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More often than not somebody else (sometimes a younger +sometimes an older one but always with a different context) can help +us move past those walls towards new discovery. + +So come and listen about how to stand on the shoulders of your Emacs + buddies! + +In this short talk I will give an idea of how to request a buddy, how +to become a buddy yourself and how the initiative worked out so far! + +[0] <https://github.com/ag91/emacs-buddy> + +# Discussion + +## Notes and feedback + +- I am totally into emacs buddy!! +- noticed the program name in Andrea's Emacs window title? ;-) + - "This Text Editor is just Too Cool :)" in the fram title +- The "Buddy System" has already helped me with Emacs and Gnus. Thank you Andrea! + - oh, you are welcome danisanti :D Hope you keep sending encrypted mails: thanks for the GPG exercise :) +- This buddy system is a great idea, by the way. I could see how this might really benefit people trying to learn more or spread their skills +- I think the usergroups page on the EmacsWiki is fairly well maintained.. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Usergroups + + + +## Questions + +- Q: OFF TOPIC and not a question but a remark: hotmail.com is + constantly blocking more and more smaller email servers (for valid + but also dubious reasons) and many administrators are frustrated + enough not to try to get off Microsoft's blocklist any more. So + your email address might not be reachable by a substantial set of + people especially people who do not use the big email players such + as Google. + - A: oh what do you suggest? I can use/make a different one + - Karl: I'd recommend not to use Microsoft email servers in + general as I've realized in too many situations that admins + gave up fighting Microsoft. For example, my Mastodon + instance can not be used any more by people using hotmail + for that reason. Sometimes, admins do have to pay real money + in order to get unblocked by Microsoft. This is a pattern + I'd not support myself. YMMV. + - The worst part: users of Hotmail do not realize this + until they really need to contact a company or a person + who got blocked. + - Ah didn't know that, I will look into it then. Thanks! + - Have a look at e.g. mailbox.org (using renewables), + migadu.com (partly), posteo.de (if you don't require an own + domain...) + - For people who focus on mobile apps and webmailers, + protonmail might be a good idea. They are Swiss-based + and focus on a very high level of privacy and security. + AFAIR IMAP is only for payed plans and for for the free + plan. + - interesting, thanks! +- Hi Andrea-- great talk. I hope your idea can scale. Are you looking at other models such as mentorship networks etc. What are your thoughts on real-time collaboration? Also, should this buddy network be a slack or discord channel? Would that help? + - I will just scale it up if necessary pulling more people as facilitators in case +- Hi, just missed the talk, but as a beginner who just enjoys tinkering with emacs, I herewith warn you that I might reach out to you :-) +- Q: would you consider creating a IRC channel for your buddy initiative? + - A: I didn't think about it: how would that be? I was thinking email/calls was more personal ;) + - a permanent IRC is great for me + - email and calls are good too + - for IRC there already is #emacs + - #emacs is a pretty big channel. I can see where having a dedicated channel would make sense. + - something like jitsi might be good if you want that. I think you can protect them w/ code to keep weirdos out? + - email is more personal and it doesn't need to be connected all the time to get an answer + - yeah, async vs. sync communication styles. + - FWIW, to create a channel simply /join #the-channel +- quiliro: I want to be a mentor and also would like to be mentored + - A: just drop me an email and we can get on from there + - dto: hey `none can you pm me your email? i could do some mentoring sessions this year for sure + +[[!inline pages="internal(2022/info/buddy-after)" raw="yes"]] + +[[!inline pages="internal(2022/info/buddy-nav)" raw="yes"]] + +[[!taglink CategoryCommunity]] |