[[!date "2023-09-25"]]
[[!meta title="EmacsConf 2023 progress report: 44 talks accepted, schedule being drafted"]]

The EmacsConf 2023 call for participation period has wrapped up,
hooray! We’ve accepted 44 talks and posted them at
<https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/>, with 1 more penciled in (woof -
Watch Over Our Folders). This is about ~12 hours of talks. If we were
to have 5 minutes buffer in between talks, it would be 15 hours and a
pretty cramped conference. I think we can pull off a two-track
conference again this year. Shall we give it a try? =) We can set up a
schedule for the different roles as we get closer to the conference.

I started drafting a schedule at
<https://emacsconf.org/2023/organizers-notebook/#draft-schedule> .
Thoughts on the order/grouping of talks? If the schedule looks all
right, I can send this draft to all the speakers in case they have any
requests regarding time preferences, other talk Q&A sessions that they
want to attend live, etc.

Next steps:

-   Schedule: We&rsquo;ll e-mail the draft schedule to speakers so that they
    can get a sense of where they are in the schedule, see if they
    really want to make it to a conflicting session&rsquo;s Q&A live
    (they&rsquo;ll have early access to the videos), etc.
-   Infrastructure:
    -   Dust off and document infrastructure, processes
    -   Sort out access to media.emacsconf.org so that we can get the upload service up and running
-   Draft brief intros for talks, keeping in mind that we&rsquo;re going to say them out loud
-   Speakers will work on videos, and we can help with nudges/coordination if needed

Sacha