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+[[!meta title="Call for Proposals - DRAFT"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2020, 2021 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, David Bremner"]]
+
+**This document is a draft.**
+
+**EmacsConf 2021 | November 28 and 29, 2020 | Online Conference**
+
+The Call for Proposals for EmacsConf 2020 is now open, until
+**October 7, 2020**.
+
+After a successful [[EmacsConf 2019|2019]], we are back again this
+year and are once again calling for your participation!
+
+EmacsConf is the conference about the joy of [Emacs][emacs], Emacs
+Lisp, and memorizing key sequences.
+
+We are holding EmacsConf 2020 as a virtual (online) conference again
+this year, especially now, given the current state of the world with
+the ongoing global pandemic.  We remain fully committed to freedom,
+and we will continue using our infrastructure and streaming setup
+consisting entirely of [free software][freesw], much like the last
+EmacsConf.
+
+We welcome speakers of **all backgrounds** and **all levels of
+experience**, including newcomers submitting a proposal to give their
+first talk!
+
+### Important dates
+
+Mark your calendars: EmacsConf 2020 will take place on November 28-29!
+We're planning for 9am to 5pm Toronto/EST (2pm-10pm UTC, 3pm-11pm
+Zurich/CET).  Depending on people's availability, it might be two
+half-days.
+
+<table>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="left">CFP opens</td>
+<td colspan="2" align="right">August 24, 2020</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="left">CFP closes</td>
+<td colspan="2" align="right">October 7, 2020 (new date)</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="left">Speaker notifications</td>
+<td colspan="2" align="right">October 14, 2020</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="left">Schedule published</td>
+<td colspan="2" align="right">November 7, 2020</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="left">EmacsConf 2020!</td>
+<td colspan="2" align="right">November 28 and 29, 2020</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+
+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 bearing with us as we all navigate these trying times.
+
+<a name="formats"></a>
+### Talk formats
+
+The following are the main formats for EmacsConf 2020 talks:
+
+- **10 minutes** (Lightning talk): Quickly present a cool project,
+  concept, or trick in 10 minutes or less!
+
+- **20 minutes** (Standard talk): Introduce the audience to a new
+  Emacs mode, concept, or just talk about something not necessarily
+  shiny and new but that you find really neat nonetheless.
+
+- **50 minutes** (Extended talk): Take your time going more in depth,
+  and/or do a demo!  Extended talks are a great way of really
+  educating the audience about something you enjoy.
+
+We hope to have lots of great submissions this year, just like last
+year.  In order that as many people as possible can present, it helps
+if presenters can be flexible about their time slots.  So, for
+non-lightning talk submissions, please let us know besides your main
+preferred format if a shorter format would also work for your talk.
+
+Q&A time is **included** in the Standard and Extended time slots;
+please time your presentation accordingly.  If you would like to take
+questions live, we recommend aiming for a 15-minute presentation for
+the Standard time slot, and for 40-45 minutes for the Extended time
+slot.  However, as the speaker, the exact allocation of your time is
+up to you, so long as it does not exceed the allocated time slot.
+
+Other session formats such as tutorials, workshops, and hangouts are
+welcome as well, especially considering all that is going on around
+the world, in case you would find those other formats preferable to a
+traditional talk format.  If you are interested in these or other
+session types, please get in touch with us publicly or privately; we
+will be happy to work something out with you.
+
+To help minimize disruptions in case of potential technical issues
+that may arise during the conference, we ask that our speakers either
+schedule a short tech-check with us, or submit a prerecording of their
+talk (especially for lightning talks, where the allotted time slot is
+rather small and any issues that cannot be resolved quickly will
+greatly detract from the presentation).  We will send an email about
+this with more details further down the line.
+
+Keynote speaker(s) for EmacsConf 2020 will be introduced in a future
+announcement.
+
+### Topic ideas
+
+Not sure what to talk about?  You might find some neat ideas on the
+[[ideas]] page.  Feel free to add yours there too!  If you're still
+not sure, come by our IRC channel `#emacsconf` on `chat.freenode.net`
+and say hi.  You can join the chat using
+[your favourite IRC client][freenode-emacsconf], or by pointing your
+web browser to [chat.emacsconf.org][chat] which runs our self-hosted
+instance of [The Lounge][thelounge] free software web IRC client.
+
+A great way to get started with writing a proposal is to start by
+exploring the programs from previous years: [[2019|2019/schedule]],
+[[2015|2015/schedule]], [[2013|2013#program]].
+
+### Submission
+
+Once you're ready to submit your proposal, the [[submit]] page has the
+instructions on how to submit your talk.
+
+All kinds of people use Emacs for all kinds of things.  We would love
+it if EmacsConf 2020 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, and
+non-developers) 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.
+
+This year, we are experimenting with an anonymized submission process.
+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.
+We hope this will help reduce bias and encourage contribution.  We
+look forward to hearing from you (and the people you want to nudge to
+speak)!
+
+### Getting involved
+
+If you would like to get involved with the various aspects of
+organizing the conference, such as planning the sessions and helping
+with the infrastructure, see our [[planning]] page and come say hi to
+us at `#emacsconf` on `chat.freenode.net`.
+
+Don't forget to subscribe to our mailing list,
+[emacsconf-discuss][emacsconf-discuss], for discussion and
+announcements about the EmacsConf conference.
+
+We look forward to your ideas and submissions!
+
+
+[emacs]: //www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
+[freesw]: //www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
+[chat]: //chat.emacsconf.org
+[thelounge]: //thelounge.chat
+[freenode-emacsconf]: ircs://chat.freenode.net:6697/emacsconf
+[emacsconf-discuss]: //lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss
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+[[!meta title="Submit - DRAFT"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright &copy; 2019, 2020, 2021 Amin Bandali"]]
+
+**This document is a draft.**
+
+When you are ready to submit your proposal, send your submission via
+email to <emacsconf-submit@gnu.org> by **October 7**, including at
+minimum these essential information:
+
+- Your (preferred) name;
+
+- the title of your talk/session;
+
+- your preferred talk/session [[format|cfp#formats]], and whether you
+  would be flexible about your allotted time slot (whether a shorter
+  format would also work for your talk, and if you would be okay with
+  presenting a shorter talk if necessary, to allow more people a
+  chance to present at EmacsConf 2020);
+
+- an abstract of your talk (500 words or less);
+
+- any potential times during the conference days in which you may be
+  unavailable and/or unable to present; and
+
+- your agreement with the speaker release for EmacsConf (see below).
+
+
+Please use the following template for your submission email,
+filling it out with information about you and your proposal:
+
+```
+Name:
+
+
+Title:
+
+
+Preferred format:
+
+
+Abstract:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+(Un)availability:
+
+
+
+Speaker release:
+
+  By submitting this proposal, I agree that my presentation at
+  EmacsConf 2020 is subject to the following terms and conditions:
+
+  The EmacsConf organizers may capture audio and video (a "Recording")
+  of my presentation and any associated materials, which may include
+  slides, notes, transcripts, and prerecording(s) of my presentation
+  that I provide to the EmacsConf organizers.
+
+  I authorize the EmacsConf organizers to distribute, reproduce,
+  publicly display, and prepare derivative works of the Recording and
+  any derivative works of the Recording (the "Licensed Materials")
+  under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
+  International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.
+
+  I grant to the EmacsConf organizers permission to use my name,
+  likeness, and biographic information in association with their use
+  of the Licensed Materials under the above license.
+
+  I represent that I have the authority to grant the above license to
+  the EmacsConf organizers.  If my presentation incorporates any
+  material owned by third parties, I represent that the material is
+  sublicensable to the EmacsConf organizers or that my use of them is
+  fair use.
+```
+
+
+All kinds of people use Emacs for all kinds of things.  We would love
+it if EmacsConf 2020 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, and
+non-developers) 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.
+
+This year, we are experimenting with an anonymized submission process.
+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.
+We hope this will help reduce bias and encourage contribution.  We
+look forward to hearing from you (and the people you want to nudge to
+speak)!