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Closing remarks day 2

Duration: 10 minutes

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Description

• Prerecs have already been posted, yay! You can find them on the talk pages and at https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/ (We'll figure out how to get the Q&As.)
• Thanks to everyone who submitted talks to EmacsConf, including those whose talks didn't make it into this year. We'll be sharing more resources as they come in, so subscribe to emacsconf-submit@gnu.org
• Next steps
  • We'd love to hear what you liked and what we can improve. Please share your conference feedback and ideas at the end of the Etherpad under the heading "General discussion about EmacsConf 2021" https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/emacsconf-2021 or e-mail them to us at emacsconf-submit@gnu.org. If you would like to keep your feedback semi-anonymous, you can e-mail it to either bandali@gnu.org or sacha@sachachua.com and we'll keep your name private when sharing the feedback with the other organizers.
  • Post your questions/thoughts to the https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/emacsconf-2021 Etherpad or email it to us at emacsconf-submit@gnu.org by Dec 10, and we'll e-mail your question to the speakers for following up
  • Subscribe to emacsconf-discuss for announcements https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss, like when additional captions or videos become available
  • There were lots of talks! Feel free to rewatch, follow links, and learn more.
  • If you want to help caption talks (4 left! also, the archive) or Q&A, or help with other tasks, see contribute.md
  • Keep in touch with Emacs News https://sachachua.com/emacs-news - weekly updates
  • Check out https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Usergroups to find a user group near you or online
• Thanks again
  • Speakers, volunteers
  • Karl Voit for managing the pad
  • Bhavin Gandhi and Hannah Miller for help with the captions
  • Free Software Foundation, especially the FSF tech team, for their continued help and support
    • LibrePlanet 2022 Call for Sessions open for a few more days; consider giving a talk! See https://libreplanet.org/2022/ and https://my.fsf.org/lp-call-for-sessions/
    • FSF's Fall 2021 fundraiser happening now! See https://fsf.org/appeal if you'd like to give
  • Fosshost, for BigBlueButton server and for ftp-upload server
  • Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo, for continuing hosting the videos/files on the CSC mirror server
  • Jan Prunk (yang), for EU mirror of EmacsConf videos/files: https://de1.mirror.si/emacsconf/
  • Wojciech Siewierski (vifon), for assisting zaeph with his scripts last minute
  • Grant Shangreaux, for beautiful music (under CC BY-SA 4.0) https://churls.world/basement-days/basement-days.html
  • the developers and maintainers of all the things that made this possible, with a special shout-out to:
    • Random User (rndusr), whose subed.el made it easy to caption these talks inside Emacs
    • And Qiantan Hong (qhong), author/maintainer of crdt.el which we used for sharing Emacs buffers between organizers
  • Organizers
  • Everyone

Discussion

• I really appreciate the approach of doing things prerecorded and having captions.
• (please add a contact form for the website to make it easier for volunteers to sign up, sending an initial email can be psychologically intimidating.)
  • i am willing to volunteer to think about /work on the form
  • thanks! not sure if adding something like formspree would be counterproductive, but coming up with a list of ways to help out in an email takes a lot more energy than just adding your name and email to a list of potential volunteers.
• we'll recommend opening the .webm directly as the main option
• i managed to get a few people to watch my talk afterwards. letting them know it was only 10 minutes helped. non-emacs folks even

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