Late 2019 Software Community Health Metrics - Opencast
Status: Graduated Incubation
Background and Objectives:
Opencast is an open source video management system for academic institutions. It covers all stages of the video lifecycle from recording (lecture capture, video ingest) to encoding, publishing, playing, and archiving video assets. It’s scalable from a one-server installation to mass recordings in the cloud and versatile to play with other academic systems (LMS, CMS etc.).
New Technology/ies since last report:
In addition to the last report, Opencast focused heavily on integrating several speech-to-text services.
Statistics
| Date of First Release | Date of Last Release | Number of Releases |
|---|---|---|
| August 2010, Matterhorn 1.0 | December 2019, Opencast 8.0 | 136 |
| Commits in 2019 | Frequency of Commits |
|---|---|
| 1577 | Daily |
| Number of Contributiors in 2019 |
|---|
| 57 Approximately |
| Numbers of sites in use (estimated) |
|---|
| > 100 Approximately |
Context:
Release policy sees two major annual releases plus a handful of smaller (service) releases.
2019 Opencast Highlights:
Future Plans:
2020 / 2021 will see the community building a video portal as default distribution channel and build an integration into Mozilla’s project DeepSpeech.
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