flac dev - Oct 2006 - Fwd: Come and join "Foundations of Open Media Software"

passing this on... sorry about the delay, I screwed up the address
the first time...

--- Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
>   * * Call for Participation * *
> 
> Foundations of Open Media Software (FOMS)
> Thursday 12 - Friday 13 January 2007
> Sydney, Australia
> 
> http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/
> 
> Important Dates:
> 
>  Submissions open: 31st August 2006
>  Submissions close: 31st October 2006
>  Notification: 10th November 2006
> 
> Foundations of Open Media Software (FOMS) is a developers' meeting to
> forge cooperation and interoperability among open source media
> projects. The idea is to get key people together and thus further the
> cause of open media software.
> 
> This is a call for participation in the first FOMS meeting, which
> will
> be held in Sydney, Australia over two days leading up to
> linux.conf.au
> 2007, in January 2007.
> 
> The format will be as follows:
> 
>   1st day: Morning will start with short position statements with
> each
> group identifying their work and current challenges they're facing.
> Afternoon will be topic identification and breakout, or longer
> in-depth presentations about the details of important bits of
> architecture.
> 
>   2nd day: in-depth forward-looking workshops with some 40 minutes
> "what could be" presentations, and fixit hacking sessions.
> 
> We encourage submissions related to open source multimedia projects
> and open multimedia standards. Some suggested topic areas are:
> 
>     * open media codecs (Ogg Vorbis, Theora, Dirac etc.)
>     * media frameworks (such as GStreamer, VLC, ffmpeg)
>     * video and audio infrastructure (V4L2, ALSA, JACK, PulseAudio
> etc.)
>     * applications (streaming, VoIP, video editors, etc.)
>     * open media on proprietary systems (MS Windows, Mac OS X, iPod)
> 
> For information about submitting your abstract or proposal, please
> see
> http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/Main/SubjectEntries.
> 
> Your proposal should be submitted before the 31st October 2006 to be
> considered for discussion/presentation at the meeting. Notifications
> will be provided by 10th November, to allow you to take advantage of
> early-bird registration of LCA.
> 
> Please note that FOMS is supported by linux.conf.au 2007, which you
> are encouraged to attend. For details regarding registration and
> accommodation, please visit the linux.conf.au 2007 web site
> (http://lca2007.linux.org.au/).
> 
> FOMS may provide travel sponsorship to select speakers, see
> http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/Main/TravelSponsorship.

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