Hi Hans thanks for organizing this On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:24:30AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > [Repost because I mixed up a Lyon and Nice, and to provide more info on the other > events that take place in Nice. Also added Kevin Hilman to the CC list.] > > Hi all, > > We want to organize a Media Summit this year as well to meet each other face-to-face. > We try to co-locate with an existing conference, and this year there are two options: > > 1) Co-locate with the Embedded Recipes conference in Nice in France which is held on May 14-16: > > https://embedded-recipes.org/2025/ > > So a media summit would probably take place on May 11 or 12. > > This conference is a one room, one track format. But the room holds up to 200 > people and the expectation is that it is not a problem to get tickets for it. > And we might be able to reserve some tickets for us as well. > > There is a libcamera workshop on Friday, and AFAIK a pipewire workshop on the same day. > GStreamer plans an event during the weekend after ER. > > 2) Co-locate with the Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam which is held on August 25-27. > > https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/ > > The Embedded Linux Conference Europe is part of that event. The summit would > probably be on August 24 or 28. > > I know that getting permission to travel is still a problem for many, which is why we > try to co-locate with a larger event. > > So: if you are a core media maintainer or an active media developer, and want to join > the Media Summit, which of these two options would work for you? I know I will be in Nice, not sure about Amsterdam yet. The co-location of a libcamera, pipewire and gstreamer events also makes me lean towards Nice as a better choice for the media summit. > > If possible, I would like to get an idea of what I can expect in about two weeks time. > I'll send out a reminder in about a week as well. > > Feel free to forward this if you know other people who might be interested. > > If you haven't been to one of these Media Summits before, then you can find the report > on last year's summit here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/45e4f5d4-f6c4-4f0b-96b5-f5e1125b0845@xxxxxxxxx/ > > That should give you an idea of what to expect. > > Regards, > > Hans
