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Saturday opening remarks

Format: 5-min talk ; Q&A: Etherpad
Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2024-sat-open
Status: TO_FOLLOW_UP

00:00.007 General and Development tracks
00:06.126 Watching and participating
00:59.966 Questions and answers
02:30.002 Etherpad
03:02.057 Internet Relay Chat
03:46.230 Open captions
04:07.335 Status
04:18.929 Conduct
04:26.424 Recordings
04:37.333 emacsconf-discuss updates
04:42.249 Let's go!
Duration: 04:50 minutes

Description

Discussion

  • Testing
    • Yup this is being tested :)
  • I need that countdown screen :)  . So cool!!  I agree.
  • You mean champagne?That's the name of it?It is the name of a package that has a countdown.OK, searching for that! Thankshttps://github.com/positron-solutions/champagne :). Awesome
  • Champagne seems a bit different than the countdown in the livestream tho! But it is also awesome!Ah I see, that might just be some quick custom Elisp.
  • Can I join in on the testing too?  Why don't you have any color? I set it to white :)(lol)Greetings^^
    • Practicing indentation
      • Hierarchy is important.
    • I have been having fun  not fun time with indentation lol
    • Dealing with visual lines for Master of Ceremonies, my first pass was too manual.  I need to offload more work onto normal Emacs text editing.  It was about 1k lines and I just decided to torch it and go with a buffer-based solution
  • My ideal academic workflow would include some synergy between zotero and Emacs
  • What is Zotero good at? For me, its good at handling more item types.
  • not using zotero, but ebib. Working fairly well to maintain a very large bib file
  • Oh god they're spying on us More importantly, Is RMS watching this with us?
  • Why is the countdown music so good?

Transcript (unedited)

Welcome to EmacsConf 2024, where we have fun exploring how much we can do with a text editor. It's hard to give a general overview of all the cool talks today and tomorrow, so you can flip through the talks and see what sparks your interests. Don't feel limited to one track or another. The best parts of EmacsConf are the conversations. The wiki has a page on how to watch and participate, and I'll give you a quick overview as well. You can watch both streams at live.emacsconf.org using free and open source software. Using a streaming media player like mpv seems to be the best way to watch in terms of performance but there are also web-based players just in case that's all you've got. The schedule shows the General track on top and the Development track on the bottom, so you can see what else is going on. As you're watching the talks, you can refer to the schedule in another window. Hover over the boxes to see the times and titles, and click on the boxes in the schedule to jump to the talk's page for more details. You can also get the schedule as an iCalendar file or as an Org file in different time zones. Many talks will be followed by live Q&A web conferences with the speaker, which will be done in BigBlueButton or BBB. These are indicated with a solid border on the schedule and by Q&A: BBB on the schedule page. You can join the web conference room by clicking on the BBB link on the schedule page or the talk's webpage. Then you can ask your questions yourself when the Q&A starts. To improve performance, please keep your webcam off and stay muted until it's your turn to talk. If you don't like Javascript, you can still ask questions via IRC and the hosts can read them out for you. We're probably going to automatically switch between talks and Q&A sessions, so the transitions on the stream might be a little sudden. People in the BigBlueButton room can continue the conversation even after the talk moves off-stream. and you can also reach out to the speakers using the contact information on the talk page. Other talks will have Q&A via Etherpad or IRC, depending on what the speakers prefer. This is indicated in the schedule with a dashed border and on the schedule page as well. As an experiment, the Q&A for the mcclim talk this afternoon will also be in LambdaMOO. If you'd like to try it out, see the mcclim talk page for instructions so you can join the discussion there. The schedule pages and track pages have quick shortcuts so that you can find out more about talks, open the Etherpads, and join the Q&A sessions. The watch page has more tips on how to make the most of Q&A. If you can, please add notes and ask questions in the Etherpad for the talk. That makes it easier for everyone to share their notes, and speakers and hosts can read the questions from there. We'll copy the notes to the talk pages afterwards. We have one pad for each talk, so you can follow the links to get to the next one or go back to the schedule and get the link from there. If you have general feedback about the conference itself, please put it in pad.emacsconf.org/2024 , which is linked on each pad. You can also use this as a general community message board for things like Help Wanted. Internet Relay Chat or IRC can be another great way to be part of lots of conversations. You can use chat.emacsconf.org to join the IRC channels through your web browser. The tabs on the left can help you switch between the different channels. There's #emacsconf-gen for the General track and #emacsconf-dev for the Development track. If you need to reach us, you can join #emacsconf-org or e-mail emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org. You can use #emacsconf for hallway conversations. Of course, you can join any of these channels with your favourite IRC client by connecting to irc.libera.chat port 6697 using TLS. Once again, we're going to be streaming with open captions for most of the talks this year, thanks to our speakers and captioning volunteers. The captioned talks are indicated on the schedule, and with any luck, we'll be posting transcripts on talk pages shortly after the talks start. If you need additional accommodations, please let us know in #emacsconf-org and we'll see if we can make things happen. If something goes down, we'll update status.emacsconf.org. If it doesn't look like we've noticed yet, please let us know in the #emacsconf-org IRC channel, where we will be quietly panicking. In all of these conversations, please keep in mind our guidelines for conduct. You can find them on the wiki. They basically boil down to: please be nice. If all goes well, the prerecorded talks and transcripts should be available from the talk pages shortly after they start playing, and we'll post the recordings of live talks and Q&A sessions within the next month or so. If you'd like to get an update, you can subscribe to the emacsconf-discuss mailing list. All right, let's get going. Leo is hosting the general track, and Corwin is hosting the development track. The other volunteers and I will run around mostly backstage, and you'll probably meet us in the closing remarks. That's also where we get to thank all the people and organizations who make EmacsConf possible. Thanks for coming to EmacsConf 2024.

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

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