[foms] next "FOMS" workshop

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Hope you bring a whole bunch of WebM developers! ;-)
Silvia.


On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:25 PM, John Luther <jluther at google.com> wrote:
> Thanks for organizing this, Silvia. I'll be at OVC.
> --JL
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Philip,
>>
>> That's awesome news! Great to hear you are coming!
>>
>> I have yet to figure this all out, actually. Right now it looks like
>> there are several streams at OVC and the technical one is called "Open
>> Media Software" (OMS). There are several parallel tracks on that
>> stream and html5 accessibility will be one. Track and WebVTT
>> discussions would be part of that.
>>
>> I'm going to talk with the OVC organisers to see if we can have a
>> separate Website to do some organising in the manner that we did FOMS.
>>
>> Hope to be able to give you more news soon.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Silvia.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Good new, I'll be attending this year as well. As a topic of particular
>> > interest to me, I might add <track> and WebVTT.
>> >
>> > Will there be a dedicated FOMS website, or is it merging completely with
>> > OVC?
>> >
>> > Philip
>> >
>> > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:26:53 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer
>> > <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> This year, the Open Video Conference will be taking place on the
>> >> 10-12th September in New York. I was asked to have FOMS included in
>> >> the conference and I've worked with Ben Moskowitz on sorting out the
>> >> best way.
>> >>
>> >> OVC supposedly have an awesome venue with many rooms and are planning
>> >> something very different to previous years: something much more
>> >> productive.
>> >>
>> >> There will be workshops in three domains: creative, policy and
>> >> technical.
>> >>
>> >> The workshops will be about a particular current topic in the domain
>> >> and will all be outcome focused.
>> >>
>> >> In the technical space that means there will be workshops for users to
>> >> learn how to work with certain technology and produce some examples
>> >> (e.g. work with popcorn.js or Firefox Rainbow etc).
>> >>
>> >> Also - and this is probably mostly due to the way in which we ran FOMS
>> >> in the last two years - they want to have *developer-centric*
>> >> workshops very much along the FOMS spirit.
>> >>
>> >> However, rather than have a single "FOMS" track, we decided to
>> >> identify some key technical issue beforehand and pull out working
>> >> groups for these up front. Topics that I have suggested are:
>> >>
>> >> * HTTP adaptive streaming (yes, to continue the discussions from last
>> >> year)
>> >> * Browser video metrics/stats
>> >> * HTML5 video accessibility
>> >> * WebRTC (which was already a topic)
>> >> * Camera and microphone interfaces (which also already was a topic)
>> >>
>> >> (Do we need something about codecs?)
>> >>
>> >> In addition to this I suggested to hold a single "Open Media Software
>> >> Developers" get-together at the beginning of the conference to do what
>> >> we have done in previous FOMSes: introduce ourselves and express the
>> >> things that currently bug us and that we would like to discuss with
>> >> others. If we identify anything that hasn't got a breakout group yet,
>> >> we have the chance to actually create such a group. There seem to be
>> >> sufficient rooms available to accommodate this. We could presumably
>> >> even have a permanent hacking room where we can catch up when nothing
>> >> else is on.
>> >>
>> >> But first let me ask this question: Does anyone here have any other
>> >> ideas for breakout groups for OVC that we should definitely have and
>> >> that I missed above?
>> >>
>> >> I hope you're putting the OVC date in your diaries and starting to
>> >> plan the trip, because I think - even though we are ripping FOMS apart
>> >> - the spirit of FOMS is actually moving into this larger thing that is
>> >> called OVC and it will be totally awesome.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Silvia.
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