Happy New Year Opencast Community! I have what I expect will be a welcome news to shepherd in the new year.
In order to pave the way for upcoming pilot installations, deployments, and the further development of Opencast Matterhorn, UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich have proposed to the Opencast Board a joint funding for a QA Manager. This position will safeguard the quality and reliability of the Matterhorn code across the contributions from institutional committers by consolidating all relevant aspects of software development, from the neccesary infrastructure to the release process. "Having a dedicated QA manager is an important step for the Matterhorn project to mature towards a true open source effort that is both committer-driven and coordinated at the same time", Mara Hancock, Director of Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley and Chair of the Opencast Board, points out. In this, the initiative is a call to committers and community alike to maintain a strong focus on quality as well as the momentum while working towards scalable institutional deployments. "We want want to make sure the dynamics of various committers working towards their local deployments and additional features also apply for quality of the code and reliability of the product", says Olaf A. Schulte from Multimedia Services at ETH Zurich. "For this, the QA manager is to call upon all committers to contribute their might", he adds. The Opencast Board has welcomed the initiative led by UCB and ETH and will help facilitate the specification of the position as well as the search for a dedicated candidate. There will be more information soon regarding the scope of the position and the coordination of community contributions. Best, The Opencast Board ================================== Mara Hancock Director of Educational Technologies University of California, Berkeley Director of Online Learning, UC Online Pilot Project Mobile: 510-407-0543 Skype: mara_hancock
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