Monday 14 August 2023 at 0:00 (UTC)

The end of the EmacsConf 2023 call for participation is one month away (Sept 14; https://emacsconf.org/2023/cfp/). Whee! So far, we’ve sent early acceptances to the following talks and added them to the program on the wiki (https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks):

Duration	Title	Speaker
10	An Org-Mode based text adventure game for learning the basics of Emacs, inside Emacs, written in Emacs Lisp	Chung-hong Chan
20	Authoring and presenting university courses with Emacs and a full libre software stack	James Howell
20	Org-Mode workflow: informal reference tracking	Christopher Howard
20	GNU Emacs for electronics, note-taking, and as lightweight IDE	Anand Tamariya
10	A modern Emacs look-and-feel without pain	Pedro A. Aranda
10	Writing a language server in OCaml for Emacs, fun, and profit	Austin Theriault
20	LLM clients in Emacs, functionality and standardization	Andrew Hyatt
10	The many ways to browse Hacker News from Emacs	Mickael Kerjean

There’s one talk that’s waiting for feedback on the emacsconf-submit before we send the early acceptance in about a week:

Duration	Title	Speaker
20	one.el: the static site generator for Emacs Lisp Programmers	Tony Aldon

There are several talk proposals that are in progress (need to coordinate, don’t have speaker releases / full details / etc.):

Title	Speaker
Emacs MultiMedia System (EMMS)	Yoni Rabkin
Emacs development updates	John Wiegley
Watch Over Our Folders	Bastien Guerry
Emacs community information sharing?	Jake B
Emacs saves the Web	Yuchen Pei
How to build an Emacs 2: Revenge of the Lem	Fermin

This time last year, we had 2 proposals, with most of the proposals coming in at the end of the CFP. This was usually when we started panicking about not having lots of proposals, but I think we can skip stressing about it this year. Even with the program as it is now, we’d already have a pretty fun EmacsConf. Can’t wait to see what it’ll look like when more people get their proposals in!

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