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EmacsConf 2019 - Shared shownotes pad https://emacsconf.org/2019/schedule

** Domek

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should be a frictionless process, otherwise you might be tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use, so that, in the event of a data loss, you can just restore it. Likewise, restoring data should not be complicated.
Fast: Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day. Nobody does backups if it takes too much time. Restoring backups should only transfer data that is needed for the files that are to be restored, so that this process is also fast.
Verifiable: Much more important than backup is restore, so restic enables you to easily verify that all data can be restored.
Secure: Restic uses cryptography to guarantee confidentiality and integrity of your data. The location the backup data is stored is assumed not to be a trusted environment (e.g. a shared space where others like system administrators are able to access your backups). Restic is built to secure your data against such attackers.
Efficient: With the growth of data, additional snapshots should only take the storage of the actual increment. Even more, duplicate data should be de-duplicated before it is actually written to the storage back end to save precious backup space.

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a strange looking editor named "Emacs" is mentioned: https://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/
~~no, this has to be this one~~: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
- both are same ;-)
related: there is also https://www.vim.org/ in case you're looking for an alternative
- please respect the code of conduct *SCNR*

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Opening remarks
9am EDT / 1pm UTC / 2pm CET

Welcome to the conference - Amin Bandali
- RMS is watching as well \o/
Emacs community update - Sacha Chua
- more than 100 languages are supported with Org mode/babel
- Planet Emacslife RSS feed: if you do have Emacs-related feeds, hand it in to Sacha
- popular Emacs-like features/addons/plugins in non-Emacs tools
- https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/dk1d60/emacsconf_2019_curious_to_hear_what_you_guys/
- increased popularity through killer apps: spacemacs, org mode, magit, pandoc, org to Hugo exporter
- https://github.com/sachac/emacs-conf-2019-community-update
Emacs development update ("State of the Union") - John Wiegley
- Notes by John: https://gist.github.com/jwiegley/c2a9584d6f477345fc83db7b3e067331
- maintenance was moving to Eli Zaretskii
- support for big integers
- integration for harfbuzz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harfbuzz
- ligatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature
- Cairo not experimental any more (Linux)
  - This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics)
  - this also paves the way to Wayland
- Emacs 27 with new built-in tab-bar
  - also switching window configuration
- Built-in support for image scaling and rotation
  - no more dependency for imagemagic
- portable dumper
  - Any URL for that? Scripts from an older talk, there you can see/learn what the dumper actually is: https://dancol.org/pdumperpres.pdf
  - Pre-loading some essential elisp code at build-time by taking a memory snapshot
- initial support for XDG directory specification
  - More info on that -- https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/xdg.el and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-05/msg00081.html
  - new (XDG spec is now several years old!) directory structure for config and other files, so that your ${HOME} isn't as full as before. Config files are now in ${HOME}/.config/$APPLICATION/something
- NSM module
  - network security manager
- built-in support for indicator columns
- so-long-mode
  - performance win for buffers with long lines
- he talks about full internationalization, e.g. that errors come in your local language
  - ngettext?

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html (XDG spec)

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Use Org mode when away from the desktop: Organice (pre-recorded)
Zen Monk Alain M. Lafon, 200ok.ch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQKc0hcFXCk
https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice
JavaScript-based Org mode tool for working on local files that sync via WebDAV, Dropbox and such
Support for a sub-set of Org mode syntax (so far)

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Org-mode and FoilTeX - an unlikely (but useful) combination for teaching (pre-recorded)
Tom Faulkenberry

https://github.com/tomfaulkenberry/orgFoils
FIXXME: Video URL on YouTube?
nice explanation to set it up

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A.I. that Helps Play the Game of Your Life (pre-recorded)
Andrew J. Dougherty (adougher9@gmail.com) (aindilis)

talk: https://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/frdcsa-emacsconf2019-final.webm
landingpage: https://frdcsa.org/frdcsa/
homepage: https://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo
use case: https://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/writings/homeless-story.html
github: https://github.com/aindilis
user manual: http://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/writings/README.html
slides: http://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/panoply-presentation.odp
irc: #frdcsa and #freelifeplanner @ freenode
vm: Panoply VM to be released in 1 - 3 months

https://www.nctm.org/Publications/Teaching-Children-Mathematics/Blog/Current-Research-on-Gender-Differences-in-Math/

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How a Completely Blind Manager/Dev Uses Emacs Every Day
10:15-10:45am EDT / 2:15-2:45pm UTC / 3:15-3:45pm CET
Parham Doustdar (parham90@gmail.com)

screen readers
FIXXME: URL to the slides
(2019-11-02T15.36.54 time-stamps by Karl Voit in CET for video sync purpose)
Emacs is making things possible for blind people that would be hard or impossible otherwise :-)
Questions:
- Are there any modes that come with emacsspeak configuration "out of the box"?
  - No Emacs packages come with Emacspeak configuration, but Emacspeak itself comes with a lot of configuration for different packages like org-mode, Magit, and many many others.
- Do you, Parham, prefer emacs modes to not have any customizations around emacsspeak so that you can customize them yourself?
  - Yeah, no customizations is great. The problem with most applications, outside Emacs, is that people try and guess how a blind user for example would use their package/application. However, in Emacs, the cool thing is that you don't have to do it any more and let the user figure it out.
- Are there any "rules" that package developers for emacs could use to make them more emacsspeak friendly or at least avoid being emacsspeak hostile?
  - I would say that the best way would be to just use Emacs functionality. Some packages do weird things with custom overlays, for example, which Emacspeak has a hard time accessing.

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Managing your life with org-mode and other tools
10:45-11:15am EDT / 2:45-3:15pm UTC / 3:45-4:15pm CET -> 2019-11-02T15.44.28 CET
Marcin Swieczkowski (scatman@bu.edu)

link to slides:: https://www.bytedude.com/files/managing-your-life-with-org-mode.html
link to repo + org file: https://github.com/m-cat/managing-your-life-with-org-mode
using a single Org mode file: todo.org
not using TODO keyword
- he was forgetting to mark tasks as TODO
- TODO headings scattered around all org files
how does he get items to his agenda?
- schedule it
- deadlines are hard deadlines
- daily agenda shows scheduled items, not TODO items
strict heading hierarchy for his items
on finishing a recurring task -> re-schedule
org-super-agenda https://github.com/alphapapa/org-super-agenda
categories within property drawers
org-recur https://github.com/m-cat/org-recur
- defining recurrence delta for single tasks
- visual cue on the recurring delta on the agenda
- provides more flexible recurrence config like wkdy -> not supported in ord-schedule
git
- reviewing commits on a weakly basis
bonus: misc tools on the slides (not mentioned live)
https://github.com/m-cat/init.el
https://bytedude.com/
end 2019-11-02T16.13.50 CET

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notmuch new(s) (pre-recorded)
David Bremner

start: 2019-11-02T16.16.33 CET
https://notmuchmail.org/
end: 2019-11-02T16.26.23 CET
Questions:
- I think the ability to create links from mails and even from mail queries is a killer feature. I e that in mu4e. I guess this is also possible in emacs notmuch?
  - Yes. Look for "org-notmuch.el" in https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/.

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Browsing Twitch.tv from Emacs (pre-recorded)
Aaron Jacobs (atheriel@gmail.com, https://twitter.com/unconj1, https://unconj.ca/blog/)

start 2019-11-02T16.26.53 CET
https://www.twitch.tv/
mentioned: Kris Jenkins - A Spotify Client in 16 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjKtkEMUYGc
https://github.com/atheriel/helm-twitch
end 2019-11-02T16.35.56 CET

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Ledger-mode (pre-recorded)
Miguel Suárez and Quiliro Ordóñez

start 2019-11-02T16.36.04 CET
tracking expenses using https://github.com/ledger/ledger-mode
presentation video https://archive.org/details/ledger-mode_EmacsConf2019
end 2019-11-02T16.42.54 CET

https://plaintextaccoun

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Playing Emacs like an instrument (pre-recorded, teaser version (full talk see URL below))
Alain M. Lafon (alain@200ok.ch)

start 2019-11-02T16.43.45 CET
FIXXME: URL of video
mentioned: 2h talk "Playing Emacs like an instrument" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZDwYeBlO4, also talk + slides on https://200ok.ch/posts/2018-04-27_Play_Emacs_like_an_Instrument.html
motivation: everybody needs a text processor since almost all information is text-based
end 2019-11-02T16.58.14 CET

web browsing: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryWebBrowser
- https://next.atlas.engineer/

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GNU Emacs for All
9:30-10:15am EDT / 1:30-2:15pm UTC / 2:30-3:15pm CET
Sachin Patil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZ2KZpl4OM (~ 30m)

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Lightning talks
11:15-12pm EDT / 3:15-4pm UTC / 4:15-5pm CET

~~Use Org mode when away from the desktop - Alain M. Lafon -> moved above~~
~~Org-mode and FoilTeX - an unlikely (but useful) combination for teaching - Tom Faulkenberry~~ -> moved above
~~How to record executable notes with eev - and how to play them back - Eduardo Ochs~~ - http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2019.html -> see below
~~A.I. that Helps Play the Game of Your Life - Andrew J. Dougherty~~ -> moved above
~~notmuch new(s) - David Bremner~~ -> moved above
~~Browsing Twitch.tv from Emacs - Aaron Jacobs~~ -> moved above
~~Ledger-mode - Miguel Suárez and Quiliro Ordóñez~~ -> moved above
~~State of Retro Gaming in Emacs - Vasilij “wasamasa” Schneidermann (pointer to another presentation)~~
~~Playing Emacs like an instrument - Zen Monk Alain M. Lafon (pointer to another presentation)~~ -> moved above
~~Play and control your music with Emacs - Damien Cassou~~ -> moved below

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Magit deep dive
12-12:45pm EDT / 4-4:45pm UTC / 5-5:45pm CET
Jonathan Chu @jonathanchu (https://jonathanchu.is/)

start 2019-11-02T16.58.55 CET
Link to slides: https://github.com/jonathanchu/emacsconf-2019-magit-deep-dive
"I don't remember any git commands" :-)
xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1597/
status
diffing
- (setq magit-diff-refine-hunk 'all)
blaming
staging/unstaging
- selective on hunks or lines
committing
- go through previous commit messages while writing a new one: M-p and M-n
branching
- spinn a new branch
reverting
squashing
rebasing
bisecting
more:
- tagging
- notes
- submodules
- worktree
magit helps understanding (complicated) git paradigms
2019-11-02T17.29.44 CET Q&A
modified doom theme
org-present used for the presentation
git hygiene
C-c M-g: global magit mode
resolving rebase conflicts
2019-11-02T17.39.12 CET end

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Emacs as my Go To Script Language
12:45-1:30pm EDT / 4:45-5:30pm UTC / 5:45-6:30pm CET
Howard Abrams

start 2019-11-02T17.43.04 CET
@howardabrams http://www.howardism.org
love/hate-relationship with the shell
- https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm
interactive vs. scripts
demo: Piper
- https://gitlab.com/howardabrams/emacs-piper
scripts
(video outage for 5 minutes approximately)
Q&A 2019-11-02T18.10.31 CET
- sharing workflow with non-emacs persons: no, mostly for himself in private life
- (further video issues; audio worked)
- working with huge buffers
- how does piper work for you on large files (10k lines or so?)
  - haven't checked
- is the key to thinking about the workflow is to convert stuff to buffer and operating on it?
  - the emacs/lisp way of doing things
- Name suggestion: husk
- 2019-11-02T18.28.19 CET end

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Continuously checking for quality of your packages
1:30-2:15pm EDT / 5:30-6:15pm UTC / 6:30-7:15pm CET
Damien Cassou

start 2019-11-02T18.30.58 CET
slides https://files.petton.fr/cassou/emacsconf2019/presentation.html
13:34 EDT: checklist for MELPA
naming, docstrings, small functions, automated tests, package metadata
avoid warnings; speaker believes they are just as important as errors
suggests Melpa's contributing.org as a good reference for quality: https://github.com/melpa/melpa/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.org
Example ERT test setup example
Example of a Buttercup test
- M-x buttercup-run-at-point
He tends to use ERT most often
Example of using flycheck in a buffer
Advice: run flycheck on your own code, don't worry about everyone else
Remote setup
- tools needed: cask, emacs-package-checker, emake, makel
makel can use Makefiles to ensure dependencies and alias commands -> good for continuous integration
Configuring CI to use specific version of Emacs to be tested:
- evm, nix-emacs-ci, silex' emacs, kelleyk's ppa
Example configurations for TravisCI, Gitlab CI, Gitea+Drone,
Q&A
- Gitlab..
- Any CI systems using Guix yet?
- A: not sure yet
- Q: is Melpa's standard the accepted one?
- A: Their contributing.org file is a really good one
end 2019-11-02T19.05.25 CET

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Lightning talks
2:15-3:15pm EDT / 6:15-7:15pm UTC / 7:15-8pm CET

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Navigel to facilitate the creation of tabulated-list based UIs
Damien Cassou

video: https://files.petton.fr/cassou/emacsconf2019/navigel-shorter.ogv
start 2019-11-02T19.06.29 CET
end 2019-11-02T19.15.54 CET

https://gitea.petton.fr/DamienCassou/navigel/
Question: What screenkey-like program is Damien using? It's nicely less intrusive than screenkey. Answer: https://github.com/nibrahim/showkeys
personal tips from Damien: https://emacsconf.org/2019/tips (at the bottom): "to start 3 processes simultaneously: showkeys, ffmpeg for audio and ffmpeg for video" https://gist.github.com/DamienCassou/0e3663ce3bdb710a44eeb7122870f621

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Object oriented spreadsheets with example applications
David O'Toole

start 2019-11-02T19.17.10 CET
FIXXME: please provide some URLs!
end 2019-11-02T19.24.05

Question: what's the repo for the spreadsheet? Answers: https://gitlab.com/dto/mosaic-el, with the data files here https://gitlab.com/dto/violin.mosaic, the main documentation page is http://xelf.me/scheme-mosaic.html but it doesn't have much about the emacs side yet

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How Emacs became my awesome Java editing environment
Torstein Krause Johansen @torsteinkrause, http://skybert.net/

start 2019-11-02T19.24.56 CET
slides: https://github.com/skybert/skybert-net/blob/master/src/talks/2019-awesome-java/slides.md
end demo 2019-11-02T19.34.28 CET
Q&A
snippets used: yas(nippet)
end 2019-11-02T19.35.02 CET

(he used it in the past) https://github.com/emacs-eclim/emacs-eclim
Torstein's Emacs config for Java: https://gitlab.com/skybert/my-little-friends/blob/master/emacs/.emacs#L780
This looks pretty helpful: http://www.skybert.net/emacs/enterprise-java-development-in-emacs/

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Automate your workflow as a game developer
Jānis Mancēvičs

2019-11-02T19.40.01 CET start
using all CPU cores instead of one for rendering processes of blender
rocknightstudios -> twitter handles and so forth
- https://www.twitch.tv/rocknightstudios
- https://twitter.com/rocknightgames
2019-11-02T19.48.55 CET end

https://sachachua.com/blog/2014/04/emacs-chat-janis-mancevics/

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Porting org-shiftup/down as a separate module
MetroWind

2019-11-02T19.35.30 CET start
(tech difficulties due to different virtual desktops not catching the Emacs windows)
switching to pre-recorded talk in-between 2019-11-02T19.38.40 CET
2019-11-02T19.49.29 CET trying to resume screen sharing
2019-11-02T19.52.45 CET continuing
modifying time/date not only in Org
Beancount
- https://github.com/bean count/beancount
- https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/commits/
Emacs docu: "system interfaces"
https://github.com/MetroWind/
- https://github.com/MetroWind/dotfiles-mac
2019-11-02T20.00.05 CET end

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Packaging emacs packages for Debian (pre-recorded)
David Bremner

2019-11-02T20.01.37 CET start
2019-11-02T20.11.30 CET end

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Interactive Remote Debugging and Development with TRAMP Mode
3:15-4pm EDT / 7:15-8pm UTC / 8:15-9pm CET
Matt Ray (emacs@mattray.dev, @mattray)

2019-11-02T20.13.38 CET start
https://github.com/mattray/emacsconf2019
https://MattRay.dev
https://github.com/mattray/home-directory/
https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Shell-Mode.html
2019-11-02T20.18.58 CET: tramp mode
- https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
- https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
2019-11-02T20.25.04 CET testing infrastructure: "Test Kitchen"
- https://kitchen.ci
Vagrant https://vagrantup.com
Chef https://Chef.io
InSpec https://inspec.io
pry
- Ruby interactive debugger
- http://pryrepl.org/
2019-11-02T20.49.03 CET end of talk
Q&A
using multiple ssh sessions
he is using nohup to get it to background
relocating is not a requirement for Matt (tmux advantage)
What are the main advantages on using shell within Emacs in contrast to terminal/(ssh/)tmux/zsh directly? (handling of ssh connection loss, zsh features not available in Emacs shell, ...)
- Sat 20:56 < rwp> In Tramp just the single feature of editing a remote file and then typing M-x compile and it automatically doing a remote compile is a killer feature that really wows people I show it too.
2019-11-02T20.59.33 CET end

Tramp Cheatsheet https://imgur.com/a/3jDEFhV
defun toggle-alternate-file-as-root(): https://gist.github.com/ieure/885335e047878d504d39b34e1a1ff4e6
https://github.com/nflath/sudo-edit
https://www.vagrantup.com/
https://www.chef.io/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_(software)

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GNU Emacs as software freedom in practice
4-4:30pm EDT / 8-8:30pm UTC / 9-9:30pm CET
Greg Farough

2019-11-02T21.10.03 CET start
Campaigns Manager at FSF (https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/)
2019-11-02T21.26.29 CET end of slides
Q&A
How to introduce total non-information savy users to Emacs?
[...]
Contributing for documentation is very good as well.
2019-11-02T21.32.03 CET end

https://karl-voit.at/2017/02/10/evolution-of-systems/
Quote from https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html
- "It was Bernie Greenberg, who discovered that it was (2). He wrote a version of Emacs in Multics MacLisp, and he wrote his commands in MacLisp in a straightforward fashion. The editor itself was written entirely in Lisp. Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program."

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Closing remarks
4:30-4:45pm EDT / 8:30-8:45pm UTC / 9:30-9:45pm CET

done at this point so that nobody is missing it due to overtime
2019-11-02T21.33.13 CET start
2019-11-02T21.40.00 CET end
stay tuned for the next pre-recorded videos!

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Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years (pre-recorded)
4:45-5:45pm EDT / 8:45-9:55pm UTC / 9:45-10:45pm CET
Perry E. Metzger

2019-11-02T21.43.15 CET start
parallel/concurrent code is critical for future
"so far, only Rust has a good story on cuncurrency"
"C is dying"
- "C cannot be written safely by mortals"
"C has to go"
Current language slows down Emacs evolution
Incrementally replace C with Rust
displaying not-text
- currently, can't render web pages properly
- native PDF rendering
HTML done right is complicated: security/privacy features
proper rendering of HTML is crucial for Emacs future
- emails, ...
native LSP support
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol
Debug Adapter Protocol
Emacs should be more like an operating system
better Email experience
- IMAP
PIM integration
- CalDAV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV
- CardDAV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CardDAV
markdown support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
- view Org or Markdown as rendered?
Issue: Org is separate from Emacs
- needs to be pervasively integrated?
better chat clients
- instead of Slack, Discord, ...
rendering of web widgets (video, ...)
Hacker-friendly user interface
- Emacs bindings everywhere!
- macOS vs. KDE/Gnome
Using emacs for everything
everything should feel like Emacs
bad
keyboard design/layout
priority
- HTML rendering
- LSP support
- modern email, PIM, ...
- concurrency model + future extension language
2019-11-02T22.31.05 CET end of slides
Q&A starting with 2019-11-02T22.45.10 CET
Web rendering and daily updates
Future non-programmers as Emacs users
JavaScript-intense sources and Emacs support
default Emacs config to help new users
Is Rust also a candidate to replace Elisp or just C? No, just C.
Running Emacs within a browser
Mobile Emacs
Remacs project
- https://github.com/remacs/remacs Emacs in Rust
- lovely but no user-basis and therefore bad situation
- better to use it from inside and not as a fork
Long-term competitors except vim
2019-11-02T23.08.33 CET end of Q&A

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(Karl is leaving here because it's past 11pm and he feels exhausted already.)

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How to record executable notes with eev - and how to play them back
Eduardo Ochs

start 2019-11-02T23.10.49 CET
slides + video: http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2019.html
end 2019-11-02T23.30.00 CET

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MPdel
Damien Cassou

video: https://files.petton.fr/cassou/emacsconf2019/mpdel.ogv
start 2019-11-02T23.31.00 CET
end 2019-11-02T23.41.00 CET

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Restclient and org-mode for Api Documentation and Testing
Mackenzie Bligh

start 2019-11-02T23.42.00 CET
Uses org-babel w/ restclient-mode
end 2019-11-02T23.49.00 CET

https://github.com/mack1070101/emacs-conf-2019

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Equake mode
Ben Slade

start 2019-11-02T23.50.00 CET
eshell dropdown terminal (a'la quake style games)
end 2019-11-02T23.57.00 CET

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Don’t wait! Write your own (yas)snippet
Tony Aldon @tonyaldon

start 2019-11-02T23.58.00 CET
end 2019-11-03T00.07.00 CET

https://github.com/tonyaldon
https://joaotavora.github.io/yasnippet/index.html
https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet
IRC comment: A note about saving yasnippet files: it doens't enforce a file extension, you could save it as just 'app' and it works. As long as you save the snippet in the directories scanned by Yasnippet
Manage snippets within an org-mode file: https://github.com/Kungsgeten/yankpad

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VSCode is Better than Emacs
Zaiste @zaiste, https://zaiste.net/

start 2019-11-03T00.09.00 CET
Started by using Emacs Doom: "A starter pack"
- liked currated packages, and opinions.
- allowed for a lesser learning curve. maintained productivity
VSCode "works out of the box"
Community has Visual Documentation
- Videos, GIFs, walkthrough articles
Emacs has no common practices
- hard to find an answer for common tasks, like search-and-replace
end 2019-11-03T00.18.00 CET

https://github.com/zaiste
https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ohzaiste
his Emacs Doom Screencasts https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhXZp00uXBk4np17N39WvB80zgxlZfVwj, https://invidio.us/playlist?list=PLhXZp00uXBk4np17N39WvB80zgxlZfVwj&hl=en-US

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Navigel to facilitate the creation of tabulated-list based UIs
Damien Cassou

see above

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Object oriented spreadsheets with example applications
David O’Toole

see above

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Deviating Zurich satellite Live Talks
1:45pm-4:00pm EDT / 5:45-8:00pm, UTC / 6:45pm-9:00pm CET

https://200ok.ch/posts/2019-09-17_announcing_the_official_emacsconf_zurich_satellite.html

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Conference MISC

Desktop sharing tool used: https://jitsi.org/
2019-11-02T16.07.12 CET statistics for the current moment:
- over 300 people on the live stream in total
- 200 people in IRC
https://gitea.petton.fr/DamienCassou/navigel/ (IRC 2019-11-02T16.42.46 CET)
please take a look my-dired-recent-dirs on https://github.com/novoid/dot-emacs/blob/master/config.org#L2705 - jumping to dired folders on steroids
For future reference, do you all think we can have a conference code of conduct that's more similar to the useR! conference (https://user2018.r-project.org/code_of_conduct/) instead of the current one? The useR! conference code of conduct is really comprehensive.
https://live0.emacsconf.org/ -> current statistics on feeds
2019-11-02T21.02.57 CET
- 190 viewers on live-streams (with multiple "users" consiting of groups of people)
2019-11-02T21.42.53 CET
- 176 viewers

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Links of Conference attendees

http://www.bundesbrandschatzamt.de/~baron/
Shakthi Kannan ("mbuf"). http://www.shakthimaan.com/news.html
Perry E. Metzger
Karl Voit; https://Karl-Voit.at/tags/emacs/
Simon Leinen
Derek Feichtinger (dfeich) https://github.com/dfeich
Raimon Grau (rgrau) https://github.com/kidd
Christer Enfors (Enfors) https://github.com/enfors
Bob Proulx <rwp> bob@proulx.com
Bhavin Gandhi (bhavin192) https://geeksocket.in

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Karl: FIXXME: this snippet got pasted at a wrong spot: instead of killing, somebody might want to move it to its destination:

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Retrospective

What went well?
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first of all: almost everything went well from an attendee point of view! Hat tip to the organizers for an event of that size! Tech-breaks were necessary for everybody's brain.
this collaborative document (ChaosPad)
time-schedule was OK despite many minor and bigger tech issues
- usually, conferences do use a couple of minutes scheduled breaks between the talks but this time, I think it worked out great
pre-recorded videos for gapping tech difficulties
main organizer and backup organizer, so that someone could run around doing tech checks

What to improve?
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in case of technical issues, presenters needs to have a backup channel for communicating with the organisers (IRC, Jitsi, maybe phone? We managed to let most presenters know when something was wrong, except when Jitsi glitched in the middle of their presentation. Presenters might not be checking their phones during presentations anyway.)
setting up the pad beforehand + mention it on the conf pages
- Sorry for contributing to the last-minute stress level: pad was a last-minute idea
- Totally okay! - Sacha
more contributors to the pad ;-) -> motivation/encouragement
clear (and easy to link to) guideline communication such as:
- questions to speakers -> IRC channel #emacsconf-questions
- content notes, related URLs, ... -> shownotes pad (gets archived)
- rest: IRC channel #emacsconf
  - stream feedback
  - non-shownotes comments since it doesn't get archived
- + FAQ nr. 1: Will there be videos? Where to find them? ...
  - Yes, will be posted on emacsconf.org/2019 when they're available and announced on the emacsconf-discuss mailing list
shownotes pad template according to organizer's preference
- brainstorming on structure for next time
as of 2019-11-02T20.11.23 CET, Karl still does not get whether or not Zürich is going to stream different talks (in parallel) to the main stream. -> much better explanation required
- We aren't sure either! =) - Sacha
- according to the Zurich organizers' website it was at least planned (https://200ok.ch/posts/2019-09-17_announcing_the_official_emacsconf_zurich_satellite.html) but maybe they finally wanted to not miss out the main stream :) (or maybe also some technical issues; as mentioned, I've checked into the ZH stream frequently, and the mirroring of main stream was without audio)
- Hehe. Karl has a pretty good idea how this happens but it still does result in confusion of everybody involved. This needs to be clarified upfront and explained.
During the last extended talk, I could not connect to the IRC server: "Error Connecting (Closing Link: irc0d.libreplanet.org (Too many user connections (global)))". Could the server be configured to accept more connections?
Probably having a dummy(?) video + sound signal online 30min before the start in order to prevent all those "stream is broken" messages in the hot phase before
- Is there a libre Emacs song that qualifies for an endless loop? :-)
- 1h would be even better, since there's so much craziness that happens riiiight before the conference starts. (ex: "Aaaaah! I can't bounce the stream to YouTube as a backup!")
For future reference, do you all think we can have a conference code of conduct that's more similar to the useR! conference (https://user2018.r-project.org/code_of_conduct/) instead of the current one? The useR! conference code of conduct is really comprehensive.
Not sure if this is feasible: mandatory audio/video check with everybody who gets live upfront the event
- We tried getting speakers to do tech checks before the day of the conference, but only a few did. =) Fortunately, we were able to handle most of the tech checks on the fly. I ran around checking people while bandali focused on the stream - Sacha
  - Karl: sounds reasonable to keep it that way
  - I wonder if bouncing between two Jitsi rooms could make sense. Unfortunately, muting happens site-wide... =|
Ask speakers not to use command-log-mode because this window always gets hidden/destroyed/... without noticing during the talk. Instead, use something independent from Emacs like:
- https://github.com/nibrahim/showkeys (Damien has positive experience with that one)
- https://pypi.org/project/key-mon/ (Karl has positive experience with that one)
- https://github.com/wavexx/screenkey
equalize audio levels of prerecorded talks
/topic changes in #emacsconf and #emacsconf-questions

Volunteers
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Karl Voit happily joins the orga team for next time: emacsconf@Karl-Voit.at

== Thanks

bandali: organizing, coordinating, setting up infrastructure, handling streaming and switching
sachac: tech checks, help with schedule
all the speakers
satellite event organizers
FSF: streaming setup tips
aindilis: transcripts
bremner, dto, ggoes: helping with questions
KarlVoit: pad
so many people! attendees, volunteers

== Next steps (we'd love it if you helped with this stuff - you can coordinate with bandali or sachac, or with each other)

Transcode videos to free formats
Upload somewhere
Link agenda to videos
Make a playlist for easier downloading and playing
Transcribe videos - https://emacsconf.org/2019/transcripts
- With STT technology available (see Google Pixel 4): isn't there a possibility to get at least a raw transcription from an algorithm?
- Check speakers' resources for scripts, too
Scale down VPS - bandali
Copy this pad to https://emacsconf.org/2019/pad and format it nicely
- Karl is volunteering for that
- To be done beforehand by the official orga team having all the contacts:
  - ask all speakers to add links, info, ... to it (probably checking all FIXXMEs left)
  - decide on one-shot or multiple conversions: whether or not the pad->webpage should be more or less copy&paste so that viewers of the videos within the next weeks/months are able to contribute more content (if this is feasible) and the webpage archives snapshots until changes get sparse
- set a final deadline so that all desired changes are finalized on the pad
  - Karl needs to know the target format (Org, HTML, ...) - see comment/question/task on simple copy&paste above to be able to do this multiple times with minimal manual effort
  - Karl needs access or somebody needs to publish it
Write about your favorite parts, what you learned, what you're going to do next, etc.
Harvest Q&A from IRC, summarize under each talk
Braindump lessons learned
Subscribe to the mailing list if you want to get notified when more resources are up - https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss
- Karl: is there an active Gmane bridge for that ML?
Go forth and do awesome