[[!meta title="Emacs Research Group, Season Zero: What we did together with Emacs in 2 hours a week for a year"]] [[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2021 Noorah Alhasan, Joe Corneli, Raymond Puzio, Leo Vivier"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/erg-nav)" raw="yes"]] # Emacs Research Group, Season Zero: What we did together with Emacs in 2 hours a week for a year Noorah Alhasan, Joe Corneli, Raymond Puzio, Leo Vivier [[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/erg-schedule)" raw="yes"]] The four of us met at EmacsConf 2020, and joined together around a common interest in Emacs and research. Since then, we have convened as the Emacs Research Group for weekly meetings. During these meetings, we took notes collaboratively, using a ‘conflict-free replicated data type’ package (crdt.el); at the end of each session, we debriefed using a template that we call a Project Action Review (PAR). As as a meta-review of our sessions, every six weeks we prepared a Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), which gave us a different perspective on what we had done. We reflected further on our experiences and methods, linking our CLA to plans and design patterns. As a formal research output, we contributed a write-up of these matters to a joint paper which we presented at the Pattern Languages of Programs Conference (PLoP 2021). The paper included an interactive workshop, in which we explored roles in real-time problem solving and collaboration. In our short talk we share information about these methods, making a case for other people getting together and creating their own small research communities similar to ours. # Discussion - So this group really spawned out of last year's conf? You four were just met up and kept in touch? - Excellent -- I actually meant to post Citizen Science, but I got confused with another thing - I am definitely interested in incorporating your workflow. What resource would you recommend as a started - and is it one I could share with colleagues who do not yet use Emacs? - Btw, I loved the rapid problem solving approach you take. I am also using "rapid response collecting" with my students to promote a similar 'prescience of the present'! - would be willing to share the paper with me as well? i would also love to start an Emacs Research Group, i think Emacs has more to offer to science and people's day to day life than we realize currently - Do you have sample workflows on your website? - - - - - also, a bit of a technical question: how do you get a public IP to share a session on crdt? [[!inline pages="internal(2021/captions/erg)" raw="yes"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/erg-nav)" raw="yes"]]