[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 9617 bytes --] ___________________ 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> [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #2: EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals (Org file) --] [-- Type: text/x-org, Size: 10472 bytes --] #+title: EmacsConf 2021 #+subtitle: Online Conference #+date: November 27 and 28, 2021 #+options: author:nil [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/][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 [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/cfp/][submit your proposal]] by *September 30, 2021*. EmacsConf 2021 is about the joy of [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][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: [[https://emacsconf.org/2020/schedule/][2020]], [[https://emacsconf.org/2019/schedule/][2019]], [[https://emacsconf.org/2015/schedule/][2015]], [[https://emacsconf.org/2013/#program][2013]]. You might also find some neat ideas on the [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/ideas/][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 [[ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/emacsconf][your favourite IRC client]], or by visiting [[https://chat.emacsconf.org][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. * 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 [[https://emacsconf.org/contact/][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. * 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 [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org][publicly]] or [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org-private][privately]]. We'll be happy to work something out with you. * 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 [[https://emacsconf.org/contact/][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. * Submitting your proposal Once you're ready to submit your proposal, the [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/submit/][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, [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss][emacsconf-discuss]], for discussion and announcements about the EmacsConf conference. We look forward to your ideas and submissions! * 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 [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/planning/][planning]] page and come say hi to us at =#emacsconf= on =irc.libera.chat=. In addition to the [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss][emacsconf-discuss]] list, feel free to subscribe to [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org][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! * Commitment to freedom We remain fully committed to freedom, and we will continue using our infrastructure and streaming setup consisting entirely of [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html][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. * COMMENT Copyright & License Copyright (c) 2020 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, David Bremner Copyright (c) 2021 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, Leo Vivier, Sebastian Crane The EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals is part of the EmacsConf wiki, and is dual-licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License; and the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of these two licenses is available on the EmacsConf wiki, in the [[https://emacsconf.org/COPYING.CC-BY-SA][COPYING.CC-BY-SA]] and [[https://emacsconf.org/COPYING.GPL][COPYING.GPL]] files. * COMMENT How to export this file As of the time of writing this document (Org mode version 9.3.7), the Org links library (=ol.el=) does not yet recognize =ircs= link types, and will throw an error if you try to export a file containing them, such as this file. To work around that, you can use something along the lines of the Emacs Lisp code below, by either adding it to your init file, or by putting the point in the code block and hitting =C-c C-v e= (that is, hold Ctrl, then hit c followed by v, then release Ctrl, and hit e) to evaluate the code, working around the issue only for the current session. #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent (org-link-set-parameters "ircs" :export (lambda (link description format) "Export an ircs link. See `org-link-parameters' for details about LINK, DESCRIPTION and FORMAT." (let ((desc (or description link))) (pcase format (`html (format "<a href=\"ircs:%s\">%s</a>" link desc)) (`md (format "[%s](ircs:%s)" desc link)) (_ nil))))) #+end_src
What a great call for papers. If it was created using Emacs, it would be great to have a talk or a howto for how it was made. Congratulations for the organizers for making this a free software event and not just an event with free software.
quiliro@riseup.net writes: > What a great call for papers. If it was created using Emacs, it would > be great to have a talk or a howto for how it was made. It seems to me like it is just an org-mode document, converted to plain text using one of the built-in exporters. > Congratulations > for the organizers for making this a free software event and not just an > event with free software. -- Philip Kaludercic
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
> quiliro@riseup.net writes:
>
>> What a great call for papers. If it was created using Emacs, it would
>> be great to have a talk or a howto for how it was made.
>
> It seems to me like it is just an org-mode document, converted to
> plain text using one of the built-in exporters.
Yes. It would be nice to see the source.
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 857 bytes --] quiliro@riseup.net writes: > Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes: > >> quiliro@riseup.net writes: >> >>> What a great call for papers. If it was created using Emacs, it would >>> be great to have a talk or a howto for how it was made. >> >> It seems to me like it is just an org-mode document, converted to >> plain text using one of the built-in exporters. > > Yes. It would be nice to see the source. > Yes, the announcement text in the body of that email was indeed exported from an Org file -- which I'd attached to that email -- plus some small tweaks. I'm attaching the Org file again to this reply as well, just in case. P.S. please direct any further replies either to myself privately, or only to the emacsconf-discuss and emacs-tangents lists, so as to avoid spamming the other lists (like emacs-devel) with off-topic discussion. [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #2: emacsconf-2021-cfp.org --] [-- Type: text/x-org, Size: 10472 bytes --] #+title: EmacsConf 2021 #+subtitle: Online Conference #+date: November 27 and 28, 2021 #+options: author:nil [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/][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 [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/cfp/][submit your proposal]] by *September 30, 2021*. EmacsConf 2021 is about the joy of [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][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: [[https://emacsconf.org/2020/schedule/][2020]], [[https://emacsconf.org/2019/schedule/][2019]], [[https://emacsconf.org/2015/schedule/][2015]], [[https://emacsconf.org/2013/#program][2013]]. You might also find some neat ideas on the [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/ideas/][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 [[ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/emacsconf][your favourite IRC client]], or by visiting [[https://chat.emacsconf.org][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. * 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 [[https://emacsconf.org/contact/][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. * 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 [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org][publicly]] or [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org-private][privately]]. We'll be happy to work something out with you. * 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 [[https://emacsconf.org/contact/][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. * Submitting your proposal Once you're ready to submit your proposal, the [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/submit/][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, [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss][emacsconf-discuss]], for discussion and announcements about the EmacsConf conference. We look forward to your ideas and submissions! * 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 [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/planning/][planning]] page and come say hi to us at =#emacsconf= on =irc.libera.chat=. In addition to the [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss][emacsconf-discuss]] list, feel free to subscribe to [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org][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! * Commitment to freedom We remain fully committed to freedom, and we will continue using our infrastructure and streaming setup consisting entirely of [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html][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. * COMMENT Copyright & License Copyright (c) 2020 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, David Bremner Copyright (c) 2021 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, Leo Vivier, Sebastian Crane The EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals is part of the EmacsConf wiki, and is dual-licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License; and the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of these two licenses is available on the EmacsConf wiki, in the [[https://emacsconf.org/COPYING.CC-BY-SA][COPYING.CC-BY-SA]] and [[https://emacsconf.org/COPYING.GPL][COPYING.GPL]] files. * COMMENT How to export this file As of the time of writing this document (Org mode version 9.3.7), the Org links library (=ol.el=) does not yet recognize =ircs= link types, and will throw an error if you try to export a file containing them, such as this file. To work around that, you can use something along the lines of the Emacs Lisp code below, by either adding it to your init file, or by putting the point in the code block and hitting =C-c C-v e= (that is, hold Ctrl, then hit c followed by v, then release Ctrl, and hit e) to evaluate the code, working around the issue only for the current session. #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent (org-link-set-parameters "ircs" :export (lambda (link description format) "Export an ircs link. See `org-link-parameters' for details about LINK, DESCRIPTION and FORMAT." (let ((desc (or description link))) (pcase format (`html (format "<a href=\"ircs:%s\">%s</a>" link desc)) (`md (format "[%s](ircs:%s)" desc link)) (_ nil))))) #+end_src
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1957 bytes --] 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 Sun, Aug 15, 2021, at 11:19 AM, Amin Bandali wrote: > quiliro@riseup.net writes: > > > Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes: > > > >> quiliro@riseup.net writes: > >> > >>> What a great call for papers. If it was created using Emacs, it would > >>> be great to have a talk or a howto for how it was made. > >> > >> It seems to me like it is just an org-mode document, converted to > >> plain text using one of the built-in exporters. > > > > Yes. It would be nice to see the source. > > > > Yes, the announcement text in the body of that email was indeed > exported from an Org file -- which I'd attached to that email -- plus > some small tweaks. I'm attaching the Org file again to this reply as > well, just in case. > > P.S. please direct any further replies either to myself privately, or > only to the emacsconf-discuss and emacs-tangents lists, so as to avoid > spamming the other lists (like emacs-devel) with off-topic discussion. > > > > *Attachments:* > * emacsconf-2021-cfp.org [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 3010 bytes --]
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 11162 bytes --] 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 [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 17684 bytes --]
Hi Sam, [ apologies for the super slow reply; I've been unable to keep up with the volume of messages on the list for a few months and am only now catching up; and didn't see your message sooner since I wasn't explicitly Cc'd on it ] [ before I get into my reply, I'll quick mention that even though the CFP is now officially closed, if you'd like to and are able to send a proposal within the next few days, I can try to squeeze it in along with the other talks ] Samuel Banya writes: > 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? Sure. I haven't had a close look at this year's proposals yet, but in the last few EmacsConfs we've had a large number of Org talks covering various kinds of use-cases and addressing various needs in one's personal or professional life, and more such talks are welcome. :) > 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. Sure, this sounds like something that could very much fit along with the other Org-related talks this year. I know it's quite the short notice (my apologies again for not seeing this earlier) and this year's schedule is looking to be packed, but if you're still interested and able to send a proposal for your talk, we may be able to squeeze it if you could do so as soon as possible in the coming days, following the instructions on the https://emacsconf.org/2021/submit/ page. > Thanks, > > Sam Thanks, amin -- https://bndl.org