Re: [ANN v2] Media Summit 2025: Nice in May or Amsterdam in August?

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

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@xs4all.nl/
> >
> > That should give you an idea of what to expect.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart