Re: [ANN] EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals

From: "Samuel Banya" <sbanya@fastmail.com>
To: "Charles Berry" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ANN] EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 13:56:41 -0400	[thread overview]
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Hey there,

I always look forward to the videos that are done for the Emacs conferences each year.

I was wondering, is anyone doing a presentation on using Org Mode for day-to-day work and personal work?

I often use Emacs for my daily work as a technical support engineer, and write notes with source code blocks of different commands I've ran in the background since I often have to ssh into client based CentOS machines to troubleshoot some issues regarding the application I help support.

I'm just an Emacs hobbyist at heart, but have a pretty tweaked out config as well. 

The main thing I wanted to highlight is how to utilize a todo list for work, and life based tasks, as well as org capture templates.

The only other thing is that I could maybe make a work-based todo list but would have to create some fake ticket data due to it being work related, etc.

Please let me know if that would be relevant as a video topic.

Thanks,

Sam

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021, at 11:45 AM, Amin Bandali wrote:
>                          ___________________
> 
>                             EmacsConf 2021
>                           Online Conference
>                          ___________________
> 
> 
>                        November 27 and 28, 2021
> 
> 
> Table of Contents
> _________________
> 
> 1. Important dates
> 2. Talk formats
> 3. Office hours
> 4. Submitting your proposal
> 5. Getting involved
> 6. Commitment to freedom
> 
> 
> [EmacsConf 2021] will be a virtual conference on *November 27 and 28,
> 2021 (Sat-Sun)*.  If you'd like to present at the conference, please
> [submit your proposal] by *September 30, 2021*.
> 
> EmacsConf 2021 is about the joy of [Emacs] and Emacs Lisp.  Come share
> your experiments and adventures with the Emacs text editor / operating
> system / way of life!  We welcome speakers of *all backgrounds* and
> *all levels of experience*, including newcomers giving their first
> talk.  What have you found exciting about Emacs lately?  What do you
> wish someone had told you when you were starting out?  What part of
> your workflow might inspire someone to get into Emacs or go deeper?
> 
> A great way to get started with writing a proposal is to start by
> exploring the programs from previous years: [2020], [2019], [2015],
> [2013].  You might also find some neat ideas on the [ideas] page.
> Feel free to add yours there too!  If you're still not sure, come by
> our IRC channel `#emacsconf' on `irc.libera.chat' and say hi.  You can
> join the chat using [your favourite IRC client], or by visiting
> [chat.emacsconf.org] in your web browser.
> 
> All kinds of people use Emacs for all kinds of things.  We'd love it
> if EmacsConf 2021 could highlight interesting perspectives and reflect
> the diversity of our community.  If you know someone who might have a
> good idea for a talk, please reach out to them and encourage them to
> submit a proposal.  Many people (especially from underrepresented
> groups such as women, people of colour, non-developers, etc.) might
> not consider themselves expert enough to share their thoughts.  If you
> let them know that you value their knowledge and maybe even suggest
> something that you think others would like to hear more about, they
> may realize that they have something worth sharing and that we would
> love to hear from them.
> 
> 
> [EmacsConf 2021] <https://emacsconf.org/2021/>
> [submit your proposal] <https://emacsconf.org/2021/cfp/>
> [Emacs] <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/>
> [2020] <https://emacsconf.org/2020/schedule/>
> [2019] <https://emacsconf.org/2019/schedule/>
> [2015] <https://emacsconf.org/2015/schedule/>
> [2013] <https://emacsconf.org/2013/#program>
> [ideas] <https://emacsconf.org/2021/ideas/>
> [your favourite IRC client] <ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/emacsconf>
> [chat.emacsconf.org] <https://chat.emacsconf.org>
> 
> 
> 1 Important dates
> =================
> 
>   For EmacsConf 2021, we are planning for 9am to 5pm Toronto/EST
>   (2pm-10pm UTC) on November 27 and 28.  Depending on people's
>   availability, it might be two half-days.
> 
>    CFP opens              August 5, 2021           
>    CFP closes             September 30, 2021       
>    Speaker notifications  October 15, 2021         
>    Schedule published     October 31, 2021         
>    EmacsConf 2021!        November 27 and 28, 2021 
> 
>   If you are not available during the conference itself but you have a
>   neat idea that you'd like to share, please propose it anyway!  You
>   can always handle questions after the conference, and we might even
>   be able to coordinate with other Emacs meetups for regional events
>   (if you're an Emacs meetup organizer and would like to make this
>   happen let's [get in touch]!).
> 
>   Please note that although we will try our best to stick to the above
>   dates in the coming months, given the current state of the world, we
>   may have to move things around a bit in case of unforeseen events.
>   Thank you for your patience and understanding.
> 
> 
> [get in touch] <https://emacsconf.org/contact/>
> 
> 
> 2 Talk formats
> ==============
> 
>   We'd like EmacsConf 2021 to inspire lots of different people to
>   explore lots of different things in Emacs.  We hope to put together
>   a stream of quick ideas followed by lots of conversation over IRC
>   and/or Q&A sessions, with occasional deep dives into topics that
>   many people might find interesting or useful.
> 
>   As you think about your talk, consider what you can share in:
> 
>   - *Up to 10 minutes total:* What is the core idea?  What do you want
>     people to do or remember?  You can show just enough to get people
>     interested and then point them to where they can learn more
>     afterwards.  You can answer questions over IRC, the pad, or the
>     wiki, and there's no limit to how long that conversation can go.
> 
>   - *Up to 20 minutes total:* How would you flesh out some of the
>     points from your 5-10 minute presentation?  How can you show the
>     pieces working together?
> 
>   - *Up to 40 minutes total:* What would benefit from a deep dive?
>     How do you keep it engaging?
> 
>   When writing your proposal, please write an outline of what you plan
>   to talk about if you have 5-10 minutes.  If you'd like to propose a
>   longer talk, outline what you might include if you had more time to
>   present (up to 40 minutes, including Q&A).
> 
>   Here's an example for a potentially 40-minute talk:
> 
>   - 5-10 minutes: quick demo of the abc package working together with
>     xyz package.
>   - 20 minutes: same as above, with some customization options to
>     accommodate a different workflow.
>   - 40 minutes: all of the above, including modifying the behaviour of
>     the package in order to add something new.
> 
>   This flexibility would help us in devising the conference schedule
>   so that as many people as possible could get a chance to present
>   their ideas, while still allowing for featuring longer deep dive
>   talks.
> 
>   Other session formats such as tutorials, workshops, and hangouts are
>   welcome as well, in case you would find those other formats
>   preferable to a traditional talk format.  If you're interested in
>   these or other session types, please let us know [publicly] or
>   [privately].  We'll be happy to work something out with you.
> 
> 
> [publicly] <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org>
> 
> [privately]
> <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org-private>
> 
> 
> 3 Office hours
> ==============
> 
>   We're aware that it can be intimidating to submit a proposal to a
>   conference, so we thought we'd try to help!  This year, we're
>   opening up the doors of our virtual offices for you to come talk to
>   us about your proposals with hopes of helping you with any hurdles
>   you may be facing with preparing your proposal.
> 
>   We'd like to publish a schedule of availabilities of volunteers for
>   holding office hours.  Currently these volunteers consist of some of
>   the EmacsConf organizers, but we'd love to have the help of other
>   members of the Emacs community as well.  If you are a more
>   experienced Emacs user and would like to help with this, please [get
>   in touch]!
> 
>   Our first office hour this year is planned for Saturday, August 14,
>   from 3pm to 4pm UTC with zaeph (Leo Vivier) at the following
>   BigBlueButton room: <https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/ban-qye-fd1-5kw>.
> 
> 
> [get in touch] <https://emacsconf.org/contact/>
> 
> 
> 4 Submitting your proposal
> ==========================
> 
>   Once you're ready to submit your proposal, the [submit] page has the
>   instructions on how to submit your talk.
> 
>   We use an anonymized submission process to reduce bias and encourage
>   contribution.  Identifying information will be removed from
>   submissions by a conference organizer who will not participate in
>   talk selection.  The anonymized submissions will then be reviewed by
>   a selection committee.
> 
>   If your talk is approved, we'd love it if you could help us make
>   sure the conference runs smoothly.  After we email you with the time
>   allotted for your talk, we'll ask you to
> 
>   - prepare a prerecording of your talk, or record it with our help if
>     that'd be easier for you; and
>   - schedule a short tech-check if you'd like to be able to answer
>     questions in a live session.
> 
>   Don't forget to subscribe to our main mailing list,
>   [emacsconf-discuss], for discussion and announcements about the
>   EmacsConf conference.
> 
>   We look forward to your ideas and submissions!
> 
> 
> [submit] <https://emacsconf.org/2021/submit/>
> 
> [emacsconf-discuss]
> <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss>
> 
> 
> 5 Getting involved
> ==================
> 
>   If you would like to help with the conference (planning the
>   sessions, reviewing proposals, helping with infrastructure, making
>   sessions more accessible, editing video transcripts, etc.), see our
>   [planning] page and come say hi to us at `#emacsconf' on
>   `irc.libera.chat'.
> 
>   In addition to the [emacsconf-discuss] list, feel free to subscribe
>   to [emacsconf-org] as well, for discussions related to organizing
>   the conference by the EmacsConf organizers and volunteers.
> 
>   We'd really appreciate your help in making EmacsConf 2021 the best
>   one so far!
> 
> 
> [planning] <https://emacsconf.org/2021/planning/>
> 
> [emacsconf-discuss]
> <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss>
> 
> [emacsconf-org] <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org>
> 
> 
> 6 Commitment to freedom
> =======================
> 
>   We remain fully committed to freedom, and we will continue using our
>   infrastructure and streaming setup consisting entirely of [free
>   software], much like previous EmacsConf conferences.  An article
>   describing our infrastructure and tools is underway, and will be
>   announced on the emacsconf-discuss list when published.
> 
> 
> [free software] <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> *Attachments:*
>  * emacsconf-2021-cfp.org

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