Opencast Community, On March 30th, we had a call to discuss the video player requirements of the Variations on Video project<http://www.variationsonvideo.org/> and how the Matterhorn Engage might be used by our VoV project. We are already planning to use Matterhorn for our media processing pipeline, though we will be storing metadata and stream URLs in a Fedora repository<http://fedora-commons.org/>. As we've looked into the Engage player code and thought about our requirements, we are considering the following possibilities.
1. Share. In this model, functionality of shared interest to Matterhorn, VoV, and other projects would be factored out and maintained by the larger community. Matterhorn, VoV, and other projects could then add capabilities to this shared core as needed for their applications. 2. Borrow. In this model, the VoV project identifies those pieces of the Engage player that can be used in our development, borrows the code, and tries to keep this code as unchanged as possible so that updates to the Engage player can be more easily included in VoV. 3. Fork. Similar to the Borrow option, we identify the useful code, but we don't bother trying to keep our code in sync with the Engage code in the future. 4. Look elsewhere-use no Engage code. We'd prefer to share code, but it's not clear that the Opencast community desires to develop and offer shared components in this way. Thus, our current working assumption is to borrow, and we are investigating to that end. We'd like to avoid, if possible, forking or looking elsewhere. We'd love to hear people's thoughts about these options and our current path. Thanks, Mark -- Mark Notess Manager, Teaching & Learning Systems Development Library Technologies and Digital Libraries IU Bloomington Libraries / University Information Technology Services Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405 812.856.0494 (w) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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