On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 12:34:23PM +0100, Jacopo Mondi wrote: > 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. Do I assume correctly we would organize it by ourselves like the previous years, finding sponsors and renting a meeting room somewhere, and not relying on the Linux Foundation ? > > 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. Likewise, I know I'll be in Nice. I can probably make it to Amsterdam too if needed. > > > > 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, Laurent Pinchart
