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The University of California at Berkeley is pleased to announce that we have received $1.3 Million in funding for the
Opencast Matterhorn project. This funding is coming from two grants from the Hewlett and the Mellon Foundations. These
generous grants and the contributions of thirteen partner institutions will make it possible to achieve the vision of
the Opencast Matterhorn Project.
Here at UC Berkeley we were working on re-designing and re-architecting our homegrown system and we started to talk to
many of our peers and colleagues in schools all around the world and quickly realized that there was a lot of
interesting stuff going on, but it was all going on in different silos.
There is so much change within this domain of audio and video in technology that there is no way that we could keep up
with the innovation that's happening within this area by ourselves. The Opencast Community came about because everyone
is seeking these answers and what Opencast provides as a community is a way for people to collectively pool together
their resources.
We have people who have running systems but each of these systems has its specific merits and the idea is to unite all
of these in one fantastic product.
Opencast Matterhorn is a lecture capture system for Universities. It's an application in addition to being a set of
underlying services that support any kind of media processing, capture, and distribution.
Besides implementing lecture capture workflows in Opencast Matterhorn, institutions will be able to leverage the
services that are the foundation of the system to their own needs.
It's not just about lecture capture, it's about processing video and audio, creating tools around the video and audio
and being able to shape the lectures or the material that's coming out of a campus in a more meaningful way.
In the long-run we expect Opencast Matterhorn to be a basis for the open exchange of content between Universities,
across countries, and maybe even across language barriers.
It's a platform for innovation. It's a platform that any number of research projects around video and rich media can
be deployed.
Matterhorn right now is in pretty young stages and there is plenty of room for people to be contributors on this
project it's not completely developer centric.
There's the web-page www.opencastproject.org, giving you an insight on the project and what's going on in the
community. Next there's the mailing list you can subscribe [to]. You can even get ahold of the initial version of the
code by checking it out from the subversion repository.
We invite participation from any individual or any institution that wants to participate in Opencast Matterhorn.