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+Hello, welcome to my talk, the Emacs Buddy Initiative.
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+Who am I?
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+I'm Andrea. I work as a Clojure Software Engineer
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+somewhere in the middle of the UK.
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+And I started with Emacs during my PhD,
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+thanks to my PhD supervisor
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+that introduced me to this tool.
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+And from now and from then,
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+I am basically using it for everything.
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+You can find more about this everything
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+at ag91.github.io, that is my blog.
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+So let's get into the talk.
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+Why Emacs Buddy?
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+Emacs Buddy is an initiative to bring us together.
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+And the reason is because Emacs is a limitless tool.
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+So you can keep learning about it,
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+you can keep expanding it,
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+and also takes time to get up to speed.
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+So you may actually extend Emacs
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+or you may actually get introduced,
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+start using Emacs,
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+but you could fall into all the traps
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+or all the wasted times that other users have already gone through.
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+And so, since there are a lot of amazing people
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+in the Emacs community,
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+why do every time redo the same error?
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+So let's bring us together.
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+And it would be amazing to get a one-to-one relation.
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+So I have somebody that actually knows what you want to do,
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+what you want to achieve with Emacs,
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+and supports you because they have done a similar path to yours.
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+And so they can remove some of the obstacles for you.
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+So what can you expect?
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+The main thing is guidance on your Emacs journey,
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+because the Emacs journey is infinite, it doesn't really end.
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+But the farther you go,
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+the more value you get from this amazing tool.
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+And that helps you save time.
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+And at the same time, you can meet like-minded people.
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+And so you can learn about Emacs or about your context,
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+if they are in, for example, if you are a physicist,
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+they are physicists or they are interested in the field.
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+You may not only learn about Emacs,
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+but you can learn also something about the field.
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+And anyway, the idea is that you can move forward together.
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+Somebody asked, why not just mailing lists or Reddit?
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+Well, the point is that mailing list is many people
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+can help you solve one issue that you have.
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+And that naturally doesn't become a discussion
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+of where you are from, what are you trying to achieve,
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+and where you want to move forward with using this editor
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+or using this tool.
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+Instead, here, we want something more personal,
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+something more like you tell your story.
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+And if I can help you achieve what you need,
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+I am also interested in your story as a buddy.
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+So given that, how do you get in touch with a buddy?
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+Well, the thing is easy.
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+Just ping me at this email, andrea-dev@hotmail.com.
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+And I can put you in touch with one of the buddies
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+that are available.
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+Or you can contact them personally, directly,
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+because on the web page, on the Emacs Buddy web page,
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+there are links to their material or their websites.
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+And sometimes you can find the contact yourself.
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+Anyway, I am a facilitator.
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+So if you contact me, I will find the contact for the person
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+that you want to get in touch.
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+You can also get in touch with me.
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+I'm a buddy myself.
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+How did it go so far?
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+Well, from when I started the initiative,
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+more or less we had 10 buddies.
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+We had 10 buddies that are available to help you
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+with your Emacs journey.
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+And I buddyed myself, or I got in touch
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+with people that wanted a buddy, about eight people.
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+Each of these conversations was quite interesting.
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+I decided to paraphrase one.
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+I had this user that got in touch and said:
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+"I used Emacs for 10 years.
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+I'm curious about the initiative,
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+and here is my GitHub that I started writing recently,
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+Elisp projects", projects in Elisp to extend Emacs.
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+I looked at their code.
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+I suggested, "Oh, why don't you use dash?
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+It's something that I'm familiar with.
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+Maybe you may like it as well."
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+And then I started asking, "Oh, what do you do with Emacs?
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+Have you tried a note taking tool like Org Roam?"
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+And then the conversation started.
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+So "yeah, I tried Org Roam version one.
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+I use my own thing.
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+But what is it...
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+I'm curious about version two.
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+Did you use it?
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+Do you know about Luhmann?"
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+That is the inspiration of Org Roam
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+and the backlinking and stuff.
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+And then I started the conversation about that.
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+And we discussed about functional programming.
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+We discussed a bit about philosophy and went on.
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+And then this conversation is not currently going.
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+So we arrived to a point in which it sort of died out.
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+But if I want or if they want, they can ping me back.
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+I can ping them.
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+So it's sort of a reference of this person exists
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+and is an interesting person to chat with when I have something
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+to say to them.
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+And what if you want to be a buddy?
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+Well, if you want to be a buddy, it's easy as well.
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+So basically, just open a PR on the Emacs buddy repository.
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+That is something that I am maintaining at the moment.
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+Or simply send me the information.
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+Somebody just sent me an email with the information.
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+I have created the commit to make it public available.
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+The information is just your name, a summary,
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+what kind of user you are so that you can attract
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+the right people to you, and a link to your material
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+so that if they are curious about your summary or about you,
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+they can actually go and check and even contact you directly.
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+If they contact via me, I will know your email anyway
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+from the PR you open.
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+So that is all.
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+There are ideas to maybe... if... this is basically
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+an advertisement for this initiative
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+so that we can get people that want to be helped
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+or people that want to help.
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+It's building up organically, so no rush
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+to make this thing grow, escalate enormously.
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+But for example, there are ideas to join this with the meetup
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+talk that is being happening in the conference.
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+So for example, if you find out something very interesting,
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+you can bring the discussion that you have with your buddy
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+into a meetup so that the group with which you speak is bigger.
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+There are ideas like that.
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+But first of all, just get in touch if you want to find
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+like-minded people that want to help you with your Emacs
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+journey or if you want to help others.
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+Thank you very much.
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+Enjoy the rest of the talks and chat to you soon.