[foms] FOMS 2013 announcements

Fri Nov 15 15:13:18 PST 2013

Hi All,

PARKING:

Had an excellent question on parking..

PARKING info (will distribute printouts in person of this, too, since we have some lunch options marked up on map, too)

http://archive.org/~tracey/downloads/Parking_REST.pdf

I believe Sunday is free street parking all day, but I’m not 100% sure since I don’t drive much and certainly not here on Sundays 8-)
For Mon/Tue, there are parking garages marked up on the map.

There is 2-hr free parking all over our (residential) area, not toooo hard to find, but you have to move the car frequently or risk a ~$80 ticket.
Looking at that PDF map, if you cross (west/left) the main multi-lane “Park Presidio” Blvd on Clement, direction from us, after two blocks there are free-all-day spots, but not huge amounts of them (also watch out for cleaning day/time signs — those tickets are expensive!)   If no luck there, circle a few block radius around 16th Ave and California street.  It may take some time, but eventually a (free) all-day spot can often be found.  Otherwise, resort to 2-hr parking near us and get some fresh area and jockey your car from side to side 8-)

BUS:
Lastly, the “38-L(imited stops)” bus is an excellent bus line to/from downtown and japantown, etc.
It’s $2 cash fare (unless you have a “clipper card”) that doesn’t give change, crabbily.
(I do that most every work day in office, coming from Oakland).
It’s very fast (especially the “L”), comes almost every 5 mins mon-frie, and has a stop right at “Park Presidio” and Geary, 1 block from us.
Not to alarm anyone *too* much, but it’s an incredibly heavily travelled “transit corridor”, often very busy in the bus, so esp. be careful with your “gear” and especially at night (I had my iPhone 4S brazenly smacked and stolen out of my hands, assailant from behind, while sitting near a door last Christmas )-8

So just use some care on that bus in particular.
There’s other buses to other locations, google maps can probably help you there.  (SF Muni is the bus line name)

—Tracey

On Nov 15, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Tracey Jaquith <tracey at archive.org> wrote:

> 
> All, 
> 
> Silvia and I are looking forward to seeing and welcoming everyone in less than 48 hours!   8-)
> 
> Just a few quick points that might help folks.
> 
> No rain in forecast/predicted.  Been slightly cool, in 50s (at night) to mid 60s, but sunny in/out here.  
> 
> We will be mostly setup in our long narrow foyer with one dedicated breakout room, with expandability for other breakout sections and rooms if/as needed.
> You’ll know our building from our logo when you get near it — (and if you don’t know our logo, think Greek columns-ish Jefferson Monument 8-).
> Enter the steps through the columns to the foyer and breakfast, tagging, registration.
> 
> Our foyer is slightly cool (we use our building and servers in tandem to cool/heat each other) so having a light coat/fleece/hoodie (which you’re bringing anyway) might be handy, depending.
> We’ll have a pulldown screen, projector, and mini podium available, and can use our large upstairs room with stage, A/V system and lighting/mics for events, too if we like.
> 
> We have plans for an approximate 30 min walk after conference to dinner, half of which will go through parts of Golden Gate Park, so minor heads up there, too.
> 
> Silvia’s done an excellent job (as always! 8-) planning and updating the schedule, so feel free to check it out if you haven’t seen it in a bit.
> 
> http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2013/pmwiki.php/Main/Schedule
> 
> 
> 
> Silvia,
> 
> Not sure if this would constitute a track/session, but we’re certainly interested in shall we say “lo-fi video” here — the simpler and fast-to-setup (without too much sacrifice in features) ways of doing video and audio (we don’t have multiple video qualities / adaptive bitrate for the most part, have 1 or 2 formats, don’t have/use HLS, etc.)
> Things like HTTP progressive downloading, mod_h264_streaming, playlist and captions capable players, possibly buffering “on deck” clip in playlist, etc.
> Could be useful to share tips, idea, patches?
> (Recently I had to locally patch mod_h264_streaming with a hack to allow more exact start/end times since it is keyframe (only) based, and we use ffmpeg+x264 which can span 10 seconds between keyframes, etc.)
> 
> -Tracey
> 
> 
> On Oct 13, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> FOMS 2013 is coming together nicely and I am looking forward to
>> another exciting workshop!
>> 
>> 
>> SPONSORSHIP
>> I'm very excited and grateful to be able to announce our sponsors for this year:
>>  -- GOOGLE is a Platinum sponsor
>>  -- Britchcove is a Silver sponsor
>> 
>> If you work for one of these sponsors and would like to attend, please
>> register via the form at the bottom of
>> http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2013/pmwiki.php/Main/Register .
>> 
>> 
>> REGISTRATIONS
>> Amongst our registrations, we now have video coders from
>>  -- 4 browsers (Firefox, Chrome/blink, Safari/WebKit, Opera),
>>  -- several open source platforms (VLC, Asterisk, libav/FFmpeg, Xiph,
>> gstreamer, rfc5766-turn-server)
>>  -- many Web video users (YouTube, LongTail, Wowza, Popcorn, Internet
>> Archive, video.js, zencoder, Brighcove, Kaltura).
>> 
>> http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2013/pmwiki.php/Main/Registrations
>> 
>> If you are missing somebody who you would really like to talk to at
>> FOMS, please send me their contact and I will send them an invitation.
>> 
>> Also, if you can't find yourself there, but have registered, please
>> either contact me directly or re-submit at
>> http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2013/pmwiki.php/Main/Register . We
>> had a glitch with the form several weeks ago, but it has been fixed.
>> 
>> 
>> SESSIONS
>> As in previous years, we expect your active participation.
>> 
>> This starts with the introductory sessions on the first day, where
>> you're given 3min to introduce yourself, the work you do, and what
>> you'd like to get out of FOMS. I'll remind you of this closer to the
>> workshop again.
>> 
>> Also, I'd like to encourage you to start proposing discussion session
>> that you would like to moderate. Sessions that we thought were
>> relevant for this year are listed at http://www.foms-workshop.org ,
>> but anything goes. Such sessions usually start with a collection of
>> issues to discuss, contributed by all attendees, followed by the
>> actual discussion. As moderator you may come with a pre-prepared list
>> of issues.
>> 
>> Finally, we also have slots for some presentations about new
>> technologies. For example, we could have a session on VP9 and Daala,
>> maybe even compare them to each other and to current codecs (VP8 +
>> H.264).
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Silvia.
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