Proposed Sessions
Vote below for sessions you'd really like to see happen at the unconference (must be logged in).
| Session | Format | Track | Votes |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
Presentation | Operations | 6 votes |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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. |
Roundtable/BOF | Developing | 10 votes |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Upgrading the Capture Agent API Rubén Pérez Vázquez Please visit the wiki page: https://... |
Roundtable/BOF | Developing | 1 votes |
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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 |





