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   - Coming up with a way to coordinate meetings with *all* the organisers of the EmacsConf (rather than the core subset)
   - Coming up with a calendar for the next edition
   - Decide whether the live-version of the EmacsConf 2020 can be axed by [2021-06-12 Sat]
-  - Coming up with different tracks
+  - Coming up with different tracks (TODO for [2021-08-21 Sat] )
     - Meta track (for EmacsVerse stuff)
-    - Gaming
+      - Community
     - Org
+      - org-roam
     - Multimedia & Fun
       - Gaming
       - Music
+    - Dev
+      - Emacs core
+      - Other emacs stuff
+    - Research
     - Beginner’s track (dto & mplsCorwin?)
+  - We could also use sachac’s list of categories for Emacs news as input
 
 - EmacsVerse
   - Vet Mailman and exim instance for usergroups: bandali
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   - mplsCorwin's livestreaming project, working on trimming
   - Diversity outreach: gopar, sachac, zaeph, mplsCorwin
 
+* August 14, 2021 meeting
+
+- Important next actions from last time for today [2021-07-29 Thu 20:30] (UTC):
+  - CFP
+    - All done last week!
+  - Office hours
+    - Find other timeslots where we’d be available for office hours (tentative for now; no commitment, just feeling the water)
+
+- Check-in
+  - bandali
+    - Doing good!  Atg a rainy time at the camping, but had a good time overall
+  - corwin (no longer mplsCorwin thanks to the Freenode exodus!)
+    - Has been putting a lot of work with FOSSHost
+    - Managed to get some work done on dungeon-mode
+    - Put some work on orgvm to update org via the web-browser (on corwin’s SourceHut)
+      - [[https://git.sr.ht/~mplscorwin/orgvm][~mplscorwin/orgvm - sourcehut git]] (do you want this published on the wiki, corwin?)
+      - This particular exploration was informed by corwin’s discovery of comic-chat which made him explore the NodeJS implementation
+  - sachac
+    - Managed to join us!
+
+- Quick thoughts on involving the public in the review process for the proposals
+  - sachac: Maybe put anonymized proposals on a wiki page, unless there's anything that's kinda iffy?
+
+- CFP
+  - Numbers for the CFP (via the nginx logs)
+    - Total visits: 100k
+    - Unique visitors 12k
+    - Pretty large numbers altogether!
+    - We should probably run this regularly (bi-weekly) to quantify /when/ people are participating
+  - Nudging people in directions that we want (sachac)
+    - In a couple of weeks?
+
+- Office hours
+  - Figuring out a schedule with every orgas (or users?) who want to get involved)
+  - Right now, we need to find a second slot that would be friendly to East Asia and Oceania
+  - Availabilities
+    - bandali will be away from <2021-08-21 Sat> to <2021-08-24 Tue>
+    - zaeph is available all summer
+  - Even if nobody shows up to the early office hours, there’s no rush: they’ll be running until the end of the CFP, and orgas can work on the office hours or on EmacsConf during them. :)
+
+- Alternative method for helping people: assisting during the recording
+  - Orgas could attend the recording of the presentations and ask questions to the presenter (which may or may not be included 
+
+- TODO Next actions
+  - Everyone
+    - Come up with an exhaustive list of topics/tracks for the next edition
+      - Find the first TODO this document under [[#ongoing-projects][file:~/emacsconf.org::#ongoing-projects]]
+  - corwin
+    - Tue and Fri night (CST) TBC
+
+- Long running next actions:
+  - Project-based:
+    - bbb:
+      - BBB experimentations:
+        - See if increasing the RAM results in less CPU usage
+        - Gauge how much the number of present users affect the resources
+        - Working with the swap
+          - Decreasing the swapiness of the kernel might help
+          - Test RW speed (elsewhere than ~/tmp/~)
+        - Check if we can change the ffmpeg prioritisation for BBB (so as to get recordings out sooner, or to manage them ourselves)
+          - Does bbb spawn a ffmpeg process that we can investigate?
+    - Misc:
+      - Look into GLT21 to see if they have specifications/doc for their streaming
+      - We might want to discuss the podcast during the next session
+  - People-based:
+    - zaeph:
+      - Email Emacs NYC (and Cc sachac and bandali) to ask them if they’d be interested in hosting their sessions on our BBB instance (on FH)
+        - Organisers to content:
+          - admin@emacsnyc.org (goes to both Eric & Zach)
+      - Do the same with Emacs ATX?
+      - Do the same with M-x Research
+    - bandali:
+      - Prepare the announcement email for the Improvement Meeting™
+      - Wiki updates for references to freenode
+      - Check if there is anything important on live0 that would need archiving (besides the raw EmacsConf2020 ಠ_ಠ)
+      - Listing the specs for the non-FH servers (very quick)
+      - Wipe the private-repo
+
 * July 24, 2021 meeting
 
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