[[!sidebar content=""]] This file is automatically exported from [/2024/organizers-notebook/index.org](/2024/organizers-notebook/index.org). You might prefer to navigate this as an Org file instead. To do so, [clone the wiki repository](https://emacsconf.org/edit/). You might also like the [general organizers' notebook](/organizers-notebook) and [the organizers' notebook from 2023](/2023/organizers-notebook). # Table of Contents - [Timeline](#timeline) - [About this document](#about-this-doc) - [Communications plan](#comms) - [Good/better/best](#good-better-best) - [Phases](#phases) - [Draft CFP](#cfp) - [Draft schedule](#draft-schedule) - [Decisions](#decisions) - [BigBlueButton replacement](#bbb) - [Support code](#support-code) # TODO Timeline
CFP [2024-06-30 Sun]  
CFP deadline [2024-09-20 Fri] 82
Speaker notifications [2024-09-27 Fri]  
Publish schedule [2024-10-25 Fri]  
Video submission deadline [2024-11-08 Fri] 49
EmacsConf [2024-12-07 Sat] 29
We like to have at least a month to work on audio normalization and transcription, and we want speakers to have at least a month to work on their videos (considering early submissions will already have gotten started on processing). # About this document Tags: - `conforg`: Requires access to private conf.org repository # Communications plan Objectives: - keep everyone in the loop without them feeling like they’re overloaded Everyone: - [ ] Call for participation (speakers and volunteers) - [ ] Reminder about CFP - [ ] Last call Speakers: - [ ] Send all speakers backstage access and upload instructions - [ ] Send all speakers check-in instructions Volunteers: - [ ] Send captioning volunteers the backstage info - [ ] Send past captioning volunteers an invitation to participate - ask when there’s a lot of load - [ ] Ask for help with audio processing # Good/better/best This table makes it easier to move the slider depending on who wants to volunteer and how much we can get done. At some point, we’ll figure out how to track our current status so we know what we need to scramble to do in order to get the conference off the ground. **bold** is our current goal. Feel free to volunteer for anything that interests you!
  Good Better Best
Streaming Regular stream + alternate streams on PeerTube + alternate streams on YouTube
480p Same on live Separate node Ansible setup
Audio normalization Core org handling it Other volunteer Multiple volunteers
Video resolution Usual reminders Extra reminders Everyone remembering to use a large font size
Intros Standard, recorded Reviewed by speakers More details/context
Pad v1.9.7 v2.x  
# Phases ## DONE Draft CFP #### Draft linked pages - [X] cfp - [X] submit page - [X] year index - [X] volunteer page #### DONE Check with other organizers #### DONE Post CFP in the usual places emacsconf-discuss, reddit.com/r/emacs, Emacs News, emacs-tangents, Mastodon, X ## Draft schedule Graphical view of the scheduleSchedule for SaturdaySaturday 9:00- 9:10 Saturday opening remarkssat-open 9:10- 9:20 Writing academic papers in Org-Roampapers 9:40-10:00 Managing writing project metadata with org-modeproject10:20-10:40 The Future of Orgorg-update11:00-11:20 The Free Life Planner: Empowering lives with Emacs-based AIflp11:30-11:40 Colour your Emacs with easecolor 1:00- 1:10 My journey of finding and creating the “perfect” Emacs themetheme 1:30- 1:45 Watering my (digital) plant with Emacs timerswater 1:55- 2:35 Emacs as a shellshell 2:45- 3:05 Re-imagining the Emacs user experience with Casual Suitecasual 3:25- 3:45 New in hyperdrive.el: org-transclusion, easy installation, and more!hyperdrive 4:05- 4:15 Emacs Writing Studiowriting 4:25- 4:45 Emacs 30 Highlightsemacs30 4:50- 5:00 Saturday closing remarkssat-close10:00-10:20 Gypsum: my clone of Emacs and ELisp written in Schemegypsum10:40-11:00 An experimental Emacs core in Rustrust11:20-11:40 p-search: a local search engine in Emacsp-search 1:00- 1:10 Exploring shared philosophies in Julia and Emacsjulia 1:25- 1:45 Beguiling Emacs: Guile-Emacs relaunched!guile 1:55- 2:05 Committing secrets with git using sops-modesecrets 2:25- 3:25 Elisp and McCLIMmcclim 3:45- 4:05 Reproducibly building Emacs: “Hey your checksum is the same as mine!”repro9 AM10 AM11 AM12 PM1 PM2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PMSchedule for SundaySunday 9:00- 9:10 Sunday opening remarkssun-open 9:10- 9:20 Unlocking linked data: replacing specialized apps with an Org-based semantic wikilinks 9:30- 9:50 Emacs regex compilation and future directions for expressive pattern matchingregex10:00-10:20 Survival of the skillest: Thriving in the learning junglelearning10:30-10:40 Immersive language learning with Emacslanguage10:50-11:10 org-teach: a minor mode for writing course materials in Emacsorg-teach11:25-11:35 Fun things with GNU Hyperbolehyperbole 1:00- 1:20 HyWiki: Fast, hyperlinked note-taking with no markup requiredhywiki 1:35- 1:45 PGmacs: browsing and editing PostgreSQL databases from Emacspgmacs 2:00- 2:40 About Blee: enveloping our own autonomy directed digital ecosystem with Emacsblee 2:50- 3:10 Literate programming for the 21st Centuryliterate 3:25- 3:35 An example of a cohesive student workflow in Emacsstudents 3:45- 4:05 So you want to be an Emacs-fluencer?sharing 4:15- 4:45 Transducers: finally, ergonomic data processing for Emacs!transducers 4:50- 5:00 Sunday closing remarkssun-close9 AM10 AM11 AM12 PM1 PM2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PM Legend: - light blue: constraint is <= a time - peach: constraint is >= a time - solid line: Q&A will be through BigBlueButton web conference - dashed line: Q&A will be IRC/Etherpad during the event or e-mail after the event Notes: - Updates: - [2024-10-27 Sun] Removed [graph](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/graph "Graph mode: a major mode to create, edit and display discrete element graphs"), moved [p-search](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/p-search "p-search: a local search engine in Emacs") earlier; also [learning](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/learning "Survival of the skillest: Thriving in the learning jungle") needs to be in the morning, so I moved [pgmacs](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/pgmacs "PGmacs: browsing and editing PostgreSQL databases from Emacs") and [org-teach](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/org-teach "org-teach: a minor mode for writing course materials in Emacs") around. - [2024-10-22 Tue] Swapped [org-teach](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/org-teach "org-teach: a minor mode for writing course materials in Emacs") and [blee](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/blee "About Blee: enveloping our own autonomy directed digital ecosystem with Emacs") - [2024-10-21 Mon] Extended [blee](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/blee "About Blee: enveloping our own autonomy directed digital ecosystem with Emacs") - [2024-10-17 Thu] Added [org-update](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/org-update "The Future of Org") to Saturday morning, moving [org-teach](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/org-teach "org-teach: a minor mode for writing course materials in Emacs") to Sunday afternoon - [2024-10-15 Tue] Swapped [students](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/students "An example of a cohesive student workflow in Emacs") and [literate](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/literate "Literate programming for the 21st Century") for availability reasons - [2024-10-13 Sun] Moved [hyperdrive](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/hyperdrive "New in hyperdrive.el: org-transclusion, easy installation, and more!") to the afternoon (swapping with [flp](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/flp "The Free Life Planner: Empowering lives with Emacs-based AI")) because of changed availability - [2024-10-12 Sat] I fixed the time constraint for [students](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/students "An example of a cohesive student workflow in Emacs") (needs to be in the afternoon), so I moved [hyperbole](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/hyperbole "Fun things with GNU Hyperbole") to the morning. - General approach: - I’ve mostly tried to alternate IRC/pad Q&A with live Q&A. - 1.5 tracks keeps things faster-paced than the 2-track option. - Sat: - Gen track: - [papers](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/papers "Writing academic papers in Org-Roam"), [project](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/project "Managing writing project metadata with org-mode"), [org-teach](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/org-teach "org-teach: a minor mode for writing course materials in Emacs"), [flp](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/flp "The Free Life Planner: Empowering lives with Emacs-based AI"), [color](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/color "Colour your Emacs with ease") should be pretty general - [color](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/color "Colour your Emacs with ease") and [theme](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/theme "My journey of finding and creating the “perfect” Emacs theme") are both theme-related. [color](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/color "Colour your Emacs with ease") needs to be in the morning and [theme](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/theme "My journey of finding and creating the “perfect” Emacs theme") needs to be in the afternoon, so I put them on either side of the lunch break. - Other afternoon talks: [water](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/water "Watering my (digital) plant with Emacs timers") and [shell](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/shell "Emacs as a shell") are by the same speaker. [casual](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/casual "Re-imagining the Emacs user experience with Casual Suite"), [hyperdrive](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/hyperdrive "New in hyperdrive.el: org-transclusion, easy installation, and more!"), and [writing](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/writing "Emacs Writing Studio") will probably be good for a general audience. These speakers are only available in the afternoon, so this part of the schedule is a bit tight. - I put [emacs30](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/emacs30 "Emacs 30 Highlights") at the end of Saturday to act sort of as a keynote. Closing remarks on Saturday are usually very light, so we could skip them. - Dev track: - [gypsum](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/gypsum "Gypsum: my clone of Emacs and ELisp written in Scheme"), [rust](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/rust "An experimental Emacs core in Rust"), [julia](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/julia "Exploring shared philosophies in Julia and Emacs"), [guile](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/guile "Beguiling Emacs: Guile-Emacs relaunched!"), and [mcclim](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/mcclim "Elisp and McCLIM") are about other projects - [graph](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/graph "Graph mode: a major mode to create, edit and display discrete element graphs"), [p-search](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/p-search "p-search: a local search engine in Emacs"), [secrets](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/secrets "Committing secrets with git using sops-mode"), and [repro](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/repro "Reproducibly building Emacs: “Hey your checksum is the same as mine!”") will probably be more dev-focused - Sun: - Sunday morning last year had some packet loss issues at around 9:30, so we’ll start with some talks that don’t have BBB Q&A: [students](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/students "An example of a cohesive student workflow in Emacs"), [links](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/links "Unlocking linked data: replacing specialized apps with an Org-based semantic wiki"), [regex](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/regex "Emacs regex compilation and future directions for expressive pattern matching") - [blee](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/blee "About Blee: enveloping our own autonomy directed digital ecosystem with Emacs") and [language](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/language "Immersive language learning with Emacs") are probably general-audience - [pgmacs](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/pgmacs "PGmacs: browsing and editing PostgreSQL databases from Emacs"), [regex](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/regex "Emacs regex compilation and future directions for expressive pattern matching"), and [transducers](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/transducers "Transducers: finally, ergonomic data processing for Emacs!") are all development-oriented, but are on the general track for scheduling purposes. [transducers](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/transducers "Transducers: finally, ergonomic data processing for Emacs!") can only be on Sunday afternoon at 4pm because of availability. - I’ve separated [hyperbole](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/hyperbole "Fun things with GNU Hyperbole") and [hywiki](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/hywiki "HyWiki: Fast, hyperlinked note-taking with no markup required") by lunch so that people who are interested in that can attend the live Q&A for both without worrying about missing things. - [learning](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/learning "Survival of the skillest: Thriving in the learning jungle"), [sharing](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/sharing "So you want to be an Emacs-fluencer?"), [literate](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/literate "Literate programming for the 21st Century") will probably be good for a general audience # Decisions ## BigBlueButton replacement The server running bbb.emacsverse.org has been decommissioned, since the nonprofit that shared it with us is defunct. - We’d like to figure out what our live Q&A setup is going to be for EmacsConf 2024 (Dec 7-8). - Nice to have: Hosting for other Emacs meetups like Emacs APAC and OrgMeetup - [Stats from last year](https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/12/emacsconf-backstage-figuring-out-our-maximum-number-of-simultaneous-bigbluebutton-users/): 31 meetings, 84 unique users, 62 max simultaneous users, 6 max simultaneous meetings, 27 max users in one meeting, 36 unique talking - also includes some notes on hosting - Nice thing about running our own server: we can make one room per speaker, pre-assign their URLs, and let people stay as long as they want in recorded Q&A sessions Some options: - Go back to using meet.jit.si - Free: - Need to check speed, reliability - Can send RTMP from the meeting itself - Paid: USD 99/month + $0.01/min for recordings + $0.01 min (optional) for RTMP streaming - Try to squeeze it onto res.emacsconf.org - Tricky to run on a shared server; it likes to use a lot of ports and strongly recommends running it on its own server - Linode with 16GB RAM and 8 cores - Dedicated CPU 16GB is $.216/hour at Linode - Premium CPU is $.26/hour - Plus block storage, $1/10GB/month charged hourly (recommended 500, so $+18/month) - Ask FSF if we can borrow theirs, maybe limit it to cycling among 6 or 7 rooms - Pay for BigBlueButton hosting; can we find one that’s compatible with our commitment to freedom? - Galene? - [2024-10-31 Thu] I checked out Galene in the last Emacs Berlin meeting. It’s promising, but I think the user interface might still need a bit of work. Simple deployment (run one Go binary, I think), but muting/unmuting doesn’t trigger enabling the microphone, and the chat was buggy to get to on my mobile device. Supposed to have support for raising hands. # Support code (defun my-ox-link-path (link _ info) (let* ((raw-path (org-element-property :path link))) (setq raw-path (org-export-file-uri (org-publish-file-relative-name raw-path info))) ;; Possibly append `:html-link-home' to relative file ;; name. (let ((home (and (plist-get info :html-link-home) (org-trim (plist-get info :html-link-home))))) (when (and home (plist-get info :html-link-use-abs-url) (not (file-name-absolute-p raw-path))) (setq raw-path (concat (file-name-as-directory home) raw-path)))) raw-path)) (defun my-org-md-link (link desc info) (if (string= (org-element-property :type link) "file") (let ((path (my-ox-link-path link desc info))) (if (string= (file-name-extension path) "svg") (with-temp-buffer (insert-file-contents-literally path) (buffer-string)) (org-md-link link desc info))) (org-md-link link desc info))) (with-eval-after-load 'ox-md (setf (alist-get 'link (org-export-backend-transcoders (org-export-get-backend 'md))) 'my-org-md-link))