[foms] FOMS 2013 announcements

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

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.