Hi Hans thanks for starting this conversation 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. > > 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. Co-locating is always easier, people is more likely to get permits/budget for travelling if there are other events happening. > > 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! > I would surely be interested in visiting Montreal, also considering the co-located events happening there, but it's way more likely I'll be in Vienna, also due to the fact there will be a mini-ELC track as part of E-OSS program. Option 2 would then be my preference. Thanks j > Please respond asap, I'd like to get a clear picture soon, ideally by the end > of next week. > > Regards, > > Hans
