Dear Stuart et al,
> Especially Teltek's Galicaster is an valid alternative to the > reference Capture Agent as it has an open source license too and works on > very similar hardware. > I'd agree with this statement. When we were looking at capture > agents we either wanted an off the self product for simplicity or > something we could customise to our environment. We ended up going > for customisation and Galicaster vs the reference agent didn't even > get off the paper stage. Galicaster was and is evolving so much more > rapidly, it's a bit more user friendly to noobs and seems to have a much more > active community. > That said I'm wondering how Teltek would feel about being the only > future FOSS offering on the capture agent seen? Stuart, thanks so much for supporting Galicaster. I must say that Galicaster is what it is thanks to all we’ve learned by being part of the team that originally developed the "reference" CA (together with Christopher Brooks and all the colleagues from Canada), but we’ve never figured out Galicaster as a replacement for the reference MH-CA. Developing Galicaster was something that we had to do, at some point, to be able to meet the requirements of a specific Teltek's client for its Lecture Capture system. Then we released it because we do think that it can be also interesting for other MH Adopters. As already said in this thread, Galicaster current license is not ECL, it was released under a more protective CC-NC license that permits open use but only for Non Commercial activities. A commercial product can not be based on Galicaster using that license. (I want to be clear about this point). Galicaster code development is done using a Github repository where the code is exposed, bugs can be filed as patches and new features can be submitted. For instance, support for IP-Cameras or Blackmagic cards have been contributions by Galicaster adopters. Reaching the current maturity of Galicaster couldn't be possible for us alone without the support of this small but active community of adopters and friends. With the shortage of resources that OC-Materhorn project is facing and the amount of work to do in the core, I can understand the idea of optimize resources by discontinuing the MH-CA, but I also can understand the rationals against it. Let's see what the final decision of the community is. I'll provide any information needed, but as I'm so involved on this discussion, I prefer to keep myself in the background and abstain from being part of the discussion or the decision. Best Regards Vicente TELTEK Video Research www.teltek.es > Stuart Phillipson | Media Technologies Coordinator > Room 1.023 Devonshire House > University of Manchester > Manchester > M13 9PL > United Kingdom > e-mail: stuart.phillip...@manchester.ac.uk > Phone: 016130 60478 -- Vicente Goyanes Gerente - CEO TELTEK Video Research, T (+34) 986 160 125 M (+34) 619 318 484 vg...@teltek.es | www.teltek.es [IMPORTANTE] La información que pudiera contener este comunicado, relacionada con datos de carácter personal, se encuentra amparada en la Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos 15/99, que compromete a no utilizar estos datos para fines que no sean los estrictamente necesarios para la realización de su cometido, añadiendo además la absoluta confidencialidad y exclusividad, quedando prohibida a cualquier persona su revelación, copia, distribución o el ejercicio de cualquier acción relativa a su contenido. Si recibe este correo electrónico erróneamente, ruego lo elimine de todos sus archivos. [#] _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list Matterhorn@opencastproject.org http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email matterhorn-unsubscr...@opencastproject.org _______________________________________________
