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+#+title: EmacsConf 2021
+#+subtitle: Online Conference
+#+date: November 27 and 28, 2021
+#+options: author:nil
+
+- DRAFT: 2021-08-02:
+  - Reduced extended talk to 40 minutes
+  - Getting people to submit outlines of shorter talks if they want
+    to propose longer ones ;)
+
+# Copyright (C) 2021 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, David Bremner
+
+[[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 / 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 or learning more?  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 pointing your web
+browser to [[https://chat.emacsconf.org][chat.emacsconf.org]] which runs our self-hosted instance of
+[[https://thelounge.chat][The Lounge]] free software web IRC client.
+
+All kinds of people use Emacs for all kinds of things.  We would 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, 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.
+
+* Important dates
+
+We're planning for 9am to 5pm Toronto/EST (2pm-10pm UTC).  Depending
+on people's availability, it might be two half-days.
+
+| CFP opens             | August 2, 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.
+
+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 or a
+Q&A session, with occasional deep dives into something 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's 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 you write your proposal, outline what you plan to talk about if
+you have 5-10 minutes.  If you would like to propose a longer talk,
+outline what you might include for a 5-10 min talk, a 20-minute talk,
+and optionally a 40-minute talk.
+
+Example for a 40-minute talk: 
+
+- 5-10 minutes: quick demo of the abc package working together with xyz package
+- 20 minutes: + some customization options to accommodate a different workflow
+- 40 minutes: + modifying the behavior of the package in order to add something new
+
+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.
+
+* 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 e-mail you with the time
+alloted for your talk, we'll ask you to:
+
+- prepare a prerecording of your talk, or record it with our help if
+  that's easier for you
+- schedule a short tech-check if you'd like to answer questions in a
+  live session.
+
+* Getting involved
+
+If you would like to help with the conference (planning the sessions,
+reviewing proposals, helping with infrastructure, etc.), see our
+[[https://emacsconf.org/2021/planning/][planning]] page and come say hi to us at =#emacsconf= on
+=irc.libera.chat=.
+
+Subscribe to our mailing list, [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss][emacsconf-discuss]], for discussions and
+announcements about the EmacsConf conference.
+
+We look forward to your ideas and submissions!
+
+* 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.
+
+* COMMENT Copyright & License
+
+Copyright (C) 2020, 2021 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, David Bremner
+
+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.
+
+* COMMENT How to export this file
+
+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