For context, we will first play Richard Stallman's 2014 TEDx talk called "Free Software, Free Society." The TEDx talk is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - No Derivative Works 3.0 license. Afterwards, Richard Stallman will discuss what he believes will be good ways to improve Emacs. The EmacsConf talk will be under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike license. There will be a moderated Q&A, so please put your questions in the Etherpad or IRC.
The following image shows where the talk is in the schedule for Sun 2022-12-04. Solid lines show talks with Q&A via BigBlueButton. Dashed lines show talks with Q&A via IRC or Etherpad.
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Format: 18-min talk followed by moderated Mumble Q&A (#emacsconf-dev)
Etherpad:
Discuss on IRC: [#emacsconf-dev](https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf,emacsconf-dev)
Status: Q&A finished, IRC and pad will be archived on this page
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[View transcript](https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/rms#rms-mainVideo-transcript)
[View on Toobnix](https://toobnix.org/w/oWWwS9T9BTQU8DnJ2g56vm)
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00:00:00.000 GNU Emacs and its purpose
02:33.640 Lisp as the extension language
03:46.280 JavaScript versus freedom
06:14.640 Updating "An Introduction to Emacs Lisp Programming"
07:23.407 More memorable package names
08:31.807 Simplifying the command interface
10:23.620 Modularity
11:22.220 Editing formatted text
12:55.460 Not the equivalent of a modern web browser
15:31.300 Getting involved
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# Description