Re: [ANN] Registration and Request for Topics for the Media Summit on May 13th in Nice, France

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

Hi Hans,

On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 10:59:58AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We will organize another Media Summit on Tuesday May 13th to coincide with
> the Embedded Recipes Conference in Nice, France:
> 
> https://embedded-recipes.org/2025/
> 
> Note that there are also some workshops held after this conference:
> 
> https://embedded-recipes.org/2025/workshops/
> 
> And apparently a gStreamer event during the weekend. If anyone has more
> details about this, please reply to this post.
> 
> The Media Summit will be held at Hotel Campanile:
> 
> https://nice-aeroport.campanile.com/en-us/
> 
> It is close to the Airport and to the Embedded Recipes venue.
> 
> The meeting room can hold up to 30 people and has video conferencing support.
> 
> That said, I want to keep remote participation to a minimum. This yearly summit is meant
> for active media developers to meet up face-to-face and to discuss media subsystem issues.
> But if you are an active media developer and are really not able to attend in person, then
> remote participation is an option.
> 
> If you want to attend the meeting (either in person or remote), then send an email to me
> directly. The deadline for that is May 2nd as the hotel needs to know the final number of
> attendees by then. We have more seats available than last year, so I do not expect to run out.
> In the unlikely case that this becomes a problem, then I will revisit this.
> 
> There is no registration fee.
> 
> If you have a topic that you want to discuss, just 'Reply All' to this announcement.
> It would be very much appreciated if you can also add a guesstimate of the time
> you need for your topic.
> 
> See last year's Media Summit Report as an example of what to expect:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/45e4f5d4-f6c4-4f0b-96b5-f5e1125b0845@xs4all.nl/
> 
> There are two topics already for the upcoming Media Summit:
> 
> Paul Kocialkowski:
> Stateless video encoding uAPI
> 
> Hans Verkuil:
> Status of Media CI/Multi-committers
> Duration guesstimate: 1 hour

I would like to propose the following topic.

Review of the status of staging drivers

We have a set of 11 drivers in drivers/staging/media/, with various
states of maturity and development activity. drivers/staging/ is not
meant as a place for drivers to die, we should nudge the relevant
maintainers and consider dropping drivers that show no hope of
progressing.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart