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# Call for participation
Have you figured out a good Emacs workflow? Used Emacs for something
interesting? Learned more about tweaking Emacs? Want to share the
story of how you got into Emacs and what you've learned? Come share
what you've been learning at EmacsConf 2023 and meet other enthusiasts
along the way! All backgrounds and all levels of experience are
welcome.
[EmacsConf 2023](https://emacsconf.org/2023/) will be a virtual conference on **December 2 and 3, 2023
(Sat-Sun, 9AM-5PM UTC-5 / 2PM-10PM UTC)**. If you'd like to present at the
conference, please **[submit your proposal](https://emacsconf.org/2023/cfp/)** by **September 14, 2023
(Friday)**.
If you'd like to see the kinds of talks at EmacsConf in the previous
years, check out these schedules: [2022](https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/), [2021](https://emacsconf.org/2021/schedule/), [2020](https://emacsconf.org/2020/schedule/), [2019](https://emacsconf.org/2019/schedule/), [2015](https://emacsconf.org/2015/schedule/), [2013](https://emacsconf.org/2013/#program).
You might also find some neat ideas on the [ideas](https://emacsconf.org/2023/ideas/) page. If you're still
not sure, come by our IRC channel `#emacsconf` on `irc.libera.chat`
and say hi. You can join the chat using [your favourite IRC client](ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/emacsconf), or
by visiting [chat.emacsconf.org](https://chat.emacsconf.org) in your web browser.
This year, we'd like to experiment with accepting proposals throughout
the CFP process. If there are similar proposals, we'll work with
people so that the talks can cover different facets. Submit your idea
early so that you can have more time to work on your talk!
# Important dates
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<td class="org-left">CFP opens</td>
<td class="org-left">June 26, 2023 (Monday)</td>
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<td class="org-left">CFP closes</td>
<td class="org-left">September 14, 2023 (Friday)</td>
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<td class="org-left">Speaker notifications</td>
<td class="org-left">September 30, 2023</td>
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<td class="org-left">Schedule published</td>
<td class="org-left">October 31, 2023</td>
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<td class="org-left">EmacsConf 2023!</td>
<td class="org-left">December 2 and 3, 2023 (Sat and Sun, 9AM-5PM UTC-5 = 2PM-10PM UTC)</td>
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If you are not available during the conference itself but you have a
neat idea that you'd like to share, please propose it anyway! You can
always handle questions after the conference, and we might even be
able to coordinate with other Emacs meetups for events in other
timezones. (If you're an Emacs meetup organizer and would like to make
this happen, please [get in touch](https://emacsconf.org/contact/)!)
# About EmacsConf
[EmacsConf 2023](https://emacsconf.org/2023/) is about the joy of and Emacs Lisp. Come share your experiments and adventures
with the Emacs text editor / operating system / way of life! We welcome speakers of ****all backgrounds**** and ****all levels of experience****,
including newcomers giving their first talk. What have you found exciting about Emacs lately? What do you wish someone had told you when you
were starting out? What part of your workflow might inspire someone to get into Emacs or go deeper?
All kinds of people use Emacs for all kinds of things. We'd love it if EmacsConf 2023 could highlight interesting perspectives and reflect the diversity of our community. If you know someone who might have a good idea for a talk, please reach out to them and encourage them to submit a proposal. Many people (especially from underrepresented groups such as women, people of colour, non-developers, etc.) might not consider themselves proficient enough to share their thoughts. If you let them know that you value their knowledge and experiences, and maybe even suggest something that you think others would like to hear about, they may realize that they do have something worth sharing and that we would love to hear from them.
# Talk formats
We'd like EmacsConf 2023 to inspire lots of different people to
explore lots of different things in Emacs. We hope to put together a
stream of quick ideas followed by lots of conversation over IRC and/or
Q&A sessions, with occasional deep dives into topics that many people
might find interesting or useful.
Formats:
- **5-10 minute lightning talk:** Just the essentials! If you can
squeeze your prerecorded talk into 5-10 minutes by focusing on the
essentials (not by talking faster!), we might be able to repeat it
during the conference in order to fill gaps.
- **20-minute talk:** short enough to keep people's attention, long
enough to get into some details.
There will be time for questions and answers after your talk, so you
don't need to include that in your talk timing. Just like in EmacsConf
2022, you can answer questions via a BigBlueButton room, IRC, the
Etherpad, the wiki, or e-mail (your choice). The stream will move on
to the next talk at the scheduled time, but interested people can keep
hanging out with you for a longer conversation.
We may have time for a few longer sessions. If you'd like to be
considered for a longer time slot, please include an outline for the
extra time in addition to your 20-minute proposal.
Other session formats such as tutorials, workshops, and hangouts are
welcome as well. If you're interested in these or other session types,
please let us know [publicly](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org) or [privately](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org-private). We'll be happy to work
something out with you.
# How can you submit your proposal?
Once you're ready to submit your proposal, the [submit](https://emacsconf.org/2023/submit/) page has the
instructions on how to submit your talk.
If you need help, come and say hi to us on our IRC channel
`#emacsconf` on `irc.libera.chat` and we'd be happy to try and answer
any questions or concerns you may have about writing your proposal or
submitting it. You can also e-mail us [publicly](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org) or [privately](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org-private). If you'd
like to propose something other than a talk, like restreaming the
conference, that would be cool too.
# What happens after you submit your proposal?
The submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee. ([Volunteers
welcome!](https://emacsconf.org/2023/volunteer/))
If your talk is approved, we'd love it if you could help us make sure
the conference runs smoothly. After we email you with the time
allotted for your talk, we'll ask you to
- prepare a prerecording of your talk, or record it with our help if
that'd be easier for you; and
- schedule a short tech-check if you'd like to answer questions in a
live session.
Subscribe to our main mailing list, [emacsconf-discuss](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss), for discussion
and announcements about the EmacsConf conference.
We look forward to your ideas and submissions!
# Want to volunteer?
If you would like to help with the conference (planning the sessions,
reviewing proposals, helping with infrastructure, making sessions more
accessible, editing video transcripts, etc.), see our [volunteer](https://emacsconf.org/2023/volunteer) page
and come say hi to us at `#emacsconf` on `irc.libera.chat`.
In addition to the [emacsconf-discuss](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss) list, feel free to subscribe to
[emacsconf-org](https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org) as well, for discussions related to organizing the
conference by the EmacsConf organizers and volunteers.
We'd really appreciate your help in making EmacsConf 2023 the best one
so far!
# Commitment to freedom
We remain fully committed to freedom, and we will continue
using our infrastructure and streaming setup consisting entirely
of [free software](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html), much like previous EmacsConf conferences.
Articles and documentation about the EmacsConf infrastructure are
still underway, and will be announced on the emacsconf-discuss list
when available. If you are curious about the EmacsConf infrastructure
or are interested in working on it, please join our `#emacsconf-infra`
channel on `irc.libera.chat` and say hi!
