Re: [Consortium] [Fwd] FSMSI 2004 - First european seminar on "Free Software for Multimedia Streaming over Internet"

Dear all and dear Jaromil, Actually the choice of wording for the announcement was quite unfortunate (this was due partly to time pressure and partly to the fact that I'm not a native english speaker). I was thinking about it right after sending the announcement out, but I was hoping nobody would notice the ambiguity. :) The intended meaning was that this would be the first *instance* of FSMSI (Free Software for Multimedia Streaming over Internet). It was not meant to say that FSMSI was the first (or the only) seminar dealing specifically with streaming *and* Free Software. I don't know any other european-wide seminars specifically devoted to this combination of topics (I know about many conferences on streaming but not specifically on Free Software, and viceversa) but this is only due to my ignorance. In this case you are quite right - our fault. I'm going to issue a corrective statement right now; personally I am not interested in asserting "I was there first" (I never was, in this like in other fields of endeavour); I'd rather prefer to see good people gathering and discussing topics I care very much for. On a related note, I hope to see you at the seminar, if you happen to be in Paris on June 23/24. If you want to present the LiViDo project during this seminar, I'd be glad to give you my allotted time (since it would just be the introduction to the overall seminar, and I think I can reduce that to 2 minutes without people suffering too much). Of course, LiViDo is not directly related to streaming, but since my overall idea is to have a complete toolchain for audio/video production, editing, transmission and playback, it would be interesting to hear your ideas on the topic. Oh, and thank you for the mail - I bet a pizza with a friend of mine that you would be the first to criticize the announcement. :) Bye, -- Andrea Glorioso sama(a)miu-ft.org +39 333 820 5723 .:: Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia ::. Conquering the world for fun and profit