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Further, +the speakers will try to be available on the IRC backchannel, +`#emacsconf` on `irc.freenode.net`, to answer questions. If there’s +not enough time in the day for all the lightning talks that are +available, we will play any remaining prerecorded lightning talks +after the conference ends as time permits, and they will made +available with the rest of the talks in the following days/weeks after +the event. + +Without further ado, our exciting lineup of talks for EmacsConf 2019: + +## Opening remarks + +9am EDT / 1pm UTC / 2pm CET + +- Welcome to the conference - Amin Bandali +- Emacs community update - Sacha Chua +- Emacs development update - John Wiegley + +## User-related + +9:30am EDT / 1:30pm UTC / 2:30pm CET + +### GNU Emacs for All + +9:30-10:15am EDT / 1:30-2:15pm UTC / 2:30-3:15pm CET + +Sachin Patil + +Having used GNU Emacs for more that 6 years now and doing Python +development for equal amount of time I'd like to share my experience +with this great GNU software which has been around for 30 years. I'd +like to go through how I use Emacs for almost all my tasks like note +taking, agenda, LaTeX, reveal.js presentations, IDE, and IRC. In this +talk I'll demonstrate how Emacs can be configured to do all sort of +things without having a dedicated application for every specific task. +I'll also talk about how to maintain Emacs configurations using +org-mode and literate programming. + +### How a Completely Blind Manager/Dev Uses Emacs Every Day + +10:15-10:45am EDT / 2:15-2:45pm UTC / 3:15-3:45pm CET + +Parham Doustdar + +I use Emacs every day and I believe it has a massive boost in my +productivity, and I'd like to talk about why, and how. I'm hoping to +cover Emacspeak, using elisp to make packages accessible, and writing +accessible interfaces to things that are not accessible. + +### Managing your life with org-mode and other tools + +10:45-11:15am EDT / 2:45-3:15pm UTC / 3:45-4:15pm CET + +Marcin Swieczkowski + +If you've tried various systems for managing your time you may have +found them to be too complicated, too inflexible, or just too much +work. org-mode and org-agenda in particular have a lot of features and +can be overwhelming to get started with. However, using only a subset +of their features they can still be flexible, simple, and powerful. +This talk will provide you with some tools and ideas for creating a +simple system catered to your needs, with a full demonstration of how +I use these tools myself. We'll be going over org-mode and org-agenda +as well as some configuration which makes them easier to use, after +which we'll cover third-party packages and tools such as org-recur +(written by the author), org-super-agenda, git, and more. + +### Lightning talks + +11:15-12pm EDT / 3:15-4pm UTC / 4:15-5pm CET + +- Use Org mode when away from the desktop - Zen Monk Alain M. Lafon +- Org-mode and FoilTeX - an unlikely (but useful) combination for teaching - Tom Faulkenberry +- How to record executable notes with eev - and how to play them back - Eduardo Ochs +- A.I. that Helps Play the Game of Your Life - Andrew J. Dougherty +- notmuch new(s) - David Bremner +- Browsing Twitch.tv from Emacs - Aaron Jacobs +- Ledger-mode - Miguel Suárez and Quiliro Ordóñez +- State of Retro Gaming in Emacs - Vasilij "wasamasa" Schneidermann (pointer to another presentation) +- Playing Emacs like an instrument - Zen Monk Alain M. Lafon (pointer to another presentation) +- Play and control your music with Emacs - Damien Cassou + +## Development + +12pm EDT / 4pm UTC / 5pm CET + +### Magit deep dive + +12-12:45pm EDT / 4-4:45pm UTC / 5-5:45pm CET + +Jonathan Chu + +The abstract of the talk would be focusing on some of Magit's more +useful and lesser-known features, as well as dig into the internals of +Magit to gain a better understanding and insight of git ultimately. +More concretely, I would start with some helpful configuration options +such as formatting the "magit-status-margin" and then go into some +Magit commands such as "magit-branch-spinoff" and +"magit-cherry-harvest" - talking about how to use them, how they work, +and what's going on under-the-hood. There is a long list of excellent +Magit porcelain commands to choose from while still being +accommodating of all experience levels with Emacs and Magit. + +### Emacs as my Go To Script Language + +12:45-1:30pm EDT / 4:45-5:30pm UTC / 5:45-6:30pm CET + +Howard Abrams + +Recently, a reddit poster asked others their default scripting +language. While Perl and Ruby have often sparred for that position, +for me, the Shell has always been that comfortable old shoe to get +things done. At least, until a few years ago when I realize that +since I'm always in Emacs, why shouldn't I just write my transient +helper scripts in Lisp? + +Didn't take long to realize why I didn't jump on that idea earlier. +It isn't very scripty. However, Lisp is moldable, and it doesn't take +much to become the scripting language of your dreams. + +But I'm not talking about some fancy new functions, I also have to +talk about the required paradigm shift: From invisibly piping text +from executable to executable, to visibly transforming a buffer with +calls to multiple functions. So let's change our workflow from script +arguments with completion to function calls with completing read from +Helm/Ivy. I daresay, this workflow can be much better. + +### Continuously checking for quality of your packages + +1:30-2:15pm EDT / 5:30-6:15pm UTC / 6:30-7:15pm CET + +Damien Cassou + +You are an Emacs Lisp developer and you own a few Emacs packages. This +talk will guide you through configuring flycheck, package-lint, +checkdoc, ERT, and others so you can be confident your package is of +top quality. To make it stay that way, the talk will also show you +how to setup github and gitlab so each commit is checked before +getting merged. + +### Lightning talks + +2:15-3:15pm EDT / 6:15-7:15pm UTC / 7:15-8pm CET + +- Automate your workflow as a game developer - Jānis Mancēvičs +- Restclient and org-mode for Api Documentation and Testing - Mackenzie Bligh +- How Emacs became my awesome Java editing environment - Torstein Krause Johansen +- Don't wait! Write your own (yas)snippet - Tony Aldon +- VSCode is Better than Emacs - Zaiste +- Porting org-shiftup/down as a separate module - MetroWind +- Packaging emacs packages for Debian - David Bremner +- Equake mode - Ben Slade +- Object oriented spreadsheets with example applications - David O'Toole +- Navigel to facilitate the creation of tabulated-list based UIs - Damien Cassou + +### Interactive Remote Debugging and Development with TRAMP Mode + +3:15-4pm EDT / 7:15-8pm UTC / 8:15-9pm CET + +Matt Ray + +Emacs' TRAMP Mode allows for remotely editing files and using Emacs +Shell Mode with remote systems. This session will walk through the +basics of using TRAMP Mode with the Free Software tools Vagrant, Chef, +InSpec, and the interactive Ruby debugging shell Pry. We'll discuss +different Emacs techniques for accessing remote systems, editing code, +and debugging systems as we securely configure them. This will be a +live demonstration, highlighting the various Emacs modes and +techniques used. + +## Future + +4pm EDT / 8pm UTC / 9pm CET + +### GNU Emacs as software freedom in practice + +4-4:30pm EDT / 8-8:30pm UTC / 9-9:30pm CET + +Greg Farough + +Newcomers to our favorite editor are often amazed by the ease with +which they can customize the environment to suit their needs. Whether +they consider themselves to be a "programmer" or not, it isn't long +before this amazement gives way to strong feelings of empowerment upon +realizing that it only takes a few keystrokes to begin studying and +improving any part of the Emacs source code. But rather than being +something unique to Emacs or just a part of working in a Lisp-based +editor, GNU Emacs' ability to empower its users has as much to do with +**GNU** as it has to do with Emacs. + +Emacs is a flagship program of the GNU Project in more ways than one: +for not only is it a successful and communally developed free software +project, it's also perhaps the one closest to the original vision of +the GNU system -- a full computing environment centered around user +freedom and empowerment. Emacs did not get to where it is today +because of its technical excellence alone. Rather, the success of +Emacs is inseparable from its being free software. The great +proliferation of communally shared packages, modes, and extensions is +not a **quirk** of Emacs, but instead a vision of what the average +computing experience could be in a world that had as its chief focus a +respect for its users' freedom. As lovers of Emacs, what can we do to +work towards this future, and bring the joy of computing back to all? +With this talk I hope to explore the ethical values that led Emacs to +its current position, and point to ways that we can help further its +wild and messy, but enduring and egalitarian spirit. + +### Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years + +4:45-5:45pm EDT / 8:45-9:55pm UTC / 9:45-10:45pm CET + +Perry E. Metzger + +Emacs has now survived almost 45 years. In another 40 years or so +(2059), will people still be using it? + +I will argue that this is a realistic possibility, but that to ensure +that people still find it a productive and fun tool into the 2050s, +Emacs will require some modernization. + +In this talk, I will briefly discuss why Emacs has survived so long +when many other editors have vanished into history, and how we might +deliberately seek to extend and expand Emacs' productivity advantages. + +I'll then spend the bulk of the talk discussing some improvements +which I think will assure Emacs' extraordinary utility into the +future. These include both important user-visible improvements (for +example, high quality HTML rendering) and necessary infrastructure +changes (for example, an incremental transition both to a better +implementation language and a better extension language). + +I'll also discuss some strategies to makes sure that work towards such +improvements is feasible, incremental, and doesn't burn out the +developer community. + +## Closing remarks + +4:30-4:45pm EDT / 8:30-8:45pm UTC / 9:30-9:45pm CET |