[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] STF 2025

[Vittorio Giovara]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 5:47 PM Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-devel <
ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jun 3, 2024, at 11:53 PM, Vittorio Giovara <
> vittorio.giovara at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 3:01 AM Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-devel <
> > ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> >
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Agreed, do you have a draft you could share as a base of discussion? Once
> > defined, we could have the GA vote on it
> >
>
> If you really want to work on a proposal I'm happy to collaborate with you
> offline to draft something and then propose it to the GA.
>

Sure I'm happy to work on this with you! Let's talk offline about it

>> 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.
> >>
> >
> > There were probably more important topics to discuss and the lingering
> hope
> > that the problematic points would have been handled better than by
> calling
> > people trolls
> >
>
> Perhaps. Shall we set something up at VDD? I think in person discussion
> can go a long way to avoid the kind of miscommunication that can happen
> over email.
>

I'd say we should try and lay down the basic rules for booths and ffmpeg
representations in general, get the approval from GA and see if they can be
applied to IBC. Then we can set up some time at vdd as retro if successful
or think of something else if the drama continues maybe.

Thanks for helping with this complicated situation.
-- 
Vittorio