Saturday closing remarks

Format: 6-min talk ; Q&A: Etherpad
Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2024-sat-close
Status: Ready to stream

Description

Discussion

• Thank you for all your patience!
• Wheeeee! We made it to the end of the first day! Thank you so much for joining us for the first day of EmacsConf 2024.
• We\'re going to keep these closing remarks short so that people can get some sleep in preparation for tomorrow (zaeph is in Europe/Paris). We\'ll hang out a bit more tomorrow. But if you\'re just here for today, you can read through the notes at your leisure. 
• Pre-recorded talks are up on the talk pages at https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/ and at https://media.emacsconf.org/2024 . They\'re also on YouTube.
• We\'ll work on extracting the live talks and Q&As in the weeks to come. If you\'d like updates, please subscribe to the emacsconf-discuss mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss)
• Feel free to spread the word (#EmacsConf #Emacs). There\'s another day of fun talks tomorrow.
• What did you like? Got ideas for making things even better? General conference discussion/notes/community message board: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2024
• Stats: 
  • gen: 177 peak + 14 peak lowres
  • dev: 226 peak + 79 peak lowres
• Thanks
  • Thank you to all the speakers, volunteers, and participants, and to all those other people in our lives who make it possible through time and support.
  • This year\'s conference hosts are Leo Vivier and Corwin Brust. Streams were managed by Sacha Chua and checkins by FlowyCoder.
  • Thanks to our proposal review volunteers James Howell, JC Helary, and others for helping with the early acceptance process.
  • Thanks to our captioning volunteers: Mark Lewin, Rodrigo Morales, Anush, annona, and James Howell, and some speakers who captioned their own talks.
  • Thanks to Leo Vivier for fiddling with the audio to get things nicely synced, and thanks to him and other people who kept the mailing lists free from spam.
  • Thanks to Bhavin Gandhi, Christopher Howard, Joseph Turner, and screwlisp for quality-checking.
  • Thanks to shoshin for the music.
  • Thanks to Amin Bandali for help with infrastructure and communication.
  • Thanks to Ry P for the server that we\'re using for OBS streaming and for processing videos.
  • Thanks to the Free Software Foundation for Emacs itself, the mailing lists, and the media.emacsconf.org server. 
    • The Free Software foundation is having it\'s semi-annual fund raiser
    • Supporting FSF, as well as helping projects like EmacsConf, is the primary way to contribute financially toward the development of Emacs and other GNU packages.
    • Thanks to people who have donated to Emacsconf via the FSF Working Together program! 
      • https://www.fsf.org/working-together/fund
      • Used for hosting costs
      • We can talk more about this tomorrow
  • Thanks to the many users and contributers and project teams that create all the awesome free software we use, especially:
    • BigBlueButton, Etherpad, Icecast, OBS, TheLounge, libera.chat, ffmpeg, OpenAI Whisper, WhisperX, the aeneas forced alignment tool, PsiTransfer, subed, 
    • And many, many other tools and services we used to preair and host this years conference
  • Thanks to everyone (including people we\'ve missed because we\'re scrambling to write these notes =) )!
  • Come back tomorrow for more talks!

Questions or comments? Please e-mail emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org