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+#+title: EmacsConf 2021
+#+subtitle: Online Conference
+#+date: November 27 and 28, 2021
+#+options: author:nil
+
+#+begin_export md
+[[!meta title="Call for Proposals"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright &copy; 2020 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, David Bremner<br />Copyright &copy; 2021 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, Leo Vivier, Sebastian Crane"]]
+<!-- This file is exported from cfp.org, so don't modify it directly. --->
+#+end_export
+
+* COMMENT How to export this file :noexport:
+
+As of the time of writing this document (Org mode version 9.3.7), the
+Org links library (=ol.el=) does not yet recognize =ircs= link types,
+and will throw an error if you try to export a file containing them,
+such as this file.
+
+To work around that, you can use something along the lines of the
+Emacs Lisp code below, by either adding it to your init file, or by
+putting the point in the code block and hitting =C-c C-v e= (that is,
+hold Ctrl, then hit c followed by v, then release Ctrl, and hit e) to
+evaluate the code, working around the issue only for the current
+session.
+
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
+(org-link-set-parameters
+ "ircs"
+ :export
+ (lambda (link description format)
+ "Export an ircs link.
+See `org-link-parameters' for details about LINK, DESCRIPTION and
+FORMAT."
+ (let ((desc (or description link)))
+ (pcase format
+ (`html (format "<a href=\"ircs:%s\">%s</a>" link desc))
+ (`md (format "[%s](ircs:%s)" desc link))
+ (_ nil)))))
+#+end_src
+
+[[elisp:(org-md-export-to-markdown)][Export this file to Markdown]]
+
+* Call for Proposals
+
+[[https://emacsconf.org/2021/][EmacsConf 2021]] will be a virtual conference on *November 27 and 28,
+2021 (Sat-Sun)*. If you'd like to present at the conference, please
+[[https://emacsconf.org/2021/cfp/][submit your proposal]] by *September 30, 2021*.
+
+EmacsConf 2021 is about the joy of [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Emacs]] 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?
+
+A great way to get started with writing a proposal is to start by
+exploring the programs from previous years: [[https://emacsconf.org/2020/schedule/][2020]], [[https://emacsconf.org/2019/schedule/][2019]], [[https://emacsconf.org/2015/schedule/][2015]], [[https://emacsconf.org/2013/#program][2013]].
+You might also find some neat ideas on the [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/ideas/][ideas]] page. Feel free to
+add yours there too! 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 [[ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/emacsconf][your favourite IRC client]], or by visiting
+[[https://chat.emacsconf.org][chat.emacsconf.org]] in your web browser.
+
+All kinds of people use Emacs for all kinds of things. We'd love it
+if EmacsConf 2021 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 expert enough to share their thoughts. If you
+let them know that you value their knowledge and maybe even suggest
+something that you think others would like to hear more about, they
+may realize that they have something worth sharing and that we would
+love to hear from them.
+
+* Important dates
+
+For EmacsConf 2021, we are planning for 9am to 5pm Toronto/EST
+(2pm-10pm UTC) on November 27 and 28. Depending on people's
+availability, it might be two half-days.
+
+| CFP opens | August 5, 2021 |
+| CFP closes | September 30, 2021 |
+| Speaker notifications | October 15, 2021 |
+| Schedule published | October 31, 2021 |
+| EmacsConf 2021! | November 27 and 28, 2021 |
+
+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 regional events (if
+you're an Emacs meetup organizer and would like to make this happen
+let's [[https://emacsconf.org/contact/][get in touch]]!).
+
+Please note that although we will try our best to stick to the above
+dates in the coming months, given the current state of the world, we
+may have to move things around a bit in case of unforeseen events.
+Thank you for your patience and understanding.
+
+* Talk formats
+
+We'd like EmacsConf 2021 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.
+
+As you think about your talk, consider what you can share in:
+
+- *Up to 10 minutes total:* What is the core idea? What do you want
+ people to do or remember? You can show just enough to get people
+ interested and then point them to where they can learn more
+ afterwards. You can answer questions over IRC, the pad, or the
+ wiki, and there's no limit to how long that conversation can go.
+
+- *Up to 20 minutes total:* How would you flesh out some of the points
+ from your 5-10 minute presentation? How can you show the pieces
+ working together?
+
+- *Up to 40 minutes total:* What would benefit from a deep dive?
+ How do you keep it engaging?
+
+When writing your proposal, please write an outline of what you plan
+to talk about if you have 5-10 minutes. If you'd like to propose a
+longer talk, outline what you might include if you had more time to
+present (up to 40 minutes, including Q&A).
+
+Here's an example for a potentially 40-minute talk:
+
+- 5-10 minutes: quick demo of the abc package working together with
+ xyz package.
+- 20 minutes: same as above, with some customization options to
+ accommodate a different workflow.
+- 40 minutes: all of the above, including modifying the behaviour of
+ the package in order to add something new.
+
+This flexibility would help us in devising the conference schedule so
+that as many people as possible could get a chance to present their
+ideas, while still allowing for featuring longer deep dive talks.
+
+Other session formats such as tutorials, workshops, and hangouts are
+welcome as well, in case you would find those other formats preferable
+to a traditional talk format. If you're interested in these or other
+session types, please let us know [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org][publicly]] or [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org-private][privately]]. We'll be
+happy to work something out with you.
+
+* Office hours
+
+We're aware that it can be intimidating to submit a proposal to a
+conference, so we thought we'd try to help! This year, we're opening
+up the doors of our virtual offices for you to come talk to us about
+your proposals with hopes of helping you with any hurdles you may be
+facing with preparing your proposal.
+
+We'd like to publish a schedule of availabilities of volunteers for
+holding office hours. Currently these volunteers consist of some of
+the EmacsConf organizers, but we'd love to have the help of other
+members of the Emacs community as well. If you are a more experienced
+Emacs user and would like to help with this, please [[https://emacsconf.org/contact/][get in touch]]!
+
+You can find the schedule for upcoming office hours (along with other
+Emacs events) at https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Usergroups . You can
+also get an iCal feed at
+https://emacslife.com/calendar/emacs-calendar.ics or get HTML/Org
+files in various timezones at https://emacslife.com/calendar/ . When
+in session, the office hours will be held in this BigBlueButton room:
+https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/ban-qye-fd1-5kw.
+
+* Submitting your proposal
+
+Once you're ready to submit your proposal, the [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/submit/][submit]] page has the
+instructions on how to submit your talk.
+
+We use an anonymized submission process to reduce bias and encourage
+contribution. Identifying information will be removed from
+submissions by a conference organizer who will not participate in
+talk selection. The anonymized submissions will then be reviewed by
+a selection committee.
+
+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 be able to answer
+ questions in a live session.
+
+Don't forget to subscribe to our main mailing list, [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss][emacsconf-discuss]],
+for discussion and announcements about the EmacsConf conference.
+
+We look forward to your ideas and submissions!
+
+* Getting involved
+
+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 [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/planning/][planning]] page
+and come say hi to us at =#emacsconf= on =irc.libera.chat=.
+
+In addition to the [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss][emacsconf-discuss]] list, feel free to subscribe to
+[[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org][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 2021 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 [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html][free software]], much like previous EmacsConf conferences.
+An article describing our infrastructure and tools is underway,
+and will be announced on the emacsconf-discuss list when published.
+
+* Additional links
+
+#+begin_export md
+[emacs]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
+[freesw]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
+[libera-emacsconf]: ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/emacsconf
+[chat]: https://chat.emacsconf.org
+[emacsconf-discuss]: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss
+[emacsconf-org]: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org
+[emacsconf-org-private]: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org-private
+#+end_export
+
+* COMMENT Copyright & License
+
+Copyright (c) 2020 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, David Bremner
+Copyright (c) 2021 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, Leo Vivier,
+Sebastian Crane
+
+The EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals is part of the EmacsConf wiki,
+and is dual-licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons
+Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License; and the GNU
+General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
+either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+version.
+
+A copy of these two licenses is available on the EmacsConf wiki, in
+the [[https://emacsconf.org/COPYING.CC-BY-SA][COPYING.CC-BY-SA]] and [[https://emacsconf.org/COPYING.GPL][COPYING.GPL]] files.
+