Episode 863 transcript

FLOSS-863 Jonathan: Hey folks, this week I'm talking with Ola Schulte and Lars au about Open Cast. That's the project for recording lectures, uploading them, and, uh, coming soon, even a video portal built into it. You don't wanna miss it, so stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly episode 863, recorded Tuesday, February the third, opencast. That code is there for a reason. It is Time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Freed Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett. And today, well, today we are having a revisit from a project from quite a while ago. We are talking Opencast, and that is, well, it's all about video and casting, but not, I don't think in the same way that OBS is or Video Ninja. No. Open Cast is more about, uh, in its open source video management, but it's more about academic institutions in places like that. So we're talking sort of a, a, a bigger, maybe more formal solution. Um, but today we've got a couple of the experts with us. We have Lars Ki, who's been an Opencast developer since 2009, and we've got Olaf Schulte. Who is responsible for video management at ET Zurich Switzerland and has been supporting the Open Cast project ever since 2007,…