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

Hans Verkuil
2025-04-08T06:21:13Z

On 07/04/2025 21:39, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 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.

Excellent topic!

Regards,

Hans