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 - mplsCorwin's livestreaming project, working on trimming
 - Writing about Emacs: zaeph
 - Diversity outreach: gopar, sachac, zaeph
+- Finding a parallel monthly day for EmacsConf prep meetings
 
 * February 6, 2021 meeting
-- Preemptive points
+
+- Checking in with everyone
+  - bandali: Crunch at work with the latest release of Debian, Icecat release
+  - zaeph: possible actual department for free software at his current work
+  - mplsCorwin: vacation, extra week, yay PTO! Looking more into literate programming. (Grant Rettke recently shared how he uses untangling to make it easier for people to edit the resulting source code files)
+  - sachac: 
+    - Emacs calendar can now handle recurring events
+      - Now done with a Python script instead of an old Ruby script
+      - Some people are starting to use it!
+        - Especially for the meetups.
+    - Started figuring out Twitch streaming
+      - updated obs-websocket at https://github.com/sachac/obs-websocket-el, can easily switch scenes, start/stop recording, put a message up in a buffer, capture timestamped notes/markers into a WebVTT file
+        - Sacha is curious about gstreamer; maybe if Amin got around to writing his gstreamer script, Sacha could get around to using it for Twitch?
+        - Sacha is also working on a system for using Twitch’s API to send subtitles/descriptions
+      - used mozart-dice-game NPM to generate a whole bunch of piano minuet MIDIs, yay generated music; used selectric-mode to add typing sounds
+      - looked into OBS SendCaptions, but might not be able to easily get it to work under Linux; might consider other ways to send live captions and markers
+    - Started sketching out EmacsDiversity page
+    - Next up: test my hydra for editing subtitles,         
+- Points
+  - *okay, streaming* =) (We'll figure out where to put it some other time, this is just to get us used to working in public)
   - Diversity
-    - Iterating over [[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity][EmacsWiki : Emacs Diversity]]
+    - Iterating over [[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity][EmacsWiki : Emacs Diversity]]  (you might be thinking about EmacsChannelDemographics)
+  - Podcast update?
+    - shoshin update on the intro music?
+  - Answer this question: ‘What kinds of talks do we generally want?’
+    - Working off our configs; explaining parts of our config (mplsCorwin)
+    - Inspiration, integrated workflow demos
+      - Really cool programming demo
+      - Really cool nonprogramming demo
+    - The goal would be to get people to read other people’s code; something vaguely archeological: ‘if I could do this, even though it wasn’t great code, it did the job!’
+      - A lot of people respond to those ‘programming but not’ / surface-programming approaches to code.
+    - ERG reports on what we’re working on (zaeph)
+    - Meta-workshops on how they’re organised/run, what goes into it (zaeph)
+    - Writing modes / releasing modes
+      - How do we go from some intricate code inside a personal config to a package releasable to the public?
+    - Hacking on Emacs C core (bandali)
+      - Some of the more involved modification of Emacs will need to be done in the C core.
+	- Maybe we could consider inviting Stéfan Monnier?
+    - Native compilation, maybe dynamic modules?
+
+  - Amin: Check how much time it would take to deploy Mailman for the workshops.
+    - Are we trading low up-front effort (asking maintainers to create a mailing list) for high ongoing effort (keeping our own mailing list system going)?
+    - Amin talked to someone else who can help set this up, maybe even this weekend. Main domain? Maybe emacsverse?
+      - Stack: Trisql, Exim, Mailman
+      - Could it work with FOSSHost?
+        - Since it’s geared to the end-users, and based on our relationship with them (via mplsCorwin), we might be able to ask them to host the server.
+        - FOSSHost did set up a BBB for us; we should gauge whether we want/need to use it.
+          - Hmm... mplsCorwin, would FOSSHost like to talk to the other Emacs meetups to see if they want to join up? I think it was EmacsNYC or EmacsATX that has been experimenting with self-hosting Jitsi, and EmacsBerlin self-hosts Jitsi. Could be later on.
+    - Domain discussion
+      - emacsverse
+        - Mailing lists and co. would go on their
+    - All in all:
+      - We’re very close to having Mailman ready for the meetups/workshops.
+  - FH & BBB: What *scope* do we want?
+    - ‘Do we want Emacs NYC to get their own server, or do we want to manage a single, federated instance with user-account, self-management, etc.?’
+    - We’d be in charge of most of the management of that instance, and we wouldn’t be piggy-backing on the FSF’s instance.
+    - We'll figure out our own stuff first, maybe, and then we can get the other folks in
+  - Improving the diversity page: [[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity][EmacsWiki : Emacs Diversity]]
+    - Right now, the page only contains an alphabetised list of names
+rganising the names on that page in a more relevant fashion?
+    - Two sides of the question:
+      - "I feel a little isolated. I don't know other Emacs users, and it seems you have to be a real computer geek in order to use Emacs. Are there people like me?"
+      - ‘What are some different ways you can use Emacs, and what kinds of people use Emacs?
+        - People might be unwilling to identify as marginalised groups: how do we resolve this?
+    - Diversity of usage: What is Emacs being used for?
+    - Diversity of people: By whom is Emacs being used?
 
+- Homework:
+  - For everyone:
+    - Think about ways to organize and flesh out the [[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity][Emacs Diversity]] page.
+      - How do we give it better structure?
+  - Leo: Work on the FSF thing (for [2021-02-15 Mon])
+  - Sacha: Figure out toggling mute from Emacs and add it to my modeline, since my computer LED doesn't work =)
+  - Sacha: Edit more subtitles
+  - Future points
+    - bandali & mplsCorwin: Gauge whether we can/need to use FH’s BBB.
+      - …For our own meetings/workshops?
+      - …For the next EmacsConf?
+	
 * January 28, 2021 meeting
 
 - Agenda
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     - How strongly do we want to ask for pre-recs?
       - Definitely at least as much as this year.
       - It’s also much easier for Amin to chill when we have pre-recs.
+      - We need to incentives speakers by telling sending their pre-recs early, we can do some adjustments.
 * January 21, 2021 meeting
 
 - Updates: