MusicBrainz Summit / 25

The 2025 MetaBrainz summit will be held in Barcelona during the week of 15 - 19 September 2025.

Sept 13 & Sept 14: Arrival, check-in, rest. No concrete plans as of yet, we'll make those depending on who is around and how they feel.

Sept 15 - Sept 19: Summit days. The exact schedule will be determined on Monday the 15th, with sessions scheduled to try and accommodate the attendees.

Sept 20 & Sept 21: Unfortunately La Mercè, the festival with loads of fireworks, does not happen until the following weekend. Some people will be leaving, others staying another night. We'll organize activities based on who is around.

On the 15th at 14:00 CEST, we will begin our sessions with the welcome session followed by the scheduling sessions where we take topics that people would like to speak about, gauge the interest and then schedule these sessions, keeping timing and attendees in mind.

We'll publish a schedule of events after this meeting concludes.

Feedback to remember from previous summits:

• Don't have the presentation time run for too long, as attention spans fade by the end
• Breaks between presentations to help with the above
• Keep a minimum structure, particularly regarding streaming times, so that virtual attendees can plan

As usual, each project should be prepared to give an update on the state of the project.

Big topics to discuss and who needs to be present:

• OAuth migration update and future planning (lucifer and MB Team)

Because we'll have most of the team in the same place it might make sense to have a few in-person informal hack sessions to get some projects off the ground. Ideas:

• Oauth login flow (lucifer and MB Team)
• ListenBrainz Local or Picard Improved Clustering
• Design new stickers for next summit
• Hack on instant playlists/stats on LB for new users

We'll be at OfficeBrainz for the summit.

We have rented two flats in the from the Family Host, Google Maps link where we've stayed before. The lovely roof terrace is a great place to chill in the evenings to have dinner and drinks. We'll be doing that!

The two flats, (The Unknown, and Area 51) are available from the afternoon of the 13th until the 20th. Area 51 will also be available for one more night with checkout happening on the 21st. If you need to a place to sleep Saturday night, please make sure to mark yourself in the "Staying Sunday" in the table below, but space is first come, first serve, max 7 people.

• aerozol
• rdswift
• jasje
• Leftmost Cat

Monkey and Reosarevok are going to be taking care of our food needs during the day. We'll have food in the office starting about 9am/10am in the mornings and then coordinate an in office lunch around lunch time, likely before streaming sessions start.

Dinner will be at some restaurants, earlier in the week less formal (chinese food and other things that are easy for a large group). Later in the week we'll get a bit more formal for the dinners, going to nicer restaurants. Local significant others will be invited to the more formal dinners to also (re-)meet the team.

Julian: Egg allergy: Any part/form, cooked/uncooked, in something else/on its own, and cross-contamination matters; that said, not a big deal if it's in the same room as me unless it's shakshouka or the like.

Person in charge: Jade

• good microphone, omni directional (mayhem)
• 2 cameras (mayhem)
• 2 tripods (mayhem)
• Extra laptop (mayhem)
• Zoom account login (mayhem)
• Handbot (mayhem)

• Initial setup and dry run (Jade)
• Running sessions (Jade)
• Uploading videos after the summit (Jade)
• Schedule master, putting schedule online and keeping it up date and informing others of changes (Reosarevok?)