Monthly Video Meetup

This month is a series of new adventures and I'm excited about it. We try to be pretty strict about always having the meetup on the last Thursday of every month (fun fact: 7+ years ago it was the last Tuesday). This month we ran into an issue where our usual host, Mux, is hosting their company holiday party at their venue and were too selfish to move said entire company party for this meetup. Sheesh.

Luckily, our friends at Twitch stepped up and are going to host (thank you Luke and JGH!), allowing us to kick off the year with the right monthly consistency! Given that I (Matt, the usual host/emcee) will probably need to be mostly at the aforementioned party, Nick Chadwick will be hoisting the microphone as the emcee this month. So many changes, so much excitement.

Also, (most of) the Demuxed videos from 2022 are up on YouTube. They're amazing. We haven't sent the newsletter out officially announcing it, so act surprised when you get that email and share it with all your friends.

🎤 Speakers

🎙️ Will Law (Akamai) - Six Surprising Standards Seeking Serious Scrutiny
Your time is precious. This talk saves you money by giving you the cliff notes on 6 new standards in OTT that are being worked on or released in 2023. We’ll give a brief overview of what problems they solve, who’s working on them and how they might impact you in the streaming industry, while drinking beer.

🎙️Alice Thorne & Caitlin O'Callaghan - BROWATCH
Open source solution that enables you to co-watch a video from your computer while it is simultaneously streamed to your bro or bros in low latency with perfect synchronization and full privacy via end to end encryption.

IRL Logistics
Unfortunately due to Meetup not providing emails (it's a feature, to be fair), we could do any pre-registration. That means folks will need to check in at the front, so you might want to get there a few minutes earlier than you otherwise would have.