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Hello, welcome to my talk, the Emacs Buddy Initiative.

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Who am I?

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I'm Andrea. I work as a Clojure Software Engineer

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somewhere in the middle of the UK.

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And I started with Emacs during my PhD,

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thanks to my PhD supervisor

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that introduced me to this tool.

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And from now and from then,

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I am basically using it for everything.

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You can find more about this everything

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at ag91.github.io, that is my blog.

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So let's get into the talk.

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Why Emacs Buddy?

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Emacs Buddy is an initiative to bring us together.

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And the reason is because Emacs is a limitless tool.

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So you can keep learning about it,

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you can keep expanding it,

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and also takes time to get up to speed.

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So you may actually extend Emacs

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or you may actually get introduced,

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start using Emacs,

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but you could fall into all the traps

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or all the wasted times that other users have already gone through.

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And so, since there are a lot of amazing people

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in the Emacs community,

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why do every time redo the same error?

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So let's bring us together.

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And it would be amazing to get a one-to-one relation.

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So I have somebody that actually knows what you want to do,

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what you want to achieve with Emacs,

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and supports you because they have done a similar path to yours.

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And so they can remove some of the obstacles for you.

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So what can you expect?

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The main thing is guidance on your Emacs journey,

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because the Emacs journey is infinite, it doesn't really end.

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But the farther you go,

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the more value you get from this amazing tool.

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And that helps you save time.

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And at the same time, you can meet like-minded people.

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And so you can learn about Emacs or about your context,

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if they are in, for example, if you are a physicist,

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they are physicists or they are interested in the field.

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You may not only learn about Emacs,

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but you can learn also something about the field.

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And anyway, the idea is that you can move forward together.

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Somebody asked, why not just mailing lists or Reddit?

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Well, the point is that mailing list is many people

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can help you solve one issue that you have.

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And that naturally doesn't become a discussion

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of where you are from, what are you trying to achieve,

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and where you want to move forward with using this editor

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or using this tool.

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Instead, here, we want something more personal,

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something more like you tell your story.

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And if I can help you achieve what you need,

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I am also interested in your story as a buddy.

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So given that, how do you get in touch with a buddy?

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Well, the thing is easy.

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Just ping me at this email, andrea-dev@hotmail.com.

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And I can put you in touch with one of the buddies

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that are available.

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Or you can contact them personally, directly,

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because on the web page, on the Emacs Buddy web page,

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there are links to their material or their websites.

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And sometimes you can find the contact yourself.

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Anyway, I am a facilitator.

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So if you contact me, I will find the contact for the person

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that you want to get in touch.

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You can also get in touch with me.

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I'm a buddy myself.

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How did it go so far?

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Well, from when I started the initiative,

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more or less we had 10 buddies.

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We had 10 buddies that are available to help you

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with your Emacs journey.

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And I buddyed myself, or I got in touch

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with people that wanted a buddy, about eight people.

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Each of these conversations was quite interesting.

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I decided to paraphrase one.

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I had this user that got in touch and said:

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"I used Emacs for 10 years.

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I'm curious about the initiative,

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and here is my GitHub that I started writing recently,

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Elisp projects", projects in Elisp to extend Emacs.

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I looked at their code.

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I suggested, "Oh, why don't you use dash?

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It's something that I'm familiar with.

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Maybe you may like it as well."

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And then I started asking, "Oh, what do you do with Emacs?

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Have you tried a note taking tool like Org Roam?"

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And then the conversation started.

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So "yeah, I tried Org Roam version one.

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I use my own thing.

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But what is it...

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I'm curious about version two.

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Did you use it?

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Do you know about Luhmann?"

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That is the inspiration of Org Roam

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and the backlinking and stuff.

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And then I started the conversation about that.

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And we discussed about functional programming.

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We discussed a bit about philosophy and went on.

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And then this conversation is not currently going.

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So we arrived to a point in which it sort of died out.

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But if I want or if they want, they can ping me back.

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I can ping them.

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So it's sort of a reference of this person exists

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and is an interesting person to chat with when I have something

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to say to them.

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And what if you want to be a buddy?

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Well, if you want to be a buddy, it's easy as well.

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So basically, just open a PR on the Emacs buddy repository.

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That is something that I am maintaining at the moment.

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Or simply send me the information.

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Somebody just sent me an email with the information.

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I have created the commit to make it public available.

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The information is just your name, a summary,

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what kind of user you are so that you can attract

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the right people to you, and a link to your material

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so that if they are curious about your summary or about you,

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they can actually go and check and even contact you directly.

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If they contact via me, I will know your email anyway

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from the PR you open.

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So that is all.

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There are ideas to maybe... if... this is basically

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an advertisement for this initiative

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so that we can get people that want to be helped

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or people that want to help.

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It's building up organically, so no rush

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to make this thing grow, escalate enormously.

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But for example, there are ideas to join this with the meetup

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talk that is being happening in the conference.

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So for example, if you find out something very interesting,

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you can bring the discussion that you have with your buddy

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into a meetup so that the group with which you speak is bigger.

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There are ideas like that.

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But first of all, just get in touch if you want to find

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like-minded people that want to help you with your Emacs

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journey or if you want to help others.

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Thank you very much.

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Enjoy the rest of the talks and chat to you soon.