Opencast Apereo Update
Opencast starting talks with Linux Foundation Europe as a future umbrella organisation to retrace the increasingly European focus of the community Initiated by UC Berkeley, Opencast started life in 2007 as a project of a group of universities with a shared interest in educational video. The group matured into a community who developed and released…
Opencast 19.0
Hi everyone, it is our pleasure to announce that Opencast 19.0 has been released: The documentation for this release can be found at: Please make sure to read and follow the upgrade guide carefully when upgrading from an older major version to Opencast 19. RPM and Debian packages as well as Docker images will be…
2025 Virtual summit – recordings
Are available in Explore thanks to Lukas, some additional notes in the agenda. Thanks everyone for contributing and apologies for some heavy breathing from the moderator. PS: You should have joined live for the sing-along …
Roadmap Meeting November 27th
The roadmap meeting saw a number of projects drawing to a close: Visit the roadmap overview to learn more about the new features. And thanks to everyone involved for realising those features as planned (!). We also got updated on a number of ongoing projects and discussed new projects, “Basic statistics in Opencast” in particular.…
Save the date: 2025 virtual summit December 9th
This year’s virtual summit will take place December 9th at 1pm UTC/GMT, says the poll. Submit your contributions and place your requests for topics to be covered at https://hackmd.io/r8rMRkirRRiem8bIuqbfyw until December 5th and join us at http://meet.opencast.video/.
2026 international summit: Newbies welcome!
While the summit in Manchester will be a chance for long-time collaborators to meet in person, it is an excellent opportunity for people new to the community as well: There will be a dedicated introductory session on day one (Wednesday February 25th), with service providers ssystems, shio solutions, and elan e. V. presenting “Opencast 101″…
Technical meeting is called Dev meeting from now on (for real this time)
When we introduced the new monthly SysAdmin meeting (formerly the Adopters meeting) we had already discussed renaming the weekly Technical meeting to Dev meeting to further differentiate the two since there were now two kind of technical meetings. However, we didn’t announce this change and also missed a few places to update. So this time…
The Opencast 2026 international summit returns to Manchester, UK (not EU)
The 2026 Opencast summit will be hosted at the University of Manchester, UK, from the 25th to 27th of February. We are happy to welcome the return from Opencast, after hosting the conference over 10 years ago in 2015. Registration Registration is open now, please complete the following form. 2026 Opencast Summit – Manchester –…
Opencast 19: Release Schedule
Hey everyone, For Opencast 19.x are going to maintain the normal release cadence. That means a release some time in December, not a ton of time! To that end, here are the most important dates: Date Event Nov 19, 2025 Branch Cut Dec 17, 2025 Release Date You will find both of those dates marked…
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