterhorn depends on the contributions and the commitment of community members, individual and institutional alike. This participatory model sees two major development efforts.
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Featured Pilot School: Lernfunk Goes Matterhorn

Dec
21
University of Osnabrueck

When it comes to lecture recording, the University of Osnabruck in Northern Germany offers a unique blend of long-lasting experience, technological innovation, various research efforts around the user experience, a dedicated didactical perspective and enthusiasm with the service they provide. Markus Ketterl and the virtUOS team (virtual University of Osnabruck) support their institution with innovative technologies in academia and administration since 2002.

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