MusicBrainz Summit/14

Summary

MusicBrainz Summit 14 will happen in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 26–28, 2014.

Sponsors

Spotify and Google are sponsoring our summit again! 7Digital is considering sponsoring us as well.

Venue

We're going to spend the weekend days at Copenhagen Business School at Howitzvej 60, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark. OSM Google Maps

Lodgings

MetaBrainz will cover the cost of lodgings and all food for the weekend. We've rented this AirBnB house from 2014-09-25 until 2014-09-29. There are 6 single beds and 1 double bed (for 2) and two couch spaces. This should be plenty of space for all of us.

IMPORTANT: There is a cat in the house. We have pay a cleaning fee to have the house cleaned and the cat moved outside for the weekend. Are any of the attendees staying in this house deathly allergic to cats? (There are two rooms in the basement of this house where the cat never goes, that might be sufficient). If you have problems being in a house with a cat, speak up now!

Feedback requested!

Please sign up below if you plan to stay in one of the sponsored lodgings. People attending who work for MusicBrainz' partner companies are requested to arrange for their own lodgings.

• ruaok
• reosarevok
• chirlu
• ianmcorvidae
• bitmap
• nikki
• Ben
• kepstin
• navap
• ijabz

Agenda

Discussion topics

• Geordi: Workflows & label interactions
• Sysadmin planning (moving to EU/cloud hosting, reducing self hosted services)
• How healthy is the MusicBrainz community?
• Genres: could we finally agree on at least something and implement it in May? (ambitious!)
• Potential future uses of tracks and track mbids (brainstorming/breakout session?)
• Official consumer oriented MusicBrainz site (eg. MusicBottle/mbjs): form action plan/get things rolling (another breakout session?). Should this integrate with CritiqueBrainz, and if so how?
• Release packaging types - is it worth storing this information, and how can we manage the ever-increasing variety?
• Standalone recordings - conversion to single track releases (ijabz)
• Adding discogs database to Musicbrainz to allow better reports, better use of Discogs data (ijabz)

Presentations

• General state of MusicBrainz and MetaBrainz (ruaok)
• Data format, /ws/3, editable WS exploration (ianmcorvidae)
• geordi (ianmcorvidae, assuming I don't totally fail at having something decent to show)
• musicbrainz-style and community improvement (ianmcorvidae)

People confirmed to be attending

	Arriving		Leaving		Notes
	Time	Details	Time	Details
Freso	1984-11-24		???		Born, raised, and living here. :)
ruaok	2014-09-24 15:30	Norwegian DY3657	2014-09-29 20:30	Norwegian DY5175	Free Wifi!!
nikki	2014-09-25 10:08	CNL40457	2014-09-29 18:46	CNL40473
ianmcorvidae
reosarevok	2014-09-25 10:20	BT131	2014-09-30 08:05	BT134
bitmap	2014-09-25 10:25	Air Canada AC 882	2014-09-29 17:10
chirlu	2014-09-25 somewhen	Øresundståg	2014-09-29 11:42	ICE 34	arriving from/via Sweden
navap	2014-09-26 10:25	Air Canada AC 882	2014-09-29 12:20	Air Canada AC 883	Non-stop, woohoo!
kepstin					Gonna be a long flight.
LordSputnik	2014-09-26 16:25	EZY5367	2014-09-29 20:50	EZY5370
ijabz			2014-09-29 17:10	EZY5368
kloeri					Contact person for venue
Liq	-	-	-	-	Friend of Freso

Feel free to additionally give word of your attendance on the Facebook event.

Important things to not forget, but that will be forgotten anyway

• Napkins
• Offerings for the resident cat