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# Sharing Emacs is Caring Emacs: Emacs education and why I embraced video
-Jacob Boxerman (he/him) - <mailto:jakebox0@protonmail.com> - https://www.youtube.com/c/JakeBox0 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-boxerman/
+Jacob Boxerman (he/him) - <mailto:jakebox0@protonmail.com> - <https://www.youtube.com/c/JakeBox0> - <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-boxerman/>
I am looking for a summer internship for Summer 2024, please feel free to reach out, I am looking to network :)
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I hope you'll come check out my talk, and that it will inspire you to do one
of the most honorable things one can do: teach and share with others.
+About the speaker:
+
+Jacob Boxerman is the creator of Straightforward Emacs, a video-based
+Emacs series with practical, easy-to-follow and implement tutorials
+and advice. He is a 2nd-year computer science student at Columbia
+University in New York and is interested in the intersections of
+computer science, finance, and psychology. In his talk today, titled
+"Sharing Emacs is Caring Emacs: Emacs Education and Why I Embraced
+Video," he will share his views on communication and sharing in the
+Emacs community, and how we can all do our part to spread Emacs,
+support each other, and ensure its growth.
+# Discussion
+
+## Questions and answers
+
+- Q: Are you using ox-reveal to make your slides? If not, what are you
+ using? They look very elegant.
+ - A: Yes, and Jacob has a video about it on his channel!
+- Q: Videos can be very inspirational to learn about something by
+ watching it used. I often find I need to do some research after
+ watching a video to learn more. Do you give people links to relevant
+ resources etc?
+ - A: Definitely something that I can do more of.  I like to think
+ of my videos as jumping-points to the manual.
+- Q: What are your fellow cohort of students using for their editors? 
+ What kinds of "feedback" do you get from them when they learn
+ about you using Emacs? (Missed your talk so perhaps you answered
+ this)
+ - A: Professors making entry to comp sci as "accessible/simple"
+ as possible.  In 3rd course the professor gives option of either
+ Emacs or Vim.  Professor uses vim; so the class gravitates
+ towards that.  A 4th course, in assembly, and the professor
+ suggests Emacs.  At Columbia, vim is more used (as it's
+ modeled)
+- Q: Did you start those university classes using Emacs?
+ - A: Yes. (Two years before entering college); taking notes in
+ org-mode for programming classes is the BEST!!!  Syntax
+ highlighting, inline code blocks, literate-esque programming is
+ great for school.  Professors want PDFs on their desk!  And
+ org-mode simplifies this process.
+ - Also presenter is in humanities, and writes their humanities
+ essays in org-mode
+- Q: To Leo: Before NeoVim, you had to do as much (or more)
+ configuration to get basic editing done than in Emacs. It's also
+ slower with modal editing compared to Emacs keybindings because you
+ have to press Esc and two keys to get things done while in Emacs you
+ only have to press C/M-something (one keypress) to move or search or
+ whatever and then write. I instantly became productive for writing
+ when I switched to Emacs. (I have 5 times tried to adopt Vim...and
+ each time I get a bit better.  But Emacs was lightning in a bottle
+ for "productivity"; for those where vim works, I love it.  And am
+ eccstatic that they are owning their editor)
+ - A:
+- Q: Wha was a question you'd hoped we'd ask of you?
+ - A:
+
+## Notes
+
+- Cool talk! :-)
+- I've used your videos before! Thanks for all the good work.
+ - So awesome to hear that!! You are welcome and thanks for letting me know, love to hear it
+- Ha ha. I think Emacs users might just enjoy inconvenience. If a picture is worth a thousand words ... then maybe the value of a video is based on frame rate.
+- Agreed, jakeb --- video is worth it.
+- Interesting to think about video beeing worth it while watching a video of the conference.
+
+
+
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