The 2022 edition of the Open Apereo conference will take place online on 14th and 15th of June. Session will be between 14:00 and 18:00 UTC.
This year the focus will be on the value of open source software and communities to address issues in higher education and to drive digital transformation.
Thanks to all your submissions, the program committee created a schedule for the 2022 Opencast Online Summit. Here it is.
You do not need to register to attend any of the sessions.
On the conference days, join us by entering the following BigBlueButton rooms:
All times are in UTC. Click on the times to get your local time.
| Time (UTC) | Session | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Introduction to Opencast | Christian Greweling |
All times are in UTC. Click on the times to get your local time. If you want more details about a session, take a look at the list of abstracts.
| Time (UTC) | Session | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Welcome | Olaf Schulte, Rüdiger Rolf |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Workshop planning | |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | What’s new in Opencast 11 | Jonathan Neugebauer |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | State of the Crowdfunding | Lars Kiesow |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | educast.nrw: State of the project | Daniel Ebbert |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Roll forward previous lectures | Franck Tanoh |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | The challenges of supporting a lecture capture service | Shazia Mohsin |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Break | |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Vosk | Martin Wygas |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Lecture2go: powered by Subtitle2go | Benjamin Milde, Martin Kriszat |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | A subtitle editor for the editor | Arne Wilken, Daniel Ebbert |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Combining AI & Humans to allow video-accessibility at scale – hosted by Amberscript | Carolina Kluck |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Improving accessibility through automatic captioning (Hybrid and Single-Speaker models) | Way With Words |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Break | |
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Push forward OC’s accessibility | Clemens Gruber |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Ownership of Videos | Lars Kiesow, Olaf Schulte |
All times are in UTC. Click on the times to get your local time. If you want more details about a session, take a look at the list of abstracts.
| Time (UTC) | Session | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Virtual Capture Agent | Ypatios Grigoriadis, Lars Kiesow |
| 12:20 – 12:30 | pyCA – A Free Capture Agent | Lars Kiesow |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Arec product presentation | Boris Polyakov |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Extron product presentation | Alessandro Benni |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Capture Agent Operations | Paul Pettit |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Break | |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Easier hybrid teaching | Rüdiger Rolf |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Zooming into Opencast – 1 Year Later | Greg Logan |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Beyond Elasticsearch: user-facing search engines | Lukas Kalbertodt |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Break | |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Opencast Architecture and Dependencies | Greg Logan |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | High Available Opencast | Lars Kiesow, Alex Laschinger |
All times are in UTC. Click on the times to get your local time. If you want more details about a session, take a look at the list of abstracts.
| Time (UTC) | Sessions | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Paella Player 7 | Carlos Turro |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Update on Tobira (new video portal) | Lukas Kalbertodt |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Status of the new Admin UI | Isabella Kutger |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | New Feature: Plugin-Management | Lars Kiesow |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Analyzing videos using the Annotation Tool: New features and next steps | David Graf |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Opencast PHP Library and new LMS API | Till Glöggler |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Break | |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Open Board Session | Opencast Board |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | The Great Manchester AWS Migration | James Perrin |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Opencast Archive on AWS S3: integrity and checksum fun! | Paul Pettit |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Opencast Ansible-Roles: Building Blocks for Your Setup | Timo Nogueira Brockmeyer |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00 – open end | Opencast in AWS (and other clouds) | James Perrin |
Please check shortly before the conference if the schedule has changed.
If you are presenting and have a problem with the date and time your session is scheduled, please contact the conference committee.
Workshops will happen in the two weeks after the conference. They will be scheduled as part of the first session at the summit. Please join us at the planning session. We like to ensure that as many of you as possible can make it to the workshops.
The following workshops have been submitted:
The Opencast Summit (March 8th – 10th, 2022) is dedicated to the use and management of educational videos with Opencast. While the focus of the event will be on Opencast, the community seeks participation from related domains and projects.
We are therefore inviting educational designers, service providers and others working with video in academic settings to share expertise and experience across the field and explore opportunities to collaborate in related projects.
The conference committee is looking for proposals in the following tracks:
There are different types of proposals for these tracks:
Alternatively, feel free to suggest a workshop for a topic you would like to know more about. Ideally, you can designate/suggest someone to host, but feel free to make this a task for the program committee.
Please submit an abstract of your proposed presentation and the format you would like via the provided registration form by 22 February 2022.
The Opencast Summit 2022 will take place from March 8-10, 2022. Due to the current situation, the Summit will take place online. The event will be hosted by Osnabrück University.
Sessions will start at 12pm UTC every day and end at about 4pm UTC, depending on how many sessions will be submitted.
We invite newcomers a day early to an Introduction to Opencast workshop at 12pm UTC on March 7, 2022.
Following the Summit, there will be a number of workshops to take an in-depth look at some topics of particular interest to the community. Workshops can be submitted by anyone. If you are interested in a topic but cannot host it yourself, you can also request a workshop. At the Summit a planning session will be held during which the workshop hosts shortly present what their workshop is about, and we can decide when to schedule the workshop.
There will be another post shorty with the call for proposals.
The conference schedule is live:
Opencast Summit 2022
As a result of the Opencast Summit 2020 the board started to evaluate if the current schedule and format of the Opencast Summits still fits the adopters’ needs. As part of that a survey was conducted. Based on results and on further discussions in the community schedule and format of the Opencast Summits have been adjusted.
The need schedule is:
We will start with the new schedule in 2022. So the next event for the Opencast community will be the Opencast Summit in March 2022. However, based on the further development of the pandemic, it has yet to be decided if the Summit can take place in person, or will take place online again.
The Opencast Summit 2021 was the first International Opencast Summit that took place entirely online. This resulted in a huge increase in the number of participants. While previous summits were attended by about 80 participants (in person) the 2021 Summit was attended by 170 participants via web conferencing.
In order to better understand why so many participants attended the Summit and what could be improved for future meetings, a short survey was send to all Summit participants. This survey was filled out by 22 participants, 8 of these attended the Summit for the first time.
Overall the participants were satisfied with the Summit and were glad it took place at all. Accessing the talks via BigBlueButton and attending online seems to have worked well. New participants pointed out that they liked the variety and range of topics in the presentations. However, the “conference feeling” was missed by many. Being able to talk to people one on one during breaks was missed.
Of the 22 participants who filled out the survey, 14 would have been able to attend the Summit in person, if in person attendance had been possible. For 8 that would not have been the case. Of these 8, 4 attended the Summit for the first time. Some of the participants (7) furthermore stated that they would prefer to meet online for future Summits while 15 would like to meet in person if that’s possible.
For future Summits the Board thus has to consider that while many people in the community would like to attend a Summit in person, there is a considerable number of people who would like to or are only able to participant online. This poses a challenge for future Summits and raises the question of how future Summits should be organized. While this question has been not been answered, the Opencast Board is working on a concept for a way forward that addresses this challenge.
Opencast 10 has been released. The release notes can be found in the administration guide documentation. Important changes in this release are:
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.
Recently the Open Apereo 2021 took place. For the community updates we also submitted a video, you can watch it here.
The program for the Opencast Summit 2021 is now available.
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