Matterhorn Release 0.8 - Moving on up!
We are very pleased to announce the release of Matterhorn 0.8, the latest prerelease version of Opencast Matterhorn!
Opencast Matterhorn is a free, open source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Institutions will use Matterhorn to produce lecture recordings, manage existing video, serve designated distribution channels, and provide user interfaces to engage students with educational videos. The 0.8 release offers institutions and individuals a preview of Matterhorn's functionality, namely:
- Multi-Stream Media Player
- Video Segmentation and Slide Navigation
- Scheduling Recurring Events
- Preview Media Administrative Workflow
- Real Capture Agents
- RSS/ATOM Catalog
- Confidence Monitoring
- Authentication/Authorization
- Distributed Deployment
- Media Streaming
Our belief is that Matterhorn is the Opencast Community's product, and it should be in your hands to experience and improve upon from the beginning. We welcome your input whether it be a complement, a comment on missing features, a bug entry, or a software patch. This release does not contain the full array of features promised in 1.0, but it provides a significant preview of things to come.
Release Notes and Documentation
All the relevant documentation and information related to the release can be found at
http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Release+Notes+0.8
Download and Installation
Visit the download page for details on downloading from source or a VM.
As an alternative, several base camp institutions from the community are hosting a Matterhorn installation available for testing. Contact the base camp for more information about accessing Matterhorn.
Communication
If you need help installing Matterhorn, we have provided several communication channels:
- The Opencast Community List is a great place to ask installation questions, general questions about Matterhorn's features, or anything else related to Matterhorn. To get started just subscribe to the community@opencastproject.org mailing list and send out an email. You'll find many people there happy to help you.
- The IRC chat group #opencast on irc.freenode.net is by developers to communicate about low level technology issues. This group is an excellent place to ask specific technical questions or to get immediate help on something that is blocking you.
Bugs
As with any preview release, Mattherhorn has bugs. Some of these problems have already been addressed, some have been entered to be addressed, but there are likely others that are unknown to us. Please do not hesitate to enter a bug in Jira and/or fix it yourself and submit a patch!
Release 0.8 Open and Closed Bugs (indicates issues addressed in iteration)
