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# Opening remarks

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- Welcome to EmacsConf 2021
- How to participate
- Conduct guidelines
- What's new in this EmacsConf 2021
  - Lots of talks! Shorter time, Q&A might be live/pad/IRC, might have alternate stream
  - Streaming with open captions thanks to volunteers
  - Prerecorded videos will be published as soon as we can
  - APAC-time-friendly alternate stream by LibreAustralia folks <https://libreau.org/upcoming.html#emacsconf21>
- Thanks
  - Speakers, volunteers
  - Free Software Foundation, especially the FSF tech team, for their continued help and support
    - LibrePlanet 2022 Call for Sessions open for a few more days; consider giving a talk!  See <https://libreplanet.org/2022/> and <https://my.fsf.org/lp-call-for-sessions/>
    - FSF's Fall 2021 fundraiser happening now!  See <https://fsf.org/appeal> if you'd like to give :)
  - Fosshost, for BigBlueButton server and for ftp-upload server
  - Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo, for continuing hosting the videos/files on the CSC mirror server
  - Jan Prunk (yang), for EU mirror of EmacsConf videos/files: <https://de1.mirror.si/emacsconf/>
  - Grant Shangreaux, for beautiful music :) (under CC BY-SA 4.0) <https://churls.world/basement-days/basement-days.html>
  - Wojciech Siewierski (vifon), for assisting with zaeph's scripts
  - Organizers
  - Everyone
- Schedule overview
  - Day 1 (general talks), Day 2 (development) - but come back for the closing talk on M-x Forever by David Wilson (System Crafters)
  - Day 1
    - Morning
      - User stories
      - Philosophy (including a talk by Prot)
      - Configuration
      - Emacs's flexibility
    - Afternoon
      - A peek behind the curtain at Emacs Development
      - Org Mode
        - Workflows
        - Tech
        - Research
      - External things
      - Dev update
      - On the design of text editors - Nicolas P. Rougier
  - Even if you're not a developer, consider coming back for tomorrow's closing
- APAC stream

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