On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > Heya! > > Back at foss.in 2008 in Bangalore I spoke to a couple folks from Intel > (who I assume are on this mailing list, are you?) about the > possibility to arrange a PulseAudio developers meeting some time later > this year. Nokia folks seems to be very interested in this as > well. Before we can do this I'd like to have a better overview how > many people would actually show up for this. And that's why I am > writing this email. Have you asked the ALSA people to see if a joint Pulse/ALSA meeting would be possible? I'd love to see the ALSA HDA interface sorted out so that Pulse can properly deal with the devices. > So, here's what I have in mind: last year I was lucky to be able to > attend a BlueZ developers meeting in Helsinki. I'd roughly model our > PA meeting after that. Basically, it's just a couple hackers in a room, > with a very, very lose schedule. We'd have a list of topics to discuss, > everbody can ask (and respond to) questions, everyone has his laptop > and can hack away, in a very relaxed atmosphere. Timeframe would be > two or three days. > > To make the organization a bit easer and travelling a bit cheaper it > might be a good idea to organize this attached to the Bluez > meeting. i.e. meet at the same place but in a different room or a few > days apart. > > I understood the Intel Bangalore folks that they'd even be willing to > provide a location for hosting this meeting. Marcel mentioned that he > plans a BlueZ meeting around that time in London. Another option would > be to hold it next to the Plumbers conf in Portland. Or -- which would > be easiest for me -- here at Red Hat Berlin. > > The BlueZ meetings are invitation only. Given that we didn't have any > PA meeting before I'd however keep things open for now: whoever feels he > could contribute is welcome to attend. Note however that this is > supposed to be a developer's meeting, not a user's meeting. > > Anyway, for now I'd like to ask you guys for opinions. Also, I'd be very > thankful if those who are interested to attend would drop me a line > (off-list, and that includes the folks who I already talked to before, > since i never compiled a list of names). Before we discuss locations > we should probably know how many people will show up, or anyone will > show up at all. > > Thank you, > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
