Author: oaseth

The following article is in German, as it is about the German-speaking community meeting in Jena

Liebe Community,
hier die versprochenen Details zum Treffen in Jena:

Anreise mit dem ÖPNV
Der DB-Navigator wird euch wahlweise bis Jena Paradies (Nord-Süd-Verbindung) oder Jena West (Ost-West-Verbindung) lotsen. Von dort erreicht man fußläufig oder mit Bus/Straßenbahn innerhalb 10min die Innenstadt.

Alle relevanten Orte für die Tagung sind hier nochmal auf der Karte dargestellt.
 
Anreise mit dem Auto
Wer mit dem Auto anreist und Tipps für Parkplätze braucht, meldet sich bitte bei uns.
Es finden zahlreiche Veranstaltungen in der Woche in Jena statt, weshalb die Parksituation etwas schwieriger sein wird. Kostenpflichtige Tiefgaragenstellplätze findet man aber immer.

 

Räumlichkeiten
Treffpunkt für Montag 17:00 Uhr ist der Ernst-Abbe-Platz vor unserem Multimediahörsaal E028.
Google Maps Link
 
Die Tagungsräume für Dienstag und Mittwoch befinden sich in den „Rosensälen“ am Fürstengraben 27.
Google Maps Link

Kontaktpersonen für die Veranstaltung in Jena

Tino Tschiesche
Frank Köhler
oc-dach@uni-jena.de

PS: Und falls ihr noch kein Hotel habt…

Our next roadmap meeting will take place on September 11, 2025, at 15:00 (UTC) (meet.opencast.video – room 1, password: welcome). As well as discussing the special topic “Crowdfunding discussion”, we will address all issues from the ‘New’ and ‘Presentation’ column of our  Github project board «Opencast Roadmap». If you are an owner of an ongoing project ore a project that has already been presented but not yet started, please update your issue before the meeting. If you want to discuss your project or idea in the upcoming meeting, please move it to the “Presentation” column.

Feel free to create new Roadmap issues if you have new ideas or projects to discuss. Please provide all information requested in the templates.

We look forward to seeing you all in in September.

The first roadmap meeting on May 8th allows us to present a draft roadmap for Opencast for the first time in a long time. Or rather: A list of the most relevant projects, ongoing, upcoming as well as planned – and some ideas without an exact plan.

Thanks to everyone who communicated their ideas and projects to the project board. Which is where you find all the contributions, the most important ones though in a nutshell:

Projects, ongoing or upcoming

1. JWT, potentially interesting for all external applications
2. Improve event data model of Opencast
3. ILIAS redesigning their PageComponent-Plugin,
4. Interactive videos in Opencast
5. Tobira: Enable series in Tobira (release v3.3 coming end of May)

(Further) Funding required

1. Chapter editor
2. Paella Player integration into Moodle (and maybe other LMS)
3. Extended Capture Agent API

Ideas

1. Improve live streaming and scheduling

Feel free to contact owners and/or assignees for details or contributions. Organisers David and Olaf will follow up on some of the issues discussed and prepare the next meeting on September 11^th to turn that list into an actual roadmap towards 2026.

If you want to re-visit the meeting, the recording is online with the first couple of minutes missing.

PS: We would appreciate if you would add information according to the template (size of the project, timeline, funding situation etc.) to your issues.

Kudos to Michi from the University of Bremen to organise yet another bug bash for the admin UI in conjunction with a workshop hosted by elan e. V. Check the original post for details. Also remember the call to contribute funding.

With the upcoming Admin UI BugBash on May 13-14, the board would like to invite institutions to contribute to the actual elimination of the bugs we unsurface. Thanks to the generous support from elan e. V. the workshop they organise will provide some ressources to fix issues. But in order to make sure there is sufficient funding, the board is asking institutions to consider supporting further work.

So if you’re about to go productive with the new admin UI, please consider making a contribution and contact the board for details.

We would like to remind you of next week’s Roadmap kickoff meeting (Thursday, May 8th, 3pm UTC, http://meet.opencast.video). Everyone interested in or contributing to Opencast is welcome to participate.

In this kickoff meeting, …:

• we will explain and discuss the idea and components of the roadmap initiative. For more information see the README and the Github project board «Opencast Roadmap» of the Github repository «roadmap».
• we will hear  about and discuss planned and ongoing projects and ideas. Therefore, we kindly ask you to create Roadmap issues. Please provide all information requested in the templates. Only projects/issues represented by an issue in the Github repository «roadmap» will be discussed.

If you have questions in advance, don’t hesitate to contact the current facilitator of the Roadmap meetings (Olaf Schulte, ETH Zürich).