The site looks great! Many thanks to Michelle for leading the way through the redesign and working with closely with Dominique. Also thanks to the review cmte. You all did a great job.
Best, Mara ================================== Mara Hancock Director of Educational Technologies University of California, Berkeley http://ets.berkeley.edu Desk: 510-643-9923 Mobile: 510-407-0543 On Aug 24, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Michelle Ziegmann wrote: > Dear Opencast Community and Matterhorn users, > > I'm pleased to announce the launch of a freshly re-designed Opencast > Community website, and a brand new sister site dedicated to Opencast > Matterhorn. You can visit these sites at http://opencast.org and > http://opencast.org/matterhorn (note the shortened domain name!) > > The goals behind the redesign and decision to split www.opencastproject.org > into 2 sites were: > > 1) To make it easier for potential adopters to find information about > Matterhorn and to get their questions answered > > 2) To improve the usefulness of the Community site as a space for: > - Providing guidance, direction and inspiration for getting involved in the > community as an adopter or contributor > - Providing opportunities for sharing stories of adoption, integration, > successes, resources and events > - Promoting any projects supported by the Opencast community (currently, > Matterhorn is the only active project) > > We hope you'll find the Community site a useful hub for exchanging resources > and insights with the community, and that the Matterhorn site provides an > engaging experience fpr potential adopters seeking information about > Matterhorn. > > If you previously had an account on www.opencastproject.org, your account may > have been imported into the new site (if your account was associated with any > migrated content), but you will need to reset your password. If you aren't > sure, you might want to try the reset password function first > (http://opencast.org/user/password) before creating a new account. Please let > me know if you have any issues with this. > > I want to thank my fabulous team of website reviewers, who put a lot of time > and energy poring over these sites and making improvements. There are several > more great ideas that came from this group, and I hope we'll be able to > incorporate these into the site(s) over the next several months. Thanks goes > to Hal Meeks, Andy Wasklewicz, Tobias Wunden, Brian O'Hagan, Kristoff > Keppens, Adam Hochman, Judy Stern, Chris Brooks and Olaf Schulte. And thank > you to Domenique Sillett of www.littleigoo.com for the visual design for the > Matterhorn site. > > As always, feedback or suggestions are welcome and encouraged. Please feel > free to also contact me directly at [email protected]. > > Enjoy! > > Michelle > > -- > Michelle Ziegmann > =========================== > Electronic Communications Specialist > University of California Berkeley > Educational Technology Services > > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/community To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
