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diff --git a/2019/transcripts.md b/2019/transcripts.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2a026162 --- /dev/null +++ b/2019/transcripts.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!meta title="Transcripts"]] + +Emacs community update - Sacha Chua - script at +<https://github.com/sachac/emacs-conf-2019-community-update/blob/master/index.org> + +## User talks + +- [[Use Org mode when away from the desktop - Zen Monk Alain M. Lafon|05]] +- [[Org-mode and FoilTeX - an unlikely (but useful) combination for teaching - Tom Faulkenberry|06]] +- [[aithathelps|A.I. that Helps Play the Game of Your Life - Andrew J. Dougherty|07]] +- [[Notmuch New(s) - David Bremner|10]] +- [Ledger-mode - Quiliro Ordóñez](//mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2019/emacsconf-2019-12-ledger-mode--transcript--quiliro.org) +- [[playandcontrolmusic|Play and control your music with Emacs - Damien Cassou|28]] + +## Dev talks + +- [[Emacs: My awesome Java environment - Torstein Krause Johansen (skybert)|19]] +- [[Packaging Emacs packages for Debian|22]] +- [[Restclient and org-mode for Api Documentation and Testing - Mackenzie Bligh|29]] + +To be completed later. diff --git a/2019/transcripts/05.md b/2019/transcripts/05.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a0d423ef --- /dev/null +++ b/2019/transcripts/05.md @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +[[!meta title="Use Org mode when away from the desktop - Zen Monk Alain M. Lafon"]] + +- Hello everyone, my name is Alain and I'm going to give you a ten + minute introduction to Organice. This is what we're going to do, + I'll give a quick introduction to me, I'll tell you all about + Organice, you'll get a real-time demonstration and I'll finish with + some closing words. So without further ado, who am I? I am the + co-founder and CEO of a company based in Zurick, Switzerland called + 200OK, we are a product incubator but we also do customer + projects. We are very polyglot in that we like to use many + programming languages and technologies and we spend as much time as + we can on free and open source software. For the last nine years + I've also been a lecturer at the Zurick University of Applied + Sciences and I am an ordained Zen-monk and I run the ?? temple in + the mountains of ??. If you want to reach me please send me an email + at any time to <alain@200ok.ch>. + +- Why would you even care who I am? So I gave that little prefix to + say that I dabble in quite a few different things and to be able to + manage it all I kind of have to be a ?tooling? nut. And I am. + +- For example I even got the job interview to be a lecturer by + accident because I gave a talk on getting things done some nine + years ago and then got invited. Which in turn means that over the + last fifteen years I went over great many different tools and + processes and since six years I have settled, I am very happy now, + and I spend most of my work reading, communication and writing all + within Emacs. And within there Org-mode is my daily driver. I use + it for everything. For project management, time tracking, doing + quotes, book-keeping, controlling, giving presentations, and so much + more. I am very happily commited to using Org-mode and Emacs. + +- Then what even is Organice? I mean if Org-mode is so great, why + would we need a new tool? Well there's two pragmatic reasons, one + is it's not really convenient to have a laptop and PC handy all the + time. And secondly, not everyone is an Emacs user unfortunately. + So I would have this proposition, if you're a fan of Org-mode you + probably want to have access to your Org files at any point in time, + even if you're away from your computer. And you still want to use + good collaboration tools with other people, so you still want to + continue using Org-mode even if they're not Emacs users. And now + there is a solution for that, it's called Organice. Organice is an + implementation of Org-mode without the dependency of Emacs. It's + built for mobile and desktop browsers and syncs with DropBox and + Google Drive. + +- This is what it looks like. But before I show you how it works, let + me tell you a little bit about how we develop it. Of course it is + free and open source software, it has the AGPL license, there's a + public code of conduct, the contributing guidelines are up there, + you can find the code repository documentation on GitHub. And we + built it using popular front-end frameworks, mainly React and Redux, + we want to use the popular frameworks here because we want to enable + the widest range possible of contributors, and not have a lock-in to + a smaller niche. So let me give you a demo. I'll give you a demo + on my machine because as I said it's optimized for mobile and + desktop use so I can use it on my computer from the browser. You + could follow along by going to <https://organice.200ok.ch>, of + course you can host it yourself, but you can also use our free + instance, and no worries, there is no back-end, it's a front-end + only application. So there's no storage of any kind of data, + personal or not, on our servers. We also don't use analytics, so + it's I would say safe to use. + +- ?Inception? time, let's check out some Org-mode features and + Organice, but before we do that, let me show you that we've actually + been within Emacs and in the rendering of an Org-mode file all the + time, so the slide is the same on the left and on the right, and + wouldn't it be great if we could open this right within Organice. + And of course we can. Right here I am logged into + <https://organice.200ok.ch> so I have access to my files, it's the + same file, and you can see this is the demo slide that we've just + been on. But let me show you some more basic and core features of + Emacs Org-mode. So you're probably familiar with todos and of + course we support them. You can toggle todos. Can delete them. + You can see that the metadata up here is changing. Of course you + can edit headers, make it a new header, edit descriptions. There is + support for tags so for example, ?Louise? has some tags in here and + I can add all the tags that the system already knows. I can remove + them. I can create new tags. ?Oh?, it's adapted. We can focus and + drill down as the narrowing feature can, and it can go further down. + +- And up again. We can of course add and remove headers, so let me + make a new header, or remove an old one. We can move headers around + so for example here is a couple of cool things, so for example if I + wanted to move Emacs out and get rid of the text editors that works, + ?but/that? I can also for example move this further out and you can + see how they are attached if I bring it down or out or I can move it + back into again. You might have seen that this thing is turning all + the time whenever I make any change because we have implicity + syncing, so everything is synced to my DropBox right now. + +- We do have undo and redo on the top of the application there is a + redo, sorry an undo and redo button. ?? there is support for tables, + we can change values within tables, ?say ch-ed?, we can add new + columns and rows, we can also remove them. There is support for + lists and checkboxes, plain lists, ordered lists. Checkboxes work + as you would think they do. There is support for timestamps. It + understands if you gave it more information like a start and end + time you can set repeaters and delays. The regular things that work + in Org-mode timestamps. There is support for property lists, you + can remove and add new properties. + +- There is support for planning, so you have an agenda, all the items + that have deadlines and schedules are visible within the agenda. + There's a daily agenda, weekly agenda, monthly agenda and you can + jump right into the todo itself. + +- And lastly there is ?ketchla? template support, so I have a ?ketcha? + template setup for this file and it will add stuff to the inbox + here, so when I create new stuff in here, it is put directly into + the inbox and synced. So let's go back into the presentation and the + closing words. But before I give you the closing words, let's + quickly check out how the Org-file changed on my machine, because of + course it did, because all the synchronization happened. For + example you can see that there is new stuff in the inbox, I created + new deadlines, I deleted some properties, and added some new ones, I + checked some check boxes. You can see all the things that I did are + there. Quite nice. + +- Okay closing words, there is related work going on next to Organice, + right now we're using a custom parser written in JavaScript for the + Org-files, and it works quite fine and it has unit-tests to prove + it, however, we want to redo and write a parser, a proper parser in + BNF, and we're doing this in Closure and Closure-Script. If you're + interested in this project you can check it out on our GitLab + instance, also free and open source software of course. We write + quite frequently about Emacs and Org-mode, if you want to catch up + please go to our website, and lastly please check Organice out, you + can go to the repository if you liked the talk, please give it a + star. And, go ahead and check it out on + <https://organice.200ok.ch>, you don't even have to log in, you can + just try it out. Okay, thank you for listening, thank you for your + time, and have fun and enjoy using Organice and Emacs of course. |