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That video now has over 50 thousand views, and inspired +me to do my part and give back to the Emacs community, creating what I wish I +had when I started my journey. + +150,000 views later, I still find my YouTube channel one of the most +fulfilling things in my life at the moment (despite the fact that I am very +busy and don't have so much time for videos these days), because it is my way +of giving back and sharing Emacs with a wider community. + +In addition to the technicalities of video production and teaching Emacs, this +talk will also address two crucial topics in our community — a love of Emacs +and desire for its longevity, and spreading Emacs to new users. + +In particular, I will discuss my views on the sharing of information in the +Emacs community — how we do it, what it does for us, and how we can do it +better. + +People often complain about the Emacs learning curve. As we all know, Emacs is +a beast, and those who use and love Emacs spend years tweaking, adjusting, +modifying, and, above all, learning. Because at the end of the day, Emacs is a +personal journey. Everyone has preferences, searching for what makes them most +comfortable, happy, and productive. Still, I believe that we are stronger +together than we are apart. One of the best ways to find out what we like is +by seeing what other people like. What's important is that what other people +like, other people can understand. + +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. + + + +[[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/sharing-after)" raw="yes"]] + +[[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/sharing-nav)" raw="yes"]] + + |