On 2/20/25 13:11, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > 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 ? For ER certainly, for OSSE it is always worth to check what the LF charges for a room. If only to have a comparison. Regards, Hans > >>> 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. >
