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diff --git a/2023/report.org b/2023/report.org index b0fbbc9a..18749d87 100644 --- a/2023/report.org +++ b/2023/report.org @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ EmacsConf 2023 started with a full day of Org Mode talks on the general track, g - "My favorite talk was Howard's, not because I do role playing games (last was probably a few late night D&D sessions in the 70s), but just seeing the sheer existential joy possible in using emacs to - scratch ones one itch, and then sharing the experience." [[https://fosstodon.org/@eludom/111674175511553798]] + scratch ones one itch, and then sharing the experience." [[https://fosstodon.org/@eludom/111674175511553798][@eludom]] - "Really cool project! - Also the enthusiasm for the topic is really contagious!" - "the camera and lighting already has me sold" @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ EmacsConf 2023 started with a full day of Org Mode talks on the general track, g *Community:* In [[emacsconf:mentor][Mentoring VS-Coders as an Emacsian (or How to show not tell people about the wonders of Emacs)]], Jeremy Friesen talked about his experiences staying curious, learning from people around him, and encouraging people to grow no matter what tools they currently use. People said: - - "The talks that impacted me the most were @takeonrules Jeremy Friesen's talks, ostensibly about writing with #Emacs and talking to others about Emacs. Substantively they got right to the heart of what makes Emacs so powerful as a platform, as a community, and as a model for how #FreeSoftware liberates us. His embodying the attitudes of self-sufficiency, mutual aid, empathy, open-mindedness, and authentic creativity showed us ourselves at our best." - [[https://emacs.ch/@jameshowell/111671402961867425][@jameshowell]], quoted under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 + - "The talks that impacted me the most were @takeonrules Jeremy Friesen's talks, ostensibly about writing with #Emacs and talking to others about Emacs. Substantively they got right to the heart of what makes Emacs so powerful as a platform, as a community, and as a model for how #FreeSoftware liberates us. His embodying the attitudes of self-sufficiency, mutual aid, empathy, open-mindedness, and authentic creativity showed us ourselves at our best." [[https://emacs.ch/@jameshowell/111671402961867425][@jameshowell]], quoted under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 - "such valuable work being described" - "I love the attitudes and worldview that infuses your blog posts and your talks this weekend." @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ EmacsConf 2023 started with a full day of Org Mode talks on the general track, g measure myself but keep anyway..." - "I very much liked Yoni Rabkin's calm,measured talk about EMMS. It described not only the software but how the development team - worked." ([[https://emacs.ch/@franburstall/111675280003261648]]) + worked." ([[https://emacs.ch/@franburstall/111675280003261648][@franburstall]]) - "I just really enjoy seeing the folks that contribute to free software. They are truly people to emulate. That goes double for Yoni." @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ EmacsConf 2023 started with a full day of Org Mode talks on the general track, g 1. Multiple talks on using Emacs/Org mode in university setting both on student and lecturer side. This gives a promise on more people being exposed to Emacs and more people using it in their professional toolchain. 2. The rise of LLM talks - Emacs being text editor is a natural interface to LLMs that do text-crunching. 3. "Parallel text replacement" talk showing us that even the most common text-based interfaces are not yet "figured-out". Even in Emacs." - ([[https://emacs.ch/@yantar92/111671107089286310][@yantar92]]) + [[https://emacs.ch/@yantar92/111671107089286310][@yantar92]] - "2nd favorite was Andrew Hyatt's LLM talk because it clearly showed how relevant a programmable text processing environment (that happens to have an editor) is to the brave new world of LLMs, @@ -138,14 +138,13 @@ EmacsConf 2023 started with a full day of Org Mode talks on the general track, g What's old is new. Emacs was born in an AI lab. The challenge of computing as far back a Alan Turing was intelligence. This talk - shows not the past, but emacs' place in the future. " - [[https://fosstodon.org/@eludom/111674208478381966]] + shows not the past, but emacs' place in the future." [[https://fosstodon.org/@eludom/111674208478381966][@eludom]] - "I think Andrew is right that Emacs is uniquely positioned, being a unified integrated interface with good universal abstractions (buffers, text manipulation, etc), and across all uses cases and notably one's Org data. Should be interesting...!" -There were lots of other great talks. Check them out at https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks ! Overall, people said: +There were lots of other great talks. Check them out at https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks . Overall, people said: - "actually there part of the conference I admire most is is the fact that that whole thing is obviously a labor of love by emacs geeks for @@ -153,7 +152,7 @@ There were lots of other great talks. Check them out at https://emacsconf.org/20 It creates community for those of us who are otherwise isolated in our dark holes using a 45 year old text editor and wondering quizzically why everything in our lives can't be reduced to text." - ([[https://fosstodon.org/@eludom/111674156306960653]]) + [[https://fosstodon.org/@eludom/111674156306960653][@eludom]] - "Indeed, seeing all the use cases across so many fields is one of the big selling point of this coming together, loving it." - "This is my first year attending the conference, it was amazing! All |