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My EmacsConf presentation will stream in a few hours, and someone's probably going to ask where I find the time for all of this. =) So I dug through my time logs (a custom system I wrote in 2012 with Ruby on Rails; has an Emacs interface, of course) and came up with this table of hours I logged in my Discretionary - Productive...

EmacsConf 2023 is next weekend (Dec 2-3)! Help wanted: Searching for someone to adopt an #emacs major mode for algol calc's elisp function documentation. - It would be nice to add docstrings. Might be a good contribution to emacs-devel? Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin...

Upcoming events: Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Nov 24 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Nov 25 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Nov 25 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore Mastering Emacs book club...

Upcoming events: EmacsSF (in person): hackerdojo.el https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/296985794/ Tue Nov 14 1830 America/Los_Angeles M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 16 0000 Asia/Singapore Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Nov 17 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000...

EmacsConf 2023 is less than a month away. Speakers have been uploading videos, captioning volunteers have been editing away, and I thiiiiink I've gotten most of the infrastructure dusted off. Exciting! Here's where we are with regard to talk status: Graphical view of the schedule Schedule for Saturday Saturday 9:00- 9:10 Saturday opening remarks sat-open 9:10- 9:20 An Org-Mode based text adventure game for...

Upcoming events: 200ok: Announcing EmacsConf 2023 (Swiss satellite) Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 10 1800 Europe/Paris Emacs.si: Emacs.si meetup #11 2023 (#online) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/e4748f47-63cc-4891-8c11-ce288c3b9f4b Fri Nov 10 1100 America/Vancouver - 1300 America/Chicago - 1400 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2000 Europe/Berlin – Sat Nov 11 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Nov 10 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400...

Upcoming events: EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/295467663/ Wed Nov 1 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Nov 2 0030 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Nov 2 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Fri Nov 3 0030 Asia/Singapore...

Figure 1: The backstage area One of the benefits of volunteering for or speaking at EmacsConf is that you get early access to the talks. We upload the files to a password-protected web server. It's nothing fancy, just a directory that has basic authentication and a static index.html generated by Emacs Lisp. I organize the talks by TODO status so that people can easily...

Now that I've figured out how to automatically play EmacsConf talks with crontab, I want to update our approach to using TRAMP and timers to run two tracks semi-automatically. When a talk starts playing, I would like to: announce it on IRC so that the talk details split up the chat log and make it easier to read publish the media files to https://media.emacsconf.org/2023...

I figured out multi-track streaming so close to EmacsConf 2022 that there wasn't enough time to get other volunteers used to working with the setup, especially since I was still scrambling to figure out more infrastructure as the conference approached. We decided I'd run both streams myself, which meant I needed to make things as automatic as possible so that I wouldn't go crazy....

Emacs 29.1.90 pretest is available (Irreal) Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): Note taking for research https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 25 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830...

During EmacsConf, we join BigBlueButton webconferences for live presentations and Q&A sessions so that the speakers and the host can be on stream. I wanted to reduce the number of manual steps needed to join the web conference, since any clicks or keystrokes would need to be done via a VNC connection. I used Tampermonkey to write a script to join BigBlueButton and set...

I wanted to use Mermaid to make diagrams, but I ran into this issue when trying to run it: Error: Could not find Chromium (rev. 1108766). This can occur if either 1. you did not perform an installation before running the script (e.g. `npm install`) or 2. your cache path is incorrectly configured (which is: /home/sacha/.cache/puppeteer). For (2), check out our guide on configuring...

Sometimes I want to work with all the talks associated with an email in my inbox. For example, maybe a speaker said that the draft schedules are fine, and I want to make a note of that in the conference Org file. First we start with a function that gets the e-mail addresses for a talk. Some speakers have different e-mail addresses for public...

Naming conventions make it easier for other people to find things. Just like with file prefixes, I like to use a standard naming pattern for our BigBlueButton web conference rooms. For EmacsConf 2022, we used ec22-day-am-gen Speaker name (slugs). For EmacsConf 2023, I want to set up the BigBlueButton rooms before the schedule settles down, so I won't encode the time or track information...

Sometimes it makes sense to dynamically generate information related to a talk and then save it as an Org property so that I can manually edit it. For example, we like to name all the talk files using this pattern: "emacsconf-year-slug--title--speakers". That's a lot to type consistently! We can generate most of these prefixes automatically, but some might need tweaking, like when the talk...

ELPA and Emacs Zine: ELPA and Emacs Zine (September 2023) - tree-sitter progress report, emacs-devel thread summary Upcoming events: EmacsConf - 2023 Talks (Reddit, Irreal) OrgMeetup (virtual) https://list.orgmode.org/87mswxi7mk.fsf@localhost/T/#u Wed Oct 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 12 0000 Asia/Singapore Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 13 1800...

One of the things I keep an eye out for when organizing EmacsConf is the most recent time we heard from a speaker. Sometimes life happens and speakers get too busy to prepare a video, so we might offer to let them do it live. Sometimes e-mail delivery issues get in the way and we don't hear from speakers because some server in between...

Of course, after I charted EmacsConf's growth in terms of number of submissions and minutes, I realized I also wanted to just sum everything up by year. So here it is: import pandas as pd import matplotlib.pyplot as plt df = pd.DataFrame(data[1:], columns=data[0]) df = df.drop('Weeks to CFP', axis=1).groupby(['Year']).sum() fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=2, figsize=(12,6)) fig1 = df['Count'].plot(kind="bar", ax=ax[0], title='Number of submissions') fig2 =...

Having helped organize EmacsConf for a number of years now, I know that I usually panic about whether we have submissions partway through the call for participation. This causes us to extend the CFP deadline and ask people to ask more people to submit things, and then we end up with a wonderful deluge of talks that I then have to somehow squeeze into...

Upcoming events: EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/295467659/ Wed Oct 4 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Oct 5 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2023 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/0ce54adb-a94c-4cf0-a422-0fc6efc8c8e9 Thu Oct 5 1900 CET M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago -...

We send a number of e-mails to speakers while coordinating EmacsConf. Here's a rough list of the standard e-mails: confirmation that we've received their proposal and that we'll review it over the following week acceptance coordination with related talks checking tentative schedule to see if people have any requests instructions for uploading files instructions for accessing the backstage area confirmation that we've received their...

The EmacsConf 2023 call for participation has finished, hooray! We've sent out acceptances and added talks to the wiki. We experimented with early acceptances this year, which was really nice because it gives people quick feedback and allows people to get started on their videos early. That meant that I needed to be able to easily add talks to the wiki throughout the call...

_xor had an interesting idea: can we use org-protocol to link to things inside Emacs, so that we can have a webpage with bookmarks into our Org files? Here's a quick hack that reuses org-store-link and org-link-open. (defun org-protocol-open-link (info) "Process an org-protocol://open style url with INFO." (org-link-open (car (org-element-parse-secondary-string (plist-get info :link) '(link))))) (defun org-protocol-copy-open-link (arg) (interactive "P") (kill-new (concat "org-protocol://open?link=" (url-hexify-string (org-store-link...

Upcoming events: london-emacs-hacking.github.io/meetup-agenda.org London Emacs (in person): Emacs London Meetup https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/295656446/ Tue Sep 26 1900 Europe/London Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 28 0030 Asia/Singapore Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Sep 29 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto...

Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #9 2023 (#online) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/47146cdc-e3fe-4933-9087-31cc34fb46f9 Fri Sep 22 2000 CET Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Sep 22 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto -...

During an EmacsConf talk, we: copy the talk overlay images and use them in the streaming software (OBS) play videos a recorded introduction if it exists any extra videos we want to play the main talk and open up browser windows the BigBlueButton web conference room for a live Q&A session the talk's Etherpad collaborative document for questions the Internet Relay Chat channel, if...

Last week of EmacsConf 2023 Call for Participation Emacs 29, 30: What's New in Emacs 29.1? - Mastering Emacs (HN) Next revolutionary changes in Emacs GNU Emacs 29.1 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 22.04 via PPA | UbuntuHandbook Why you shouldn't use Emacs 30.0.50 Upcoming events: OrgMeetup (virtual) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2023-08/msg00591.html Wed Sep 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT...

In the course of organizing and running EmacsConf, I often need to jump to or act on specific talks. I have a function that jumps to the talk heading so that I can look up additional information or add notes. Figure 1: Jumping to a talk emacsconf-go-to-talk: Jump to the talk heading matching SEARCH.(defun emacsconf-go-to-talk (search) "Jump to the talk heading matching SEARCH." (interactive...

The EmacsConf 2023 call for participation deadline is coming up next Friday (Sept 15), so I'm getting ready to draft the schedule. Here's a quick overview of how I experiment with schedules for EmacsConf. I have all the talk details in Org subtrees. There's a SLUG property that has the talk ID, a TIME property that says how long a talk is, and a...

EmacsConf is a virtual conference with speakers from all over the world. We like to plan the schedule so that the speakers can come for live Q&A sessions without having to wake up too early or stay up too late. Timezones are tricky for me. Sometimes I mess up timezone names (like the time I misspelled Tbilisi and ended up with UTC conversion) or...

People submit proposals for EmacsConf sessions via e-mail following this submission template. (You can still submit a proposal until Sept 14!) I mostly handle acceptance and scheduling, so I copy this information into our private conf.org file so that we can use it to plan the draft schedule, mail-merge speakers, and so on. I used to do this manually, but I'm experimenting with using...

Help wanted: Treesit next steps Volunteers to try out other bugtracking workflows Upcoming events: EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/295467656/ Wed Sep 6 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Sep 7 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore Emacs Paris (virtual, in French) https://www.emacs-doctor.com/emacs-paris-user-group/ Thu Sep 7 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT...

One of the things I like about preparing Emacs News is seeing the new packages that people have added to Emacs. It's pretty awesome! The package archives don't seem to include the date that a new package has been added, but that's easy to work around by saving the data and then comparing new archive contents with the old list. The code for this...

Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 30 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 31 0030 Asia/Singapore M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300...

10 years ago, I wrote that I was on the threshold of even more changes and two wildly different paths, and that I was looking forward to learning, sharing, and scaling. Here's how that worked out: Learning: I've been learning a ton about myself, life, and the people and resources around us, and skills that make our lives better. Drawing my thoughts out has...

Help wanted: One month to go: Please submit proposals for EmacsConf 2023 Adding refactoring capabilities to Emacs Emacs 29: First look at Emacs 29 (32:02) Upcoming events: Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Aug 25 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Aug 26 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug...

Emacs 29: Update: MSI Installer for GNU Emacs 29.1 for Windows Gnu Emacs acaba de publicar su versión 29.1 Emacs 28 Antinews (GNU Emacs Manual) Help wanted: [Final call] Please help collecting statistics to optimize Emacs GC defaults Upcoming events: Emacs London Meetup, Tue, Aug 22, 2023, 7:00 PM | Meetup Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, August 26, 2023 M-x...

2023-08-10-03 Life as a 39-year-old - summary #yearly #review Last year, I figured that life as a 39-year-old would be about adapting to grade 1 and A-'s developing capabilities, and hoped to continue spending time outside. We successfully navigated virtual grade 1, turning in the required homework every day. We mostly treated homework as practice in emotional regulation and figuring out how to work...

Emacs 29: Emacs 29.1 released [LWN.net]​ Emacs 29.1 Released - No Longer Chokes On Very Long Lines - Phoronix Emacs 29.1 mit neuen Features Emacs 29 released! (12:29) Upcoming events: OrgMeetup (virtual) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2023-07/msg00536.html Wed Aug 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 10 0000 Asia/Singapore Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person)...