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# Emacs Research Group, Season Zero: What we did together with Emacs in 2 hours a week for a year
Noorah Alhasan, Joe Corneli, Raymond Puzio, Leo Vivier
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The four of us met at EmacsConf 2020, and joined together around a
common interest in Emacs and research. Since then, we have convened as
the Emacs Research Group for weekly meetings. During these meetings, we
took notes collaboratively, using a ‘conflict-free replicated data type’
package (crdt.el); at the end of each session, we debriefed using a
template that we call a Project Action Review (PAR). As as a
meta-review of our sessions, every six weeks we prepared a Causal
Layered Analysis (CLA), which gave us a different perspective on what we
had done. We reflected further on our experiences and methods, linking
our CLA to plans and design patterns. As a formal research output, we
contributed a write-up of these matters to a joint paper which we
presented at the Pattern Languages of Programs Conference (PLoP 2021).
The paper included an interactive workshop, in which we explored roles
in real-time problem solving and collaboration.
In our short talk we share information about these methods, making a
case for other people getting together and creating their own small
research communities similar to ours.
# Discussion
- So this group really spawned out of last year's conf? You four were just met up and kept in touch?
- Excellent -- I actually meant to post Citizen Science, but I got confused with another thing
- I am definitely interested in incorporating your workflow. What resource would you recommend as a started - and is it one I could share with colleagues who do not yet use Emacs?
- Btw, I loved the rapid problem solving approach you take. I am also using "rapid response collecting" with my students to promote a similar 'prescience of the present'!
- would be willing to share the paper with me as well? i would also love to start an Emacs Research Group, i think Emacs has more to offer to science and people's day to day life than we realize currently
- Do you have sample workflows on your website?
- <http://metameso.org/~joe/docs/submission_candidate-25-Nov-2021.pdf>
- <https://github.com/exp2exp/exp2exp.github.io/blob/master/src/erg-2021-11-20.org>
- <https://github.com/exp2exp/exp2exp.github.io/blob/master/src/cla-16-october-2021.org>
- <https://exp2exp.github.io/cla-16-october-2021>
- also, a bit of a technical question: how do you get a public IP to share a session on crdt?
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