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diff --git a/blog/2023-08-14-cfp-progress.md b/blog/2023-08-14-cfp-progress.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b9086b03 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2023-08-14-cfp-progress.md @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +[[!date "2023-08-14"]] +[[!meta title="EmacsConf 2023 CFP progress report (8 talks accepted so far, 1 to review, 6 todo)"]] + +The end of the EmacsConf 2023 call for participation is one month away +(Sept 14; <https://emacsconf.org/2023/cfp/>). Whee! So far, we’ve sent +early acceptances to the following talks and added them to the program +on the wiki (<https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks>): + +<table> +<colgroup> +<col class="org-right"> +<col class="org-left"> +<col class="org-left"> +</colgroup> +<tbody> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">Duration</td> +<td class="org-left">Title</td> +<td class="org-left">Speaker</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">10</td> +<td class="org-left">An Org-Mode based text adventure game for learning the basics of Emacs, inside Emacs, written in Emacs Lisp</td> +<td class="org-left">Chung-hong Chan</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">20</td> +<td class="org-left">Authoring and presenting university courses with Emacs and a full libre software stack</td> +<td class="org-left">James Howell</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">20</td> +<td class="org-left">Org-Mode workflow: informal reference tracking</td> +<td class="org-left">Christopher Howard</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">20</td> +<td class="org-left">GNU Emacs for electronics, note-taking, and as lightweight IDE</td> +<td class="org-left">Anand Tamariya</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">10</td> +<td class="org-left">A modern Emacs look-and-feel without pain</td> +<td class="org-left">Pedro A. Aranda</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">10</td> +<td class="org-left">Writing a language server in OCaml for Emacs, fun, and profit</td> +<td class="org-left">Austin Theriault</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">20</td> +<td class="org-left">LLM clients in Emacs, functionality and standardization</td> +<td class="org-left">Andrew Hyatt</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">10</td> +<td class="org-left">The many ways to browse Hacker News from Emacs</td> +<td class="org-left">Mickael Kerjean</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +There’s one talk that’s waiting for feedback on the emacsconf-submit +before we send the early acceptance in about a week: + +<table> + + +<colgroup> +<col class="org-right"> + +<col class="org-left"> + +<col class="org-left"> +</colgroup> +<tbody> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">Duration</td> +<td class="org-left">Title</td> +<td class="org-left">Speaker</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-right">20</td> +<td class="org-left">one.el: the static site generator for Emacs Lisp Programmers</td> +<td class="org-left">Tony Aldon</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +There are several talk proposals that are in progress (need to +coordinate, don’t have speaker releases / full details / etc.): + +<table> + + +<colgroup> +<col class="org-left"> + +<col class="org-left"> +</colgroup> +<tbody> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Title</td> +<td class="org-left">Speaker</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Emacs MultiMedia System (EMMS)</td> +<td class="org-left">Yoni Rabkin</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Emacs development updates</td> +<td class="org-left">John Wiegley</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Watch Over Our Folders</td> +<td class="org-left">Bastien Guerry</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Emacs community information sharing?</td> +<td class="org-left">Jake B</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">Emacs saves the Web</td> +<td class="org-left">Yuchen Pei</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="org-left">How to build an Emacs 2: Revenge of the Lem</td> +<td class="org-left">Fermin</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +This time last year, we had 2 proposals, with most of the proposals +coming in at the end of the CFP. This was usually when we started +panicking about not having lots of proposals, but I think we can skip +stressing about it this year. <laugh> Even with the program as it is +now, we’d already have a pretty fun EmacsConf. Can’t wait to see what +it’ll look like when more people get their proposals in! + +Sacha diff --git a/blog/2023-09-25-draft-schedule.md b/blog/2023-09-25-draft-schedule.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4b93e422 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2023-09-25-draft-schedule.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +[[!date "2023-09-25"]] +[[!meta title="EmacsConf 2023 progress report: 44 talks accepted, schedule being drafted"]] + +The EmacsConf 2023 call for participation period has wrapped up, +hooray! We’ve accepted 44 talks and posted them at +<https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/>, with 1 more penciled in (woof - +Watch Over Our Folders). This is about ~12 hours of talks. If we were +to have 5 minutes buffer in between talks, it would be 15 hours and a +pretty cramped conference. I think we can pull off a two-track +conference again this year. Shall we give it a try? =) We can set up a +schedule for the different roles as we get closer to the conference. + +I started drafting a schedule at +<https://emacsconf.org/2023/organizers-notebook/#draft-schedule> . +Thoughts on the order/grouping of talks? If the schedule looks all +right, I can send this draft to all the speakers in case they have any +requests regarding time preferences, other talk Q&A sessions that they +want to attend live, etc. + +Next steps: + +- Schedule: We’ll e-mail the draft schedule to speakers so that they + can get a sense of where they are in the schedule, see if they + really want to make it to a conflicting session’s Q&A live + (they’ll have early access to the videos), etc. +- Infrastructure: + - Dust off and document infrastructure, processes + - Sort out access to media.emacsconf.org so that we can get the upload service up and running +- Draft brief intros for talks, keeping in mind that we’re going to say them out loud +- Speakers will work on videos, and we can help with nudges/coordination if needed + +Sacha + |