Deep Dive Meeting

Agenda available at http://www.opencastproject.org/deepdive_agenda

As the final face-to-face activity of the Opencast planning grant, Berkeley will be hosting a two day meeting which we are calling a "deep dive." There are two goals for the meeting:

1. to complete the technical roadmap and architectural approach for the Opencast framework, and
2. to continue work on Opencast governance, outreach efforts, and define funding strategy, opportunities, and activities.

This deep dive will have two interwoven tracks which will build on the technical and community governance working group activities. It will be held on October 16 & 17 (a Thursday and Friday) in lovely Berkeley, CA.

Development Track: This will be focused on the further development of the technical roadmap for a 1.0 and 2.0 framework and set of applications. This will entail deeper review of the requirements), fleshing out prioritized requirements, setting realistic goals for resource requirements (types and #s of resources), and further discussion of the technology stack and architecture. These decisions are critical to thinking through our funding strategy.

Funding & Resources Track: This track will be focused on continuing work on community building, project governance, outreach efforts, and defining funding opportunities and building a funding framework, recognizing the need for diverse funding options including self-funding and commitment of a range of resources. Each track will develop an agenda and set of meeting deliverables via the current Opencast working groups which will be shared with the entire opencast community.

Who should come to the deep dive? We would like to make this meeting as open as possible, while at the same time we need to be realistic about it being a working meeting with solid deliverables and goals. We would like to have representatives from institutions that plan on committing resource to this effort, who have signed the Opencast Project Letter of Intent, and/or are interested in pursuing additional funding channels. We do have some funding available for supporting travel costs from our planning grant. The first step is for us to assess interest, then we can figure out the best way to parse out the funds. If you and/or a colleague are interested in coming, please send an email to Michelle Ziegmann (michelle@media.berkeley.edu) by August 29. We will then be able to send out more information regarding cost reimbursement sooner rather than later. If travel costs are a limiting factor for you, please let us know in your email because we do not want this to be a barrier to participation if at all possible.