Project Bar-B-Q is an intense conference held annually the third week in October on a remote location in the Texas hill country. The goal of Project Bar-B-Q is INFLUENCING AUDIO HARDWARE & SOFTWARE OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. To this end, three to five groups are formed, each consisting of hardware developers, software developers, audio engineers, composers, and tech executives. Each group tackles a problem that has been identified as one of the industry's most important, spending two days of facilitated brainstorming to formulate its best shot at a solution. The result of this work is the annual BBQ report.