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+#+title: EmacsConf 2023
+#+subtitle: Online Conference
+#+date: December 2 and 3, 2023
+#+options: author:nil toc:nil
+
+#+begin_export md
+[[!meta title="Call for Participation"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2020 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua,
+David Bremner<br />
+Copyright &copy; 2021 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, Leo Vivier,
+Sebastian Crane<br />
+Copyright &copy; 2022 Amin Bandali
+Copyright &copy; 2023 Sacha Chua"]]
+<!-- cfp.md is exported from cfp.org, please modify that instead. -->
+#+end_export
+
+#+begin_export md
+[[[[!template id=draft]]]]
+#+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 Participation
+
+[[https://emacsconf.org/2023/][EmacsConf 2023]] will be a virtual conference on *December 2 and 3,
+2023 (Sat-Sun)*.  If you'd like to present at the conference, please
+[[https://emacsconf.org/2023/cfp/][submit your proposal]] by *September 14, 2023 (Friday)*.
+
+EmacsConf 2023 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/2022/talks/][2022]], [[https://emacsconf.org/2021/schedule/][2021]], [[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/2023/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 2023 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 proficient enough to share their thoughts.
+If you let them know that you value their knowledge and experiences,
+and maybe even suggest something that you think others would like to
+hear about, they may realize that they do have something worth sharing
+and that we would love to hear from them.
+
+* Important dates
+
+For EmacsConf 2023, we are planning for 9am to 5pm Toronto/EST
+(2pm-10pm UTC) on December 2 and 3.
+
+| CFP opens             | June 26, 2023 (Monday)      |
+| CFP closes            | September 14, 2023 (Friday) |
+| Speaker notifications | September 30, 2023          |
+| Schedule published    | October 31, 2023            |
+| EmacsConf 2023!       | December 2 and 3, 2023      |
+
+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]]!).
+
+#+md: <a name="formats"></a>
+* Talk formats
+
+We'd like EmacsConf 2023 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, add an outline of 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. Your proposal
+would include all three sections:
+
+- 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.
+
+(If you're planning a shorter talk, you don't need to describe longer
+ones.)
+
+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.
+
+This year, we'd like to experiment with accepting proposals throughout
+the CFP process, particularly for 10-20 minute talks. If there are
+similar proposals, we'll work with people so that the talks can cover
+different facets.
+
+* Preparing and submitting your proposal
+
+We're aware that it can be challenging and intimidating to prepare and
+submit a proposal to a conference, and we want to help make it less
+so.  Come say hi to us on our IRC channel =#emacsconf= on
+=irc.libera.chat=, and we'd be happy to try and answer any questions
+or concerns you may have about writing your proposal or submitting it.
+We'd also love to receive suggestions on how we can best help you and
+other prospective speakers interested in giving a talk at EmacsConf.
+
+Once you're ready to submit your proposal, the [[https://emacsconf.org/2023/submit/][submit]] page has the
+instructions on how to submit your talk.  The submissions will then be
+reviewed by a selection committee (please [[https://emacsconf.org/contact/][let us know]] if you would
+like to help review submissions as part of this 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.
+
+If you'd like to propose something other than a talk, like restreaming
+the conference, you can also use this CFP to share your ideas with us.
+
+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/2023/planning/][planning]] page
+and come say hi to us at =#emacsconf= on =irc.libera.chat=.
+
+Importantly, as EmacsConf continues to grow and receive increasingly
+more talk/session proposal submissions each year, we have thought
+about adding multiple parallel tracks during the conference days to
+accommodate the large number of sessions.  However, we're currently
+a very small team and we would need your help to do it!  If you're
+interested in helping stream a parallel EmacsConf track and have a
+reliable internet connection with decent speed and bandwidth, please
+[[https://emacsconf.org/contact/][get in touch]] with us so we can help get you set up for streaming.
+We'd also likely need more volunteers still for each track, for
+example a host for that track to announce the next talk (this can also
+be done by the streamer if the streamer is interested and able to) and
+another volunteer to help check in speakers of upcoming live sessions.
+
+If you are interested and able to help with any of the above, please
+reach out to us; we'd love to have your help!
+
+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 2023 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.
+Articles and documentation about the EmacsConf infrastructure are
+still underway, and will be announced on the emacsconf-discuss list
+when available.  If you are curious about the EmacsConf infrastructure
+or are interested in working on it, please join our =#emacsconf-infra=
+channel on =irc.libera.chat= and say hi!
+
+* COMMENT Copyright & License
+
+Copyright (c) 2020 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, David Bremner
+Copyright (c) 2021 Amin Bandali, Sacha Chua, Leo Vivier,
+Sebastian Crane
+Copyright (c) 2022 Amin Bandali
+Copyright (c) 2023 Sacha Chua
+
+The EmacsConf 2023 Call for Participation 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.
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+#+PROPERTY: header-args    :results silent :exports code :tangle yes
+#+EXPORT_FILE_NAME: ../organizers-notebook.md
+#+PROPERTY: QUANTIFIED Emacs
+
+#+begin_export md
+<!-- organizers-notebook.md is exported from organizers-notebook/index.org, please modify that instead. -->
+[[!sidebar content=""]]
+
+This file is automatically exported from [/2022/organizers-notebook/index.org](/2022/organizers-notebook/index.org). You might prefer to navigate this as an Org file instead. To do so, [clone the wiki repository](https://emacsconf.org/edit/).
+#+end_export
+
+#+TOC: headlines 1
+
+* Timeline
+
+Last year, these were the actual dates:
+- July 17: CFP sent
+- Sept 18: Original CFP deadline
+- Sept 30: CFP closed after extension
+- Oct 1: acceptances sent
+