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screen. That screen. Yes. All right. Thank you so much.

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We have made it thus far. It is the end of EmacsConf 2025.

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Oh, I better remember to open this

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in case anyone wants to join me in this room.

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Hang on a sec. And normally all this stuff

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gets done automatically by my scripts,

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so I'm doing it manually. Ah, there you go.

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Okay, now people can join. Hooray, we made it!

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Today was great, and yesterday was great too,

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with so many fascinating talks and conversations.

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I'm really, really glad that it all worked out,

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despite some running around

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and figuring things out on the fly,

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we all managed to get there.

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I actually have some of the live

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talks recordings up already

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on media.emacsconf.org and YouTube, assuming things work.

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I'm just going to republish it from Emacs naturally.

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As you can see, I was e-debugging things

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to the very last minute.

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Yeah, feel free to spread the word.

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I check the Emacs hashtag every week

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as part of the Emacs news process anyway.

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So if you have any favorite talks,

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that's a great way to share the ideas with more people,

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and then even more conversations can happen.

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The prerecorded talks, as I mentioned,

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are already up on the wiki

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and at the media emacsconf.org slash 2027 website.

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Sorry, 2025. We're not in the time machine. 2025 site.

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And they should already be on YouTube as well.

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I will upload the late submissions

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and the live talks and the Q&A sessions

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over the next week or two.

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I usually get that done very quickly.

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I didn't even finish this sentence.

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I'll post an update to the Emacs Conf Discuss mailing list,

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so feel free to subscribe to that if you'd like an update.

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If you've got ideas for making things better,

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then feel free to drop them into the Etherpad

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so that we can make next year's conference even smoother.

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I had a lot of people watching, so thank you for that.

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And of course, thanks to all the speakers

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who put hours and hours into their presentations,

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the volunteers who helped both before and during the conference

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and who will help in the days ahead

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as we get everything extracted and packaged and transcribed even,

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and a nice chapter indices on the Q&A

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so you can jump to when a specific question was answered,

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all that good stuff.

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and to all those other people in their lives

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whose patience and support make all of this possible.

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So thank you so much for that.

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This year's host, you saw Corwin and you saw,

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I mean, what's, why am I,

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wait, I'm like buzzing all over the place

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as people are mentioning my nick on IRC.

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All right, now that I'm in do not disturb mode.

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So thank you to the hosts

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and thank you to other volunteers,

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JC and Trico and James and Amitav and Rodion and Jaybird and Indra.

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and Yang3, and Bhavin, and Michael, and Ian,

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and Jamie, and Ihor, and FlowyCoder,

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and probably other people

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that I have forgotten to copy out of my conference.org file

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and into this, but thank you anyway.

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Thank you to the Free Software Foundation.

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They host the mailing list, they host the media server,

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and of course, they've got like Emacs, so that's awesome.

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To make things easier, our streams are actually not on my computer.

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We use OBS and a server,

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a fairly beefy one that Ry P shares with us.

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So then I can VNC into it and control OBS

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and stream to IceCast and all that other goodness.

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And I don't have to worry about my computer stressing out.

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It's all good. And so we use a whole lot of free

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and open source software in the stack.

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So we are very, very grateful

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for all the users and contributors

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who make all of that possible.

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Things like Emacs and Org Mode and ERC and Tramp and Magit

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and BigBlueButton and Etherpad and IckyWicky and IceCast

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and OBS and TheLaunch and LiberaChat and FFmpeg

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and OpenAI Whisper, WhisperX, different interface.

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The Aeneas forced alignment tool, site transfer for uploads,

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subed for editing the subtitles,

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sub-seg for cutting the subtitles into nice chunks

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so that you're not like trying to read a whole lot in one line,

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Mozilla Firefox, MPV and TamperMonkey

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so that everything gets automatically logged in

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when the stream switches to like a big blue button room, it's handy.

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and of course, many other tools and services

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that we use to prepare and host this year's conference.

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Thanks to Shoshin for the music.

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He's an Emacs geek as well.

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If you also have music that you'd like to share with us

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under the Creative Commons Attribution License,

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please feel free to let me know

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or I should put in my email address here.

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Yeah, sacha@sachachua.com.

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So let us know in case you have music

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or other things you want to share.

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Thanks to the people who donated

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via the FSF working together program.

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It costs like I think less than a hundred dollars

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to run this whole thing

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that the biggest thing really is people's time.

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And thank you so much for sharing that with us.

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So yes, but thank you specifically to Scott and Jonathan

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and the other anonymous donors

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through the Working Together program.

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And that's where we are so far. Feel free to join me.

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I can be here until the kiddo says

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I have not given her enough hugs for today.

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But if you want to like do a quick recap of your favorite talks

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or how you're excited to take things going forward

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and all that stuff.

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You can join me in this as Sunday closing.

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If you look at the talk page,

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there's going to be theoretically

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a big blue button link there that you can join.

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But thank you for this. And now it's like awkward silence.

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I'm wondering what you learned most

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from this conference this year.

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Because I'm running around so much,

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I don't get a lot of the live stuff.

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Like, for example, when I was listening to your Q&A,

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I had it in one ear and I had Christian's dental casting Q&A in the other ear,

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so that just in case he had questions also.

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which kind of just meant I was listening for silences

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and that meant I had to read the next question out loud.

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But I love going through the videos and captioning them.

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And I'm really excited about the kinds of conversations

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that people have been having on the etherpacks and IRC.

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So I think the biggest thing that I'm learning

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is that people are having a lot of fun with Emacs.

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Which is no surprise, of course.

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But it's always so exciting to see people bump into other people

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whose minds work the same way.

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And then who knows where that will go over the next year, over the next years.

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That's sort of an interesting topic,

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is like how to keep the conversations

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going between the conferences, you know?

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is where do people hang out and discuss these things?

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Reddit's one place. IRC. I figure it's... Sorry, go ahead. I'm done.

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I think it's rather...

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I like to think of it as the start of the conversation.

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And so we have around 100 people,

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more than 100, around 200 people yesterday,

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around 100 today joining us.

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And those are a lot of conversations,

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but then they're the conversations that happen

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when people look up the videos and the captions

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and the resources that people have shared.

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And so I think it gives us a lot of material,

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a lot of exciting points

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for plenty of other conversations this year.

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Yeah, it's a great community. Oh, yes, I should mention,

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the conversation doesn't stop here

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because there are mailing lists.

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Thank you, Rudy, for the reminder.

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If you're looking for more of this kind of sense of community,

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there's like, well, Emacs Develop course has a lot of technical discussions going on,

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but the Org Mode mailing list is very nice.

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There are also lots of meetups.

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There's definitely a meetup every month.

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Org Meetup, in fact, is happening in a couple of days.

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If you look on the Emacs wiki for user groups,

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or you check my Emacs news,

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or you check, if you look for like Emacs calendar,

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which I think I put on like emacslife.com slash calendar,

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then you'll find upcoming meetups.

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so that you can keep reconnecting with people.

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And if you come up with something cool,

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you don't have to wait until the next Emacs Con

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to show it to everybody.

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You can also go to these meetups and start sharing it

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and get feedback and make it even better and so on.

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Great, thank you. Rudy says, the Emacs bugs mailing list

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is surprisingly interesting as well.

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Lots of discussion on there, various details

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and upcoming little features every single day.

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Oh yes, Maddie would like another shout out for Emacs Carnival

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which is a monthly blogging people share topics

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so that people can all write about the same thing

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and then discover other people's perspectives on it.

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There have been quite a few now.

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So if you want, you can go through the Emacs Carnival page

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in the Emacs wiki and start exploring the past issues.

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The host will have a list of links

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to the people who've submitted. So it's a great way to see

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what other people in the community

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have been thinking about something.

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Also, people are very curious about the fonts and templates

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that people use for their presentations.

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It's always, that's one of the things

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I love about presentations.

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You kind of get this, you pick up so much more

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when you're looking over someone's shoulder,

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the things that they would forget to even mention

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because it's not the point of their talk

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or they take it for granted.

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So, yes. if the presenters can share their fonts

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and setups and themes and stuff like that.

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Or if you as a viewer have been watching something

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and you see someone do this really cool keyword shortcut

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and you have no idea how they did that,

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because of course, you know, it just flies by too quickly

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and it's part of their muscle memory,

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so they don't even explain it anymore.

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Go ahead and ask the speakers, hey,

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that command that you did, that just did the magic, how?

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So yes, please feel free to go back over the videos,

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look at them slowly,

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look for interesting things you want to learn more about.

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All right, it sounds like we are

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pretty much ready to wrap up.

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So thank you, everyone, for coming.

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See you next year and also in the months in between

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because there are meetups,

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which you're going to go check out and have fun at.

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Thank you for this.

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Yes, thank you for this nice Emacs weekend.

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Thanks for putting it all together, Sacha and everyone.

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That's great. Bye!