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 - Subtitles/transcripts: sachac, bhavin192
-- FOSSHost: mplsCorwin
 - Calendar, connecting with meetups: sachac
 - Streaming infrastructure for meetups?: bandali, sachac
 - Amin and Gopar's podcast: bandali, gopar
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 - Writing about Emacs: zaeph
 - Diversity outreach: gopar, sachac, zaeph
 - Finding a parallel monthly day for EmacsConf prep meetings
-- Review whether we need FH’s BBB instance
+  - Write-up for streaming with FLOSS
+- Review whether we need FH’s BBB instance: mplsCorwin & bandali
+- Mediation project between MELPA and org-mode’s core: zaeph
 
 * February 20, 2021 meeting
 
-- Tentative agenda
-  - Discuss distribution of meetings / podcasts
-  - Need volunteers to publish to certain popular platforms (i.e. itunes)
-  - Leo: FSF sponsorship
+- Discuss distribution of meetings / podcasts
+  - For grabbing BBB’s recordings
+    - With Firefox
+    - [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/][Video DownloadHelper – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)]]
+    - Download the two feeds (one for presentation, and one for all the webcams)
+- Updates
+  - gopar: been busy
+  - bandali: busy at work too
+  - sachac: experimenting with captions (can do mic+browser audio now), gstreamer->OBS
+- Podcast with bandali and gopar
+  - Last week, they’ve interviewed Fermin on his experience with Maxima
+  - Name
+    - EmacsNow (how did we not think of this before?)
+      - bandali got the idea  BSDNow
+      - Maybe prepending the name with ~M-x~?
+        - bandali wanted something very short and
+        - He also wanted to use a theme for the podcast’s website which would be based on Emacs
+        - As a stretch-goal, we could merge a `emacs-now` command into core to open the podcast
+          - If elfeed (or any other RSS, maybe GNUS?) could be merged into Emacs, the command could bring you to the feed for the podcast
+      - Everyone seems to agree that EmacsNow is a good, short name, and that we should go with it
+  - Format?
+    - This one was a lengthy podcast: more than 1h30, but it was very interesting
+    - gopar and Fermin bonded over chess, which was fun!
+  - bandali and gopar would be interested in extending the podcast to other topics beyond Emacs
+    - Would that be a good idea?
+
+- M-x Research
+  - ERG is not the only group working on research within Emacs: there is also `M-x Research`
+
+- ERG’s last meeting: Intervieww with Peeragogy
+  - It went well, and I’m too tired to re-write what I’ve said during the meeting (sorry!)
+    
+- Need volunteers to publish to certain popular platforms (i.e. itunes)
+  - bandali and gopar have some experience with it, and mplsCorwin was willing to help as well
+
+- Leo: FSF sponsorship
+  - Table it for now; Leo hasn’t had time to work on it this week.
+
+- Leo: Kickstarter for org-mode core mediation
+  - Mentioned the project of mediating the org-mode MELPA ecosystem and the core of Emacs
+  - bandali thinks it’s interesting to think about the whole packagers within Emacs (including MELPA)
+    - Before, it used to be just ELPA; but then, MELPA came along, but because of its raison d’être, it was never implemented into the core of Emacs
+    - Non-GNU ELPA doesn’t require CLA; the mediation project might be a nice way to bridge the gap between those communities
+      - Might help with discoverability
+  - Surveying the field (and the people) to see which package would
+  - Ecosystem of org-mode packages
+  - Questions from bandali
+    - How would this project work within the new doctrine for org-mode (i.e. fragmentation of maintenance in a federated way)?
+    - Folding org-mode development back into the Emacs repository?
+      - ‘Emacs’s core is where packages go to die’ (Leo; please don’t quote him on this in unauthorised spaces)
+    - Could we get bzg involved in the discussion?
+      - Not right now; Leo needs to finish his contract before he starts diverting himself towards greener fields.
+  - Financial aspect
+    - Leo thinks it’d be *very* complicated to reach th number that Jonas (tarsius) reached with magit; however, it would be possible to get a project going with only a fraction of that
+#+begin_quote
+17k EUR for 6 month of work
+2100 EUR/monthly (compared to the 1500 EUR / 1800 USD I was making as a professor)
+25% goes to social security in France, up to 10% goes to taxes
+I’m aiming to release this on March 15 or on April 1st (depending on how many people I need to reach out to)
+There would be also a stretch-goal of doing this for a eyar if I get 34k
+#+end_quote
+
+- EmacsSF & BBB
+  - Could we test-run FH’s BBB instance rather than the FSF’s?
+    - In theory, it’s doable, and it’s why it was given to us for
+    - We’re going to test-drive it, and we’ll report how it went (zaeph & maybe sachac?)
+
+- Next time
+  - bandali might have a version of the podcast that we could review
+    - One of the episodes
+      - 1: EmacsConf: how it went generally (not the actual title)
+      - 2: ERG
+      - 3: Maxima with Fermin
+      - The order is still unclear, but the three episodes are recorded
+  - bandali is planning to have some time to ivnest into writing the guide on streaming with FLOSS (but *no pressure*!! ಠ_ಠ)
+  - Tentative agenda
+    - zaeph: Kickstarter for MELPA/core org-mode
+      - Especially to get sachac’s opinion
+    - Podcast update
+    - FH review based on EmacsSF
+    - Mailing list
+      - bandali will ping bhavin192 for which email they want
 
 * February 13, 2021 meeting
 
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 Next actions:
 - Discuss distribution of meetings / podcasts
-  - Need volunteers to publish to certain popular platforms (i.e. itunes)
+- Need volunteers to publish to certain popular platforms (i.e. itunes)
 - Leo: FSF sponsorship
 
 * February 6, 2021 meeting