Proposed Sessions

Vote below for sessions you'd really like to see happen at the unconference (must be logged in).

Session Format Track Votes
Theodul Pass Player - The new Matterhorn Engage Player
Denis Meyer, Martin Abel

The current Matterhorn Engage Player has become a little bit outdated: HTML5 has become more mature and JavaScript has evolved over the last few years.

Our code has grown a lot and has...

Workshop/Groups Developing 14 votes
Enhanced trimming - update and outlook
Olaf A. Schulte

UOS and ETH Zurich announced an enhanced trimming feature at the San Diego unconference earlier this year and will update as to the progress of the work.

Presentation Developing 11 votes
Infrastructure Planning for High Availability Matterhorn Clusters
Stuart Phillipson

A short talk about some considerations we had to make in order to move from a pilot environment to a high availability virtualised environment. It's obviously a bit specific to our infrastructural...

Presentation Operations 3 votes
Lessons Learned During Manchester's Pilot
Stuart Phillipson

Likely to be of interest to new adopters. We'd like to share some of the mistakes, discoveries and sticking point we discovered in our move from Podcast Producer to Matterhorn. Most of these...

Presentation Operations 8 votes
Formation of a volunteer task group to review and publish Matterhorn User Guides and Installation Manuals
Aseem Gupta

Arrive will share documentation for Matterhorn User Guides and Installation manuals. We would like to Volunteer to manage the documentation updates and seek participants to forming a Task Group...

Roundtable/BOF Operations 3 votes
Hands-On LectureSight
Benjamin Wulff

This semester we were finally able to test LectureSight in several courses at UOS. The workshop will feature a short presentation of the results and first experiences and will then go on as a...

Workshop/Groups Operations 7 votes
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Salesforce meets Matterhorn
John Crossman

This Fall, UC Berkeley will rollout Opencast Matterhorn to replace the infrastructure of its 50-classroom automated lecture capture program. Using Matterhorn, lectures will be automatically...

Presentation Developing 3 votes
Matterhorn 101 - Introduction for Beginners
Stuart Phillipson, James Perrin

This session is aimed at introducing people to Matterhorn for the first time. Areas covered will include:

- A brief overview of capabilities / features / design.
- How to install a...

Presentation Operations 6 votes
Galicaster BoF: state of the art and roadmap
Héctor Canto, Vicente Goyanes

This BoF is an open table on several subjects regarding Galicaster. Newcomers and long-time adopters are welcomed to share their thoughs and doubts about Galicaster.

What can be discussed...

Roundtable/BOF Developing 11 votes
Paella Player 2.0: Features and Internals
Carlos Turro, Miguel Escriva

At the unconference we will be releasing the new 2.0 version of Paella Engage Player, an HTML5 video player for Matterhorn. This new version will feature quite a number of additions to the current...

Presentation 10 votes
Tools / Software / Workflows to support Matterhorn Installations
Edmore Moyo

The University of Cape Town uses a number of external tools to manage and monitor its Matterhorn deployment.
• There is a wide usage of external tools to support the running of Matterhorn....

Roundtable/BOF Developing 10 votes
Galicaster developers meeting
Héctor Canto, Vicente Goyanes

This is a technical session meant to be a starting point to the coordination of code contributions from the Galicaster community to the project.

Since several people and institutions are...

Workshop/Groups Developing 9 votes
Matterhorn Beyond Lecture Capture: MOOC production, videoconference recording, etc...
Vicente Goyanes

After the publishing of MH-UVigo case study [1] we received several questions about how MH is been used in this institution beyond lecture capture.

This short talk will describe how MH and...

Presentation Managing 5 votes
Meeting of the German speaking Opencast Community (in German)
Olaf A. Schulte

With a large contingent of German-speaking community members present, we thought we could intensify collaboration with a meeting (in German) to happen on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Roundtable/BOF Managing 4 votes
Managing large scale installations

Running 12 Capture agents and managing them by hand is tedious but doable.

Being told to run 100 makes this approach impossible. In Manchester we have now installed 55 machines from boxed...

Presentation Operations 2 votes
Capture Agent Monitoring
Héctor Canto, Rubén Pérez Vázquez, Rüdiger Rolf

This workshop session will include the presentation of various efforts on Capture Agents monitoring, including modifications of UP Valencia's Dashboard and Galicaster Dashboard by Teltek, followed...

Workshop/Groups Operations 11 votes
Development Proposal Discussion
Greg Logan

In this session we will discuss the current changes under review for our developement process.

Workshop/Groups Developing 1 votes
Opencast Matterhorn Roadmap

In this session we discuss the future direction of the project, and lay out a road map for the next year.

Presentation Managing 1 votes
Upgrading the Capture Agent API
Rubén Pérez Vázquez

Please visit the wiki page: https://...

Roundtable/BOF Developing 1 votes
Low-Cost Lecture Recording: Hardware, Software, …
Lars Kiesow, Bjoern Hassler

There are a couple of less expensive solutions for lecture recordings. This session will introduce some hardware and software solutions and will hopefully end in an open discussion.

Ideas...

Roundtable/BOF 5 votes