Because of you –our amazing participants– and the ever-supportive Opencast Board, the Opencast Summit 2025 at TU Graz was a success. Thanks to everyone who showed up and jumped into talks about everything Opencast, but especially about the current trends in AI, as well as modernising Opencast with the exciting funding chance the Community recently received. Your ideas and energy made it all come together.
It’s all of us who made this event so inspiring. Thank you for being there!
summit sessions
Tuesday (pre-summit Developer workshop)
Wednesday
| Welcome by the hosts and the Opencast Board | Recording |
| Stand-up from the participants | Recording |
| Opencast in Numbers | Recording |
| Opencast 17.x | Recording |
| Opencast Spring Update | Recording |
| Migrating from Google Transcription to Whisper: Better Subtitles for Less | Recording |
| Vendor Presentations: Epiphan | Recording |
| Vendor Presentations: Extron | Recording |
| Upgrading Manchester from a Very Old Opencast | Recording |
| Rethinking Recording (- state of the art & ideas for the future) | Recording |
| Enhancing Opencast content with AI (Whisper + LLM) | Recording |
| Beyond captions: How AI turns Lecture Videos into Smart Study Guides | Recording |
| Advances in Paella Player + IA | Recording |
| Can local LLM co-pilots help with day-to-day OC devops? | Recording |
Thursday
| First look at Opencast Explore | Recording |
| Towards a roadmap meeting incorporating the crowd funding campaign | Recording / Notes |
| Opencast Modernisation | Notes |
| Metadata + AI | Notes |
| Monitoring & System Requirements | Notes |
| Captions & Transcripts | Recording |
| Introduction to Opencast | Notes |
| Tobira Roadmap | Recording |
Friday
| Opencast & Moodle | Recording |
| AI++ | Notes |
| Editor Improvements | Notes |
| Can We Remove This? | Notes |
| Vendors++ | Recording |
| Crash course: OC Compiling/Testing/Reviewing | Recording |
| JWT | Recording |
| Publish metadata directly without manually starting the “republish metadata” workflow | Recording |
| Public Board Meeting | Recording |
Recording Delivery Time
We’re pretty proud of how fast we got the recordings out the door. Here are the numbers: for every 10 minutes of recorded material, it took us about 7 minutes to process and publish… Yep, that’s 0,7 times the session length! Quick turnarounds mean everyone can revisit the great discussions sooner. So, to the next hosts at the University of Manchester: think you can beat our time? We’re throwing down the gauntlet. Bring your A-game and let’s see what you’ve got!
All jokes(?) aside, we’re really looking forward to heading your way next year. You’re going to be awesome hosts!
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