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 **Responses in written form**:
 
+We invite all the Emacs users to participate in the discussion
+asynchronously, in addition to the live Q&A session. Both before and
+after the conference. The written answers will be collected below.
+
 - https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/11/emacsconf-thinking-about-the-community-panel/
 
+**About speakers**:
+
+*Amin Bandaly*: Amin is an Emacs developer and a volunteer in other
+  areas of the GNU Project including as a GNU maintainer and an
+  assistant GNUisance, and curates the monthly GNU Spotlight published
+  by the Free Software Foundation and is a long-time EmacsConf
+  organizer among other things.  He reads and writes a number of
+  computer and human languages in Emacs, including his mother tongue,
+  Persian, thanks to Emacs' excellent support for editing
+  bidirectional text.
+
+*Bart Bunting*: Bart Bunting is a long-term Emacspeak user who
+  casually develops a fork that works on Windows - Emacsvox. He depends
+  on speech access, encountered barriers that took them away from Emacs
+  (had to use Windows), and found a way back and into contributing.
+
+*Bashbunni*: Bashbunni is a coder; free/libre software lover; breaker
+  of things; and, of course, (Doom) Emacs user. And she has a youtube
+  channel.
+
+*Jeff Trull*: Jeff is organizing Emacs SF meetup and often hangs out
+  across various online Emacs meetups.  He is an embedded C++
+  consultant, and likes math and electronic circuits.
+
+*Protesilaos (Prot)*: I am pretty sure that most of us heard about
+  Prot. An Emacs user, philosopher, hermit, Outstanding New Free
+  Software Contributor (as of 2021, awarded by FSF).
+
+*Qifan Wang (LdBeth)*: Qifan Wang (or LdBeth) is a moderator of Emacs
+  China. He is interested in array programming languages, computer
+  typesetting and history of computing.
+
+*Sacha Chua*: Sacha Chua puts together the weekly Emacs News, helps
+  run EmacsConf and the Planet Emacslife aggregator, and has been
+  blogging about Emacs for more than twenty-five years.
+
+*Tilmann Singer*: Tilmann is an organizer of Emacs Berlin meetups -
+  one of the most active meetups we have across the globe.
 
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