January 13-15, 2010
Wellington, New Zealand
What is FOMS?
Open media is a movement to promote free expression and innovation in online video and audio.
FOMS is a task-oriented developer meeting. At FOMS, developers of open media software gather to collaborate on code and plan future technology to enable a future of open media.
The focus of the first day is getting to know each other and everyone's expertise through shot-gun presentations by each participant. On the second day break-out groups attack issues identified during the first day. On the third day we get our hands dirty with hacking and setting ourselves community goals for the year to come.
Who should attend?
Individuals and organisations that work on and with open audio and video software, specifications, and installations. FOMS is a unique forum in which to talk with like-minded individuals about common problems and attack and solve them.
A few of the projects that have come out of FOMS past are improvements to liboggplay, including its Dirac support, the start of libsydneyaudio, the encouragement of ffmpeg releases, approaches toward patents, improvements to cortado, and many more.
Sponsorship opportunities
FOMS is sponsored by organizations that understand the value that the tireless work of open source software developers creates and which is the core enabler of the changes that lie ahead leading us into a more participatory culture. Please contact us if you would like to become a sponsor.
Related Events
FOMS will be run for the fourth time in the week ahead of linux.conf.au 2010, one of the world's largest Linux and Open Source developer conferences. Consider swapping your northern hemisphere winter for a beautiful New Zealand summer for two weeks!
Link to FOMS 2009 and participant comments
Link to FOMS 2008 and participant comments
Link to FOMS 2007 and participant comments
