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+[[!sidebar content=""]]
+
+This file is automatically exported from [/2025/report.org](/2025/report.org). You might prefer to navigate this as an Org file instead. To do so, [clone the wiki repository](https://emacsconf.org/edit/).
+[[!meta title="EmacsConf 2025 Report"]]
+[[!date "2026-01-02"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright &copy; 2025 Sacha Chua"]]
+
+
+# Table of Contents
+
+- [Overview](#overview)
+- [Technical details](#technical-details)
+- [Process improvements](#orgd32e8e9)
+- [Finances](#org4033e3c)
+- [Acknowledgements](#orgfe5d129)
+- [Updates](#updates)
+
+
+<a id="overview"></a>
+
+# Overview
+
+EmacsConf 2025 was held on December 6 and 7 as an online conference. We had 25 talks across two tracks on Saturday and one track on Sunday, with a total of 11.3 hours of presentations (including 5 live talks), 5.2 hours of Q&A via web conference, and lots of lively discussions across IRC and Etherpad. There were around a hundred viewers each on the General track and the Development.
+
+We posted videos and transcripts on talk pages shortly after they started streaming, and the recordings of live talks and Q&A sessions are now also available. We've also archived questions and commetns from IRC and Etherpad onto the talk pages. You can find the talk pages at <https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks> . The videos are also available on [media.emacsconf.org](https://media.emacsconf.org/2025), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@emacsconf), and [Toobnix](https://toobnix.org/c/emacsconf/videos).
+
+Overall, people said:
+
+- Awesome conference as always
+- It was very fun participating
+- This is one of the most organized conferences I have attended and it is like that every year
+- Excellent weekend. It went by so fast 😊
+- thanks all for this nice Emacs weekend
+
+You can find the talk pages and videos at <https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks>.
+
+
+<a id="technical-details"></a>
+
+# Technical details
+
+EmacsConf is committed to software freedom. We used the following tools
+for this year's conference:
+
+- [Org Mode](https://orgmode.org/), [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/): organization and collaboration
+- [MPV](https://mpv.io): video player
+- [BigBlueButton](https://bigbluebutton.org/): web conference
+- [OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com/): streaming
+- [TigerVNC](https://tigervnc.org/): controlling the remote server
+- [Icecast](https://icecast.org/): streaming WEBM
+- [Internet Relay Chat via Libera.chat](https://libera.chat/), [The Lounge](https://thelounge.chat/), and [ERC](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html): conversation
+- [Mumble](https://www.mumble.info/): audio conferencing for coordination
+- [Etherpad](https://etherpad.org/): questions and notes
+- [Ikiwiki](https://ikiwiki.info/): website
+- [PsiTransfer](https://github.com/psi-4ward/psitransfer): uploads
+- [FFmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org): video and audio processing
+- [Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/): audio editing
+- [WhisperX](https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX): captioning
+- [Aeneas](https://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/): forced alignment to get timestamps
+- [subed-mode](https://codeberg.org/sachac/subed): captioning
+- [Git](https://git-scm.com/): version control
+- [Mailman](https://list.org/): mailing lists; service provided by the Free Software Foundation
+- [Nginx](https://www.nginx.com/): web server; server provided by the Free Software Foundation
+- [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/): system configuration
+
+You can find out more about our infrastructure at
+<https://emacsconf.org/infra> .
+
+
+<a id="orgd32e8e9"></a>
+
+# Process improvements
+
+This year, we tried out the following experiments:
+
+- We used our own BigBlueButton 3.0 server to host Emacs meetups throughout the year in addition to EmacsConf.
+- We upgraded Etherpad to version 2.5 for security fixes.
+- We added [sub-seg](https://gitlab.com/jun8git/sub-seg) and various [subed](https://github.com/sachac/subed) improvements to our captioning workflow.
+- We resumed restreaming to Toobnix in addition to YouTube and Icecast.
+- We adapted to host availability by asking speakers to read their own questions as needed.
+- We modified our [mpv.conf](https://emacsconf.org/mpv/) to display the time remaining in the lower right-hand corner. This helped with time-keeping.
+- We wrote more code to simplify updating YouTube, Toobnix, and other places.
+
+ For in-depth notes, see [behind the scenes](https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/01/emacsconf-2025-notes/).
+
+
+<a id="org4033e3c"></a>
+
+# Finances
+
+Costs (USD), including tax where applicable:
+
+<table>
+
+
+<colgroup>
+<col class="org-left">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+
+<col class="org-right">
+</colgroup>
+<thead>
+<tr>
+<th scope="col" class="org-left">Node</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Jan</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Feb</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Mar</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Apr</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">May</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Jun</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Jul</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Aug</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Sep</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Oct</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Nov</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Dec</th>
+<th scope="col" class="org-right">Total</th>
+</tr>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left">meet</td>
+<td class="org-right">2.17</td>
+<td class="org-right">7.55</td>
+<td class="org-right">6.78</td>
+<td class="org-right">6.74</td>
+<td class="org-right">7.13</td>
+<td class="org-right">6.95</td>
+<td class="org-right">7.19</td>
+<td class="org-right">7.27</td>
+<td class="org-right">6.75</td>
+<td class="org-right">7.19</td>
+<td class="org-right">7.56</td>
+<td class="org-right">14.02</td>
+<td class="org-right">87.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left">front0</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">18.79</td>
+<td class="org-right">73.79</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left">live0</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">5.00</td>
+<td class="org-right">32.89</td>
+<td class="org-right">87.89</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+
+:end:
+
+Grand total for 2025: USD 248.98, covered by people's donations through [the Free Software Foundation's Working Together program](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=70).
+
+
+<a id="orgfe5d129"></a>
+
+# Acknowledgements
+
+We would like to thank the following:
+
+- Thank you to all the speakers, volunteers, and participants, and
+ to all those other people in our lives who make it possible
+ through time and support.
+- Thanks to other volunteers: 
+ - Corwin and Amin for helping with the organization
+ - JC Helary, Triko, and James Endres Howell for help reviewing
+ CFPs
+ - Amitav Krishna, Rodion Goritskov, jay\_bird, and indra for
+ captions
+ - yang3 for the EU mirror we're setting up
+ - Bhavin Gandhi, Michael Kokosenski, Iain Young, Jamie Cullen,
+ Ihor Radchenko (yantar92), FlowyCoder for other help
+- Thanks to the Free Software Foundation for the mailing lists,
+ the media server, and of course, GNU Emacs.
+- Thanks to Ry P for the server that we're using for OBS
+ streaming and processing videos.
+- Thanks to the many users and contributers and project teams that
+ create all the awesome free software we use, especially:
+ - [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/), [Org Mode](https://orgmode.org/), [ERC](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html), [TRAMP](https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/), [Magit](https://magit.vc/), [BigBlueButton](https://bigbluebutton.org), [Etherpad](https://etherpad.org/),
+ [Ikiwiki](https://ikiwiki.info/), [Icecast](http://icecast.org/), [OBS](https://obsproject.com/), [TheLounge](https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge), [libera.chat](https://libera.chat/), [ffmpeg](https://www.ffmpeg.org/),
+ [OpenAI Whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper), [WhisperX](https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX), the [aeneas](https://github.com/readbeyond/aeneas) forced alignment tool,
+ [PsiTransfer](https://github.com/psi-4ward/psitransfer), [subed](https://github.com/sachac/subed), [sub-seg](https://gitlab.com/jun8git/sub-seg), [Mozilla Firefox](https://www.firefox.com/), [mpv](https://mpv.io/),
+ [Tampermonkey](https://www.tampermonkey.net/)
+ - And many, many other tools and services we used to prepare
+ and host this years conference
+- Thanks to [shoshin](https://cicadas.surf/~shoshin/) for the music.
+- Thanks to people who donated via the [FSF Working Together program](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=70) (Scott Ranby, Jonathan Mitchell, and 8 other anonymous donors), the costs are covered for this year.
+
+
+<a id="updates"></a>
+
+# Updates
+
+If you would like to get updates and announcements, you can sign up at
+<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss> .
+
+Please keep an eye out for interesting things that
+might be fun to present at next year's EmacsConf.
+We'd love to get talks at all levels of experience
+and about lots of different kinds of interests.
+Previous speakers wrote:
+
+- "I always got the feeling of being heard and
+ welcome in spite of the vast distances and
+ cultures separating us. This community always
+ feels like it is open to new members any time.
+ With regards to the conference process also, it
+ was a microcosm of the bigger community and
+ hence I got the same feeling. You didn't have to
+ be an expert or a person who's been using emacs
+ for a long time to talk about something useful
+ for the community. Even the struggles of a noob
+ may be useful for someone else in the
+ community."
+- "I can honestly say though that I had a great
+ time putting my talk together. I hope people
+ will have a good time listening to it. Now that
+ the work is over, I can say it was worth it. so
+ I recommend it warmly"
+- "This has been an all-around fantastic
+ experience, both as a first-time attendee and
+ speaker. many thanks to the volunteers who make
+ emacsconf possible, and the other speakers for
+ their wonderful talks (many of which i'll be
+ reviewing now that i'm not so busy preparing)"
+
+If you'd like to volunteer for EmacsConf, check
+out <https://emacsconf.org/volunteer/> to see if
+anything resonates with you, and e-mail us at
+<mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org>. We'd love to have
+you on board.
+
+Hope to see you next year!
+
+- Sacha Chua
+
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+# [[elisp:(org-md-export-to-markdown)][Export this file to Markdown]]
+
+#+begin_export md
+<!-- report.md is exported report.org, please modify that instead. -->
+[[!sidebar content=""]]
+
+This file is automatically exported from [/2025/report.org](/2025/report.org). You might prefer to navigate this as an Org file instead. To do so, [clone the wiki repository](https://emacsconf.org/edit/).
+[[!meta title="EmacsConf 2025 Report"]]
+[[!date "2026-01-02"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright &copy; 2025 Sacha Chua"]]
+#+end_export
+
+#+TOC: headlines 1
+
+* COMMENT About this document
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CUSTOM_ID: comment-about-this-document
+:END:
+
+Goal for this document:
+
+- summarize results of EmacsConf into something that we can pull
+ relevant excerpts from depending on the audience
+ - fundraising, FSF
+
+Examples:
+
+- https://emacsconf.org/2024/report/
+- https://emacsconf.org/2023/report/
+
+* COMMENT Generating stats
+
+Other notes from
+https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/01/emacsconf-2025-notes/
+
+** Presentation and Q&A stats
+
+| Presentations | 25 |
+| Presentation duration (hours) | 11.3 |
+| Q&A web conferences | 11 |
+| Q&A duration (hours) | 5.2 |
+
+** Stream Stats
+
+#+RESULTS:
+:results:
+| 107 | Icecast peak (Gen Sat) |
+| 97 | Icecast peak (Dev Sat) |
+| ~70 | Icecast peak (Sunday) |
+| 28 | YouTube peak (Gen Sat) |
+:end:
+
+* Overview
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CUSTOM_ID: overview
+:END:
+
+EmacsConf 2025 was held on December 6 and 7 as an online conference. We had 25 talks across two tracks on Saturday and one track on Sunday, with a total of 11.3 hours of presentations (including 5 live talks), 5.2 hours of Q&A via web conference, and lots of lively discussions across IRC and Etherpad. There were around a hundred viewers each on the General track and the Development.
+
+We posted videos and transcripts on talk pages shortly after they started streaming, and the recordings of live talks and Q&A sessions are now also available. We've also archived questions and commetns from IRC and Etherpad onto the talk pages. You can find the talk pages at https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks . The videos are also available on [[https://media.emacsconf.org/2025][media.emacsconf.org]], [[https://www.youtube.com/@emacsconf][YouTube]], and [[https://toobnix.org/c/emacsconf/videos][Toobnix]].
+
+Overall, people said:
+
+- Awesome conference as always
+- It was very fun participating
+- This is one of the most organized conferences I have attended and it is like that every year
+- Excellent weekend. It went by so fast 😊
+- thanks all for this nice Emacs weekend
+
+You can find the talk pages and videos at [[https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks]].
+
+* Technical details
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CUSTOM_ID: technical-details
+:END:
+
+EmacsConf is committed to software freedom. We used the following tools
+for this year's conference:
+
+- [[https://orgmode.org/][Org Mode]], [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Emacs]]: organization and collaboration
+- [[https://mpv.io][MPV]]: video player
+- [[https://bigbluebutton.org/][BigBlueButton]]: web conference
+- [[https://obsproject.com/][OBS Studio]]: streaming
+- [[https://tigervnc.org/][TigerVNC]]: controlling the remote server
+- [[https://icecast.org/][Icecast]]: streaming WEBM
+- [[https://libera.chat/][Internet Relay Chat via Libera.chat]], [[https://thelounge.chat/][The Lounge]], and [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html][ERC]]: conversation
+- [[https://www.mumble.info/][Mumble]]: audio conferencing for coordination
+- [[https://etherpad.org/][Etherpad]]: questions and notes
+- [[https://ikiwiki.info/][Ikiwiki]]: website
+- [[https://github.com/psi-4ward/psitransfer][PsiTransfer]]: uploads
+- [[https://ffmpeg.org][FFmpeg]]: video and audio processing
+- [[https://www.audacityteam.org/][Audacity]]: audio editing
+- [[https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX][WhisperX]]: captioning
+- [[https://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/][Aeneas]]: forced alignment to get timestamps
+- [[https://codeberg.org/sachac/subed][subed-mode]]: captioning
+- [[https://git-scm.com/][Git]]: version control
+- [[https://list.org/][Mailman]]: mailing lists; service provided by the Free Software Foundation
+- [[https://www.nginx.com/][Nginx]]: web server; server provided by the Free Software Foundation
+- [[https://www.ansible.com/][Ansible]]: system configuration
+
+You can find out more about our infrastructure at
+[[https://emacsconf.org/infra]] .
+
+* Process improvements
+
+This year, we tried out the following experiments:
+
+- We used our own BigBlueButton 3.0 server to host Emacs meetups throughout the year in addition to EmacsConf.
+- We upgraded Etherpad to version 2.5 for security fixes.
+- We added [[https://gitlab.com/jun8git/sub-seg][sub-seg]] and various [[https://github.com/sachac/subed][subed]] improvements to our captioning workflow.
+- We resumed restreaming to Toobnix in addition to YouTube and Icecast.
+- We adapted to host availability by asking speakers to read their own questions as needed.
+- We modified our [[https://emacsconf.org/mpv/][mpv.conf]] to display the time remaining in the lower right-hand corner. This helped with time-keeping.
+- We wrote more code to simplify updating YouTube, Toobnix, and other places.
+
+ For in-depth notes, see [[https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/01/emacsconf-2025-notes/][behind the scenes]].
+
+* Finances
+
+Costs (USD), including tax where applicable:
+
+| Node | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
+|--------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+-------+-------|
+| meet | 2.17 | 7.55 | 6.78 | 6.74 | 7.13 | 6.95 | 7.19 | 7.27 | 6.75 | 7.19 | 7.56 | 14.02 | 87.30 |
+| front0 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 18.79 | 73.79 |
+| live0 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 32.89 | 87.89 |
+:end:
+
+Grand total for 2025: USD 248.98, covered by people's donations through [[https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=70][the Free Software Foundation's Working Together program]].
+
+* Acknowledgements
+
+We would like to thank the following:
+ - Thank you to all the speakers, volunteers, and participants, and
+ to all those other people in our lives who make it possible
+ through time and support.
+ - Thanks to other volunteers: 
+ - Corwin and Amin for helping with the organization
+ - JC Helary, Triko, and James Endres Howell for help reviewing
+ CFPs
+ - Amitav Krishna, Rodion Goritskov, jay_bird, and indra for
+ captions
+ - yang3 for the EU mirror we're setting up
+ - Bhavin Gandhi, Michael Kokosenski, Iain Young, Jamie Cullen,
+ Ihor Radchenko (yantar92), FlowyCoder for other help
+ - Thanks to the Free Software Foundation for the mailing lists,
+ the media server, and of course, GNU Emacs.
+ - Thanks to Ry P for the server that we're using for OBS
+ streaming and processing videos.
+ - Thanks to the many users and contributers and project teams that
+ create all the awesome free software we use, especially:
+ - [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Emacs]], [[https://orgmode.org/][Org Mode]], [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html][ERC]], [[https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/][TRAMP]], [[https://magit.vc/][Magit]], [[https://bigbluebutton.org][BigBlueButton]], [[https://etherpad.org/][Etherpad]],
+ [[https://ikiwiki.info/][Ikiwiki]], [[http://icecast.org/][Icecast]], [[https://obsproject.com/][OBS]], [[https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge][TheLounge]], [[https://libera.chat/][libera.chat]], [[https://www.ffmpeg.org/][ffmpeg]],
+ [[https://github.com/openai/whisper][OpenAI Whisper]], [[https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX][WhisperX]], the [[https://github.com/readbeyond/aeneas][aeneas]] forced alignment tool,
+ [[https://github.com/psi-4ward/psitransfer][PsiTransfer]], [[https://github.com/sachac/subed][subed]], [[https://gitlab.com/jun8git/sub-seg][sub-seg]], [[https://www.firefox.com/][Mozilla Firefox]], [[https://mpv.io/][mpv]],
+ [[https://www.tampermonkey.net/][Tampermonkey]]
+ - And many, many other tools and services we used to prepare
+ and host this years conference
+ - Thanks to [[https://cicadas.surf/~shoshin/][shoshin]] for the music.
+ - Thanks to people who donated via the [[https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=70][FSF Working Together program]] (Scott Ranby, Jonathan Mitchell, and 8 other anonymous donors), the costs are covered for this year.
+
+* Updates
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CUSTOM_ID: updates
+:END:
+
+If you would like to get updates and announcements, you can sign up at
+[[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss]] .
+
+Please keep an eye out for interesting things that
+might be fun to present at next year's EmacsConf.
+We'd love to get talks at all levels of experience
+and about lots of different kinds of interests.
+Previous speakers wrote:
+
+- "I always got the feeling of being heard and
+ welcome in spite of the vast distances and
+ cultures separating us. This community always
+ feels like it is open to new members any time.
+ With regards to the conference process also, it
+ was a microcosm of the bigger community and
+ hence I got the same feeling. You didn't have to
+ be an expert or a person who's been using emacs
+ for a long time to talk about something useful
+ for the community. Even the struggles of a noob
+ may be useful for someone else in the
+ community."
+- "I can honestly say though that I had a great
+ time putting my talk together. I hope people
+ will have a good time listening to it. Now that
+ the work is over, I can say it was worth it. so
+ I recommend it warmly"
+- "This has been an all-around fantastic
+ experience, both as a first-time attendee and
+ speaker. many thanks to the volunteers who make
+ emacsconf possible, and the other speakers for
+ their wonderful talks (many of which i'll be
+ reviewing now that i'm not so busy preparing)"
+
+If you'd like to volunteer for EmacsConf, check
+out https://emacsconf.org/volunteer/ to see if
+anything resonates with you, and e-mail us at
+mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org. We'd love to have
+you on board.
+
+Hope to see you next year!
+
+- Sacha Chua
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index 3617a1d1..7d59267e 100644
--- a/2025/talks/sun-close.md
+++ b/2025/talks/sun-close.md
@@ -13,6 +13,42 @@
## Discussion / notes
+- Thanks:
+ - Thank you to all the speakers, volunteers, and participants, and
+ to all those other people in our lives who make it possible
+ through time and support.
+ - This year's conference hosts are Corwin Brust and Amin Bandali,
+ while Sacha Chua ran around backstage.
+ - Thanks to other volunteers: 
+ - JC Helary, Triko, and James Endres Howell for help reviewing
+ CFPs
+ - Amitav Krishna, Rodion Goritskov, jay_bird, indra for
+ captions
+ - yang3 for the EU mirror we're setting up
+ - Bhavin Gandhi, Michael Kokosenski, Iain Young, Jamie Cullen,
+ Ihor Radchenko (yantar92), FlowyCoder for other help
+ - Thanks to the Free Software Foundation for the mailing lists,
+ the media server, and of course, GNU Emacs.
+ - Thanks to Ry P for the server that we're using for OBS
+ streaming and processing videos.
+ - Thanks to the many users and contributers and project teams that
+ create all the awesome free software we use, especially:
+ - Emacs, Org Mode, ERC, TRAMP, Magit, BigBlueButton, Etherpad,
+ Ikiwiki, Icecast, OBS, TheLounge, libera.chat, ffmpeg,
+ OpenAI Whisper, WhisperX, the aeneas forced alignment tool,
+ PsiTransfer, subed, sub-seg, Mozilla Firefox, mpv,
+ Tampermonkey
+ - And many, many other tools and services we used to prepare
+ and host this years conference
+ - Thanks to shoshin for the music.
+ [https://cicadas.surf/~shoshin/](https://cicadas.surf/~shoshin/) 
+ - Thanks to people who donated via the FSF Working Together
+ program: Scott Ranby, Jonathan Mitchell, and 8 other anonymous
+ donors! Donation link:
+ [https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=70](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=70)
+ - sacha@sachachua.com   emacsconf-org@gnu.org
+
+
- Thank you for everything sachac and everyone else that volunteered or that gave a talk
- It was very fun participating
- thank you all for everything!!!
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
index d801d793..52838685 100644
--- a/index.md
+++ b/index.md
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ You can also browse [media.emacsconf.org](https://media.emacsconf.org/) or [eu.m
## Updates
-[[!inline pages="(blog/* and !*/Discussion) or 2023/report" limit="10" rootpage="blog" archive="yes"]]
+[[!inline pages="(blog/* and !*/Discussion) or 2023/report or 2024/report or 2024/report" limit="10" rootpage="blog" archive="yes"]]
diff --git a/organizers-notebook/index.org b/organizers-notebook/index.org
index 14f3648d..db35bfcb 100644
--- a/organizers-notebook/index.org
+++ b/organizers-notebook/index.org
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ CLOSED: [2025-12-08 Mon 21:37] SCHEDULED: <2025-12-02 Tue>
- [X] Set emacsconf-publish-include-pads to t.
- [X] Republish the schedule and the info pages.
- [X] Update the conf.org and the wiki on res. (~/emacsconf-2025-private, ~/emacsconf-wiki)
-- [X] Resize the BBB server to production levels with bbb-prod: 16 GB $0.1440/hour 6 CPUs
+- [X] Resize the BBB server to production levels with bbb-prod: 16 GB $0.1440/hour 6 CPUs. MANUALLY CHECK DISK SIZE.
- [X] Send check-in details and last-minute schedule updates.
- [X] Start thelounge on front0: systemctl start thelounge.
- [X] Confirm I can connect to Mumble.
@@ -733,6 +733,7 @@ Indexing
- emacsconf-extract-insert-note-with-question-heading
- emacsconf-subed-make-chapter-file-based-on-comments
+- emacsconf-subed-copy-current-chapter-text
- change status to ~TO_CAPTION_QA~
Also copy the YouTube comments and IRC comments