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 01:33:06PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> 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.

I personally wouldn't accept an offer from the LF that wouldn't be free.
They have the financial means to help us, if they really cared about
Linux communities and not just the interest of their members.

> >>> 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