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diff --git a/2020/meetings.org b/2020/meetings.org index 081d3b49..ae454d53 100644 --- a/2020/meetings.org +++ b/2020/meetings.org @@ -23,12 +23,88 @@ - mplsCorwin's livestreaming project, working on trimming - Writing about Emacs: zaeph - Diversity outreach: gopar, sachac, zaeph +- Finding a parallel monthly day for EmacsConf prep meetings * February 6, 2021 meeting -- Preemptive points + +- Checking in with everyone + - bandali: Crunch at work with the latest release of Debian, Icecat release + - zaeph: possible actual department for free software at his current work + - mplsCorwin: vacation, extra week, yay PTO! Looking more into literate programming. (Grant Rettke recently shared how he uses untangling to make it easier for people to edit the resulting source code files) + - sachac: + - Emacs calendar can now handle recurring events + - Now done with a Python script instead of an old Ruby script + - Some people are starting to use it! + - Especially for the meetups. + - Started figuring out Twitch streaming + - updated obs-websocket at https://github.com/sachac/obs-websocket-el, can easily switch scenes, start/stop recording, put a message up in a buffer, capture timestamped notes/markers into a WebVTT file + - Sacha is curious about gstreamer; maybe if Amin got around to writing his gstreamer script, Sacha could get around to using it for Twitch? + - Sacha is also working on a system for using Twitch’s API to send subtitles/descriptions + - used mozart-dice-game NPM to generate a whole bunch of piano minuet MIDIs, yay generated music; used selectric-mode to add typing sounds + - looked into OBS SendCaptions, but might not be able to easily get it to work under Linux; might consider other ways to send live captions and markers + - Started sketching out EmacsDiversity page + - Next up: test my hydra for editing subtitles, +- Points + - *okay, streaming* =) (We'll figure out where to put it some other time, this is just to get us used to working in public) - Diversity - - Iterating over [[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity][EmacsWiki : Emacs Diversity]] + - Iterating over [[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity][EmacsWiki : Emacs Diversity]] (you might be thinking about EmacsChannelDemographics) + - Podcast update? + - shoshin update on the intro music? + - Answer this question: ‘What kinds of talks do we generally want?’ + - Working off our configs; explaining parts of our config (mplsCorwin) + - Inspiration, integrated workflow demos + - Really cool programming demo + - Really cool nonprogramming demo + - The goal would be to get people to read other people’s code; something vaguely archeological: ‘if I could do this, even though it wasn’t great code, it did the job!’ + - A lot of people respond to those ‘programming but not’ / surface-programming approaches to code. + - ERG reports on what we’re working on (zaeph) + - Meta-workshops on how they’re organised/run, what goes into it (zaeph) + - Writing modes / releasing modes + - How do we go from some intricate code inside a personal config to a package releasable to the public? + - Hacking on Emacs C core (bandali) + - Some of the more involved modification of Emacs will need to be done in the C core. + - Maybe we could consider inviting Stéfan Monnier? + - Native compilation, maybe dynamic modules? + + - Amin: Check how much time it would take to deploy Mailman for the workshops. + - Are we trading low up-front effort (asking maintainers to create a mailing list) for high ongoing effort (keeping our own mailing list system going)? + - Amin talked to someone else who can help set this up, maybe even this weekend. Main domain? Maybe emacsverse? + - Stack: Trisql, Exim, Mailman + - Could it work with FOSSHost? + - Since it’s geared to the end-users, and based on our relationship with them (via mplsCorwin), we might be able to ask them to host the server. + - FOSSHost did set up a BBB for us; we should gauge whether we want/need to use it. + - Hmm... mplsCorwin, would FOSSHost like to talk to the other Emacs meetups to see if they want to join up? I think it was EmacsNYC or EmacsATX that has been experimenting with self-hosting Jitsi, and EmacsBerlin self-hosts Jitsi. Could be later on. + - Domain discussion + - emacsverse + - Mailing lists and co. would go on their + - All in all: + - We’re very close to having Mailman ready for the meetups/workshops. + - FH & BBB: What *scope* do we want? + - ‘Do we want Emacs NYC to get their own server, or do we want to manage a single, federated instance with user-account, self-management, etc.?’ + - We’d be in charge of most of the management of that instance, and we wouldn’t be piggy-backing on the FSF’s instance. + - We'll figure out our own stuff first, maybe, and then we can get the other folks in + - Improving the diversity page: [[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity][EmacsWiki : Emacs Diversity]] + - Right now, the page only contains an alphabetised list of names +rganising the names on that page in a more relevant fashion? + - Two sides of the question: + - "I feel a little isolated. I don't know other Emacs users, and it seems you have to be a real computer geek in order to use Emacs. Are there people like me?" + - ‘What are some different ways you can use Emacs, and what kinds of people use Emacs? + - People might be unwilling to identify as marginalised groups: how do we resolve this? + - Diversity of usage: What is Emacs being used for? + - Diversity of people: By whom is Emacs being used? +- Homework: + - For everyone: + - Think about ways to organize and flesh out the [[https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity][Emacs Diversity]] page. + - How do we give it better structure? + - Leo: Work on the FSF thing (for [2021-02-15 Mon]) + - Sacha: Figure out toggling mute from Emacs and add it to my modeline, since my computer LED doesn't work =) + - Sacha: Edit more subtitles + - Future points + - bandali & mplsCorwin: Gauge whether we can/need to use FH’s BBB. + - …For our own meetings/workshops? + - …For the next EmacsConf? + * January 28, 2021 meeting - Agenda @@ -159,6 +235,7 @@ - How strongly do we want to ask for pre-recs? - Definitely at least as much as this year. - It’s also much easier for Amin to chill when we have pre-recs. + - We need to incentives speakers by telling sending their pre-recs early, we can do some adjustments. * January 21, 2021 meeting - Updates: |