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Go to: http://www.opencastproject.org/OpenCast Project.

As of June 12, 2008

    350 names on the mailing llist

    215 organizations represented on the list

    25 colleges and universities actively involved in workshops setting requirements. 

July 7, 2008 - meeting at Oxford

September, 2008  - deep dive meeting in Berkeley 

From March, 2008:

What is the OpenCast Community?

A community centered around open, scalable, and sustainable podcast/webcast solutions and best practices for higher education. 

What is the OpenCast Project?

UC Berkeley is developing a podcast capture, post-processing, and distribution system to replace its antiquated system that will integrate current technological advancements such as Apple's Podcast Producer and existing academic community source frameworks such as Sakai. 

The initial release of the OpenCast system is projected for Fall 2008 and will satisfy our campus' local needs.  This system will not be a turn key solution since many institutions have different organizational, policy, and business requirements, and demand a certain level of cost for adoption. Nevertheless. UC Berkeley has taken steps to develop a flexible object model that will allow other schools to potentially participate in a broader community source initiative.   Because other institutions use CLE solutions outside of Sakai, the OpenCast system will run standalone as well as within the Sakai environment, and is designed to abstract Podcast Producer as a "Media Processing and Capture Engine" to allow for other alternatives.

Joining OpenCast's Efforts 

UC Berkeley is interested in finding partners to join our efforts and contribute to or implement OpenCast on their campus.  Ideally a variety of schools with similar requirements and very different requirements (media processing engine, CLE, organizational model, etc.) will join our effort.  These reference implementations will insure a robust, general framework for a community source initiative that will ultimately provide a bootstrap for university podcast programs worldwide. 

Levels of Engagement

There are many different ways to participate in the OpenCast Community:

• Join our mailing list and share your thoughts! podcast@lists.berkeley.edu
• Pilot UC Berkeley's system.
• Seek additional funding with UC Berkeley and/or volunteer resources for a broader open source initiative.

Institutions Interested in Our Community and/or System

_{Note: interest may vary for each institution listed.}

• Stanford
• Agnes Scott College
• Duke
• Australian National University
• University of Virginia Medical School
• University of Calgary Medical School
• University of Nebraska
• University of Oregon
• Case Western
• Yale
• University of Southern California
• University of Canterbury New Zealand
• Arizona State University
• Tufts University
• De Anza College
• Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
• Participatory Culture Foundation
• University of Wisconsin
• University of Wisconsin Medical School
• UC San Diego
• UCLA
• UC Davis
• UC Santa Cruz
• UC Riverside
• UC San Francisco
• Penn State
• La Salle University
• University of Cambridge
• Intelligent Television
• International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste
• Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Seton Hall University
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• Princeton
• Oxford
• Columbia University
• American University Washington D.C.
• Leeds Metropolitan University
• ETH Zurich
• North Greenville University College of Education
• University of Warwick
• University College London