What an excellent start to the year :-) As a Matterhorn adopter, our thanks to UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich for this commitment, which will be a great benefit to the project.
Regards Stephen Stephen Marquard, Acting Director Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town http://www.cet.uct.ac.za Email/IM/XMPP: [email protected] Phone: +27-21-650-5037 Cell: +27-83-500-5290 >>> Mara Hancock <[email protected]> 1/5/2012 10:48 PM >>> 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 ### UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN This e-mail is subject to the UCT ICT policies and e-mail disclaimer published on our website at http://www.uct.ac.za/about/policies/emaildisclaimer/ or obtainable from +27 21 650 9111. This e-mail is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. If the e-mail has reached you in error, please notify the author. If you are not the intended recipient of the e-mail you may not use, disclose, copy, redirect or print the content. If this e-mail is not related to the business of UCT it is sent by the sender in the sender's individual capacity. ### _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/community To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
