Le jeudi 04 avril 2024 à 15:35 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab a écrit : > Em Thu, 4 Apr 2024 13:09:28 +0300 > Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > > > > So we have to make a choice this year: we can co-locate with the gStreamer > > > and XDC conference in Montreal, Canada on October 7 or 8, or we can > > > organize a meeting somewhere in Europe ourselves. One possibility is > > > to try and co-locate with the Open Source Summit Europe/LPC conferences > > > in Vienna, Austria in the week of September 16-20. Another is just to > > > organize something ourselves somewhere in Europe. But that's a last resort, > > > co-locating with a conference is generally more appealing for people. > > > > We also floated the idea of co-locating with Embedded Recipes, but that > > has been cancelled this year (partly due to the ELC changes). > > Embedded Recipes would work as well - or some other smaller conference - but > I guess right now the only open source scheduled event in Europe seems to be > OSS/LPC. > > > > The advantage of picking Montreal is that the gStreamer conference is > > > more applicable to the work we do, and we can get a meeting room there > > > free of charge. Besides, I've never been to Montreal :-) > > > > Montréal is nice :-) > > Montréal sounds nice to visit, but I would be traveling just for the > Media Summit, as I'm not doing any gstreamer-related work. So, for me, > it won't be much different than a standalone Media Summit. I suspect > that locating there will limit the audience to the ones also working > on Gstreamer itself or working at one of its sponsors. The XDC conference is also happening in the same time period. I believe some of us do have both media/graphics interest in their daily work. regards, Nicolas > > Being in North America, probably OSS would be a better fit, as other > Kernel developers could be around, and it will likely have a more > diverse audience. However, April is too close, so unpractical. > > There is OSS Japan In Oct, where we could have Kernel developers from > other subsystems also there. But again, as most developers are in Europe, > it probably means that the audience may not be as diverse as if we do > the event in EU. > > Also, I guess travel budgets are still tight this year, so, IMO an event > in Europe sounds more likely to have a more representative set of people. > > > > > > But can we get enough of the core media maintainers there? There is no > > > point otherwise. I suspect that the same company travel constraints that > > > were present last year are still in force this year. > > > > > > If we pick Vienna instead (assuming we can get a meeting room for a decent > > > price), would that work better? > > > > I think we can figure out sponsorship to pay for a room. > > > > > So if you are a core media maintainer, or an active media developer interested > > > in joining a Media Summit, please let me know if: > > > > > > 1) Montreal, October 7 or 8, works for me! > > > 2) Vienna, one day in the period September 16-20, works for me! > > Can't really say what works, as it will depend on having the travel > arranged/approved, but LPC/OSS Europe in Vienna will likely work better > for me. > > Thanks, > Mauro >
