Dear All The board met April 4th to discuss a number of issues.
First and foremost, the board is looking into the proposed NA community meeting this summer with the initial poll regarding a meeting to coincide with the Jasig-Sakai conference June 10-15 in Atlanta (https://ethz.doodle.com/krz3bv64t4ypuy3k) indicating a fair bit of interest from key institutions. Based on comments from potential participants, we are looking at venues for this meeting at the moment, ideally to reduce travel cost and maximize participation at the same time. The board will update the community mid-April. The board also was able to get in touch with hosts of the said Jasig-Sakai conference to see how Matterhorn can participate; various options (pre-conference workshop, recording service) are being discussed and/or prepared, and there are also proposals for a number of presentations at the actual conference. Expect to meet us in Atlanta! Admission of the Matterhorn project to the Google Summer Of Code was a huge success in that a number of developers came forward with a variety of proposals. These will be reviewed by the mentors involved (kudos to Chris, Ruediger, Greg, and Tobias) and put forward for further consideration; we hope to see a number of exciting projects over the summer (cf. http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Google+Summer+of+Code+Ideas+Page). Finally, the board is calling attention to a TERENA recording contest this summer (http://www.terena.org/activities/media/rc/rc.html), will look into legal implications of FFmpeg using patent-encumbered codecs and discussed communication strategies. The next board meeting will be May 2nd. Feel free to raise issues with us. The Opencast Board _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
