[[!date "2023-08-14"]]
[[!meta title="EmacsConf 2023 CFP progress report (8 talks accepted so far, 1 to review, 6 todo)"]]

The end of the EmacsConf 2023 call for participation is one month away
(Sept 14; <https://emacsconf.org/2023/cfp/>). Whee! So far, we&rsquo;ve sent
early acceptances to the following talks and added them to the program
on the wiki (<https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks>):

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<td class="org-right">10</td>
<td class="org-left">An Org-Mode based text adventure game for learning the basics of Emacs, inside Emacs, written in Emacs Lisp</td>
<td class="org-left">Chung-hong Chan</td>
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<td class="org-right">20</td>
<td class="org-left">Authoring and presenting university courses with Emacs and a full libre software stack</td>
<td class="org-left">James Howell</td>
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<td class="org-right">20</td>
<td class="org-left">Org-Mode workflow: informal reference tracking</td>
<td class="org-left">Christopher Howard</td>
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<td class="org-right">20</td>
<td class="org-left">GNU Emacs for electronics, note-taking, and as lightweight IDE</td>
<td class="org-left">Anand Tamariya</td>
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<td class="org-right">10</td>
<td class="org-left">A modern Emacs look-and-feel without pain</td>
<td class="org-left">Pedro A. Aranda</td>
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<td class="org-right">10</td>
<td class="org-left">Writing a language server in OCaml for Emacs, fun, and profit</td>
<td class="org-left">Austin Theriault</td>
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<td class="org-right">20</td>
<td class="org-left">LLM clients in Emacs, functionality and standardization</td>
<td class="org-left">Andrew Hyatt</td>
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<td class="org-right">10</td>
<td class="org-left">The many ways to browse Hacker News from Emacs</td>
<td class="org-left">Mickael Kerjean</td>
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There&rsquo;s one talk that&rsquo;s waiting for feedback on the emacsconf-submit
before we send the early acceptance in about a week:

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<td class="org-right">Duration</td>
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<td class="org-right">20</td>
<td class="org-left">one.el: the static site generator for Emacs Lisp Programmers</td>
<td class="org-left">Tony Aldon</td>
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There are several talk proposals that are in progress (need to
coordinate, don&rsquo;t have speaker releases / full details / etc.):

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<td class="org-left">Emacs MultiMedia System (EMMS)</td>
<td class="org-left">Yoni Rabkin</td>
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<td class="org-left">Emacs development updates</td>
<td class="org-left">John Wiegley</td>
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<td class="org-left">Watch Over Our Folders</td>
<td class="org-left">Bastien Guerry</td>
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<td class="org-left">Emacs community information sharing?</td>
<td class="org-left">Jake B</td>
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<td class="org-left">Emacs saves the Web</td>
<td class="org-left">Yuchen Pei</td>
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<td class="org-left">How to build an Emacs 2: Revenge of the Lem</td>
<td class="org-left">Fermin</td>
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This time last year, we had 2 proposals, with most of the proposals
coming in at the end of the CFP. This was usually when we started
panicking about not having lots of proposals, but I think we can skip
stressing about it this year. <laugh> Even with the program as it is
now, we&rsquo;d already have a pretty fun EmacsConf. Can&rsquo;t wait to see what
it&rsquo;ll look like when more people get their proposals in!

Sacha