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# [Panel] Improving the Emacs Community: Onboarding, Participation, and Growth

Participants

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Questions:

1. What made you start using Emacs, and what kept you using it?

2. What took you from using Emacs to actively contributing to the
   community - participating in forums, writing Elisp, organizing
   meetups, answering questions?

3. How does Emacs show up for you in real life - colleagues, meetups,
   friends? How did those connections form?

4. If you know other software communities, what's one thing Emacs could
   learn from them?

5. What's one concrete thing you wish existed in the Emacs community a
   year from now?


Related: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacsconf-org/2026-08/msg00006.html>



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