Roadmap Meeting November 27th
The roadmap meeting saw a number of projects drawing to a close: Visit the roadmap overview to learn more about the new features. And thanks to everyone involved for realising those features as planned (!). We also got updated on a number of ongoing projects and discussed new projects, “Basic statistics in Opencast” in particular.…
Save the date: 2025 virtual summit December 9th
This year’s virtual summit will take place December 9th at 1pm UTC/GMT, says the poll. Submit your contributions and place your requests for topics to be covered at https://hackmd.io/r8rMRkirRRiem8bIuqbfyw until December 5th and join us at http://meet.opencast.video/.
2026 international summit: Newbies welcome!
While the summit in Manchester will be a chance for long-time collaborators to meet in person, it is an excellent opportunity for people new to the community as well: There will be a dedicated introductory session on day one (Wednesday February 25th), with service providers ssystems, shio solutions, and elan e. V. presenting “Opencast 101″…
Technical meeting is called Dev meeting from now on (for real this time)
When we introduced the new monthly SysAdmin meeting (formerly the Adopters meeting) we had already discussed renaming the weekly Technical meeting to Dev meeting to further differentiate the two since there were now two kind of technical meetings. However, we didn’t announce this change and also missed a few places to update. So this time…
The Opencast 2026 international summit returns to Manchester, UK (not EU)
The 2026 Opencast summit will be hosted at the University of Manchester, UK, from the 25th to 27th of February. We are happy to welcome the return from Opencast, after hosting the conference over 10 years ago in 2015. Registration Registration is open now, please complete the following form. 2026 Opencast Summit – Manchester –…
Opencast 19: Release Schedule
Hey everyone, For Opencast 19.x are going to maintain the normal release cadence. That means a release some time in December, not a ton of time! To that end, here are the most important dates: Date Event Nov 19, 2025 Branch Cut Dec 17, 2025 Release Date You will find both of those dates marked…
Opencast video archive moved
As you can tell, ETH is no longer hosting the collection of Opencast videos ranging back to 2009. These can now be found on Opencast Explore. Thanks to ETH Zürich for hosting those and Melanie Koller in particular for editing all of them coherently.
Last Announcement for Opencast Minor Release
With this announcement we want to inform you that there will be no more announcements for Opencast Minor Releases except for special circumstances like security fixes. Please sign up for updates in github or join https://matrix.to/#/#opencast-releases:matrix.org
Prepare you entry to the UK for the 2026 Opencast summit
We’re returning to the University of Manchester for the international summit, February 25-27. The UK requires electronic travel authorisation ETA for entering, so please catch up on the process and documents required as early as possible!
Discussing spring security with Christoph Driessen – October 29th
For a while now, we’re finding Spring security a hard nut to crack. So we thought it would be a good idea to see where it all comes from. Fortunately, Christoph Driessen is available to help us with this: Christoph used to work for ETH Zurich and its spin-off Entwine (later: Extron) when Spring was…
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