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+[[!meta title="Panel: Improving the Emacs Community: Onboarding, Participation, and Growth"]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2026 Participants"]]
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+# [Panel] Improving the Emacs Community: Onboarding, Participation, and Growth
+
+Participants
+
+- Amin Bandali [FSF volunteer]
+- Bart Bunting [Emacspeak user]
+- Bashbunni [YouTube blogger]
+- Jeff Trull [Emacs SF organizer]
+- Protesilaos (Prot) [Prose & Youtube blogger]
+- Qifan Wang (LdBeth) [Emacs China moderator]
+- Sacha Chua [EmacsConf organizer]
+- Tilmann Singer [Emacs Berlin organizer]
+
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+The discussion idea was born from perpetual Sacha's interest in
+making Emacs community a better place.
+
+GNU Emacs and the community around it has no shortage of history.
+However, different groups of Emacs users prefer using different media
+to communicate - between the traditional mailing lists to newer
+international platforms like YouTube, or country-specific forums.
+Here, we would like to bring Emacs users representing various
+sub-communities together, so that we can learn from each other and
+hopefully come up with new ideas.
+
+Questions:
+
+1. What made you start using Emacs, and what kept you using it?
+
+2. What took you from using Emacs to actively contributing to the
+   community - participating in forums, writing Elisp, organizing
+   meetups, answering questions?
+
+3. How does Emacs show up for you in real life - colleagues, meetups,
+   friends? How did those connections form?
+
+4. If you know other software communities, what's one thing Emacs could
+   learn from them?
+
+5. What's one concrete thing you wish existed in the Emacs community a
+   year from now?
+
+**Note that you can ask other questions not limited to the above
+during public Q&A session after the panel discussion**
+
+Related: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacsconf-org/2026-08/msg00006.html>
+
+**Responses in written form**:
+
+We invite all the Emacs users to participate in the discussion
+asynchronously, in addition to the live Q&A session. Both before and
+after the conference. The written answers will be collected below.
+
+- <https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/11/emacsconf-thinking-about-the-community-panel/>
+- <https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-11-08-emacsconf-community-panel-comments/>
+- <https://www.shemshak.org/~amin/emacsconf-2026-community-panel-comments.html>
+
+**About speakers**:
+
+*Amin Bandali*: Amin is an Emacs developer and a long-time GNU & FSF
+  volunteer and EmacsConf organizer among other things.  He reads and
+  writes a number of computer and human languages in Emacs, including
+  his mother tongue, Persian, thanks to Emacs' excellent support for
+  bidirectional text editing.
+
+*Bart Bunting*: Bart Bunting is a long-term Emacspeak user who
+  casually develops a fork that works on Windows - Emacsvox. He depends
+  on speech access, encountered barriers that took them away from Emacs
+  (had to use Windows), and found a way back and into contributing.
+
+*Bashbunni*: Bashbunni is a coder; free/libre software lover; breaker
+  of things; and, of course, (Doom) Emacs user. And she has a youtube
+  channel.
+
+*Jeff Trull*: Jeff is organizing Emacs SF meetup and often hangs out
+  across various online Emacs meetups.  He is an embedded C++
+  consultant, and likes math and electronic circuits.
+
+*Protesilaos (Prot)*: I am pretty sure that most of us heard about
+  Prot. An Emacs user, philosopher, hermit, Outstanding New Free
+  Software Contributor (as of 2021, awarded by FSF).
+
+*Qifan Wang (LdBeth)*: Qifan Wang (or LdBeth) is a moderator of Emacs
+  China. He is interested in array programming languages, computer
+  typesetting and history of computing.
+
+*Sacha Chua*: Sacha Chua puts together the weekly Emacs News, helps
+  run EmacsConf and the Planet Emacslife aggregator, and has been
+  blogging about Emacs for more than twenty-five years.
+
+*Tilmann Singer*: Tilmann is an organizer of Emacs Berlin meetups -
+  one of the most active meetups we have across the globe.
+
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