[foms] next "FOMS" workshop

[John Koleszar]

I'm going. I'll pass the word along too.

John


On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer
<silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>> >
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