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+(Amin: Alrighty, Leo Vivier, take it away.)
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+Okay, well, thank you. I'm in. So you've
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+just had a
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+little roundup of the news, and we're
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+going to get started now with some
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+presentations.
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+We're starting with user
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+developer stories.
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+I was extremely interested in this
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+section because I
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+wanted to get a chance, basically, to tell
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+you a little more about who I am and 
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+how I got from basically being a user of
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+Emacs
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+to being nowadays a package
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+maintainer,
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+and maybe more in the future. I don't
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+know. So,
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+just for the organizers, I'm planning to
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+speak for 15 minutes, and I'll have five
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+more minutes of questions at the end.
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+As I told you before, if you want to have
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+questions, you know you can use the pad,
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+and I'll be reading the questions from
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+there. Okay. So
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+hi there, as Amin introduced me before,
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+my name is Leo Vivier.
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+I'm a freelance software engineer
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+in France, and I have been using Emacs
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+now for
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+i believe close to eight years. I can't
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+believe it's been so long.
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+But yes, it's been a journey because,
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+in a way, nothing 
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+made me go for Emacs. You know I'm an--
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+sorry, I was about to say Emacs major, but
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+no, I'm an English major. I went to
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+university to study English literature
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+and linguistics, and
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+I just got started in emacs
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+because I was looking for ways to take
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+better notes. I was looking for ways to
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+[Applause]
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+structure the way I was learning,
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+structure the way I was
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+taking notes. I stumbled one day
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+upon this weird piece of software which
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+was called Emacs,
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+and I've been trapped forever since,
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+basically, because
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+eight years ago, when I discovered
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+Emacs I just couldn't let go. There was
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+just something very
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+interesting about the way you configured
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+your setup,
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+and I just wanted to dive deeper and
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+deeper.
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+So the title is of this talk exactly is
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+how I went from user to package
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+maintainer, and
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+the package now that I'm maintaining is
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+called org-roam. I'm not the only one
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+doing this.
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+I'm helped with many lovely people
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+working on org-roam.
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+I got started as a maintainer
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+only this year, so that means that for
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+the eight years I've been
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+an Emacs user, seven of those years were
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+spent merely being a user
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+trying to be a sponge for knowledge,
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+trying to learn as much as I could.
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+I believe it would be
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+interesting for me to share my story
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+because I believe that I'm far from
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+being the only user
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+who can make the jump to being a
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+maintainer. A lot of you have
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+a lot of knowledge when it comes to
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+Emacs. Some of you
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+are at different steps in your journey.
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+Some of you, for instance, are just
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+starting to copy stuff out of
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+StackExchange
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+into your Emacs configuration. let's
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+say you want to do something very
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+particular
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+and you haven't found a way to do so.
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+You go on StackExchange. You find
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+something
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+that's interesting. You add it to your
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+Emacs configuration. You
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+barely understand anything that's going
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+on. You know that it's supposed to be
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+Emacs Lisp.
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+"I hardly know Emacs and I 
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+know even less what is Lisp supposed to be."
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+But you paste it in and it does what you
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+want it to do, and you say
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+"Great, I'll move on to my work now." So
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+that's how I got started. I had
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+a very spartan
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+setup for Emacs, which a lot of you must
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+know... The first time you launch Emacs,
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+you have this feeling that you're jumping 20
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+years back in time, as far as the
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+user interface is concerned. But
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+as you get to spend more time with Emacs...
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+Some would call it Stockholm syndrome
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+insofar as you can't see
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+how spartan the entire thing is, but it
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+actually is
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+a lovely prison so to speak.
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+That's how I got started eight years
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+ago. I just wanted
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+to find a way to do my research properly.
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+I wanted to have a
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+tool that I could use to write my notes
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+in plain text, because I was already
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+fairly averse to
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+Microsoft solutions when it
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+came to taking notes.
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+So yeah, I got started in emacs. I
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+read a little bit about what plain text
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+was about. Just to be clear,
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+at the time, yes, I was very good with
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+computers,
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+but I was not a computer science student.
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+I had barely any experience with
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+programming
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+and coding, and I was even less of a
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+hacker
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+back then.
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+It just goes to show you that at the
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+beginning, I had close to no knowledge,
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+whether it be about
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+the free software world, whether it be
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+about...
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+Sacha, do you want to say something? (Sacha: just
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+confirming, you're not sharing anything
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+on the screen at the moment, right?)
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+No, I'm not sharing anything, I'm
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+just
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+presenting.
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+So when I started, I had no
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+experience whatsoever.
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+I was just a literature major
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+trying to get better at taking notes.
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+I stumbled upon LaTeX. As many people
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+who stumble upon LaTeX know,
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+you don't just stumble upon
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+LaTeX, you embroil yourself in the
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+turmoil of
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+suffering, of late nights tweaking,
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+so that your document is exactly in the
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+perfect shape you want it to be.
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+Soon after, when I got started with Emacs
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+and LaTeX,
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+I discovered something that truly
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+changed my life, and it was Org Mode.
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+As you'll get a lot of presentations
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+this afternoon about Org Mode,
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+I won't be spending too much time on it.
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+But Org Mode,
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+for me, was a revelation. It's...
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+There was something that, upon reading
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+articles on how to use Org Mode,
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+especially one of the key
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+article that I'd read which really made
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+a huge impact on me
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+was the "Organize Your Life in Plain Text" one
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+which i'm sure many of you must have
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+stumbled upon
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+in your Emacs journey...
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+For me, when I stumbled upon
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+this
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+document, I was starting to get
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+interested in Getting Things
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+Done and
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+all the nitty-gritty stuff about
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+organization and self-organization.
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+It just felt like everything was under
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+my fingertips
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+to make the perfect workflow.
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+There was something incredibly
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+satisfying about
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+having a system that gave you so many
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+options to configure your experience
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+exactly how you wanted.
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+You had this feeling that
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+the people behind Org Mode had thought
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+of everything,
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+whichever small adjustment
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+that you needed in workflow
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+whether it be more states for your
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+TODOs,
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+whether it be, oh, I want my weeks to
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+start on Monday and not on Saturday,
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+oh, it's half past one and I need
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+to...
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+in the morning, I mean, and I need to make
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+sure that the item that i'm marking as done
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+is done for the day before and not for
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+the current day. You see what I'm talking about.
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+So many details that were already
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+present in Org Mode. At first you're
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+really impressed, because you think,
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+wow, they thought of everything, but then
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+you realize that it's just a matter of
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+experience, just a matter of people
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+contributing code, because the
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+development of Org Mode, Emacs, and
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+everything is just
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+open to the public. You know, it's like
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+everything is being done with the garage
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+door opened. You can just
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+go on Org Mode on Savannah and see
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+everything that is being developed.
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+For me, the shift that occurred
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+in my mind was when
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+I was reading all the options, I
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+was looking at all the variables that i
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+could modify for Org Mode,
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+and there came a time, maybe two to three
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+years ago,
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+where I thought, oh wow,
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+maybe for the first time in a while,
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+there is no option for me to do what I
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+want to be doing with Org Mode.
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+I believe at the time the the key
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+issue that triggered this reflex for me was 
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+I wanted to do something with the agenda.
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+I wanted to have a super category so, you
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+know, in the...
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+for those of you who know, in your
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+agenda, you have the ability to have many
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+files, and you have the ability to have
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+categories.
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+I wanted somehow to group my
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+TODOs in smaller groups, or bigger
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+groups, I should say,
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+so that, for instance, I could have one
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+group for my professional life, I could
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+have a group
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+for one work, the second
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+work...
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+I could have something for
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+university and all this.
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+I thought, yeah,
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+I think I'd like this.
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+After having spent so long working
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+with Emacs and working with Org Mode,
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+I had some ideas about what was
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+within the realm of possibility and what
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+wasn't. Here I thought to myself,
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+00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:24.320
+this is definitely something that I can do.
+
+00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.839
+And so thus started my journey
+
+00:09:27.839 --> 00:09:31.360
+into the Org Mode libraries.
+
+00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:33.040
+I won't go too much into details right
+
+00:09:33.040 --> 00:09:34.959
+now, because right now, the main objective
+
+00:09:34.959 --> 00:09:37.040
+that I have is just to show you
+
+00:09:37.040 --> 00:09:40.240
+how simple it is to become a maintainer,
+
+00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:41.600
+how to become more involved with the
+
+00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:42.800
+development.
+
+00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:46.320
+The libraries in Org Mode,
+
+00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:50.320
+they're written in Elisp, which is a very...
+
+00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.080
+It might seem like an obscure language,
+
+00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:54.080
+and it certainly is,
+
+00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.399
+but as soon as you get the logic of the
+
+00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:57.279
+language--and
+
+00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:59.360
+what i'm telling you
+
+00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:00.560
+is coming from someone who's never
+
+00:10:00.560 --> 00:10:01.760
+studied programming--
+
+00:10:01.760 --> 00:10:04.399
+it made sense. 
+
+00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:06.079
+Everything is so verbose when you get
+
+00:10:06.079 --> 00:10:07.279
+into the code.
+
+00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.399
+When you learn the rudiments
+
+00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:13.360
+of Elisp, you start getting to the code,
+
+00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:14.079
+and you start
+
+00:10:14.079 --> 00:10:17.120
+thinking, wow, okay that makes sense,
+
+00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:19.519
+and you start developing a logic
+
+00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:21.360
+for all this.
+
+00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:24.720
+So, equipped as I was with this
+
+00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:27.760
+new knowledge, I went on my project,
+
+00:10:27.760 --> 00:10:30.000
+i went into the Org agenda code,
+
+00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:30.880
+and I thought, okay,
+
+00:10:30.880 --> 00:10:33.440
+is there anything that I can use to do
+
+00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:34.640
+my bidding?
+
+00:10:34.640 --> 00:10:38.560
+Fast forward maybe two to three weeks of
+
+00:10:38.560 --> 00:10:41.600
+intense turmoil and many nights which
+
+00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:42.720
+were spent
+
+00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:46.079
+single-mindedly working on this project,
+
+00:10:46.079 --> 00:10:48.079
+two weeks after, I had something that was
+
+00:10:48.079 --> 00:10:51.680
+working, and I was pretty happy about it.
+
+00:10:51.680 --> 00:10:54.640
+That was a key landmark for
+
+00:10:54.640 --> 00:10:56.800
+me, because when that happened,
+
+00:10:56.800 --> 00:11:00.320
+it just felt like, okay, I can contribute
+
+00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.160
+something to Org Mode, and I can do
+
+00:11:02.160 --> 00:11:06.000
+something that would benefit as many people 
+
+00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:07.600
+as possible.
+
+00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.519
+And to me, that was the click. That's when
+
+00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:11.440
+it occurred. That's when I
+
+00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.640
+went on my first project and I did something
+
+00:11:14.640 --> 00:11:18.079
+that felt useful to the community.
+
+00:11:18.079 --> 00:11:20.079
+And nowadays, as I told you, I
+
+00:11:20.079 --> 00:11:21.760
+maintain packages, but really, nothing
+
+00:11:21.760 --> 00:11:22.640
+has changed.
+
+00:11:22.640 --> 00:11:24.399
+The only thing, maybe, that has changed
+
+00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.320
+that I've turned my mind onto other problems.
+
+00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:32.000
+Maybe I've got three more minutes
+
+00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.279
+and I'd like to finish by
+
+00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:38.399
+maybe something a little different.
+
+00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:39.600
+I've told you my Emacs story and
+
+00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:42.079
+I hope I've stressed how little effort
+
+00:11:42.079 --> 00:11:43.600
+it took me to
+
+00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.560
+move from steps to steps on the ladder.
+
+00:11:46.560 --> 00:11:48.399
+The ladder implies a sense of hierarchy,
+
+00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:48.959
+but it really isn't.
+
+00:11:48.959 --> 00:11:52.240
+Whatever your step on the
+
+00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:53.920
+journey of Emacs is...
+
+00:11:53.920 --> 00:11:55.600
+Some of you might be at the
+
+00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:57.440
+step where you're really worried
+
+00:11:57.440 --> 00:11:59.360
+about learning Elisp because it feels
+
+00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.440
+like such a monumental task to be
+
+00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:02.399
+undertaking
+
+00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:04.720
+and you have no experience whatsoever,
+
+00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:06.079
+but the thing is,
+
+00:12:06.079 --> 00:12:07.839
+maybe you could try climbing this first
+
+00:12:07.839 --> 00:12:09.600
+step on the ladder. Maybe you could try,
+
+00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:11.200
+if you have any project,
+
+00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.120
+if you've been using Org Mode,
+
+00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:15.600
+maybe one day you thought, "oh, yes,
+
+00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:18.160
+I wish I could do this but I can't," 
+
+00:12:18.160 --> 00:12:19.920
+or maybe do try to do this,
+
+00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:21.680
+maybe do try to change something in a
+
+00:12:21.680 --> 00:12:23.279
+major mode that you're using
+
+00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:26.560
+and which you feel might be better.
+
+00:12:26.560 --> 00:12:29.760
+I think Emacs, Org Mode, and all free
+
+00:12:29.760 --> 00:12:31.040
+software in general
+
+00:12:31.040 --> 00:12:34.720
+has this tendency to give you this idea
+
+00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:38.720
+that I can be a hacker
+
+00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.360
+in the sense of the term
+
+00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:43.200
+that you're modifying things
+
+00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.320
+to do your bidding.
+
+00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.399
+For me, I believe this to be a very
+
+00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.320
+healthy attitude towards software.
+
+00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.079
+As Amin said in the very beginning,
+
+00:12:54.079 --> 00:12:57.279
+we are doing this entire presentation--
+
+00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:00.800
+sorry, this entire conference with free software.
+
+00:13:00.800 --> 00:13:02.240
+Just see all the things we've been able 
+
+00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:03.920
+to do in free software.
+
+00:13:03.920 --> 00:13:07.360
+For me, Emacs
+
+00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.399
+was my gateway, so to speak,
+
+00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:14.399
+into how to contribute to free software,
+
+00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:18.639
+about the philosophy that surrounds it.
+
+00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:20.560
+What I would like to do... I'll finish
+
+00:13:20.560 --> 00:13:22.000
+on this note and then I'll be taking
+
+00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:23.360
+your questions.
+
+00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:26.480
+Just try.
+
+00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:29.360
+You've read on Reddit that you
+
+00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:31.279
+need to go through the Elisp manual
+
+00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.040
+in Emacs. You might be scared,
+
+00:13:33.040 --> 00:13:35.920
+but just do it. Just give it a shot.
+
+00:13:35.920 --> 00:13:38.560
+Just give it maybe one afternoon. 
+
+00:13:38.560 --> 00:13:39.199
+Try to read it.
+
+00:13:39.199 --> 00:13:43.120
+Try to see if this appeals to your mind.
+
+00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:44.399
+If you've been interested enough in my
+
+00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:45.680
+presentation right now, and if you're
+
+00:13:45.680 --> 00:13:47.199
+interested enough in any of the talks
+
+00:13:47.199 --> 00:13:48.560
+you're going to have during the entire
+
+00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:49.519
+conference,
+
+00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:51.839
+do give it a shot. I'm pretty sure
+
+00:13:51.839 --> 00:13:52.959
+you will like the journey
+
+00:13:52.959 --> 00:13:55.760
+on which you will be embarking upon. So i
+
+00:13:55.760 --> 00:13:57.120
+believe i'm finishing one minute early
+
+00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:01.040
+but I see quite a bit of questions already.
+
+00:14:01.040 --> 00:14:04.320
+I'm not sure. Sacha, should I
+
+00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:06.000
+just be reading the questions, or 
+
+00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:07.120
+do you want to be feeding me the
+
+00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:08.639
+questions?
+
+00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:11.120
+(Amin: It's really up to you. it's
+
+00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:12.320
+completely up to you. 
+
+00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:13.600
+If you've got the questions
+
+00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:15.839
+open and can take them or read them,
+
+00:14:15.839 --> 00:14:18.320
+by all means please.)
+
+00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:19.680
+Okay, well, I'm going to read them because
+
+00:14:19.680 --> 00:14:20.880
+I've got them on the side. I'm going
+
+00:14:20.880 --> 00:14:22.800
+to start with the one at the bottom.
+
+00:14:22.800 --> 00:14:24.959
+"Do you feel that being a white male
+
+00:14:24.959 --> 00:14:26.959
+contributed to your experience?"
+
+00:14:26.959 --> 00:14:29.680
+Yeah. I mean, I do believe... There's
+
+00:14:29.680 --> 00:14:31.360
+an idea of privilege. I mean, I'm
+
+00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.639
+french. I live in... I'm lucky enough to
+
+00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:35.279
+be here
+
+00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:38.560
+at university, okay, and I'm fairly aware
+
+00:14:38.560 --> 00:14:39.120
+of the
+
+00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.600
+discrepancies that happen, even in France,
+
+00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:42.880
+according to this...
+
+00:14:42.880 --> 00:14:46.320
+So, yes, I believe my journey
+
+00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:51.199
+was heavily influenced by this.
+
+00:14:51.199 --> 00:14:52.639
+If you would like to specify the
+
+00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:54.320
+question, please do, but I don't have
+
+00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:56.560
+really all that much to ask on this.
+
+00:14:56.560 --> 00:14:59.839
+"What is your advice to start learning
+
+00:14:59.839 --> 00:15:01.279
+Elisp language? Any particularly good
+
+00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:04.160
+resource or any other tips?" I finished
+
+00:15:04.160 --> 00:15:07.760
+um my presentation by telling you about
+
+00:15:07.760 --> 00:15:10.560
+the Elisp introduction which is built into
+
+00:15:10.560 --> 00:15:13.519
+Emacs. What I might do... I'm going to share my
+
+00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:15.120
+screen just to show you
+
+00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:19.519
+how this works. I will be sharing
+
+00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.880
+this window. 
+
+00:15:22.880 --> 00:15:24.399
+I believe it's frozen on my end, so I
+
+00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:27.199
+can't see anything.
+
+00:15:27.199 --> 00:15:28.959
+i'm not sure if you can see me or if my
+
+00:15:28.959 --> 00:15:32.560
+camera is moving.
+
+00:15:32.560 --> 00:15:34.800
+Okay, so my Firefox is frozen. So i'll
+
+00:15:34.800 --> 00:15:36.000
+answer the question, but I won't be able
+
+00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:36.800
+to show you
+
+00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:40.000
+what I wanted to show you.
+
+00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:42.639
+There's a built-in guide inside Emacs to
+
+00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:44.320
+learn Elisp.
+
+00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:46.880
+Maybe the best chance that you have
+
+00:15:46.880 --> 00:15:49.040
+is just to go open these info pages. 
+
+00:15:49.040 --> 00:15:50.959
+I'm sure someone will be kind enough to
+
+00:15:50.959 --> 00:15:53.839
+mention this to you in the #emacsconf channel
+
+00:15:53.839 --> 00:15:54.880
+on IRC
+
+00:15:54.880 --> 00:15:56.880
+but it's probably the best way
+
+00:15:56.880 --> 00:15:59.040
+to get started with Elisp. 
+
+00:15:59.040 --> 00:16:01.279
+You know, we tend to get obsessed, with
+
+00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:03.360
+software and with programming, about
+
+00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:04.880
+what's the best way to get started.
+
+00:16:04.880 --> 00:16:06.959
+You see so many people who are
+
+00:16:06.959 --> 00:16:08.399
+heavily interested
+
+00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:10.639
+in getting started with programming but
+
+00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:12.320
+they never managed to get started
+
+00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.320
+because there's so much choice.
+
+00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:16.320
+My advice would be to just get started.
+
+00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:18.800
+Don't get so worried about the first step.
+
+00:16:18.800 --> 00:16:21.839
+Well, if I may still recommend the
+
+00:16:21.839 --> 00:16:23.920
+first step, even after saying this,
+
+00:16:23.920 --> 00:16:26.480
+do try to start with the
+
+00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:28.000
+built-in guides. I believe they're pretty
+
+00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:29.600
+pretty good.
+
+00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.079
+There was another question. It's
+
+00:16:32.079 --> 00:16:33.199
+the last question that I can read and
+
+00:16:33.199 --> 00:16:34.800
+after that, you will have to read
+
+00:16:34.800 --> 00:16:36.000
+the questions for me because everything
+
+00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:37.920
+is frozen on my end.
+
+00:16:37.920 --> 00:16:41.600
+I hope I'm not frozen
+
+00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.240
+in a very bad position so
+
+00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:45.680
+please excuse me if
+
+00:16:45.680 --> 00:16:48.240
+my mouth is open or anything. (Amin: no, we
+
+00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:49.759
+just completely lost the video feed, so
+
+00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:51.120
+no worries.)
+
+00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:52.720
+Oh, splendid, so I won't have to make a
+
+00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:54.800
+fool out of myself. 
+
+00:16:54.800 --> 00:16:56.800
+So the last question I wanted to answer was
+
+00:16:56.800 --> 00:16:58.320
+"Have you read Dirk Gently's Holistic
+
+00:16:58.320 --> 00:16:59.199
+Detective Agency?"
+
+00:16:59.199 --> 00:17:03.519
+No, I haven't. I hope it's not
+
+00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.199
+a jab at the way i'm dressing for the
+
+00:17:05.199 --> 00:17:06.559
+conference, but yeah,
+
+00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:08.559
+I haven't read it. Was there any
+
+00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:10.559
+other question?
+
+00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:15.919
+(Amin: I see one other question.
+
+00:17:15.919 --> 00:17:17.919
+"Any recommendation for good packaging
+
+00:17:17.919 --> 00:17:19.679
+guides or places to start?
+
+00:17:19.679 --> 00:17:23.199
+i get a bit overwhelmed by some things.
+
+00:17:23.199 --> 00:17:24.959
+For example, the choice of different test
+
+00:17:24.959 --> 00:17:26.799
+frameworks.")
+
+00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:28.240
+Right. Okay. So that's a very good
+
+00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:30.400
+question. I believe
+
+00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:33.840
+alphapapa is in the chat right now.
+
+00:17:33.840 --> 00:17:35.840
+As myself a new lisp developer for
+
+00:17:35.840 --> 00:17:38.320
+org-roam, i'd really recommend you to look into
+
+00:17:38.320 --> 00:17:40.640
+his package developers' guide because you
+
+00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:42.799
+have a list of all the softwares that
+
+00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:44.559
+are extremely useful to be using when
+
+00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:45.760
+you're getting started.
+
+00:17:45.760 --> 00:17:48.000
+If you're looking into a first
+
+00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.000
+step for how to develop
+
+00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.640
+elast package, i'd really advise you to
+
+00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:53.520
+look into edebug.
+
+00:17:53.520 --> 00:17:56.559
+It's one word, edebug,
+
+00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.400
+and you have a section in the manual for this,
+
+00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.799
+because for me, it was the key step to
+
+00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:01.919
+getting to
+
+00:18:01.919 --> 00:18:04.320
+develop good packages. It was
+
+00:18:04.320 --> 00:18:06.160
+understanding basically what the code did
+
+00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.960
+and having us something like a 
+
+00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:09.919
+REPL (read-evaluate-print-loop)
+
+00:18:09.919 --> 00:18:11.760
+that allows you to step through the code
+
+00:18:11.760 --> 00:18:13.360
+and see exactly which states the
+
+00:18:13.360 --> 00:18:16.000
+variables are at which at this point in the
+
+00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:18.400
+program. That's really my biggest advice
+
+00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:20.080
+to you
+
+00:18:20.080 --> 00:18:21.200
+[Music]
+
+00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:24.400
+Any other question? Thanks. Yeah, I see one
+
+00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:26.160
+or two more.
+
+00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:28.240
+So there's one. They ask, "How did the
+
+00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:30.080
+freedom of Emacs help you on
+
+00:18:30.080 --> 00:18:33.120
+your way?" 
+
+00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:36.480
+So the freedom of Emacs... I mentioned
+
+00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:38.080
+that Emacs, for me, was my gateway
+
+00:18:38.080 --> 00:18:40.320
+into free software and the freedom of
+
+00:18:40.320 --> 00:18:41.360
+Emacs was that
+
+00:18:41.360 --> 00:18:43.840
+you could maybe... First and foremost,
+
+00:18:43.840 --> 00:18:44.960
+compared to
+
+00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:47.840
+other software, was that you had
+
+00:18:47.840 --> 00:18:48.400
+behind Emacs,
+
+00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.039
+Elisp, which allows you to read the code,
+
+00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:52.400
+read whatever is going on in the
+
+00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:53.039
+background.
+
+00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:54.640
+Surely, if you go deep enough, you'll
+
+00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:56.160
+end up on
+
+00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:58.000
+C functions that you might not be able to
+
+00:18:58.000 --> 00:18:59.679
+read if you do not have the experience.
+
+00:18:59.679 --> 00:19:02.000
+But for Org Mode, which was my gateway
+
+00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.520
+into Emacs,
+
+00:19:03.520 --> 00:19:06.400
+most of it is written in Elisp, and all
+
+00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:08.240
+the commands have a very verbose
+
+00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:10.080
+name, like something simple as
+
+00:19:10.080 --> 00:19:13.440
+org go to next subtree or 
+
+00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:15.840
+org go to a parent subtree. You know, things
+
+00:19:15.840 --> 00:19:16.880
+like this.
+
+00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:20.240
+It's so elegant. It's verbose.
+
+00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.799
+That's a sense of freedom
+
+00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:24.320
+insofar as you can go into the code and
+
+00:19:24.320 --> 00:19:26.160
+see, oh, okay, that's how it's implemented.
+
+00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:28.640
+I believe in a way that's the freedom
+
+00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:30.400
+and the liberty that is given to you to
+
+00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:31.600
+look into the code
+
+00:19:31.600 --> 00:19:33.039
+is something that invites you to do the
+
+00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:34.640
+same with your life. As
+
+00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:35.200
+someone who
+
+00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:36.559
+does a little bit of philosophy on the
+
+00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:38.080
+side, I believe it's a very healthy
+
+00:19:38.080 --> 00:19:38.799
+message
+
+00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:42.320
+to be gathering from a piece of software.
+
+00:19:42.320 --> 00:19:45.440
+(Amin: Awesome, thank you.
+
+00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:50.960
+Let's see... So we have...
+
+00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:57.200
+I think I saw another question pop up.)
+
+00:19:57.200 --> 00:19:58.559
+I'm not sure how we're doing as far
+
+00:19:58.559 --> 00:19:59.760
+as time is concerned... I believe we
+
+00:19:59.760 --> 00:20:02.080
+have like one or two minutes more.
+
+00:20:02.080 --> 00:20:04.240
+(Amin: Yeah, actually, we're quite a bit
+
+00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:05.679
+ahead of the schedule, so if we take a
+
+00:20:05.679 --> 00:20:07.840
+little bit longer, we're fine.
+
+00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:09.440
+If you do have more
+
+00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:11.280
+questions, please do.) I'm just sorry that
+
+00:20:11.280 --> 00:20:12.880
+my video is not working anymore.
+
+00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:16.000
+(Amin: No problem. Someone was
+
+00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:17.120
+actually saying...
+
+00:20:17.120 --> 00:20:21.120
+What's the most recent...
+
+00:20:21.120 --> 00:20:24.159
+Actually, yeah well before that.
+
+00:20:24.159 --> 00:20:25.919
+"Please show off your three-piece suit
+
+00:20:25.919 --> 00:20:27.440
+before you end your talk,
+
+00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:30.080
+which requires fixing your frozen camera.
+
+00:20:30.080 --> 00:20:31.919
+if this is not possible, please post
+
+00:20:31.919 --> 00:20:34.000
+suit selfies in an easily accessible
+
+00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.240
+location."
+
+00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:38.720
+Okay, I'll make sure to do this. But yes, I
+
+00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:40.559
+wanted to hype things up for the
+
+00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:41.200
+conference,
+
+00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:43.039
+so yes I did get the three-piece suit out.
+
+00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:44.400
+I'm very glad
+
+00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:45.919
+you like it. By the way when you get
+
+00:20:45.919 --> 00:20:47.760
+a chance to see me live again,
+
+00:20:47.760 --> 00:20:50.080
+do appreciate that my tie has both the
+
+00:20:50.080 --> 00:20:51.280
+colors of Emacs purple
+
+00:20:51.280 --> 00:20:53.679
+and also Org Mode green.
+
+00:20:53.679 --> 00:20:55.760
+It took me a while to find this one, so I
+
+00:20:55.760 --> 00:21:00.840
+hope you will appreciate this.
+
+00:21:00.840 --> 00:21:03.679
+(Amin: Awesome. Let's see. We have
+
+00:21:03.679 --> 00:21:06.880
+one other question. "What's the
+
+00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:08.960
+most recent Emacs package or tool that
+
+00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:10.159
+you've discovered
+
+00:21:10.159 --> 00:21:14.480
+that you've added to your repertoire?")
+
+00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:17.600
+Very interesting question.
+
+00:21:17.600 --> 00:21:20.799
+The thing is, 
+
+00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:22.320
+when you've spent as long as I have on
+
+00:21:22.320 --> 00:21:23.919
+Emacs--and I know that I've only spent
+
+00:21:23.919 --> 00:21:25.120
+eight years and some of you
+
+00:21:25.120 --> 00:21:28.799
+might have spent maybe 10, 20, maybe even
+
+00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:30.000
+more years on Emacs--
+
+00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:32.799
+but for me, I believe the the coolest
+
+00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:35.120
+neat trick that I found in Emacs was
+
+00:21:35.120 --> 00:21:40.080
+a mode which is called beacon-mode.
+
+00:21:40.080 --> 00:21:42.559
+It's something that allows
+
+00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:43.679
+you to show
+
+00:21:43.679 --> 00:21:45.120
+when you're jumping between buffers or
+
+00:21:45.120 --> 00:21:46.960
+when you're dropping between windows,
+
+00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:49.760
+it shows exactly where your point is in
+
+00:21:49.760 --> 00:21:51.520
+that buffer by making
+
+00:21:51.520 --> 00:21:53.840
+a slight ray of light which looks like a
+
+00:21:53.840 --> 00:21:55.440
+beacon, hence the name.
+
+00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.760
+It really helps you navigate buffers
+
+00:21:57.760 --> 00:21:59.520
+because it always shows in a very
+
+00:21:59.520 --> 00:22:01.760
+visual way where your point is.
+
+00:22:01.760 --> 00:22:03.520
+I'll get a chance to show this to
+
+00:22:03.520 --> 00:22:04.640
+you later today
+
+00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:10.159
+when i'll be presenting my other talks.
+
+00:22:10.159 --> 00:22:13.840
+(Amin: AWesome.
+
+00:22:13.840 --> 00:22:16.880
+We have one question
+
+00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:20.159
+from Jonas, the maintainer
+
+00:22:20.159 --> 00:22:20.880
+from Magit. 
+
+00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:24.720
+He asks, "When you touched your
+
+00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:26.880
+webcam, that blew a fuse at my place.
+
+00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:29.760
+How did you do that?")
+
+00:22:29.760 --> 00:22:31.600
+Well, I'm very sorry, Jonas, that it
+
+00:22:31.600 --> 00:22:32.960
+happened to you, but i'll make sure not
+
+00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:36.960
+to touch my webcam again.
+
+00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:41.600
+(Amin: Do we have any other questions?)
+
+00:22:41.600 --> 00:22:43.919
+I have to trust you on this one.
+
+00:22:43.919 --> 00:22:45.840
+I'm really sorry. Everything is frozen
+
+00:22:45.840 --> 00:22:46.960
+on my end.
+
+00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:48.720
+(Amin: No problem. Yeah i'm more talking to the
+
+00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:49.940
+audience, I guess.)
+
+00:22:49.940 --> 00:22:51.520
+[Music]
+
+00:22:51.520 --> 00:22:55.120
+I hope my lack of
+
+00:22:55.120 --> 00:22:56.960
+slides didn't bother you. I really
+
+00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:58.159
+wanted to have this
+
+00:22:58.159 --> 00:23:01.039
+verbose time with people, to be
+
+00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:01.600
+able to...
+
+00:23:01.600 --> 00:23:04.880
+it's a message that i've been trying
+
+00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:08.640
+to share with as many people as possible.
+
+00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:11.760
+In france we do have an Emacs workshop
+
+00:23:11.760 --> 00:23:14.159
+that we have on a monthly basis.
+
+00:23:14.159 --> 00:23:16.000
+I've been learning a lot
+
+00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:18.960
+with those people and I felt like
+
+00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:20.400
+doing the same with Emacs conference
+
+00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:22.480
+would be good. That's why i'm really
+
+00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:24.000
+happy, and I'm really lucky to have had
+
+00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:25.120
+the chance to
+
+00:23:25.120 --> 00:23:27.919
+do this today. I hope some of you
+
+00:23:27.919 --> 00:23:29.200
+I've convinced you
+
+00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:31.679
+of climbing up a step on a ladder or
+
+00:23:31.679 --> 00:23:34.480
+making a step in a journey.
+
+00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:38.080
+(Amin: Absolutely. Thank you so much, Leo.
+
+00:23:38.080 --> 00:23:41.279
+I happen to completely agree
+
+00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:43.600
+with your not necessarily using a slide
+
+00:23:43.600 --> 00:23:45.600
+when it's not really needed
+
+00:23:45.600 --> 00:23:49.200
+and to help give some face-to-face time
+
+00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:51.840
+with the audience. Unfortunately
+
+00:23:51.840 --> 00:23:53.520
+your webcam cut out, but I mean 
+
+00:23:53.520 --> 00:23:55.200
+before that.)
+
+00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:57.279
+Yes, I'll make sure to fix the problems
+
+00:23:57.279 --> 00:23:59.679
+later on, so don't worry about it.
+
+00:23:59.679 --> 00:24:02.240
+(Amin: Awesome. Alrighty. I guess we're
+
+00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:03.200
+wrapping up
+
+00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:06.400
+for your talk and getting ready for the
+
+00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:08.000
+next talk.)
+
+00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:10.000
+Sure. Well, thank you so much. I'll see
+
+00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:11.760
+you all later, I suppose!
+
+00:24:11.760 --> 00:24:16.799
+(Amin: Sounds good. Thank you again, Leo. Bye-bye)
diff --git a/2020/subtitles/fix.py b/2020/subtitles/fix.py
index 709febb7..5fc8fd4f 100644
--- a/2020/subtitles/fix.py
+++ b/2020/subtitles/fix.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import webvtt
-filename = "emacsconf-2020-06--trivial-emacs-kits--corwin-brust.sbv"
+import sys
+filename = sys.argv[1]
 if (filename.find('sbv')):
     vtt = webvtt.from_sbv(filename)
 length = len(vtt)