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screen. That screen. Yes. All right. Thank you so much. We have made it thus far. It is the end of EmacsConf 2025. Oh, I better remember to open this in case anyone wants to join me in this room. Hang on a sec. And normally all this stuff gets done automatically by my scripts, so I'm doing it manually. Ah, there you go. Okay, now people can join. Hooray, we made it! Today was great, and yesterday was great too, with so many fascinating talks and conversations. I'm really, really glad that it all worked out, despite some running around and figuring things out on the fly, we all managed to get there. I actually have some of the live talks recordings up already on media.emacsconf.org and YouTube, assuming things work. I'm just going to republish it from Emacs naturally. As you can see, I was e-debugging things to the very last minute. Yeah, feel free to spread the word. I check the Emacs hashtag every week as part of the Emacs news process anyway. So if you have any favorite talks, that's a great way to share the ideas with more people, and then even more conversations can happen. The prerecorded talks, as I mentioned, are already up on the wiki and at the media emacsconf.org slash 2027 website. Sorry, 2025. We're not in the time machine. 2025 site. And they should already be on YouTube as well. I will upload the late submissions and the live talks and the Q&A sessions over the next week or two. I usually get that done very quickly. I didn't even finish this sentence. I'll post an update to the Emacs Conf Discuss mailing list, so feel free to subscribe to that if you'd like an update. If you've got ideas for making things better, then feel free to drop them into the Etherpad so that we can make next year's conference even smoother. I had a lot of people watching, so thank you for that. And of course, thanks to all the speakers who put hours and hours into their presentations, the volunteers who helped both before and during the conference and who will help in the days ahead as we get everything extracted and packaged and transcribed even, and a nice chapter indices on the Q&A so you can jump to when a specific question was answered, all that good stuff. and to all those other people in their lives whose patience and support make all of this possible. So thank you so much for that. This year's host, you saw Corwin and you saw, I mean, what's, why am I, wait, I'm like buzzing all over the place as people are mentioning my nick on IRC. All right, now that I'm in do not disturb mode. So thank you to the hosts and thank you to other volunteers, JC and Trico and James and Amitav and Rodion and Jaybird and Indra. and Yang3, and Bhavin, and Michael, and Ian, and Jamie, and Ihor, and FlowyCoder, and probably other people that I have forgotten to copy out of my conference.org file and into this, but thank you anyway. Thank you to the Free Software Foundation. They host the mailing list, they host the media server, and of course, they've got like Emacs, so that's awesome. To make things easier, our streams are actually not on my computer. We use OBS and a server, a fairly beefy one that Ry P shares with us. So then I can VNC into it and control OBS and stream to IceCast and all that other goodness. And I don't have to worry about my computer stressing out. It's all good. And so we use a whole lot of free and open source software in the stack. So we are very, very grateful for all the users and contributors who make all of that possible. Things like Emacs and Org Mode and ERC and Tramp and Magit and BigBlueButton and Etherpad and IckyWicky and IceCast and OBS and TheLaunch and LiberaChat and FFmpeg and OpenAI Whisper, WhisperX, different interface. The Aeneas forced alignment tool, site transfer for uploads, subed for editing the subtitles, sub-seg for cutting the subtitles into nice chunks so that you're not like trying to read a whole lot in one line, Mozilla Firefox, MPV and TamperMonkey so that everything gets automatically logged in when the stream switches to like a big blue button room, it's handy. and of course, many other tools and services that we use to prepare and host this year's conference. Thanks to Shoshin for the music. He's an Emacs geek as well. If you also have music that you'd like to share with us under the Creative Commons Attribution License, please feel free to let me know or I should put in my email address here. Yeah, sacha@sachachua.com. So let us know in case you have music or other things you want to share. Thanks to the people who donated via the FSF working together program. It costs like I think less than a hundred dollars to run this whole thing that the biggest thing really is people's time. And thank you so much for sharing that with us. So yes, but thank you specifically to Scott and Jonathan and the other anonymous donors through the Working Together program. And that's where we are so far. Feel free to join me. I can be here until the kiddo says I have not given her enough hugs for today. But if you want to like do a quick recap of your favorite talks or how you're excited to take things going forward and all that stuff. You can join me in this as Sunday closing. If you look at the talk page, there's going to be theoretically a big blue button link there that you can join. But thank you for this. And now it's like awkward silence. I'm wondering what you learned most from this conference this year. Because I'm running around so much, I don't get a lot of the live stuff. Like, for example, when I was listening to your Q&A, I had it in one ear and I had Christian's dental casting Q&A in the other ear, so that just in case he had questions also. which kind of just meant I was listening for silences and that meant I had to read the next question out loud. But I love going through the videos and captioning them. And I'm really excited about the kinds of conversations that people have been having on the etherpacks and IRC. So I think the biggest thing that I'm learning is that people are having a lot of fun with Emacs. Which is no surprise, of course. But it's always so exciting to see people bump into other people whose minds work the same way. And then who knows where that will go over the next year, over the next years. That's sort of an interesting topic, is like how to keep the conversations going between the conferences, you know? is where do people hang out and discuss these things? Reddit's one place. IRC. I figure it's... Sorry, go ahead. I'm done. I think it's rather... I like to think of it as the start of the conversation. And so we have around 100 people, more than 100, around 200 people yesterday, around 100 today joining us. And those are a lot of conversations, but then they're the conversations that happen when people look up the videos and the captions and the resources that people have shared. And so I think it gives us a lot of material, a lot of exciting points for plenty of other conversations this year. Yeah, it's a great community. Oh, yes, I should mention, the conversation doesn't stop here because there are mailing lists. Thank you, Rudy, for the reminder. If you're looking for more of this kind of sense of community, there's like, well, Emacs Develop course has a lot of technical discussions going on, but the Org Mode mailing list is very nice. There are also lots of meetups. There's definitely a meetup every month. Org Meetup, in fact, is happening in a couple of days. If you look on the Emacs wiki for user groups, or you check my Emacs news, or you check, if you look for like Emacs calendar, which I think I put on like emacslife.com slash calendar, then you'll find upcoming meetups. so that you can keep reconnecting with people. And if you come up with something cool, you don't have to wait until the next Emacs Con to show it to everybody. You can also go to these meetups and start sharing it and get feedback and make it even better and so on. Great, thank you. Rudy says, the Emacs bugs mailing list is surprisingly interesting as well. Lots of discussion on there, various details and upcoming little features every single day. Oh yes, Maddie would like another shout out for Emacs Carnival which is a monthly blogging people share topics so that people can all write about the same thing and then discover other people's perspectives on it. There have been quite a few now. So if you want, you can go through the Emacs Carnival page in the Emacs wiki and start exploring the past issues. The host will have a list of links to the people who've submitted. So it's a great way to see what other people in the community have been thinking about something. Also, people are very curious about the fonts and templates that people use for their presentations. It's always, that's one of the things I love about presentations. You kind of get this, you pick up so much more when you're looking over someone's shoulder, the things that they would forget to even mention because it's not the point of their talk or they take it for granted. So, yes. if the presenters can share their fonts and setups and themes and stuff like that. Or if you as a viewer have been watching something and you see someone do this really cool keyword shortcut and you have no idea how they did that, because of course, you know, it just flies by too quickly and it's part of their muscle memory, so they don't even explain it anymore. Go ahead and ask the speakers, hey, that command that you did, that just did the magic, how? So yes, please feel free to go back over the videos, look at them slowly, look for interesting things you want to learn more about. All right, it sounds like we are pretty much ready to wrap up. So thank you, everyone, for coming. See you next year and also in the months in between because there are meetups, which you're going to go check out and have fun at. Thank you for this. Yes, thank you for this nice Emacs weekend. Thanks for putting it all together, Sacha and everyone. That's great. Bye!