Tech Sponsor
Support technically, help unblock, join weekly syncs.
- One sponsor per project
- Weekly sync with the team
- You guide, you don’t build alone
Summer Projects Track · Open until 23 October
Create your own adventure
Contribute, collaborate and give back. Three months turning a problem someone lives every day into something open that outlives the summer.
- Open source, always
- By and for the community
- Solving media-tech challenges
- Made to make an impact
Why join
Make an impact, together
Summer Projects is the Summer Camp classic: the track you have most likely heard about. Whether you’re a developer, an engineer or a curious person, this is a chance to grow, give back, and share the ride with others who care about the future of video tech.
- Learn from peers while building something real and useful.
- Connect with the global media-tech community.
- Explore and test new ideas in a safe, collaborative space.
- Get visibility for your work during Summer Week in Montevideo.
The community and the passion to learn and work together has been the highlight of my career. When I started in software 5 years ago, I could never — even in my wildest dreams — have come up with something like this.
October 2026 → February 2027
How a challenge becomes a project
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Wed 14 OctCall opens
23 OctCall closes
14–23 Oct
Open Call
It opens at the Say Hi to Summer Camp 2027 meetup.
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26–30 Oct
Shortlist and vote
The community picks the challenges worth a project.
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Thu 5 NovProjects announced
2–6 Nov
Scoping
Each project gets its shape and its Tech Sponsor.
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Mon 9 NovKickoff
Nov → Jan
Three months of building
A remote kickoff with a business-context session per project, then one hour a week together plus async work, with a checkpoint every two weeks.
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Wed 3 Feb
Summer Week
Demo Day
You show what you built at the Demo Day, on 3 February in Montevideo.
Ways to take part
Three ways to join a project
Industry Supporter
Help validate the problem and guide impact.
- You know the problem from the industry side
- You keep the project honest
- No code involved
Contributor
Join an existing project and help build something that matters.
- You pick a project you like
- Async work plus one call a week
- Engineers, builders and video enthusiasts
The 2027 theme
Hasta la vista, downtime!
Operating Global Streaming in the Age of Agents
Every project of this edition hangs from that thread, and lands in one of these three verticals. You don’t have to solve the thread — you have to bring a problem that pulls at it.
Live Engineering & Operations
Everything it takes to build the pipeline and keep it running: engineering is the art of building the tools, operations the art of keeping them alive.
- Encoding and transport
- Remote and cloud production, low-latency contribution, teams spread across countries
- Monitoring and observability of distributed operations, 24/7 live workflows
- Multi-region delivery, CDN cost and latency
- AI copilots that help teams operate live
Global Accessibility
How content reaches every audience in the world, in their language, on their screen and in their market.
- Live captions, translation and dubbing, audio description, sign language
- Content discovery, metadata and recommendations by region
- Rights, blackouts and availability by country
- A consistent experience across devices, markets and low-connectivity networks
- Provenance of content that travels between countries
Monetization
How global scale turns into a sustainable business.
- Local advertising, ad insertion by region and FAST channels
- Measurement across platforms, QoE by country, data and personalization
- Content protection and piracy across borders
- Cost per stream and infrastructure efficiency
Summer Projects 2026
Summer Projects grow every edition
David Hassoun and Kreig DuBose were at the last one. The projects grow, the people who build them grow, and open source is what brings a very diverse industry together.
Since 2023
What past editions left behind
Summer Projects 2026
AI Co-Pilot for Multimedia Archives
A copilot over the SMPTE archive, so anyone can understand the history of video without digging through it by hand.
Summer Projects 2026
Real-time MoQ Project
Real-time Media over QUIC, built open source by the community through the last edition.
Summer Projects 2025
MoQ Player Implementation
A player for fMP4 and LOC over Media over QUIC, rethinking the ABR ladder for a low-latency environment.
Summer Projects 2025
VAST to SGAI Conversion Service
An open-source tool that turns VAST files into HLS Interstitials, so Server-Guided Ad Insertion works without a costly SSAI setup.
Summer Projects 2024
Common Media Library
A unified media playback library that brings the same tools and methods to every platform, for more consistent and flexible video workflows.
Summer Projects 2024
CMAF HAM
Better CMAF workflows for efficient delivery, lower latency and closer harmony between standards.