Category: Conferences

The following article is in German, as it is about the German-speaking community meeting in Osnabrück from July 11th to 13th.

Vom 11. bis 13. Juli findet in Osnabrück das deutschsprachigen Opencast Community Treffen statt. Hier findet ihr das vorläufige Programm. Eine Beschreibung des Veranstaltungsorts, sowie Unterkünfte und Wegbeschreibungen findet ihr in der Ankündigung der Veranstaltung.

Für alle, die bereits am Sonntag anreisen, werden wir an dieser Stelle noch einen Treffpunkt für ein informelles Get Together am Abend vor der Veranstaltung ankündigen.

Sonntag, 10. Juli 2022

Montag, 11. Juli 2022

Dienstag, 12. Juli 2022

Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2022

Im Anschluss an die Opencast D/A/CH wird am selben Ort ein deutschsprachiges BigBlueButton Community Meeting stattfinden.

The following article is in German, as it is about the German-speaking community meeting in Osnabrück from July 11th to 13th.

Vom 11. bis 13. Juli findet in Osnabrück das deutschsprachigen Opencast Community Treffen statt. Die Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung ist kostenlos. Die Teilnehmerzahl ist leider auf 50 Personen begrenzt.

Im Anschluss an die Opencast D/A/CH wird am selben Ort ein deutschsprachiges BigBlueButton Community Meeting stattfinden. Wir freuen uns über alle Teilnehmenden, die an beiden Veranstaltungen teilnehmen wollen. Wir bieten auch einen Bundle-Tarif für die Registrierung zu beiden Veranstaltungen an: 0,00 €

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Die Konferenz findet im Helikoniensaal des Bohnenkamp-Hauses im Botanischen Garten der Universität Osnabrück statt (in Google Maps anzeigen).

Wegbeschreibung

Mit dem Bus

Die Haltestelle “Botanischer Garten” ist über die Linien 16 und 17 vom Hauptbahnhof und vom Neumarkt (zentraler Busbahnhof) erreichbar. Der Eingang zum Botanischen Garten ist von der Haltestelle schon sichtbar. Das Bohnenkamp-Haus mit dem Helikoniensaal ist direkt neben dem gut sichtbaren Tropenhaus.

Mit dem Auto

Ein größerer, kostenloser Parkplatz liegt an der Barbarastr. (bei Google Maps ansehen). Von dort aus kann man dem ausgeschilderten Fußweg zum Botanischen Garten folgen. Das Bohnenkamp-Haus mit dem Helikoniensaal ist direkt neben dem gut sichtbaren Tropenhaus.

Weitere Verkehrsmittel

In Osnabrück sind Leihroller von Tier und Lime verfügbar. Der Botanische Garten ist im Bereich, in dem diese Roller abgestellt werden dürfen.

Programm

Das vorläufige Programm der Veranstaltung finde ihr in der separaten Ankündigung:

• Opencast D/A/CH Meeting 2022: Program

Unterkunft

Wir haben kein Hotelkontingente reserviert.

Die meisten Hotels befinden sich nahe der Innenstadt oder des Hauptbahnhofes. Die Tagung selber findet im Botanischen Garten statt, der aber über den öffentlichen Nahverkehr gut erreichbar ist vom Hauptbahnhof und Innenstadt. Die Hotels sind grob nach dem zu erwartenden Preisniveau sortiert.

• B&B Hotel Osnabrück
• Ibis Budget Osnabrück City
• Vienna House Easy Osnabrück
• Hotel Nikolaiort
• Vienna House Remarque
• Hotel Walhalla

We are happy to announce that this year’s meeting of the German-speaking Opencast community, or Opencast DACH for short, will be happening as an in-person event. The meeting will happen on July 11-13, 2022 and will be hosted by Osnabrück University and ELAN e.V. in Osnabrück, Germany.

The first two days, July 11-12, will be organized as a regular conference, for which we will soon send out a call for participation.

Following the regular conference there will be a hackathon day on July 13 where we will likely cooperate with the German BigBlueButton community, as they are planning a meeting on the two days following our event.

We are really looking forward to seeing lots of you in person again and hope that many of you will attend. Expect more details about the event soon. Stay tuned!

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.

The virtual 2022 Opencast Summit is over. Thank you for all your great presentations and discussions. It has been a great event! We are looking forward to the next one.

Recordings and Notes

The event has been recorded, and we collaborated on taking a lot of notes, questions and answers. Both are available online:

• Conference recordings
• Notes, questions and answers

Thanks again to the whole community for helping to make this happen. See you next time.

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.

Tracks

The conference committee is looking for proposals in the following tracks:

• Opencast adopters
  • Experience in using Opencast for lecture capture/video management
  • Ideas for new features in Opencast
  • Solutions to further develop Opencast
  • Integration scenarios
• Opencast developers
  • Presentations and meetings with a focus on technical details, likely to  see developers, system administrators, A/V-technicians and those interested in issues related to these domains.

Proposal types

There are different types of proposals for these tracks:

• Lightning talk: 10 minutes, including 5 minutes Q&A
• Presentation: 30 minutes, including 5-10 minutes Q&A
• Birds of a feather (BoF): 1 hour. Suggest a topic you would like to discuss with others.
• Workshop: Bring forward a topic you would like to introduce others to or discuss with others. Workshops should happen in the two weeks after the conference. Feel free to also propose a workshop topic you would like to attend.

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.

Deadline

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:

• Opencast Summit, an international conference at the end of March, three days in person. For the community to meet and talk, sit together, work together, discuss things. Plus, there will be workshops and hackathons. As little talks as we can.
• DACH Meeting of the German-speaking community, end of August, 2 days in person. Same as the Opencast summit. Aber auf Deutsch.
• Opencast Online Summit, beginning of December, three or four half-days. Talks, talks, talks. And a few other formats that work online.

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.