You and Your Institution

We've identified potential roles you may play as you engage with the Opencast community and contribute to Matterhorn.  Which will role best fits you?

Novice Climber

An individual or institution that casually checks out Matterhorn to better understand its features or technologies.  They compare its features with other commercial products and do some form of competetive analysis.  Some demo an existing online version or run it OOTB.  A developer may read the documentation and install it on their laptop to poke around.  In terms of the "community", they generally lurk on lists and occasionally respond to threads.

For 0.5, this group is mainly interested in learning more about Matterhorn by reading high level documentation and looking at a current online demo.  They're not interested in spending resources on Matterhorn, and are just in a preliminary exploration stage.  For 1.0, they may run a small (one class) pilot at their campus or dedicate more resources to determine total cost of adoption. 

Intermediate Climber

An institution/organization that has designated limited resources to install, test, and pilot Matterhorn.  These individuals or institutions have a strong desire to participate in Matterhorn and will likely post questions to the list when they're in need of an answer.  They will depend on documentation when troubleshooting, and they're fairly self sufficient.  This group may already have a basic existing system and/or an established podcast program. The intermediate climber most aligns with the Cobbler orgsona.

For 0.5, this group is interested in testing Matterhorn locally or using a "basecamp" to run a small testing environment.  They will enter feature requests in Jira through Community Feature Requests and bugs if they find any problems. For 1.0, they'll run Matterhorn OOTB for a pilot involving a few classrooms in the Fall.  They anticipate Matterhorn will be a long term solution.  If they're migrating from an existing system, their migration path should be simpler due to the lack of infrastructure and simplicity of their existing system.  They may make minor modifications to Matterhorn through configurations or modifications to the UI. 

Advanced Climber

An institution/organization/individual that is heavily involved in the day to day activities of the community.  They follow and respond to the list frequently, and they log into irc and engage in "low level" activities.  They're willing to get their hands dirty to make things work, and will submit patches to Matterhorn for their local needs.  They may contribute to documentation or initiate conversations on list.  They're comfortable within Matterhorn's wiki, issue, repository, and integration environments.  They have their finger on the pulse of Matterhorn and they see themselves as a contributing to its health.  This group may already have an advanced system and/or the capacity to do a big rollout. The advanced climber most aligns with the Sophisticate orgsona.

For 0.5, this group will provide substantial testing and may push Matterhorn beyond its capabilities.  They will explore it in as detailed a manner as possible to understand integration costs and the total cost of adoption.

For 1.0. this group will integrate Matterhorn with their campus systems, and run a pilot in a few classrooms.  This group may alternatively adopt specific services from Matterhorn and integrate them into their existing system.  They may not migrate to Matterhorn until there is more parity with their existing system. 

Master Climber

This group contributes significant resources to the Matterhorn effort, and are likely committers and/or thought leaders on the project.  They are heavily invested in the long term success of Matterhorn.