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+[[!meta title="Re-imagining the Emacs User Experience with Casual Suite"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Charles Choi"]]
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+# Re-imagining the Emacs User Experience with Casual Suite
+Charles Choi (he/him) - Pronunciation: Che, IRC: kickingvegas, <http://yummymelon.com/devnull/> , Mastodon: <https://sfba.social/@kickingvegas>
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+To date, the predominant interaction model for Emacs has been to use keybindings or the mini-buffer prompt to issue commands. These commands are drawn from a vast ecosystem of packages (both core and third party) designed to extend Emacs. When these commands are used in aggregate, the aforementioned interaction model places a high cognitive load on the user. It also sets a very steep learning curve for Emacs.
+
+The inclusion of the Transient model package in Emacs facilitates a different interaction model using keyboard-driven menu interfaces. Menu interfaces excel at discovery and recognition, neither of which are well supported with keybindings and a prompt. Menu interfaces also can be made contextual to allow the user to focus on a task at hand.
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+Casual Suite is a personal effort to re-imagine the Emacs user experience by using keyboard-driven Transient menus as its primary interaction model.
+
+This talk describes Casual Suite, detailing its implementation and operation.
+
+About the speaker:
+
+Charles Choi has been an Emacs user since 1989 but did not get around to learning Elisp until 2022. He possesses formal knowledge of computers with a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering received from the University of Virginia in 1997. He is from and continues to live in San Francisco.
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+[[!meta title="The Free Life Planner: Empowering Lives with Emacs-Based AI"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright &copy; 2024 Andrew Dougherty"]]
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+# The Free Life Planner: Empowering Lives with Emacs-Based AI
+Andrew Dougherty (he/him) - Pronunciation: DOH-er-tee, IRC: aindilis, <https://frdcsa.org/> Facebook: <https://facebook.com/frdcsa>, <mailto:adougher9@gmail.com>
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+The Free  Life Planner (FLP)  is an ambitious,  Emacs-based artificial
+intelligence project aimed at creating a comprehensive life management
+system  to  address  global   challenges  like  poverty,  hunger,  and
+disease.  This talk  will provide  a  5-year progress  report on  FLP,
+highlighting its integration with Emacs  and its potential to serve as
+a virtual secondary social safety net.
+
+FLP  leverages  the power  of  free/libre  software  and AI  to  offer
+intelligent  planning   and  decision  support  across   various  life
+domains. Key features include  modules for finance, health, nutrition,
+and  transportation, all  accessible through  an Emacs  interface. The
+system  employs advanced  planning algorithms,  machine learning,  and
+natural  language   processing  to  provide   personalized  assistance
+tailored to individual needs.
+
+We'll explore  how FLP  uses Emacs as  its central  developer console,
+demonstrating how it  can control Emacs through  agentic software. The
+presentation will showcase practical applications  of FLP, such as the
+Gourmet meal  planner and the financial  planning module, illustrating
+how these tools can improve quality of life and promote self-reliance.
+
+The talk  will also  address the challenges  faced in  developing FLP,
+including privacy  concerns and the  complexities of releasing  such a
+comprehensive  system.  We'll  discuss our  commitment  to  free/libre
+software principles  and our  vision for  FLP's future  as a  tool for
+social good.
+
+By attending this talk, you'll gain insights into:
+- How Emacs can serve as a platform for advanced AI applications
+- The potential of free/libre software to address global challenges
+- Practical applications of AI in daily life management
+- The intersection of technology and social responsibility
+
+Join us to explore how the Free Life Planner, powered by Emacs and AI,
+aims to transform lives and create a more equitable future for all.
+
+Format (20 minutes) and outline:
+1. Introduction (2 minutes)
+   - Overview of FLP and its mission
+   - Connection to Emacs
+2. FLP Architecture and Emacs Integration (5 minutes)
+   - Core components and technologies
+   - Emacs as the central developer console
+   - Demonstration of Emacs control through FLP
+3. Key Features and Modules (5 minutes)
+   - Financial Planner
+   - Gourmet Meal Planner
+   - Health and Wellness modules
+4. Challenges and Future Directions (5 minutes)
+   - Privacy and security considerations
+   - Ongoing development and community involvement
+5. Vision for Social Impact (2 minutes)
+   - Potential applications for underserved populations
+   - Call to action for community participation
+6. Q&A (1 minute)
+
+About the speaker:
+
+Andrew  Dougherty is  the creator  of the  Free Life  Planner and  the
+driving force  behind the  FRDCSA project.  With  over two  decades of
+experience in AI  and free software development,  Andrew is passionate
+about leveraging technology to address  social challenges. His work on
+FLP  combines cutting-edge  AI  techniques with  the extensibility  of
+Emacs to create a comprehensive life management system.  Today, Andrew
+will  share insights  from  FLP's development  over  the past  fifteen
+years, demonstrating  how Emacs-based AI  can be harnessed  to empower
+individuals and communities worldwide.
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+[[!meta title="New in hyperdrive.el: org-transclusion, easy installation, and more!"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright &copy; 2024 Joseph Turner"]]
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+# New in hyperdrive.el: org-transclusion, easy installation, and more!
+Joseph Turner - <https://ushin.org>  xmpp:discuss@conference.ushin.org (XMPP MUC for USHIN discussion), <mailto:contact@ushin.org>
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+In case it's been a while since you checked out `hyperdrive.el`,
+here's a refresher: [hyperdrive.el](https://ushin.org/hyperdrive/hyperdrive-manual.html) is an Emacs interface to [hyperdrive](https://docs.holepunch.to/building-blocks/hyperdrive),
+a mutable, versioned, peer-to-peer shared filesystem.  Among other
+things, hyperdrive.el has these features: Share unlimited files of
+unlimited size; Explore file history with built-in versioning; Stream
+video and audio; No signup or account creation; Free as in Freedom!
+
+Since [last year's EmacsConf talk](https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/hyperdrive), `hyperdrive.el` grew some new
+features, most notably the ability to [transclude hyperdrive content](https://ushin.org/hyperdrive/hyperdrive-manual.html#Org_002dtransclusion-integration)
+with `org-transclusion`!  Getting started with `hyperdrive.el` is much
+easier now with `M-x hyperdrive-install`.
+
+This talk will show off these new `hyperdrive.el` features in action!
+
+Feel free to join our public XMPP chat room!
+
+-   xmpp:discuss@conference.ushin.org
+
+([Join anonymously from your browser](https://anonymous.cheogram.com/discuss@conference.ushin.org))
+
+-   \#\_bifrost\_discuss\_conference.ushin.org:aria-net.org (Matrix bridge)
+
+Bugs can be submitted to the [ushin issue tracker](https://todo.sr.ht/~ushin/ushin). Patches, comments or
+questions can be submitted to the [ushin public inbox](https://lists.sr.ht/~ushin/ushin).
+
+About the speaker:
+
+I'm Joseph Turner.  I enjoy fiddle, Aikido, peer-to-peer networks,
+Emacs, and swimming in cold water. I work with
+[USHIN](https://ushin.org/), a tiny educational US nonprofit whose
+mission is to promote personal, community, and global health through
+free and open universal shared information for everybody.
+
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+[[!meta title="Emacs as a Shell"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright &copy; 2024 Christopher Howard"]]
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+# Emacs as a Shell
+Christopher Howard (he/him) - IRC: lispmacs, <mailto:christopher@librehacker.com>
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+A shell, such as Bash, is fundamentally an
+interface to your operating system. It allows you
+to run programs, direct I/O, manage processes, and
+interact with the file system, as well as script
+such activities. Allowing for a few caveats, we
+can see that Emacs is capable of doing all these
+things, and therefore Emacs can be used a
+practical replacement for the traditional shell.
+This talk aims to explain this philosophy, to
+explore Emacs' basic shell functionality, and to
+address various caveats.
+
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+[[!meta title="My journey of finding and creating the “perfect” Emacs theme"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright &copy; 2024 MetroWind"]]
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+# My journey of finding and creating the “perfect” Emacs theme
+MetroWind (he/him) - IRC: MetroWind, Fediverse (pleroma): mw@pleroma.xeno.darksair.org - Matrix: @mw:darksair.org
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+In this talk I will share my experience of finding and creating the
+“perfect” Emacs theme. I will go through the five themes I have
+created and discuss the motivations and ideas behind them, which will
+also introduce various color spaces. And I will look into the future
+to see if there is hope to find the "perfect" theme.
+
+About the speaker:
+
+I'm a long time Emacs user (since Emacs 21). I don't write a lot of
+elisp but I'm spend vast majority of my screen time with Emacs, and
+I'm picky about how it looks. This talk shows how may hoops I'm
+willing to jump through to make it look "right".
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+[[!meta title="Transducers: finally, ergonomic data processing for Emacs!"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright &copy; 2024 Colin Woodbury"]]
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+# Transducers: finally, ergonomic data processing for Emacs!
+Colin Woodbury (he) - <https://x.com/@fosskers> ,  @fosskers@m.fosskers.ca on Mastodon, <https://www.fosskers.ca>
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+Transducers are an ergonomic and extremely memory-efficient way to process a
+data source. Here "data source" means simple collections like Lists or
+Vectors,
+but also potentially large files or generators of infinite data.
+
+Transducers&#x2026;
+
+-   allow the chaining of operations like map and filter without allocating memory between each step.
+-   aren't tied to any specific data type; they need only be implemented once.
+-   vastly simplify "data transformation code".
+-   have nothing to do with "lazy evaluation".
+-   are a joy to use!
+
+In this talk, Colin will introduce Transducers, show how to use them, and
+demonstrate some Emacs-specific workflows that make live processing of large
+data sets in JSON and CSV a breeze.
+
+About the speaker:
+
+Colin has been active in the FOSS world since 2011, publishing libraries and
+applications primarily in Haskell and Rust. Since 2023 he has been using
+Lisps
+more and more, and after falling in love with Transducers from Clojure has
+ported the pattern to three other Lisps.
+
+Colin is originally from Canada and lives in Japan.
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