The Apereo Foundation announced the Apereo Fellows for 2021. We are happy that one of the chosen Fellows is from the Opencast community.
Maxilmiliano Lira Del Canto has been announced as a Apereo Fellow. Maximiliano is a software developer and consultant who works for the University of Cologne in Germany in the Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZK). He graduated as a Telematics engineer from Santa Maria Technical University, Valparaíso, Chile. He has been a member of the Opencast community since 2015. In 2018 he began contributing code, documentation, translations, and answers to questions about Opencast. Maximiliano also participated as release manager for the version 7 of Opencast. Some of the key areas that he has contributed to involve the use of GPU processing in media systems and the development of tools for Opencast.
During his time as a Apereo Fellow he will continue helping development within Opencast, as well as helping other adopters and speaking at conferences about his work.
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