Opencast Announcements (community list)

[email protected]

• For all matters related to academic video (technical, didactical) in general and Opencast in particular; announcements
• More a newsletter, as users cannot post to this list; low traffic therefore
• Highly recommended for everybody interested in the Opencast software and community

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Opencast Users

[email protected]

• For anyone who is testing or using Opencast and need support around installation, configuration and implementation
• For anyone who wants to support others who are using Opencast
• Before posting, cf. archive

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NOTE: As a community support group, all subscribers are encouraged to help out with any support needs that come across the list.

Opencast Development List

[email protected]

• For anyone interested in detailed day-to-day progress of Opencast
• For anyone interested in contributing to the Opencast development effort
• For all Opencast Development Team members
• Before posting, cf. archive.

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NOTE: You should also be subscribed to the Community list, as some important announcements about Opencast will only be sent to the Community list. We assume everyone on the [email protected] list is also on the [email protected] list

Opencast Security Notices

[email protected]

• For notices relating to security issues in Opencast
• Recommended for all Opencast development team members, anyone running a Opencast instance

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Opencast Security

[email protected]

• A security reporting list, allows anonymous posting but is not publicly visible
• Use this list to report security issues to the team

German-speaking community (DACH)

[email protected]

• For issues unique to German, Austrian, and Swiss institutions (cooperation, meetings etc.)
• For anyone feeling more comfortable discussing Opencast-related issues in German

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NOTE: You should also be subscribed to the community list, as some important announcements about Opencast will only be sent to the community list. We assume everyone on the [email protected] list is also on the [email protected] list

Moodle plugin for Opencast

[email protected]

• For discussions around Moodle, Opencast, and the plugin connecting them in particular
• Mainly in German, English contributions are welcome

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IRC Channel #opencast

• On irc.freenode.net, the chat group #opencast is used around the clock for real-time assistance by both users and develoeprs. Feel free to use the webchat webinterface to access this chat directly or find a client; in addition, this IRC primer.

Webmeetings

Best entry point to the community probably is our adopters’ meeting on the last Wednesday of every other month (cf. calendar below for details). The meeting is at 3pm UTC in Big Blue Button (password: welcome). An agenda for this meeting is usually announced a few days before the meeting on the users’ mailing list.

For developers, sysops, committers, contributors, and everyone interested in the further development of Opencast the technical meeting is a must every Tuesdays at 3pm UTC in Big Blue Button (password: welcome). An agenda will be announced before the meeting on the developers’ mailing list.

Last but not least, there is an adopters’ meeting for the german-speaking community on the last Wednesday of every other month at 15:00 CEST in the Opencast meeting space of Big Blue Button (password: welcome). An agenda for this meeting is usually announced a few days before the meeting on the german-speaking mailing list.

Media Kit

We have two variants on our logos, the flat white logo (which is invisible on a white background) and the more common blue and green logo. We also have an icon without any text available.