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+I'm Sacha Chua, and welcome to EmacsConf 2020.
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+To kick things off, here are ten cool things
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+that people have been working on
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+since the conference last year.
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+If you want to follow the links
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+or if you'd like to add something I've missed,
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+add them to the collaborative pad
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+if you're watching this live
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+or check out the EmacsConf wiki page for this talk.
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+The big news this year was the release of Emacs 27.1,
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+a little over two years after Emacs 26.
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+Mickey Petersen's notes on the release are a great way
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+to find out what's new,
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+and John Wiegley's development update tomorrow
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+will probably give more details.
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+What's coming up for Emacs 28 and beyond?
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+One of the branches that people are
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+excited about is gccemacs, which compiles
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+Emacs Lisp to native code so that it runs faster.
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+To learn more, check out the Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code
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+presentation from the European Lisp Symposium.
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+There was a huge conversation about
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+modernizing Emacs on emacs-devel and other places.
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+Linux Weekly News has a good summary.
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+One of the interesting sub-threads on emacs-devel
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+was about using more variable-width fonts,
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+which would probably go a long way to
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+making Emacs look pretty fancy once people
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+sort out the alignment issues.
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+It looks like core Emacs will probably
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+change slowly in terms of functionality and documentation,
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+but starter kits and configuration give people
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+a great way to experiment.
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+Speaking of starter kits,
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+Doom Emacs seems to be growing in popularity.
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+It got a big boost thanks to DoomCasts and
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+DistroTube videos. So if you're curious,
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+go ahead and check those out.
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+And for general Emacs topics,
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+there have been a ton of other great videos
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+from Protesilaos Stavrou, Mike Zamansky, System Crafters,
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+and other folks. Good stuff.
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+Org continues to be a big reason
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+for people to get into Emacs.
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+This year, Zettelkasten-based workflows
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+became popular as people played around
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+with organizing ideas into small chunks
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+that are linked to each other.
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+org-roam is one of the packages for doing that
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+and there are three presentations about it this year.
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+There are also non-Org ways to do it,
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+such as zetteldeft, neuron-mode, and more.
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+People have been experimenting
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+with Org's appearance.
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+Check these screenshots out for some ideas.
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+Coding: Faster JSON processing
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+is going to make working with
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+code analysis tools better.
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+LSP-mode released version 7 and gained more contributors, too,
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+so there are probably exciting times ahead
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+for making Emacs even more of an
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+integrated development environment.
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+EAF: The Emacs Application Framework
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+has some pretty interesting demos of
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+embedded Qt programs in Emacs on Linux.
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+Matthew Zeng will give a presentation
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+on its architecture and walk through some demos,
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+so check that one out too if you want.
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+The big real-world change this year
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+was COVID-19, of course. It sucks. A lot.
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+One good thing that's come out of it
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+is that many Emacs meetups have moved online,
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+so it's easier to connect with people
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+no matter where you are in the world.
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+There's one hosted by EmacsATX on December 2
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+and it's about re-builder, leaf, and feather.
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+EmacsNYC's next meetup is on December 7
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+and it's about literate programming with Org Mode.
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+The Berlin remote meetup was
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+just a few days ago on November 25,
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+and EmacsSF and Asia-Pacific
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+probably have some coming up, too.
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+People generally announce the meetups
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+on reddit.com/r/emacs, so you can
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+look there for updates.
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+If you organize one of these,
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+please let me know so that
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+I can include it in Emacs News.
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+Lastly, there's an unofficial survey of the Emacs community.
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+It closes on November 30,
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+so if you'd like to participate,
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+you can fill out the form at emacssurvey.org
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+or send it in via e-mail.
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+So those were 10 quick highlights from this year.
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+If you're curious, check out the EmacsConf 2020 wiki page
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+for this talk so that you can follow the links.
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+If you'd like to get updates every week,
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+you can check out the Emacs News I put together.
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+Feel free to send me cool stuff to include.
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+Now on to the rest of EmacsConf!
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+Have fun, and thanks for joining us!
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