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SUMMARY:Opening remarks
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:dc07efcd-6d79-cfd4-fed3-59c885fe2922
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/day1-open
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/day1-open\n# Opening remarks
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SUMMARY:Emacs News Highlights
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:393ba3c2-b2a6-6a84-44eb-872aa333d08d
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/news
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/news\n# Emacs News Highlights\nSacha Chua <mailto:sach
a@sachachua.com> - pronouns: she/her\n\nQuick overview of Emacs community
highlights since the last conference\n\nYou can find the links and images
at\n<https://github.com/sachac/emacsconf-2021-emacs-news-highlights>\n\nPo
sting the video early to help test formatting.\n\n\n\n# Questions\, answer
s\, and community-provided links\n\n<a name="transcript"></a>\n# Transcrip
t
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SUMMARY:The True Frownies are the Friends We Made Along the Way: An Anecdot
e of Emacs's Malleability
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:06df8309-bd04-eb24-d443-a780c56adc0a
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/frownies
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T091100
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T093100
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/frownies\n# The True Frownies are the Friends We Made
Along the Way: An Anecdote of Emacs's Malleability\nCase Duckworth\n\nEmac
s is well-known for being extremely flexible\, programmable\, and\nextensi
ble\; in fact\, that's probably the biggest reason it's still\nbeing used
after 40+ years of existence\, and even has enough clout to\ngenerate an e
ntire conference in its name. In this medium-length\npresentation\, I wil
l add another point to the data set proving Emacs's\nabilities\, by narrat
ing the latest package I made\, \\`frowny.el\\`\, from\nits conception to
its current\, nearly-completed state.\n\nI wrote frowny.el to scratch some
one else's itch as a joke on IRC\, but\nit has been called "pretty useful\
, for a joke package." I feel like\nthat encapsulates the spirit of Emacs
and that's why I want to present\non this topic.\n\nAlong the way\, I'll
discuss just a little of my own history of Emacs\,\nand why I feel it's a
great tool for non-technical users to sink their\nteeth into.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Choose Your Own (Technology-Enhanced Learning) Adventure
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:fe959e43-441b-ed34-854b-87f6f481f55a
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/adventure
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/adventure\n# Choose Your Own (Technology-Enhanced Lear
ning) Adventure\nGreta Goetz\n\nThis presentation will first illustrate po
ssible paths for beginners and then mapping out the significance of the en
hanced learning potential of Emacs (Caillet in Andler & Guerry\, Markauska
ite & Goodyear). The technology-enhanced learning (TEL) that Emacs affords
departs from the 'many\, many features' (Stallman) which surpass the conf
ines of a pre-fabricated environment (Stiegler). This affords diverse poss
ibilities for individuals to interact creatively and autonomously to satis
fy their own needs alongside others who share use of the tool (Illich). It
s adaptability will be shown to be an asset in support of the learning tre
nds identified by the latest pedagogical research (Guo).\n\n1. Setting ou
t as beginners who may be overwhelmed by formal Emacs documentation. Some
inroads. No trace is too small.\n2. Emacs as common ground between people
and technology.\n3. Emacs modularity and TEL design.\n4. Emacs as perso
nal\, creative\, autonomous.\n5. Emacs and cognitive democracy.\n\n\n# Re
ferences\n\n## General workflow\, inspiration\, fun:\n- Bin\, C. (2020).
Mastering Emacs in one year. <https://github.com/redguardtoo/mastering-em
acs-in-one-year-guide/blob/master/guide-en.org#on-the-shoulders-of-giants>
. Accessed 25 October 2021.\n- Chua\, S. https://sachachua.com/blog/\n-
Goetz\, G. (2021). Additional references: A back-to-school/GTD Emacs jou
rney. <https://gretzuni.com/articles/a-back-to-school-gtd-emacs-journey>.
Accessed 25 October 2021.\n- Guerry\, B. (2020). Org-mode features you m
ay not know. <https://bzg.fr/en/some-emacs-org-mode-features-you-may-not-k
now/>. Accessed 25 October 2021.\n- Kaiser\, K. (2017). Writing a techni
cal book in Emacs and Org-mode. <https://www.kpkaiser.com/programming/writ
ing-a-technical-book-in-emacs-and-org-mode/>. Accessed 25 October 2021.\n-
Planet Emacs Life. <https://planet.emacslife.com/>. Accessed 25 October
2021.\n- Stavrou\, P. My packages for GNU Emacs. <https://protesilaos.c
om/emacs/>. Accessed 25 October 2021.\n- Wellons\, C. Emacs articles. <h
ttps://nullprogram.com/tags/emacs/>. Accessed 25 October 2021.\n\n## On T
EL design and learning:\n- Andler\, D. & Guerry\, B. (Eds.). *Apprendre
demain: Sciences cognitives et éducation à l’ère numérique*\, 137-154. Par
is: Hatier.\n- Crichton\, M. (1983). *Electronic life*. New York: Knopf.
\n- De Bono\, E. (2009). *Think! Before it's too late*. London: Random H
ouse.\n- Drosos\, I. & Guo\, P. (2021). Streamers teaching programming\,
art\, and gaming: Cognitive apprenticeship\, serendipitous teachable mome
nts\, and tacit expert knowledge. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and H
uman-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)\, short paper\, 2021. <https://pg.ucsd.edu
/pubs.htm>. Accessed 25 October 2021.\n- Gabriel\, R. (1996). *Patterns
of software*. New York\, Oxford: Oxford University Press.\n- Goodyear\,
P. & Retalis\, S. (2010). Learning\, technology and design. In Goodyear\,
P. & Retalis\, S. (Eds.). *Technology-enhanced learning: Design patterns a
nd pattern languages*\, 1-27. Rotterdam\, Boston: Sense Publishers.\n- G
uo\, P. (2018). Students\, systems\, and interactions: Synthesizing the fi
rst\nfour years of Learning@Scale and charting the future. L@S 2018\, June
26–28\, 2018\, London\, United Kingdom. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3231
644.3231662. <https://pg.ucsd.edu/pubs.htm>. Accessed 25 October 2021.\n-
Guo\, P.\, Kim\, J. & Rubin\, R. (2014). How video production affects st
udent engagement: An empirical study of MOOC videos. ACM Conference on Lea
rning at Scale. <https://pg.ucsd.edu/pubs.htm>. Accessed 25 October 2021.\
n- Illich\, I. (1973). *Tools of conviviality*. New York: Harper & Row.\
n- Kim\, J.\, Guo\, P.\, Seaton\, D.\, Mitros\, P.\, Gajos\, K. & Miller
\, R. (2014). Understanding in-video dropouts and interaction peaks in onl
ine lecture videos. ACM Conference on Learning at Scale. <https://pg.ucsd.
edu/pubs.htm>. Accessed 25 October 2021.\n- Markauskaite\, L. & Goodyear
\, P. (2017). *Epistemic fluency and professional education: innovation\,
knowledgeable action and actionable knowledge*. Dordrecht: Springer.\n-
Markel\, J. & Guo\, P. (2020). Designing the future of experiential learni
ng environments for a post-COVID world: A preliminary case study. NFW ’20
(Symposium on the New Future of Work)\, August 3–5\, 2020\, Virtual Event.
<https://pg.ucsd.edu/pubs.htm>. Accessed 25 October 2021.\n- Morin\, E.
([2004] 2008). *La Méthode - tome 6: Éthique*. Éditions du Seuil: Paris.\
n- Stallman\, R. (2002). *Free software\, free society*. GNU Press\, Fre
e Software Foundation.\n- Stiegler\, B. (2018). *The neganthropocene*. O
pen Humanities Press.\n- Trocmé-Fabre\, H. (1999). *Réinventer le métier
d’apprendre*. Paris: Éditions d’organisation.\n\n\n# Availability and pre
ferred Q&A approach\n\nDue to the pandemic situation\, my teaching schedul
e fluctuates so I\nwill not know my availability until much closer to the\
ndate. Therefore\, I can only guarantee delayed answer response\n(whatever
you request)\, but if available\, will join live.\nMay I please note that
I will be pre-recording my video if this submission is accepted.\n\n\n# S
peaker release\n\nBy submitting this proposal\, I agree that my presentati
on at\nEmacsConf 2021 is subject to the following terms and conditions:\n\
nThe EmacsConf organizers may capture audio and video (a "Recording")\nof
my presentation and any associated materials\, which may include\nslides\,
notes\, transcripts\, and prerecording(s) of my presentation\nthat I prov
ide to the EmacsConf organizers.\n\nI authorize the EmacsConf organizers t
o distribute\, reproduce\,\npublicly display\, and prepare derivative work
s of the Recording and\nany derivative works of the Recording (the "Licens
ed Materials")\nunder the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareA
like 4.0\nInternational (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.\n\nI grant to the EmacsCon
f organizers permission to use my name\,\nlikeness\, and biographic inform
ation in association with their use\nof the Licensed Materials under the a
bove license.\n\nI represent that I have the authority to grant the above
license to\nthe EmacsConf organizers. If my presentation incorporates any\
nmaterial owned by third parties\, I represent that the material is\nsubli
censable to the EmacsConf organizers or that my use of them is\nfair use.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:GNU's Not UNIX: Why Emacs Demonstrates The UNIX Philosophy Isn't Al
ways The Only Answer
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:ea5bab3c-f31e-68a4-fa23-81ca67fa1990
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/unix
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/unix\n# GNU's Not UNIX: Why Emacs Demonstrates The UNI
X Philosophy Isn't Always The Only Answer\nDaniel Rose\n\nThe talk targets
users who are curious about computational philosophies\,\nor those who mi
ght not know how to best utilise Emacs conceptually. The\ntalk will cover
what the UNIX philosophy is\, the GNU Free Software\nprinciples\, a typica
l (Neo)Vi(m) user's approach\, and then how one might\naccomplish this in
Emacs combining the aformentioned ideals. The\nlisteners will learn how th
ey can approach Emacs ideologically\, and how\nblocking themselves into on
e philosophy or the other will limit their\nefficiency. Although you may b
e a veteran GNU/Linux and Emacs user\,\nunderstanding how to use both phil
osophies together will still allow you\nto be more performant than without
.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- How can one limit their usage of CLI tools while
still maintaining\n the ideals of both.\n- How using CLI tools c
an still perfectly flow into Emacs.\n- How having all programs in Emacs
and unified keybindings is akin\n to a terminal user.\n- Why thin
king about computational philosophies might itself be an\n impedime
nt.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Emacs manuals translation and OmegaT
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:db4ccb28-867f-df24-c073-eaca6edad438
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/omegat
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/omegat\n# Emacs manuals translation and OmegaT\nJean-C
hristophe Helary\n\nEven if it is generally agreed that software localizat
ion is a good thing\, Emacs is lacking in that respect for a number of tec
hnical reasons. Nonetheless\, the free software using public could greatly
benefit from Emacs manuals translations\, even if the interface were to r
emain in English.\n\nOmegaT is a multiplatform GPL3+ "computer aided trans
lation" (CAT) tool running on OpenJDK 8. CATs are roughly equivalent for t
ranslators to what IDEs are for code writers. Casual translators can benef
it from their features but professionals or committed amateurs are the mos
t likely to make the most use of such tools.\n\nWhen OmegaT\, free softwar
e based forges and Emacs meet\, we have a free multi-user translation envi
ronment that can easily sustain the (close to) 2 million words load that c
omprise the manuals distributed with Emacs\, along with powerful features
like arbitrary string protection for easy typing and QA (quality assurance
)\, automatic legacy translation handling\, glossary management\, history
based or predictive autocompletion\, etc.\n\nThe current trial project for
French is hosted on 2 different forges:\n\n1. sr.ht hosts the source file
s\n <https://sr.ht/~brandelune/documentation_emacs/>\n2. chapril hosts
the OmegaT team project architecture\n <https://forge.chapril.org/brand
elune/documentation_emacs>\n\nThe sources are regularly updated with a po4
a based shell script.\n\n# Outline\n\n- Duration: 10 minutes\n- Software u
sed during the presentation\n - [po4a](https://po4a.org) a tool to conver
t documentation formats to and from the commonly used `gettext` **PO** for
mat.\n po4a supports the `texinfo` format along with many others.\n -
[OmegaT](https://omegat.org) a "computer aided translation" tool used by t
ranslators to efficiently combine translation resources (legacy translatio
ns\, glossaries\, etc.) so as to produce more consistent translations.\n\n
During this short presentation\, I will address:\n\n- The specificities of
the Emacs manuals and the difficulties they present to the translator\n-
The reason why a professional tool is better than a collaborative web-base
d system\n- How to convert the texi and org files to a format that transla
tors can handle\n- How to adapt OmegaT to the Emacs manual specificities\n
- How to use OmegaT features such as arbitrary string protection\, legacy
translation handling\, glossaries\, autocompletion\, QA\, etc.\n- How to u
se OmegaT with a team of 2 (or more) translators working at the same time\
n\n\nI will *not* show:\n\n- How to create an OmegaT project\n- How to set
up an OmegaT team project\n- How to use OmegaT from the command line to w
ork in localization pipelines\n- How to use machine translation and MT "po
st-edit"\n- How to convert back the translated files to texi format\n- How
to install translated texi files for use in Emacs\n\nPeople who are inter
ested in knowing more about OmegaT are invited to check the [online user m
anual](https://omegat.sourceforge.io/manual-latest/en/).\n\n# Personal inf
ormation\n- Name pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃kRstɔf elaRi](https://doublet.jp/wp-co
ntent/uploads/2021/11/jch.ogg)\n- Pronouns: he\n- Homepage: [https://mac4t
ranslators.blogspot.com](https://mac4translators.blogspot.com)\n- Preferre
d contact info: [jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org](jean.christo
phe.helary@traduction-libre.org)\n- Links for sponsoring/supporting (multi
lingual translations): [https://doublet.jp](https://doublet.jp)
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SUMMARY:NonGNU ELPA Update
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:525d972d-1e34-bcb4-e9c3-861942549357
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/nongnu
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T102200
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/nongnu\n# NonGNU ELPA Update\nPhilip Kaludercic\n\nNon
GNU ELPA was announced last year\, as a package repository\nthat will be e
nabled by default in Emacs\, but doesn't require\nany copyright assignment
. This means that a lot of popular\npackages can now be installed easier\,
without any additional\nconfiguration.\n\nIn this talk I would like the g
ive a reminder of what NonGNU\nELPA is and how it works\, update the parti
cipants on what has\nhappened since last year and what maintainers have to
do if they\nwant their packages to be added to the repository.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Manual Package Management in The Era of Repositories - Why and How
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:245a575a-965a-caa4-8d3b-75f8519c2f3e
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/borg
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T104300
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/borg\n# Manual Package Management in The Era of Reposi
tories - Why and How\nDhavan (codingquark)\n\nEmacs now has many package r
epositories - enought to have conflicts\nand arguments about. The packages
are becoming big\, they depend on many\nother packages and it is not easy
to keep track of what all is being\ninstalled in our Emacsen. An aggressi
ve way out of this is to use Yet\nAnother Package and install all elisp co
de manually - with borg[1].\n\n[1]: <https://github.com/emacscollective/bo
rg>\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes: (brief description/outline)\n
1. What are we trying to solve?\n 2. What is borg?\n 3. How to u
se it?\n 4. Assimilate a package for demo
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:telega.el and the Emacs community on Telegram
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:86158391-53a2-7cb4-d7d3-020afbf6d8d9
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/telega
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T104800
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T105600
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/telega\n# telega.el and the Emacs community on Telegra
m\nGabriele Bozzola and Evgeny Zajcev\n\nTelegram is a cross-platform inst
ant messaging system. The large number of\nfeatures and the widespread ado
ption make it a good choice for both private\nconversations with friends a
nd for large online communities. In this talk\, I\nam going to present the
Emacs community on Telegram and its initiatives. I\nam also going to disc
uss telega.el\, the Emacs client for Telegram. telega.el\nis a high-qualit
y package that perfectly integrates in Emacs. It supports\nthe vast majori
ty of the features supported by the official clients\, while\nadding sever
al unique ones. In the talk\, I will present the package and\nhighlight so
me of the most important features.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Introducing N-Angulator
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:e4bdc2c1-e4b6-67e4-aafb-87ec9aaf846b
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/nangulator
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/nangulator\n# Introducing N-Angulator\nKevin Haddock\n
\nThe Unix file system is essentially an N-dimentional sparse array that\n
currently lacks a decent editor and browser which\ncan effectively leverag
e the logical tri-angulation (or\, more properly\n"n-angulation") of atoms
/blobs within it.\n\nN-Angulator is the genesis\, to wit\, the "Model-T\,"
of such a program.\n\n(see google drive link below for a very old uncircu
lated prototype\nvideo demo. Be sure and turn the volume UP!)\n\nna.intr
o.flv\n<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EZN0Xs8eGlEbSIYFml2lp3GCNnmLQa98/
view?usp=drive_web>\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes: (brief descripti
on/outline)\n\nThe reconceptualization of the Unix file system as the N-Di
mensional\nsparse array will be discussed.\n\nA simple pre-existing databa
se will be queried.\n\nIf time\, questions will be entertained by video/au
dio and/or IRC.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:A day in the life of a janitor
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:14ab7a54-d75d-45e4-85ab-8fd2e391ea41
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/janitor
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T111400
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T113400
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/janitor\n# A day in the life of a janitor\nStefan Monn
ier\n\nBecause of a reckless former Emacs maintainer that shall\n better
stay unnamed\, ELisp has seen a fair bit of churn in the last 10\n years\
, making it necessary to clean up "old" code [in order to open up\n the r
oad for yet more recklessness? ].\n In this documentary we will follow a
famous janitor in his every day job\n dealing with the aftermath of the c
l-lib / lexical-binding party.\n\n- ~20 minutes\n Here really\, I'm n
ot sure how much time this will take. I put 20\n minutes because I thi
nk I might be able to fill that and I think more\n than that could turn
too boring. I intend to make it a "live coding"\n kind of thing\, wit
hout anything like an outline: it's basically "make"\n followed by fixi
ng the warnings.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:How to help Emacs maintainers?
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:51c360e6-188f-9a34-05bb-0a8d2eb09cdc
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/maintainers
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T114900
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/maintainers\n# How to help Emacs maintainers?\nBastien
Guerry\n\nAfter 11 years of helping as the Org maintainer\, I would\nlike
to share a few lessons learned. My goal is help everyone take\ncare of E
macs maintainance by taking care of Emacs maintainers.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\
n- 5-10 minutes
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Typesetting Gregorian Chant with Emacs
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:716d913f-de8b-91a4-5f33-e04ba0905fa5
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/gregorian
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T115200
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T120200
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/gregorian\n# Typesetting Gregorian Chant with Emacs\nS
pencer King\n\nThere are a variety of methods for typesetting gregorian\nc
hant scores and outputting high-quality sheet music. One of these is\na to
ol called Gregorio\, which integrates with LaTeX allowing scores to\nbe cl
eanly inserted into other documents. All Gregorio files are plain\ntext\,
allowing them to easily be shared with other users and managed\nwith a ver
sion control system. In this talk\, I will give a brief\noverview of the G
regorio tool and then show how it can be used in\nEmacs by typesetting a s
imple score. All code and examples will be\nmade available to help new use
rs get started with typesetting their\nown scores.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n-
5-10 minutes: (brief description/outline)\n 1. Introduction to chant
music\n 2. Introduction to Gregorio\n 3. Example of typesetting a
score in Emacs\n 4. Code and example availability
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Emacs and Montessori Philosophy
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:6fccae45-04b5-5524-662b-fdba87754d06
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/montessori
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T124000
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/montessori\n# Emacs and Montessori Philosophy\n\n\nAs
a former Montessori guide and now parent\, I often think about the\nrelati
onship of this particular educational philosophy and how it manifests\nin
my work with software\, Emacs in particular. This talk introduces the\ncon
cept of Emacs as an educational environment and how it expresses elements
of\nMontessori psychology regarding "Human Tendencies". Human tendencies a
re innate\ndrives present in everybody that allow us to explore and make s
ense of our world.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes: (brief descriptio
n/outline)\n Quick overview of a Montessori classroom environment:\n\n
- the adults or guides primarily observe and present material\n -
the children are free to explore materials as they choose (within limits
)\n - the environment itself is prepared specifically to foster engag
ement\n\n Enumerate the "Human Tendencies":\n\n - Abstraction\n
- Activity\n - Communication\n - Exactness\n - Explorati
on\n - Manipulation (of the environment)\n - Order\n - Orie
ntation\n - Repetition\n - Self-Perfection\n - Work (also d
escribed as "purposeful activity")\n\n How does Emacs express these thi
ngs?\n\n - in the short version\, pose the question\, and perhaps giv
e one example.\n - Emacs is an environment that provides facilities f
or individuals to\n find their way to proficiency through their Hum
an Tendencies.\n - We are all both learners and guides\, Emacs is our
classroom
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Emacs Research Group\, Season Zero: What we did together with Emacs
in 2 hours a week for a year
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:9cee7e43-bcb1-7f64-c40b-5f9ea938d11a
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/erg
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T124300
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T125800
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/erg\n# Emacs Research Group\, Season Zero: What we did
together with Emacs in 2 hours a week for a year\nNoorah Alhasan\, Joe Co
rneli\, Raymond Puzio\, Leo Vivier\n\nThe four of us met at EmacsConf 2020
\, and joined together around a\ncommon interest in Emacs and research. S
ince then\, we have convened as\nthe Emacs Research Group for weekly meeti
ngs. During these meetings\, we\ntook notes collaboratively\, using a ‘co
nflict-free replicated data type’\npackage (crdt.el)\; at the end of each
session\, we debriefed using a\ntemplate that we call a Project Action Rev
iew (PAR). As as a\nmeta-review of our sessions\, every six weeks we prep
ared a Causal\nLayered Analysis (CLA)\, which gave us a different perspect
ive on what we\nhad done. We reflected further on our experiences and met
hods\, linking\nour CLA to plans and design patterns. As a formal researc
h output\, we\ncontributed a write-up of these matters to a joint paper wh
ich we\npresented at the Pattern Languages of Programs Conference (PLoP 20
21).\nThe paper included an interactive workshop\, in which we explored ro
les\nin real-time problem solving and collaboration.\n\nIn our short talk
we share information about these methods\, making a\ncase for other people
getting together and creating their own small\nresearch communities simil
ar to ours.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:One effective CS grad student workflow
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:0f98a5bb-53ce-fb74-1003-0b1f320d414e
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/cs
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T130100
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T131100
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/cs\n# One effective CS grad student workflow\nGreg Col
adonato\n\nWhen I was an undergrad\, I learned many things\, most of\nwhic
h I forgot. In the time since then\, I've discovered Org Mode\, Org\nRoam\
, Org Noter\, Org Ref. PDF Tools\, and Anki. I would like to share\nmy app
roach for capturing all the information that comes my way as a\nMS CS stud
ent at Georgia Tech\, in the hopes that I can both get\nfeedback on ways t
o improve the system I use\, as well as hopefully\ninspire others to build
workflows that make them more productive.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 mi
nutes: Go through some typical workflows associated with being a grad stud
ent\, using the packages mentioned in the abstract.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Using Org-Mode For Recording Continuous Professional Development
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:43cc5db4-e26f-fb44-9aeb-b16c38d8cef3
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/professional
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T131400
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T132500
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/professional\n# Using Org-Mode For Recording Continuou
s Professional Development\nPhilip Beadling\n\nI recently had the pleasure
of being audited for my CPD record with one\nof the large engineering pro
fessional bodies. I decided to harness\norg-mode's TODO lists to record C
PD items and my progress against them\ncompletely within Emacs. I also wa
nted the ability to export the data\nin a well presented\, compact format
for auditing submission.\n\nThe project was a success (I passed the audit)
and the resulting system\nintegrates really well into my wider daily Emac
s workflow\, making future\nCPD recording seamless.\n\nThe talk will expla
in how I tweaked and extended org-mode to get it to\nrecord the data I wan
ted\, followed by a demo.\n\nA basic demo org file with embedded elisp can
be seen here:\n<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/falloutphil/Misc/master
/cpd.org>\n\nA basic generated PDF from the basic demo is here:\n![img](ht
tps://preview.redd.it/nvdpmityhuw51.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=
e0c5080560c877aa02933a40c224e52b8a1fed3b)\n\nI have a much more involved e
xample I could also use for the demo.\n\nThe template contains a few examp
les. Examples are Goals that are split\nup into Activities. All Activitie
s must have a Goal\, and within a Goal\nall activities must be complete fo
r the Goal to be automatically set to\ncomplete.\n\nIt's basically leverag
ing Org Capture Templates to create custom Goals\nand Activities.\n\nOn sa
ve or update these are then rendered into a table using Column View.\n\nAc
tivities are sorted by date they were completed on.\n\nThe Column View is
pre-configured to be exported to PDF in a condensed\nbut readable format f
or submission. It stays fairly readable even when\nthe pages get busy.\n\n
The elisp required is all under the "Config" bullet and Emacs will ask\nto
execute it on opening the Org file. The elisp concerns itself with\nnice
custom org capture functions and a few functions to ensure nice\nformattin
g on export\, etc.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes:\n\nA quick walkth
rough of the setup and functions\, followed by a demo of how\nto add CPD i
tems\, and update them. Finally show generation of a PDF\ncontaining all
the items tabulated and ready for audit review. I\nestimate this at appro
x 10 minutes.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Creating technical API documentation and presentations using org-ba
bel\, restclient\, and org-treeslide
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:a10ce62e-6454-d784-21bb-f6a0488e883c
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/tech
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T132700
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T133800
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/tech\n# Creating technical API documentation and prese
ntations using org-babel\, restclient\, and org-treeslide\nJan Ypma\n\nThe
emacs org-babel package is often mentioned in conjunction with\nliterate
programming. The ability to mix code segments with prose\nindeed offers an
intuitive way to augment semantic code pieces with\ntextual descriptions.
\n\nIn recent projects\, I've started to turn to org-mode as the primary\n
format to maintain technical documentation\, as well as slides for a\ntech
nical language course. By using org-babel to pull in "live" code\nfor REST
requests\, language examples\, and shell scripts\, one can be\nsure that
the documentation and slides are never out of date.\n\nThe session will sh
ow how leverage org-babel\, restclient and\norg-treeslide to write and pre
sent technical documentation with style.\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- Introduction\
n- Demo: Developer guide\n- Demo: REST API guide\n- Demo: Presentations\n-
Used packages and configuration
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Org as an executable format
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:b092bc88-e74c-a9c4-611b-d47c99ef578c
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/exec
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T134000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T135000
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/exec\n# Org as an executable format\nTom Gillespie\n\n
Org mode is known for its flexibility\, power\, and staggeringly diverse\n
number of workflows\, users\, and use cases.\n\nThis talk explores just ho
w far we can push the boundaries of the sane\nand sensible with regard to
Org workflows.\n\nIn particular it will discuss shebang blocks\, and elvs:
two parts of a\ncomplete system for creating executable Org files.\n\nOrg
syntax does not support shebang lines. However\, it turns out that\nOrg s
yntax enables something even better —\; shebang blocks.\n\nOrg is al
so (supposedly) not an executable file format. However\, by\ncombining a
shebang block with a Org babel source block\, and eval\nlocal variables (e
lvs) Org becomes a multi-language executable format.\n\nIn this talk we in
troduce shebang blocks and elvs as a two part system\nthat transforms Org
files into executable documents that can run on any\nrecent version of Ema
cs.\n\nThese ideas are implemented in\n<https://github.com/tgbugs/orgstrap
/blob/master/README.org> and\n<https://github.com/tgbugs/orgstrap/blob/mas
ter/shebang.org>\, and\norgstrap.el is available as a package on MELPA and
can be installed\nvia M-x install-package orgstrap.\n\nThe talk will open
with a demo of how to create an executable Org file\nusing the orgstrap m
achinery.\n\nWe then discuss security considerations\, and show example us
e cases.\n\nFinally the talk will cover the details and development of the
\nportable shebang block for Org mode that works on a wide variety of\nsys
tems and shells\, and on the development of a formal specification\nand a
reference implementation for using Org source blocks to\ntransform Org fil
es from plain text documents with a bit of markup\ninto self describing co
mputational documents\, or interactive\napplications.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n
- 5-10 minutes:\n\nA demo of adding the orgstrap block and elvs\,\naddin
g a shebang block\, and then running an org file.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The use of Org mode syntax outside of GNU/Emacs
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:69763d57-be4e-7e74-509b-92e48a0e7ba6
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/org-outside
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T135300
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T140500
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/org-outside\n# The use of Org mode syntax outside of G
NU/Emacs\nKarl Voit\n\nWith the rising interest in Org mode\, the GNU/Emac
s community gained\nmuch momentum in the last decade. Being a nicely desig
ned lightweight\nmarkup language\, Org mode does not only benefit users of
GNU/Emacs.\nThere are many tools and services supporting Org mode syntax
documents\nthat do have no direct connection to GNU/Emacs. I would like to
\nelaborate on the advantages on using Org mode syntax for arbitrary\ntext
outside of GNU/Emacs for better typing usability and\ncollaboration tasks
.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes: (brief description/outline)\n\nThi
s can only be a short teaser for the use of Org mode syntax without\nmuch
comparison to other lightweight markup languages. For this\naudience\, I d
o think that this would be too short because most\nattendees might already
have heard the rumors that Org mode is great\nor they have adapted Org mo
de in their workflows already.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Using Org-mode to teach programming
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:aed5e190-66a0-3dd4-e5eb-be09be94e6c3
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/teach
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T140600
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T142600
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/teach\n# Using Org-mode to teach programming\nDaniel G
erman\n\nIn this presentation I will explain how to use org-mode effective
ly to\nprepare teaching materials\, and how to present them.\n\nFor the la
st 5 years I have been using org-mode to teach programming\nin different l
anguages: C++\, SQL\, Ruby\, Python\, SML\nand Scheme. Org-mode has three
key advantages:\n\n1. it supports most programming languages with a commo
n interface\,\n2. it is an interactive medium for delivering teaching mat
erials\; and\n3. it is an always-up-to-date format that does not need to
be exported in order to be published.\n\nI explain how I use org-mode in m
y courses and how I combine org-mode\nnotes other tools such as github org
-mode to get\nalways up-to-date teaching materials that one can use for bo
th\nteaching and studying (see\n<https://github.com/dmgerman/csc116ModernC
plusplus/blob/master/lectures/l-01-1-intro/01_1_intro.org>\nfor an example
).\n\nFinally\, I will discuss some important aspects to consider when usi
ng\norg-mode for this purpose.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n20 minutes:\n\n- Intr
oduction\n- Quick demonstration\n- Workflow\n- Emacs configuration\n
- Important considerations\n- How to get started\n\nOh\, I made a smal
l mistake. I meant to propose a 40 minutes presentation.\nBut I can give a
quicker 20 minutes too.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Managing a research workflow (bibliographies\, note-taking\, and ar
Xiv)
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:fd246cee-b5d6-7cc4-2b63-20e87bb7d750
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/research
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T143100
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T143600
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/research\n# Managing a research workflow (bibliographi
es\, note-taking\, and arXiv)\nAhmed Khaled\n\nResearchers and knowledge w
orkers have to read and discover new papers\,\nask questions about what th
ey read\, write notes and scratchwork\, and store\nmuch of this informatio
n for use in writing papers and/or code. Emacs allows\nus to do all of thi
s (and more) using simple text interfaces that integrate\nwell together. I
n this talk I will talk about the following:\n\na. Using elfeed and elfeed
-score to read new papers from arXiv.\nb. Using org-ref to import arXiv pa
pers of interest into a local\nbibliography.\nc. Using Emacs hooks with bi
ber and rebiber in order to keep the local\n bibliography clean and up-t
o-date with conference versions of papers.\nd. Using org-roam and org-roam
-bibtex to take linked\, searchable notes in\norg on research papers.\n\nT
his text-based workflow allows for keeping everything accessible under\nve
rsion\ncontrol and avoids the platform lock-in of binary formats (e.g. Men
deley). I\nwill share my Doom Emacs configuration for this workflow\, but
it is not\nlimited\nto Doom.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes: I will
demo the packages I use in 5 minutes.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Babel for academics
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:db5821ed-fef4-4934-8fb3-87a0282714de
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/babel
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T144000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T145000
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/babel\n# Babel for academics\nAsilata Bapat\n\nPlain o
rg-mode is already an extremely powerful and\ncustomisable tool for task a
nd time management\, note-taking\, calendar\nand agenda management\, and m
uch more. Babel takes org a step further\nby letting you write\, evaluate\
, and export code in different languages\nfrom within a single file. In th
is talk\, I will highlight some\nfeatures of babel that I find exciting an
d extremely useful\,\nparticularly for an academic workflow.\n\nGetting st
arted with babel can be intimidating\, but it's hard to stop\nusing it onc
e you start. As an academic\, I typically don't manage\nlarge coding proje
cts. My primary purpose is writing lecture notes\,\nassignments\, and pape
rs\, and managing related admin. Typically\, I want\nto try and automate t
he boring portions of my workflow without extra\noverhead. I also tend to
find various tasks easier in some programming\nlanguages and harder in oth
ers\, and prefer to mix and match languages\nas the task dictates. Babel m
akes this process seamless.\n\nA basic use case is writing a document in o
rg-mode and exporting it to\nLaTeX or HTML. Org-mode even lets you write m
ultiple documents in a\nsingle org file\, which can be convenient. Babel l
ets you add all sorts\nof enhancements to the same file. For example\, sup
pose we have a\nsingle org document with all the problem sets for a course
. Within\nthis single file\, we could now:\n\n- draw pictures in ditaa\,
graphviz\, or python instead of LaTeX\,\n- use python to do complex cal
culations and then output the result as LaTeX\,\n- define skeletons to q
uickly draw up assignment templates\,\n- toggle exporting of assignments
with or without solutions based on tags\,\n- locally change export sett
ings or run a post-export hook\,\n- automatically export to LaTeX after
saving\,\n- tangle code blocks from some or all of the languages to exte
rnal files.\n\nI will try to showcase features of babel that academics cou
ld find\nhelpful\, by presenting some ways in which I have tried to use ba
bel. I\nwould also like to be inspired by other people's babel workflows!\
n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes: (brief description/outline)\n\nFor a
5-10 minute presentation I will give a brief intro and present one or two
example files that heavily use babel. I will use these\nexamples to highl
ight some of the features mentioned in the abstract.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Reproducible molecular graphics with Org-mode
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:1fc4917c-aab4-1924-2983-e78f8bca6af9
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/molecular
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T145200
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T150200
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/molecular\n# Reproducible molecular graphics with Org-
mode\nBlaine Mooers\n\nResearch papers in structural biology should includ
e the code used to make\nthe images of molecules in the article in the sup
plemental materials.\nSome structural bioinformaticists have started to in
clude\ntheir computer code in the supplemental materials to allow readers\
nto reproduce their analyses. However\, authors of papers reporting new\nm
olecular structures often overlook the inclusion of the code that makes\nt
he images of the molecules reported in their articles. Nonetheless\,\nthis
aspect of reproducible research needs to become the standard practice\nto
improve the rigor of the science.\n\nIn a literate programming document\,
the author interleaves blocks\nof explanatory prose between code blocks t
hat make the images of molecules.\nThe document allows the reader to repro
duce the images in the manuscript by running the code.\nThe reader can als
o explore the effect of altering the parameters in the\ncode. Org files ar
e one alternative for making such literate programming\ndocuments.\n\nWe d
eveloped a **yasnippet** snippet library called **orgpymolpysnips** for\ns
tructural biologists (<https://github.com/MooersLab/orgpymolpysnips>).\nTh
is library facilitates the assembly of literate programming documents\nwit
h molecular images made by PyMOL. PyMOL is the most popular\nmolecular gra
phics program for creating images for publication\; it has\nover 100\,000
users\, which is a lot of users in molecular biology. PyMOL\nhas been used
to make many of the images of biological molecules found\non the covers o
f many Cell\, Nature\, and Science issues.\n\nWe used the **jupyter** lang
uage in **org-babel** to send commands from\ncode blocks in Org files to P
yMOL's Python API. PyMOL returns the\nmolecular image to the output block
below the code block. An Emacs\nuser can convert the Org file into a PDF\,
`tangle' the code blocks\ninto a script file\, and submit these for non-E
macs users. We describe\nthe content of the library and provide examples o
f the running PyMOL\nfrom Org-mode documents.\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 m
inutes: (brief description/outline)\n - Title slide\n - Structur
al Biolog Workflow in the Mooers Lab\n - Cover images made with PyMOL
\n\n - Why develop a snippet library for your field?\n - PyMOL i
n Org: kernel specification\n - Creating a conda env and installing P
yMOL\n - Example code block in Org to make DSSR block model of tRNA\n
- Resulting image\n - Summary\n - Acknowledgements
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Budgeting\, Project Monitoring and Invoicing with Org Mode
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:c54c7930-51cc-5184-9dfb-5033e577b95e
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/project
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T150500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T151500
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/project\n# Budgeting\, Project Monitoring and Invoicin
g with Org Mode\nAdolfo Villafiorita\n\nIn this talk I will present how we
use Org Mode at Shair.Tech for\nbudgeting\, project monitoring\, and invo
icing.\n\nWe are a small company and we are still tuning and improving the
\nprocess\, but with a bit of Emacs Lisp\, the functions Org Mode\nprovide
s\, and reading here and there what other users do\, we\nimplemented an ef
fective workflow we have been using for nearly a\nyear\, now\, and with wh
ich we are very happy. Talk duration:\n\n–\;> 20 minutes seems to be
right (15 talk + questions)\n–\;> I can also make in 10 minutes\, b
y focusing the talk on\n budgeting (or monitoring)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Finding Your (In)voice: Emacs for Invoicing
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:c9870e10-2600-85a4-24fb-793dfc51164e
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/invoice
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T151800
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T152800
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/invoice\n# Find Your (In)voice: Emacs for Invoicing\nB
ala Ramadurai\n\nYe Freelance warriors\, please lend me your I/O devices f
or 5 minutes.\n\nYour time is your money! Do you find it a pain to generat
e an invoice\,\nrecord the details into your accounting software and keep
track of\ntaxes and payments? You are not alone\, I found the whole invoic
e\nthingy to be extremely painful.\n\nBut worry not\, Emacs comes to our r
escue.\n\nMy talk will give you a basic intro on how to use org mode\, som
e embedded python code and file jugglery to generate stylistic and profess
ional invoices.\n\nWhat you will learn during the session:\n\n- How to t
rack your freelance time using orgmode\n- How to create the basic infras
tructure for invoice generation\n- How to generate the invoice\n- How
to manage multiple clients\n- How to enter the finance details into your
accounting software\n- How to track invoice payments\n\nWe will use the
following packages:\n\n- Emacs+orgmode (duh?)\n- yasnippet\n- pytho
n layer (I use spacemacs\, so whatever is the equivalent in your config)\n
- Some unnecessary Shakespearean references
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Productivity Dashboards with Emacs and Kindle
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:e4e995c0-6e06-8544-a8c3-5f9a06c856fb
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/dashboard
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T153100
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T154100
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/dashboard\n# Productivity Dashboards with Emacs and Ki
ndle\nMehmet Tekman\n\nSince 2008\, Amazon have released a new Kindle devi
ce every year\,\nsupplanting each generation with a newer model that boast
s highly\npromoted incremental features which greatly devalues the price o
f\ntheir older models. These forgotten models are sold on Ebay and\nother
secondhand websites at highly discount prices by owners who\ndo not see th
e true potential of these devices: Kindles are\nexcellent high contrast lo
w-refresh display rate E-Ink devices\,\nwith Wifi capability\, that run em
bedded Linux in the\nbackground. Depending on the model\, an idle Kindle c
an last weeks\nbefore needing a recharge. This makes them ideal as passive
image\ndevices that can be configured easily using a few shell\nscripts.
Indeed\, efforts have been made in dedicated hacker forums\nto expose the
Linux filesystem and to enable features such as\ncustom screensavers\, SSH
networking\, and more. By exploiting these\nfeatures\, and by carefully d
isabling the software/bloatware that\ncomes with the device\, these Kindle
s have found new life as online\ndashboard devices which can fetch and dis
play information from the\ninternet at timely intervals.\n\nHere we descri
be a tool to control multiple Kindle devices with a\nsingle org-mode/shell
-based tool\, built initially to periodically\nserve updated Emacs Org-Age
nda views\, but later expanded to produce\nonline local weather reports an
d work calendar\, Emacs calendars\n(calfw\, org-gcal)\, daily dietary info
rmation (org-calories)\,\nOrg-Mode sparse TODO trees\, miscellaneous image
and text content\n(via imagemagick)\, small messages\, and much more.\n\n
In this talk\, we show how to configure multiple Kindles with any\ndesired
custom content\, following any daily/weekly schedule\, all\neasily manage
d from Emacs within a single Org-Mode file.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 m
inutes:\n\n 1-3 mins\n Talk about repurposing Kindles:\n\n
- Cheap second-hand wifi device\, hackable\n - Low-powered\, long b
attery life\, low refresh rate –\; perfect\n for a dashboard\
n - Timely updated Org-Mode Agendas anyone?\n - Reference to
inspired projects (kindle-dashboard)\n\n 2-3 mins\n Generate
content\n\n - A static text+picture image easily generated with image
magick\n wrapper\n - An image of a sparse tree of org-mode TOD
O file\n - An image of another emacs view (e.g. Calfw\, or org-calori
es)\n - Show post-processing for optimizing image for Kindles\n\n
1-2 mins\n Configuration in a single org-mode file\n\n - Def
ining Machines\n - Defining Commands to generate content\n - Def
ining Schedules to run Commands on multiple Machines at\n specific
points in the day\n\n 1-2 mins\n Export and Run:\n\n - Sh
ow exported shell configs and generated cronjobs\n - Witness multiple
Kindles producing desired content with wakeup\n timers
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Emacs with Nyxt: extend your editor with the power of a Lisp browse
r
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:33776e08-e815-db94-971b-a151236e11be
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/nyxt
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T154400
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T155400
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/nyxt\n# Emacs with Nyxt: extend your editor with the p
ower of a Lisp browser\nAndrea\n\nIn 2021 browsers are essential if you us
e a computer. Even if Emacs\nusers love text as a format\, they may need t
o shop and video call from\ntime to time (even more so in a pandemic!). So
me of us modified their\nbrowsers to at least have the same keybindings as
our editor of\nchoice. What if I told you there is an Emacsy browser in t
he making?\nWhat if you could "ace-jump" within a web page? What if you co
uld run\na REPL to extend your browser while browsing? What if you could r
ecord\nmacros?! The browser exists: its name is Nyxt!\n\nIn this talk I wi
ll share why it has great potential\, how you can\nintegrate it with Emacs
\, and how you can migrate your Emacs mastery to\nthe web!\n\nIf you were
wishing for a Lispy and Emacsy browser\, you should not\nmiss this talk!\n
\nYou can learn more about this at: <https://github.com/ag91/emacs-with-ny
xt>\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes: quick demo of running Nyxt from
Emacs and a little explanation of the code necessary for integration
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:On the design of text editors
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:86d4470a-8d19-7bd4-0c53-6aba1b49baef
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/design
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T155700
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T160700
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/design\n# On the design of text editors\nNicolas P. Ro
ugier\n\nText editors are written by and for developers. They come\nwith
a large set of default and implicit choices in terms of layout\,\ntypograp
hy\, colorization and interaction that hardly change from one\neditor to t
he other. It is not clear if these implicit choices derive\nfrom the ignor
ance of alternatives or if they derive from developers'\nhabits\, reproduc
ing what they are used to. Durint this talk\, I will\ncharacterize these i
mplicit choices and illustrate what are some\nalternatives using GNU Emacs
.\n\n# Outline\n\n1. Review of a "modern" code editor (5mn)\n2. Introducti
on of an alternative using Emacs (5mn)\n\n## Links from the slides:\n\n* [
Elegant Emacs](https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs) (https://github.c
om/rougier/elegant-emacs)\n* [On the Design of Text Editors](https://arxiv
.org/abs/2008.06030) (https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06030)\n* [N Λ N O Emacs]
(https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs) (https://github.com/rougier/nano-e
macs)\n* [svg-lib (ELPA)](https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/svg-lib.html) (htt
ps://elpa.gnu.org/packages/svg-lib.html)\n* [nano-theme (ELPA)](https://el
pa.gnu.org/packages/nano-theme.html) (https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/nano-t
heme.html)\n* [nano-modeline (ELPA)](https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/nano-mo
deline.html) (https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/nano-modeline.html)\n* [nano-a
genda (ELPA)](https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/nano-agenda.html) (https://elp
a.gnu.org/packages/nano-agenda.html)\n\n## Contact information\n* Contact
[nicolas.rougier@inria.fr](mailto:nicolas.rougier@inria.fr)\n* Follow my w
ork at [github.com/rougier](https://github.com/rougier)\n* Support my work
at [github.com/sponsors/rougier](https://github.com/sponsors/rougier) or
[en.liberapay.com/rougier/](https://en.liberapay.com/rougier/)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Emacs development updates
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:59e4daca-1e46-9054-9573-9c91966d6987
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/dev-update
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T161100
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T161900
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/dev-update\n# Emacs development updates\nJohn Wiegley
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:How Emacs made me appreciate software freedom
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:48a8580f-52ce-cc84-6a23-1eddf720ae02
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/freedom
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T162200
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T170000
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/freedom\n# How Emacs made me appreciate software freed
om\nProtesilaos Stavrou\n\nThe theme will be "how Emacs empowered my softw
are freedom".\nI will outline the key moments in my transition to a GNU/Li
nux operating\nsystem and mark those which eventually contributed towards
me becoming\nan Emacs user\, maintainer of a—\;dare I say—\;po
pular package\, and\ncontributor to upstream Emacs (among others). By all
uding to personal\nexperiences\, I will draw generalisable insights and co
nnect them to what\nI believe are irreducible qualities of Emacs qua softw
are and Emacs as a\ncommunity of like-minded people. The talk will be the
oretical in\nnature: there won't be any code-related demonstration nor tec
hnical\nreferences that only people with a background in computer science
would\nlikely recognise. Personal anecdotes shall be tangential to the po
int\nand considered as ancillary to the thesis of what Emacs represents fr
om\nthe standpoint of software freedom and user empowerment. The\npresent
ation is intended for a general audience that is interested in\nGNU softwa
re in general and Emacs in particular. My formal educational\nbackground
as a social scientist (i.e. not a programmer) and later as a\nphilosopher
informs my approach to this topic.\n\nThe presentation shall be 40 minutes
long. Its text will be in essay\nform and shall be supplied as complemen
tary material to the video. The\nnotation will be in Org mode. I cannot
provide an outline in advance\,\nas it will most likely not be consistent
with the actual presentation.\nIf\, however\, this is absolutely required
for administrative purposes I\nshall furnish one regardless with the provi
so that I am in no way bound\nby it and thus reserve the right to modify i
t ahead of the main event.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Closing remarks day 1
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:5287b003-f368-36c4-4f9b-8135734cad39
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/day1-close
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T170200
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211127T170700
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/day1-close\n# Closing remarks day 1
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Opening remarks day 2
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:d877a57a-14cf-a194-99c3-a344ecb24acc
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/day2-open
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T090500
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/day2-open\n# Opening remarks day 2
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:How to write faster Emacs Lisp
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:35d1d9e4-dfdf-f254-6aab-7a466fbfaf09
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/faster
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T090500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T092500
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/faster\n# How to write faster Emacs Lisp\nDmitry Gutov
\n\n- Before optimizing\, benchmark first.\n- Different benchmarking a
pproaches.\n- Live evaluation\, step-debugging\, measuring from a debugg
er breakpoint.\n- How to determine if a function is expensive. How to pi
ck one from\n competing alternatives (cl-lib\, seq\, dash\, lean core).
\n- Print-benchmarking.\n- Byte-compiled code can give a very differen
t picture\, changing where\n the bottleneck is. How to quickly load a b
yte-compiled version.\n- Steps taken to speed up the Xref package recent
ly.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Tree-edit: Structural editing for Java\, Python\, C\, and beyond!
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:599ef3fa-4c73-6c94-4953-75bbc7830681
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/structural
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T094000
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/structural\n# Tree-edit: Structural editing for Java\,
Python\, C\, and beyond!\nEthan Leba\n\nIn this talk\, I'll discuss a vis
ion for how writing code could be\, where the\nediting operations map dire
ctly to the primitives of the language itself -- and\nmy humble attempt of
implementing this vision. _tree-edit_ seeks to provides a\nstructural edi
ting plugin supporting conceivably any language with a tree-sitter\nparser
.\n\n**Structural editing does not have to be relegated to lisps or niche
DSLs.**\n\nI liken the state of code editing today to writing assembly. Th
e reason why\npeople like Python more than assembly is that for most purpo
ses\, the building\nblocks of the language are mismatched with our thought
process. We don't think\nin terms of registers and addresses\, we think i
n terms of variables\, functions\,\netc. So when we write and edit code\,
why do we edit in terms of deleting\,\ninserting\, replacing characters &#
x2013\; not wrapping\, inserting\, raising\,\ndeleting expressions and sta
tements?\n\nI'll also discuss the implementation of tree-edit\, which uses
a novel\ncombination of the fantastic\n[tree-sitter](https://github.com/e
macs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter) parser\nwith an embedded logic program
ming DSL ([miniKanren](http://minikanren.org/)\,\nusing elisp port [reazon
](https://github.com/nickdrozd/reazon)) to power it's\nsyntax tree generat
ion.\n\nCheck out the GitHub repo [here](https://github.com/ethan-leba/tre
e-edit)!\n\n# Outline\n\n- Discuss motivation (
Why should I care?)\n- Demonstrate tree-edit (Live
-coding with tree-edit)\n- Demonstrate tree-edit syntax tree generator (
Elevator pitch on miniKanren)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Self-Describing Smart DSL's: The Next Magits
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:29d45a6f-9425-f5a4-bd23-297292e4ab7a
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/dsl
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T094300
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T100300
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/dsl\n# Self-Describing Smart DSL's: The Next Magits\nP
sionic\n\nWhen we begin programming\, the promise is to automate away repe
titive\ntasks in life. As those program's capability grows\, we begin to
need\nconfiguration UI's. We can start with a CLI\, but as any CLI grows\
, we\nrun into the following issues:\n\n- As options pile up\, the intui
tion of simplicity is lost in helps and\nmanpages\n\n- Stateless operati
on has no idea what to do next and loses terseness\n- Frequent dispatch of
commands to interrogate state required for the\noperator to decide what a
ction to perform\n\n- Composition compounds with all of these issues\n\n
Magit has the UI trifecta of being terse\, intuitive\, and intelligent.\nM
agit's UI input library\, Transient\, is a standalone package for\ndevelop
ing more killer UI's\, and not just for CLI applications\, but\nalso for s
erver applications\, Emacs applications\, and Emacs itself.\n\nWhile Trans
ient's potential is to create the most highly productive\nUI's short of th
ought control\, going beyond simple command dispatchers\nrequires a deeper
dive. When we think like constructing a DSL for the\ntask and using tran
sient to input that DSL\, we get an intelligent\,\nself-describing modal p
rogramming system.\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- Updates to Transient documentation
and demos of API examples\n- Wrapping a custom CLI tool in Transient
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:"Yak-shaving to a UI framework" (/"Help! I accidentally yak-shaved
my way to writing a UI framework because overlays were slow")
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:8f62e571-91da-bd14-e7c3-b445c7b19d23
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/ui
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T100600
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T101600
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/ui\n# "Yak-shaving to a UI framework" (/"Help! I accid
entally yak-shaved my way to writing a UI framework because overlays were
slow")\nErik Anderson\n\nTui.el is a textual User Interface (UI) framework
for Emacs Lisp\nmodeled after the popular JavaScript 'React' framework.
This package\nimplements React Component API's with the goal of simplifyin
g\ndevelopment of interactive UI's for all Emacs users- regardless of\nthe
ir prior experience with React or web programming. Components\nprovide a
useful functional unit for constructing complex interfaces\ndeclaratively
and also eliminate much of the burden associated with\nupdating textual co
ntent as application state changes. This talk will\ncover use of the tui.
el API and its operation in a textual environment\nby implementing some ba
sic UI's.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes:\n - Problem space: UI
implementation complexity.\n - API introduction: Displaying content\
, Components.\n - Visual taste of dashboards and applications built w
ith tui.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Extending Emacs in Rust with Dynamic Modules
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:b073d391-6c37-6bf4-7afb-47edc79631a9
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/rust
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T101900
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T103900
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/rust\n# Extending Emacs in Rust with Dynamic Modules\n
Tuấn-Anh Nguyễn\n\nDynamic module support has been available since Emacs 2
5. It can be\nused to extend Emacs with native libraries\, for performance
\,\nOS-specific features\, or other functionalities that would take a lot\
nof time to re-implement in Lisp. The officially supported language is\nC\
, which is tedious and error-prone to use. This talk discusses a\n**safe**
alternative that is also a lot **more convenient**: writing these\ndynami
c modules in Rust.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- Walking through creating **a sim
ple dynamic module** in\n Rust\, including setting up CI.\n- Going thr
ough and explaining the **available APIs**.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Emacs Application Framework: A 2021 Update
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:e7981936-6d72-93d4-8783-5ac64a0ae5bb
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/eaf
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T104400
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T105400
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/eaf\n# Emacs Application Framework: A 2021 Update\nMat
thew Zeng\n\nEmacs Application Framework (EAF) is a customizable and exten
sible GUI\napplication framework that extends Emacs graphical capabilities
using\nPyQt5. There are many new but important updates since EmacsConf202
0\nlast year\, this talk will briefly go over them.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n-
5-10 minutes: (brief description/outline)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Extending the "model" of Emacs to other applications
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:5e1baaaf-56a3-b5b4-31cb-5437cf465cf9
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/model
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T105800
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T110800
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/model\n# Extending the "model" of Emacs to other appli
cations\nLaszlo Krajnikovszkij\n\nEmacs is a great operating environment i
n a sense that it provides consistency\nacross different tools and applica
tions within the Emacs ecosystem\, as well as\nexternal apps that can be i
ntegrated into it. It is also the most truly\nmalleable environment\, each
element of which can be adjusted or extended\,\ntherefore providing the u
ser with more power and freedom in personal computing.\nEmacs definitely c
an be considered one of greatest software products in\nexistence.\n\nAs a
non-programmer\, having had the chance to stumble upon Emacs a couple of\n
years ago\, the only regret to have is that it didn't happen earlier. The
definite\nkiller feature of Emacs - Org-mode\, is what draws many of the l
ess technical\nfolks to join the party and gradually start to use Emacs fo
r writing documents\,\nwhether personal or work related\, manage tasks\, e
mails and potentially everything\nelse. The learning curve and difference
in approach\, however\, leaves some\npotential users too scared of the arc
ane interface even with all it's quirks and\nfeatures because it requires
at least some technical skills to understand and\nuse properly\, and does
not have an easy way to connect with external tools that\nmost people are
forced to use for work.\n\nThis talk proposes some ideas about how the mod
el of Emacs\, it's focus on\nconsistency\, extensibility\, as well as it's
powerful interaction model can be\ncarried over to make modern interfaces
\, whether desktop or web applications\,\nthat would be designed with a go
al of reflecting the spirit of Emacs in terms of\nthe aforementioned featu
res it possesses\, and therefore enhance the capabilities\nof the Emacs\,
while at the same time utilizing it as a backend for\ntext-processing and
editing to a large extent. It would be really great to have\na personal we
b-interface for using modern task management tools\, chats\, emails\nand s
uch\, but from a UI defined by the user. The goal is to use it on a deskto
p\nor mobile\, locally or self-hosted on a server\, with support for touch
and\ngesture-based workflows\, while preserving the Emacs philosophy and
allowing to\nseamlessly switch between Emacs and its web extension\n\nThe
proposed solution is to integrate more of the modern tools with Emacs\,\nu
tilize Org-mode as a way to define application-specific parameters for the
se\ntools through Org properties\, and then utilize these parameters for m
aking a\nmodern local frontend that would enhance Emacs UI while allowing
to use external\ntools in a more personal and freedom respecting way (maki
ng the originals\nobsolete over time). The talk serves the purpose of invi
ting community members to\na discussion about how Emacs can become more mo
dern\, more approachable by people\nwho don't possess the neccessarry tech
nical skills to adjust it themselves\, but\nare keen to learn it\, and pot
entially how to attract more users to greater\nproductivity\, computer lit
eracy and the ideas of free software.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes
\n - Introduction\n - Issues with most modern tools for work\n
- Issues with Emacs as a tool for work\n - In search for a hybrid
approach\n - User controlled web-apps\n - Opinions encouraged\n
- Contacts
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Don't write that package! or: How I learned to stop worrying and lo
ve emacs-devel
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:4cd6de26-cf48-95c4-9d3b-28895a43ec53
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/devel
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T111100
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T113100
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/devel\n# Don't write that package! or: How I learned t
o stop worrying and love emacs-devel\nStefan Kangas\n\nWe need a successfu
l Emacs on this planet. This means that we need an\nexcellent out-of-the-
box experience -- one that just works\, but that you\ncan still hack and c
ustomize. There is so much great experimentation\nand work going on out t
here in the wider Emacs community\, but we would\nbe even better off if mo
re of that could go into Emacs itself.\n\nEmacs' greatest strength is unfo
rtunately sometimes also its greatest\nweakness: it is *too* hackable.\n\n
On occasion\, people out there add stuff to their Init file to fix this\no
r that annoyance\, or even bug. The more ambitious might go on to\npackag
e up such fixes: "Hey\, 'foo-mode' doesn't have support for\n'bookmark-set
'\, let's write a package!" I am here to suggest that you\nshould not do
that.\n\nYou should submit a patch to Emacs! Maybe more people have that
same\nproblem or annoyance\, and would benefit from your solution?\n\nIt i
s sometimes perceived as hard to contribute to Emacs core. I want\nto enc
ourage more people to get involved\, and show that the barrier to\nentry i
s really not that high. If I can do it\, you can do it too!\n\nSo should
you really write that package\, or should you stop worrying and\nlearn to
love emacs-devel? Listen to my talk to find out more!
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Turbo Bindat
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:49a35f05-b71f-1d14-2343-a6638bec0d08
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/bindat
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T113600
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T120600
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/bindat\n# Turbo Bindat\nStefan Monnier\n\n\n# Table of
Contents\n\n\n\nBindat is an ELisp library to help manipulate binary data
. This is a\nniche library that is used by packages such as Websocket\, EM
MS\, and\ncpio-mode. Its implementation was repeatedly caught harassing ha
pless\nkitten while at the same time providing poor service slowly. For\nE
macs-28\, Bindat was rewritten so as to make it more efficient and\nflexib
le while respecting the kitten. In this presentation I intent to\nshow how
we saved those. Not recommended for birds.\n\n- ~20 minutes:\n 5 min
: Intro and presentation of Bindat\n 5 min: Showcase some of its proble
ms\n 5 min: Present the new design\n 5 min: Examples of what can be
done with it
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Emacs Lisp native compiler\, current status and future developments
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:1ddbe380-b4f3-2b84-3cc3-9e799536db8e
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/native
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T124000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211128T132000
DTSTAMP:20211108T192506
DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/native\n# Emacs Lisp native compiler\, current status
and future developments\nAndrea Corallo\n\nEmacs Lisp (Elisp) is the Lisp
dialect used by the Emacs text editor\nfamily. GNU Emacs is traditionally
capable of executing Elisp code\neither interpreted or byte-interpreted a
fter it has been compiled to\nbyte-code.\n\nIn this talk I'll discuss the
Emacs Lisp native compiler. This feature\nrecently merged into the main E
macs development line allow for\nautomatically compiling and executing Eli
sp as native code.\n\nDuring the presentation I'll touch on:\n\n- design
goals\n- compiler and runtime design and implementation\n- performanc
e implications\n- upstream process\n- area of improvements and future
developments\n\nFormat: 40 minutes
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Old McCarthy Had a Form
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
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URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/form
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/form\n# Old McCarthy Had a Form\nIan Eure\n\nMost prac
tical languages are multi-paradigm\, offering several\nabstractions for th
e programmer. But did you know that Emacs Lisp\ncomes with a powerful sys
tem for object-oriented programming? Join me\nfor a discussion of EIEIO\,
and learn how it can help you write more\nmodular\, flexible Emacs Lisp.\n
\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10 minutes: (brief description/outline)\n -
What is CLOS/EIEIO?\n - Why would I want OOP in Emacs Lisp?\n -
How is the CLOS object model different from C++/Java/.NET?\n - Furthe
r reading
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SUMMARY:Test blocks
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:5e162d34-ea19-8544-b693-dd6da0e885cd
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/test
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/test\n# Test blocks\nEduardo Ochs\n\nIn this presentat
ion I will show an idea that feels completely obvious\nonce we see it\, bu
t that only occured to me after after using Emacs\nand eev as my main inte
rface to the computer for more than 20 years.\nTake any interpreted langua
ge that supports multi-line comments\, and\nwhose interpreter can be run i
n an Emacs buffer - for example Lua\,\nHaskell\, Python\, or Julia\; let's
say just "Lua" from here on for\nsimplicity. So: suppose that we have a L
ua script that we wrote\, that\nis called "foo.lua" and that defines lots
of functions and defines the\nclasses Bar and Bletch. We can put after the
definition of the class\nBar a multi-line comment that contains an eepitc
h block that when\nexecuted starts a Lua interpreter\, loads the script fo
o.lua (by\nrunning 'dofile "foo.lua"')\, and then has several tests for th
at class\nand its methods\; and we can put another block with tests like t
hat\nafter the class Bletch\, and other blocks after some functions. Eepit
ch\nallows sending these tests line by line to the Lua interpreter by\ntyp
ing <f8\\> on each line that we want to send\, and this lets us create\nte
sts that are very easy to understand even without writing comments\;\nthis
gives us a very quick way to document code by executable tests\,\nthat is
super-great for experimental code that is still going to\nchange a lot be
fore running the risk of being read by other people.\n\nThese multi-line c
omments with eepitch blocks that run an interpreter\nand make it load the
current file are called "test blocks". The\ncommand \\`M-x eeit' inserts a
test block at point\, using the major mode\nto decide the right syntax to
use for the multi-line comments and for\nthe "dofile". We can configure t
he syntax of the test blocks for the\ncurrent major mode by running \\`M-x
find-eeit-links'\; this can also be\nused to add support for test blocks
to more languages (or\, more\nprecisely: to more major modes).\n\nEduardo
Ochs <http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2021.html>
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Let's talk about bug trackers
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
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URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/bug
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/bug\n# Let's talk about bug trackers\nBastien Guerry\n
\nFor 17 years\, the Org developers didn't use a bug tracker\,\nshamelessl
y failing the Joel Spolsky test. Why was it "good enough"?\nWhy was it wr
ong? Why did we move to Woof!? Why Woof! is not a bug\ntracker?\n\n- 2
0 minutes
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SUMMARY:Perso-Arabic Input Methods And Making More Emacs Apps BIDI Aware
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
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URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/bidi
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/bidi\n# Perso-Arabic Input Methods And BIDI Aware Apps
\nMohsen BANAN -- محسن بنان\n\nEmacs is a multilingual user environment.
A true multilingual editor must\nsupport bidirectionality and shaping of c
haracters. Perso-Arabic scripts require\nboth of these features.\n\nStarti
ng with Emacs 24\, full native bidi\n(bidirectional) support became availa
ble. For\nmany years prior to that Unicode support was\navailable and by
around year 2000\, reasonable\nopen-source shaping libraries were also ava
ilable.\n\nWith these in place at around 2012\, I developed\ntwo Persian i
nput methods for emacs. These input\nmethods or variations of them can als
o be used for\nArabic and other Perso-Arabic scripts.\n\nWith all of these
in place\, Emacs has now become\nthe ne plus ultra Libre-Halaal and Convi
vial usage\nenvironment for Perso-Arabic users.\n\nSince emacs comes loade
d with everything (Gnus\nfor email\, Bbdb for address books\, XeLaTeX mode
s\nfor typesetting\, org-mode for organization\, spell\ncheckers\, complet
ion systems\, calendar\, etc.)\, all basic\ncomputing and communication ne
eds of Perso-Arabic\nusers can be addressed in one place and\ncohesively.\
n\nIn this talk I will demonstrate what a wonderful\nenvironment that can
be.\n\nMy talk will be in two parts.\n\nIn Part 1\, I cover Persian input
methods. With an emphasis on "Banan\nMulti-Character (Reverse) Translitera
tion Persian Input Method". The\nsoftware is part of base emacs distributi
on. Full documentation is available\nat:\n\n Persian Input Metho
ds\n For Emacs And More Broadly Speaking\n شیوههایِ د
رج به فارسی\n <http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/PLPC/120036>\n\
nIn Part 2\, I'll demonstrate that Emacs is far more than an editor. Emacs
can be\na complete Perso-Arabic usage environment. I will also cover the
ramifications\nof bidi on existing emacs applications\, including:\n\n-
Spell Checking\, Dictionaries And Completion Frameworks:\n - Existing e
macs facilities can be extended to cover Perso-Arabic.\n\n- Gnus:\n -
Perso-Arabic rich email sending in HTML.\n - Ramifications of bidi
on from:\, to: and subject: lines.\n\n- Bbdb: Ramifications of bidi on
display and completion.\n\n- Calendar:\n - Ramifications of bidi on
display.\n - Use of Persian text for Persian (solar) calendar.\n
- Use of Arabic text for Muslem (lunar) calendar.\n\n- AUCTeX: Persia
n typesetting with XeLaTeX\n - Option of having right-to-left Perso-
Arabic aliases for all latex commands.\n\nReferences:\n\n - Persian Inp
ut Methods:\n <http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/PLPC/120036>\n <
http://www.persoarabic.org/PLPC/120036> -- Persian Input Methods Access Pa
ge\n <http://www.persoarabic.org> -- Various Perso-Arabic resources\n
<http://www.freeprotocols.org/Repub/fpf-isiri-6219> -- Re-Publicatio
n Of\n Persian Information Interchange and Display Mechanism\, us
ing Unicode\n <https://github.com/bx-blee/persian-input-method> -- Gi
t repo for\n persian.el -- Quail package for inputting Persian/Fa
rsi keyboards\n\n - BIDI:\n <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/>
-- Annex #9 of the Unicode standard\n <https://www.gnu.org/software/e
macs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bidirectional-Display.html>\n Emacs B
idirectional Display\n\n - Blee and Persian-Blee:\n <https://githu
b.com/bx-blee/env2> -- Very messy work-in-progress git repo for:\n
Blee: By* Libre-Halaal Emacs Environment\n <http://www.by-star.net>
-- A Moral Alternative To The Proprietary American Digital Ecosystem\n
<http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/PLPC/120033> --\n Nature o
f Polyexistentials:\n Basis for Abolishment of The Western Inte
llectual Property Rights Regime\n <http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/P
LPC/120039> -- Defining The Libre-Halaal Label\n\n - Mohsen BANAN -- مح
سن بنان:\n <http://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/> -- Globish\n <htt
p://mohsen.1.banan.byname.net/persian> -- Farsi\n <http://mohsen.1.ba
nan.byname.net/french> -- French
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SUMMARY:Moldable Emacs\, a step towards sustainable software
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
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URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/mold
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conf.org/2021/talks/mold\n# Moldable Emacs\, a step towards sustainable so
ftware\nAndrea\n\nWe could learn about things better. Mountains of knowled
ge hide in\nplaces we cannot access or use. The more we write down\, the m
ore it\ntakes to find and understand things we find useful.\n\nKnowledge (
web\, software\, books) keeps growing faster and faster! This\nis not sust
ainable: we cannot keep up with it! What if we repeat the\nerror of somebo
dy else\, only because it would take too much reading to\nknow? What if th
at knowledge is in some code we work with everyday?\n\nMoldable developmen
t is a paradigm shift that attempts to solve this\nproblem. In a gist\, th
e tool you use should let you create special tools\nto learn smartly from
what you have already.\n\nSince we use Emacs\, let's make our great editor
moldable!\n\nThis talk shows my progress in making Emacs closer to such a
tool. We\nare going to see how we can mold structured (and maybe even nat
ural)\ntext to learn better\, how we can inject notes in our projects and
how\nself documenting this tool is!\n\nI aim to inspire you to find a quic
ker way to learn from our digital\nworld!\n\nYou can learn more about this
at: <https://github.com/ag91/moldable-emacs>\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- 5-10
minutes: quick demo of moldable-emacs
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SUMMARY:CLEDE the Common Lisp Emacs Development Environment.
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:daf3570b-3df3-9db4-a1f3-ce98d9863717
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/clede
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/clede\n# CLEDE the Common Lisp Emacs Development Envir
onment.\nFermin MF\n\nI've been developing a package that helps with the d
evelopment of\nCommon Lisp's software\,\nit's uses the internal semantic f
ramework\, it has a custom reader\nand integration for\ncommon Emacs packa
ges (like Sly and the internal inferior-lisp-mode).\n\nThe idea is to supp
ly features that other language with and static\nanalyzer have\,\nlike ref
actoring and code generation.\n\nFor more details: <https://gitlab.com/sas
anidas/clede>\n\n- 20 minutes:\n It seems like not too much people kn
ows about semantic\, so I can\n summarize some of it in 10 minutes\n
and then An explanation on how to use the package\, how to extend it\n
and the future of it.
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SUMMARY:Imaginary Programming
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
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URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/imaginary
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/imaginary\n# Imaginary Programming\nShane Mulligan\n\n
Imaginary Programming (IP) is both methodology and paradigm. It is an\next
ension of literate programming and a way of creating software without\nthe
use of imperative\, functional or even declarative code. Yet IP employs\n
all disciplines to achieve the miraculous. The only contingency is on one\
nor more language models\, known as foundation models. The real value of I
P\nis not found by abandoning sound logic altogether\, but in weaving the
real\nwith the imaginary. The future of imaginary programming is one in wh
ich\nalmost all of computing is inferred. I have built a suite of tools ba
sed on\nemacs for interfacing real programming languages with imaginary on
es\; all\nof this in order to demonstrate what I mean\; a ‘complex’ termin
al that lets\nyou imagine what happens no matter how nested you are within
interpreters\,\nan example-oriented language\, a file format that encodes
the provenance of\ntext and a library for imaginary functional programmin
g primitives called\niLambda. It is important to recognise IP because\, fo
r lack of a better\nterm\, it has far-reaching implications for intellectu
al property and the\nGPL. Please keep an open mind.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n-
5-10 minutes:\n- a 5 minute introduction to imaginary programming\, fo
llowed by\n - a demonstration of iLambda.\n - iλ\, a family
of imaginary programming libraries\n <https://mullikine.github.io/p
osts/designing-an-imaginary-programming-ip-library-for-emacs/>\n\n\n\nIRC
libertyprime at #emacs on libera\n\nShane Mulligan
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SUMMARY:How to build an Emacs
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
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URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/build
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/build\n# How to build an Emacs\nFermin MF\n\nThis is a
deep dive in the Emacs philosophical and technical\naspect on what makes
our beloved GNU Emacs\nwhat it it. It's also a talk about the early LISP m
achines and\nfascinating were those days of experimentation and engineerin
g.\n\nIt will continue with the Emacs benefits/trade-offs from an\nuser/de
veloper stand points\, what things can be improved and\nwhat can be an hyp
othetical path on how to build a software that\ncan also be called Emacs.\
n\nAs a last part\, I'll talk about CEDAR\, an Emacs that I've been\ndevel
oping in Common Lisp\, the project goals\nand the challenges.\n\nFor more
details about CEDAR: <https://gitlab.com/sasanidas/cedar>\n\n- 40 minute
s:\n A dive into the Emacs/Lisp machines history\, what makes GNU Emacs
\n an Emacs and how you can build an Emacs.
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SUMMARY:M-x Forever: Why Emacs will outlast text editor trends
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
UID:80d1ad02-5fe4-03b4-c573-17ea6cdb61aa
URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/forever
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/forever\n# M-x Forever: Why Emacs will outlast text ed
itor trends\nDavid Wilson\n\nThe computer software industry has seen many
"popular" text editors come\nand go\, often due to the mercurial fashions
of software development. In\nthis talk\, we'll take a look at why popular
editors fade and the\nspecific aspects of Emacs that will ensure it remai
ns relevant\nregardless of mainstream popularity.\n\n\n\n# Outline\n\n- Di
scuss the core thesis\, the features that make Emacs\n desirable for long
-term use (extensibility\, day-to-day 'life' features)\n\n- Include more b
ackground on the text editor landscape and\n how the scope of various edi
tors is more narrow and doesn't compare to Emacs.\n\n- Talk about specific
instances where editors were popular\, fell out\n of popularity\, and wh
y (due to changing fashions\, not usually\n better features).
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SUMMARY:Closing remarks day 2
LOCATION:https://emacsconf.org/
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URL:https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/day2-close
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DESCRIPTION: Times are approximate and will probably change.\nhttps://emacs
conf.org/2021/talks/day2-close\n# Closing remarks day 2
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