Communication

There are two major channels for the Opencast community: Github discussions and a variety of Matrix rooms. Some Google mailing lists are still in use, but deprecated.

Chat / Matrix / Element

For (almost) around-the-clock, real-time assistance by both users and developers, we use the Matrix chat system. There is an Opencast space with #opencast-community being the relevant room. Feel free to join using your favorite Matrix client. A web client is available at app.element.io. To be able to join you will need a Matrix account, either on matrix.org or on another Matrix home server of your choice.

Github discussions

Github is the place for more detailed and elaborate discussions, lower frequency, higher depth. There are a number of channels for different topics.

issue tracking

For issue tracking GitHub Issues is used. For security related issues please write an email to security@opencast.org.

Mailing lists

Deprecated for the most part, some of them are still in use (as of March 2025); expect the traffic to dry out towards the end of the year.

Mailing lists	Description
security-notices@opencast.org	Security announcements (low frequency)
announcements@opencast.org	Community announcements (low frequency)

You can subscribe to each list via Google Groups (linked in the table above) or by sending a mail to [list]+subscribe@opencast.org (e.g. users+subscribe@opencast.org).