On Jun 3, 2024, at 3:58 PM, Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 10:57 PM Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-devel < ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:
On Jun 3, 2024, at 12:26 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@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