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# Opening remarks

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- Welcome to EmacsConf 2021
- How to participate: 
  - Collecting questions, answers, and shared notes on Etherpad (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/emacsconf-2021)
  - You can also post questions and discuss things on #emacsconf on chat.emacsconf.org (frontend for libera.chat if you want to use your favorite IRC client)
- Conduct guidelines: 
  - One of the neat things about Emacs is that there are so many ways to do things. Please remember to be nice! =)
- What's new in this EmacsConf 2021
  - Lots of talks! Shorter time, Q&A might be live/pad/IRC, might have alternate stream if needed
  - Streaming with open captions thanks to volunteers - all the day 1 talks have been captioned, and we might get day 2 sorted out too
  - Prerecorded videos will be published as soon as we can (aiming for publishing them as the talks stream, so you can easily catch up with any talks you've missed)
  - APAC-time-friendly alternate stream by LibreAustralia folks <https://libreau.org/past.html#emacsconf21>
- Thanks
  - Speakers, volunteers
  - Karl Voit for managing the pad
  - Bhavin Gandhi and Hannah Miller for help with the captions
  - Free Software Foundation, especially the FSF tech team, for their continued help and support
    - LibrePlanet 2022 Call for Sessions open for a few more days; consider giving a talk!  See <https://libreplanet.org/2022/> and <https://my.fsf.org/lp-call-for-sessions/>
    - FSF's Fall 2021 fundraiser happening now!  See <https://fsf.org/appeal> if you'd like to give :)
  - Fosshost, for BigBlueButton server and for ftp-upload server
  - Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo, for continuing hosting the videos/files on the CSC mirror server
  - Jan Prunk (yang), for EU mirror of EmacsConf videos/files: <https://de1.mirror.si/emacsconf/>
  - Grant Shangreaux, for beautiful music :) (under CC BY-SA 4.0) <https://churls.world/basement-days/basement-days.html>
  - Qiantan Hong (qhong), author/maintainer of crdt.el which we used for sharing Emacs buffers between organizers
  - Wojciech Siewierski (vifon), for assisting zaeph with his scripts last minute
  - Organizers
  - Everyone
- 09:12 Schedule overview
  - Day 1 (general talks), Day 2 (development) - but come back for some general-audience talks at the end of day 2, including the closing talk on M-x Forever by David Wilson (System Crafters)
  - Day 1
    - Morning
      - User stories
      - Philosophy (including a talk by Prot)
      - Configuration
      - Demos of Emacs's flexibility
    - Afternoon
      - A peek behind the curtain at Emacs Development (janitor talk)
      - Org Mode
        - Workflows
        - Tech
        - Research
      - External things
      - Dev update
      - On the design of text editors - Nicolas P. Rougier
  - Even if you're not a developer, consider coming back for tomorrow's closing
- APAC stream

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