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In this talk, Bhavin Ghandi shares how to participate in Emacs meetups and even how to organize your own. Afterwards, he will handle questions over BigBlueButton.


The following image shows where the talk is in the schedule for Sat 2022-12-03. Solid lines show talks with Q&A via BigBlueButton. Dashed lines show talks with Q&A via IRC or Etherpad.<div class="schedule-in-context schedule-svg-container" data-slug="meetups">
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fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(36,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> journalism</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/school" title="Back to school with Emacs" data-slug="school"> <title>  9:45- 9:55 Back to school with Emacs</title> <rect x="70" y="15" opacity="0.5" width="15" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="5,5,5" fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(83,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> school</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/handwritten" title="How to incorporate handwritten notes into Emacs Orgmode" data-slug="handwritten"> <title> 10:05-10:15 How to incorporate handwritten notes into Emacs Orgmode</title> <rect x="101" y="15" opacity="0.5" width="15" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="" fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(114,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> handwritten</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/science" title="Writing and organizing literature notes for scientific writing" data-slug="science"> <title> 10:45-11:05 Writing and organizing literature notes for scientific writing</title> <rect x="164" y="15" opacity="0.5" width="31" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="" fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(193,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> science</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/buddy" title="The Emacs Buddy initiative" data-slug="buddy"> <title> 11:25-11:35 The Emacs Buddy initiative</title> <rect x="227" y="15" opacity="0.5" width="15" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="5,5,5" fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(240,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> buddy</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/meetups" title="Attending and organizing Emacs meetups" data-slug="meetups"> <title>  1:00- 1:20 Attending and organizing Emacs 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fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(531,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> realestate</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/health" title="Health data journaling and visualization with Org Mode and GNUplot" data-slug="health"> <title>  3:00- 3:25 Health data journaling and visualization with Org Mode and GNUplot</title> <rect x="564" y="15" opacity="0.5" width="39" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="" fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(601,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> health</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/jupyter" title="Edit live Jupyter notebook cells with Emacs" data-slug="jupyter"> <title>  3:45- 4:05 Edit live Jupyter notebook cells with Emacs</title> <rect x="635" y="15" opacity="0.5" width="31" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="" fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(664,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> jupyter</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/sat-close" title="Saturday closing remarks" data-slug="sat-close"> <title>  4:50- 4:55 Saturday closing remarks</title> <rect x="737" y="15" opacity="0.5" width="7" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="" fill="peachpuff"></rect> <g transform="translate(742,73)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> sat-close</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/treesitter" title="Tree-sitter beyond syntax highlighting" data-slug="treesitter"> <title> 10:00-10:15 Tree-sitter beyond syntax highlighting</title> <rect x="94" y="75" opacity="0.5" width="23" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="5,5,5" fill="skyblue"></rect> <g transform="translate(115,133)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> treesitter</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/lspbridge" title="lsp-bridge: complete asynchronous LSP client" data-slug="lspbridge"> <title> 10:25-10:45 lsp-bridge: complete asynchronous LSP client</title> <rect x="133" y="75" opacity="0.5" width="31" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="5,5,5" fill="skyblue"></rect> <g transform="translate(162,133)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> lspbridge</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/asmblox" title="asm-blox: a game based on WebAssembly that no one asked for" data-slug="asmblox"> <title> 10:55-11:15 asm-blox: a game based on WebAssembly that no one asked for</title> <rect x="180" y="75" opacity="0.5" width="31" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="" fill="skyblue"></rect> <g transform="translate(209,133)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> asmblox</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/wayland" title="Emacs should become a Wayland compositor" data-slug="wayland"> <title> 11:25-11:35 Emacs should become a Wayland compositor</title> <rect x="227" y="75" opacity="0.5" width="15" height="59" stroke="black" 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transform="rotate(-90)"> mail</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/maint" title="Maintaining the Maintainers: Attribution as an Economic Model for Open Source" data-slug="maint"> <title>  2:50- 3:10 Maintaining the Maintainers: Attribution as an Economic Model for Open Source</title> <rect x="549" y="75" opacity="0.5" width="31" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="" fill="skyblue"></rect> <g transform="translate(578,133)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> maint</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/eev" title="Bidirectional links with eev" data-slug="eev"> <title>  3:35- 3:40 Bidirectional links with eev</title> <rect x="619" y="75" opacity="0.5" width="7" height="59" stroke="black" stroke-dasharray="5,5,5" fill="skyblue"></rect> <g transform="translate(624,133)"> <text fill="black" x="0" y="0" font-size="10" transform="rotate(-90)"> eev</text></g></a> <a href="/2022/talks/python" title="Short hyperlinks to Python docs" data-slug="python"> 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Format: 20-min talk followed by live Q&A (<https://emacsconf.org/current/meetups/room>)  
Etherpad: <https://pad.emacsconf.org/2022-meetups>  
Discuss on IRC: [#emacsconf-gen](https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf,emacsconf-gen)  
Status: Talk captioned  
<div>Times in different timezones:</div><div class="times" start="2022-12-03T18:00:00Z" end="2022-12-03T18:20:00Z"><div class="conf-time">Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~1:00 PM - 1:20 PM EST (US/Eastern)</div><div class="others"><div>which is the same as:</div>Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~12:00 PM - 12:20 PM CST (US/Central)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~11:00 AM - 11:20 AM MST (US/Mountain)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~10:00 AM - 10:20 AM PST (US/Pacific)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~6:00 PM - 6:20 PM UTC <br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~7:00 PM - 7:20 PM CET (Europe/Paris)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~8:00 PM - 8:20 PM EET (Europe/Athens)<br />Saturday, Dec 3 2022, ~11:30 PM - 11:50 PM IST (Asia/Kolkata)<br />Sunday, Dec 4 2022, ~2:00 AM - 2:20 AM +08 (Asia/Singapore)<br />Sunday, Dec 4 2022, ~3:00 AM - 3:20 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo)</div></div><div><a href="/2022/watch/gen/">Find out how to watch and participate</a></div>


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