Montevideo

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+---
+layout: "@/layouts/global.astro"
+title: "Monte<video>: A Real Place"
+author: kixelated
+description: "Maybe join us in Uruguay this year? We'll be working on MoQ and stuff."
+cover: "/blog/monte-video/uruguay.png"
+date: 2025-11-11
+---
+
+# Monte\<video\>: A Real Place
+Who knew?
+
+No like seriously, they named a place after video encoding.
+And it's the capital of Uruguay???
+
+## Summer Camp
+🎉 [kixelated/moq](https://github.com/kixelated/moq) was selected for the 2026 [Montevideo Tech Summer Camp](https://montevideotech.dev/summercamp2026/). 🎉
+
+This means that Mike (Cloudflare) and I (painfully unemployed) will be mentoring MoQ newbies or whatever.
+It's a multi-month community effort to make some poor open source project (ours) a little bit better.
+
+And it all culminates in an IRL event in Montevideo at the end of January.
+**Fun fact**: it's summer there while it's winter (mostly) everywhere else.
+
+<figure>
+	![Uruguay](/blog/monte-video/uruguay.png)
+	<figcaption>AND they have an awesome thing on their flag.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+## Should you participate?
+So I actually went to Uruguay last year.
+[Mike's moq-js fork](https://github.com/video-dev/moq-js) was selected as a 2025 project and I thought it would be cool to help out in person.
+
+Yes it was super awkward contributing to a fork of my own project.
+Yes I'm just an awkward person in general.
+But it was still fun, I recommend it, and I'll be heading there again this year.
+
+If you want an excuse to work on MoQ or a business justification to visit Uruguay, this is your chance.
+The Qualabs folks legitimately provide a full-blown vacation with organized events, tours, meals, etc.
+You have to pay for flights+hotel... but that's about it.
+
+And you don't actually spend much time doing "work".
+The event is mostly about hanging out with other video nerds.
+The Whatapp Group from last year is somehow still active.
+You can *and should* bring your family\* or spouse or cat or whatever.
+
+\* Steve (aka da Heff) brought his two daughters and wife last year.
+They cackled like maniacs lighting the bonfire.
+
+## What are we working on?
+But before the event, we'll be working on MoQ.
+If you just want to submit pull requests and don't want to hang out IRL, that's totally fine.
+Approved, merged, and deployed straight to production.
+
+I'll be filing a boatload of issues in the next few days in a vain attempt at project planning.
+If you have any ideas or feature requests, file an issue or ping me on Discord.
+
+And to be clear, you don't need permission and can work on whatever you want.
+This event is more about bringing value to the community than serving any specific agenda.
+
+But if you're out of ideas, here's some free ones:
+
+### Conferencing
+Steal the rendering engine from [hang.live](/blog/first-app) and make a general purpose conferencing app.
+Without the copious amount of cringe and meme videos.
+Throw in some lame corporate branding and you've got a legitimate product..?
+
+### MoQ+HLS+DASH
+One of the biggest barriers to adoption is getting MoQ to work with an existing HLS/DASH stack.
+It turns out that it's not viable to instantaneously migrate all clients to MoQ.
+I've got some ideas on how to simultaneously support MoQ, HLS, and DASH with a unified MoQ relay.
+
+### OBS and Friends
+Another barrier to adoption is getting the media in the first place.
+I've got a crude gstreamer plugin already but it kind of sucks and needs a fresh coat of paint.
+Going further and getting OBS to work with MoQ would be a HUGE milestone.
+
+### POLISH
+We can also just polish the MoQ player and make it (more) ready for production.
+Stuff like better bundling, better documentation, better examples, etc.
+You know, the really boring stuff.
+
+
+## What next?
+The kick-off meeting is [this Friday](https://meetu.ps/e/PF7F0/GFW4z/i).
+That's in two days if you're reading this on the (exact) Wednesday that I'm writing this.
+
+It'll be a recurring thing until the end of January.
+I'm going to have to set an alarm for 3am to make the meeting (Australia) but sacrifice is part of my "job description".
+
+- If you're interested in the IRL event, [email to get on the guest list](mailto:summercamp@montevideotech.dev).
+- If you want to work on MoQ over the holidays, join the meetings to coordinate?
+- Otherwise, why are you still reading this?
+
+Or just hang out on [Discord](https://discord.gg/FCYF3p99mr).
+Direct social interaction is overrated.
+I'll make a `#montevideo` channel or something.
+
+## One Last Thing
+I want to thank JP, Nico, and the rest of [Qualabs](https://qualabs.com/) for being great hosts.
+
+It's fantastic that they sponsor this event.
+It's fantastic that they pay their employees to contribute to open source projects for a few months.
+It's even more fantastic that they throw parties for video nerds.
+They literally invite you to visit their home.
+
+I had a blast last year and (hopefully) I'll see you there this year.
+
+Written by [@kixelated](https://github.com/kixelated).
+![@kixelated](/blog/avatar.png)
+

src/pages/index.mdx

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 a super-charged TCP/UDP replacement that powers [HTTP/3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/3).
 It's being developed by the [IETF](https://www.ietf.org/)\* and your _favorite_ big tech companies such as Google, Meta, Cisco, Akamai, Cloudflare, etc.
 
-That's right, *soon* you will never have to deal with WebRTC again.
-Unless masochism is your thing.
+That's right, you no longer need to hack WebRTC!
+There's a new way to achieve **real-time latency** in the browser, including contribution and mass distribution via generic CDNs.
 
 <p class="tagline">Try out the web demo! [Watch](/watch) or [Publish](/publish) a broadcast</p>
 
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 	</a>
 	<div>
 		Want a better demo?
-		<a href="https://hang.live" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">hang.live</a> uses the same open-source libraries but adds more functionality on top.
+		<a href="https://hang.live" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">hang.live</a> uses the same open-source libraries.
+		But with more features and cringe layered on top.
 	</div>
 </div>
 
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 - 🔓 **Open Source**: Production-ready [Rust and TypeScript libraries](/source).
 - 🌐 **100% Web**: Utilizes [WebTransport](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebTransport), [WebCodecs](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebCodecs_API), [WebAudio](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebAudio_API), WebEtc.
-- ⚡ **Real-time**: Minimal latency by skipping unimportant media during congestion.
+- ⚡ **Real-time**: Minimal latency by skipping less important media during congestion.
 - 🚀 **Massive Scale**: Host your own CDN with [moq-relay](https://github.com/kixelated/moq/tree/main/rs/moq-relay) or use [Cloudflare](/blog/first-cdn).
-- 🎬 **Multi-Platform**: [Web](https://github.com/kixelated/moq/tree/main/js/hang), [FFmpeg](https://github.com/kixelated/moq/tree/main/rs/hang-cli), and [GStreamer](https://github.com/kixelated/hang-gst) clients available.
-- 🔍 **Discoverable**: Live notifications when broadcasts are published.
+- 🎬 **Multi-Platform**: [Web](https://github.com/kixelated/moq/tree/main/js/hang), [FFmpeg](https://github.com/kixelated/moq/tree/main/rs/hang-cli), [GStreamer](https://github.com/kixelated/hang-gst), and [native](/source) clients available.
+- 🔍 **Discoverable**: Live notifications when broadcasts are published or finish.
 - 💪 **Efficient**: No encoding or bandwidth usage until a viewer needs it.
-- 🔧 **Compatible**: TCP fallback via [WebSocket](https://github.com/kixelated/web-transport/tree/main/web-transport-ws), Safari fallback via [libav.js](https://github.com/Yahweasel/libav.js/).
+- 🌍 **Compatible**: TCP fallback via [WebSocket](https://github.com/kixelated/web-transport/tree/main/web-transport-ws), Safari fallback via [libav.js](https://github.com/Yahweasel/libav.js/).
+- 🔧 **Customizable**: Hardware accelerated encoding, the rest is in your control.
 
 ### *Standards
 This website uses a [fork](/blog/transfork) of the IETF draft called [moq-lite](https://kixelated.github.io/moq-drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-lite.html) and a media layer called [hang](https://kixelated.github.io/moq-drafts/draft-lcurley-moq-hang.html).