[foms] FOMS 2013 announcements

Silvia Pfeiffer silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 17:40:42 PDT 2013


OH DEAR!

I really meant to say BRIGHTCOVE there.

And I mis-spelled it twice. Apologies!

Yes, Brightcove are the second sponsor. Thanks Brightcove!

Thanks Eric for noticing!

In shame,
Silvia.


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:56 AM, 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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