[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] STF 2025

[Cosmin Stejerean]

> On Jun 3, 2024, at 3:58 PM, Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 10:57 PM Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-devel <
> ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 3, 2024, at 12:26 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Le maanantaina 3. kesäkuuta 2024, 21.58.48 EEST Cosmin Stejerean via
>> ffmpeg-
>>> devel a écrit :
>>>> Not sure why you keep beating this dead horse.
>>> 
>>> Err, I think that it is obvious why:
>>> 
>>> 1) The questions were not answered back then. Calling the people asking
>>> questions troll is not answering, it's insulting.
>>> 
>>> 2) IBC came up today, in much the same way as NAB did.
>> 
>> The costs or lack thereof came up today. Making accusations that it was
>> FFmpeg in name only did not come up until you brought it up, and seems
>> completely uncalled for.
>> 
> 
> Reposting my question/comment here since Thilo hasn't had a chance to
> respond, but shouldn't these kinds of requests go through the GA? If
> anybody can do whatever they want with the ffmpeg name, then what's the
> point of voting and following the established process?
> 

Probably? I'm not actually sure what the process is for getting an FFmpeg booth at a conference. Is there a documented process somewhere for how this should be done? If not this might be a good opportunity to create one.

It might also make for a good topic of discussion at VDD. For how much drama there was about NAB on the list I was surprised there was zero discussion about it at FOSDEM.

> I think this is the underlying problem with booth management, everybody
> acts like they own the place, and nothing changes from one event to
> another, instead of taking notes to improve the situation. For example :
> thilo or you sending a note to the GA "hey i got sponsorship for
> IBC/NAB/whatever, I plan to represent ffmpeg, and have a b c as objectives.
> Is that cool with you all? If yes, can we host GPAC and other multimedia
> foss projects?" would have avoided a lot of drama.

No disagreements from me, I do think that might have avoided a lot of drama.

Regarding the "or you" part, I wasn't involved in securing sponsorship for NAB or IBC. I did volunteer to help with NAB because I happen to live in Vegas and I enjoy spending time with other ffmpeg developers. I'm happy to help at NAB next year as well should it happen again.

I have no plans to attend IBC and no involvement with the FFmpeg booth at IBC. I am merely trying to correct the perception that NAB was cost-problematic, since no money was paid by the project for NAB.



- Cosmin