Re: [ANN] Media Summit 2024: where to hold it?

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Hi Hans,

On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 09:29:34AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Normally we like to have a one day Media Summit meeting co-located with
> the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, however there isn't one this year.
> Instead of organizing an ELC both in North America and in Europe each
> year, the Linux Foundation switched to alternating between NA and Europe,
> and this year it is in North America.

Thank you for proposing this.

> 
> The problem is that most media subsystem developers are based in Europe
> for some strange reason.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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 :-)
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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!
> 
> Please respond asap, I'd like to get a clear picture soon, ideally by the end
> of next week.

My preference is Vienna. I wouldn't expect to travel to Montréal this time
if the summit was held there.

-- 
Kind regards,

Sakari Ailus




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