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+[[!date "2023-08-14"]]
+[[!meta title="EmacsConf 2023 CFP progress report (8 talks accepted so far, 1 to review, 6 todo)"]]
+
+The end of the EmacsConf 2023 call for participation is one month away
+(Sept 14; <https://emacsconf.org/2023/cfp/>). Whee! So far, we&rsquo;ve sent
+early acceptances to the following talks and added them to the program
+on the wiki (<https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks>):
+
+<table>
+<colgroup>
+<col  class="org-right">
+<col  class="org-left">
+<col  class="org-left">
+</colgroup>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">Duration</td>
+<td class="org-left">Title</td>
+<td class="org-left">Speaker</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">10</td>
+<td class="org-left">An Org-Mode based text adventure game for learning the basics of Emacs, inside Emacs, written in Emacs Lisp</td>
+<td class="org-left">Chung-hong Chan</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">20</td>
+<td class="org-left">Authoring and presenting university courses with Emacs and a full libre software stack</td>
+<td class="org-left">James Howell</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">20</td>
+<td class="org-left">Org-Mode workflow: informal reference tracking</td>
+<td class="org-left">Christopher Howard</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">20</td>
+<td class="org-left">GNU Emacs for electronics, note-taking, and as lightweight IDE</td>
+<td class="org-left">Anand Tamariya</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">10</td>
+<td class="org-left">A modern Emacs look-and-feel without pain</td>
+<td class="org-left">Pedro A. Aranda</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">10</td>
+<td class="org-left">Writing a language server in OCaml for Emacs, fun, and profit</td>
+<td class="org-left">Austin Theriault</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">20</td>
+<td class="org-left">LLM clients in Emacs, functionality and standardization</td>
+<td class="org-left">Andrew Hyatt</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">10</td>
+<td class="org-left">The many ways to browse Hacker News from Emacs</td>
+<td class="org-left">Mickael Kerjean</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+
+We sent the speakers <https://emacsconf.org/2023/prepare/> in case
+anyone wants to get started on their presentations.
+
+There&rsquo;s one talk that&rsquo;s waiting for feedback on the emacsconf-submit
+before we send the early acceptance in about a week:
+
+<table>
+
+
+<colgroup>
+<col  class="org-right">
+
+<col  class="org-left">
+
+<col  class="org-left">
+</colgroup>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">Duration</td>
+<td class="org-left">Title</td>
+<td class="org-left">Speaker</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-right">20</td>
+<td class="org-left">one.el: the static site generator for Emacs Lisp Programmers</td>
+<td class="org-left">Tony Aldon</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+
+There are several talk proposals that are in progress (need to
+coordinate, don&rsquo;t have speaker releases / full details / etc.):
+
+<table>
+
+
+<colgroup>
+<col  class="org-left">
+
+<col  class="org-left">
+</colgroup>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left">Title</td>
+<td class="org-left">Speaker</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left">Emacs MultiMedia System (EMMS)</td>
+<td class="org-left">Yoni Rabkin</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left">Emacs development updates</td>
+<td class="org-left">John Wiegley</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left">Watch Over Our Folders</td>
+<td class="org-left">Bastien Guerry</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left">Emacs community information sharing?</td>
+<td class="org-left">Jake B</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left">Emacs saves the Web</td>
+<td class="org-left">Yuchen Pei</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="org-left">How to build an Emacs 2: Revenge of the Lem</td>
+<td class="org-left">Fermin</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+
+This time last year, we had 2 proposals, with most of the proposals
+coming in at the end of the CFP. This was usually when we started
+panicking about not having lots of proposals, but I think we can skip
+stressing about it this year. <laugh> Even with the program as it is
+now, we&rsquo;d already have a pretty fun EmacsConf. Can&rsquo;t wait to see what
+it&rsquo;ll look like when more people get their proposals in!
+
+Sacha