#+title: EmacsConf 2019
#+subtitle: Online Conference
#+date: Saturday, November 2, 2019\\
#+date: 9am EST | 1pm UTC | 2pm CET
#+options: author:nil toc:nil

Hello fellow Emacsians!

With less than 24 hours to EmacsConf 2019, we’re more excited than
ever and are looking forward to a day full of Emacsy awesomeness!

Here is what you need to know about watching and participating in the
conference.  The details below are also available on our wiki at
https://emacsconf.org/2019.  Be sure to check out the schedule for the
day at https://emacsconf.org/2019/schedule.

Looking forward to seeing you around in #emacsconf tomorrow!

* Watch

See https://live.emacsconf.org for the livestream feeds you can watch
in your browser, as well as instructions for watching them in media
players that support streaming.

* Participate

IRC, specifically the freenode network, is our primary real-time
communication channel.  You can join using [[irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/emacsconf][your favourite IRC client]]
or the webchat at https://chat.emacsconf.org.

These are the official EmacsConf IRC channels:

- #emacsconf: the main IRC channel for EmacsConf.

- #emacsconf-questions: dedicated to audience questions, more
  moderated than the main channel to keep traffic lower so that the
  organizers or the speakers could easily get to people’s questions
  without having to sift through unrelated messages.

- #emacsconf-accessible: discussion around EmacsConf’s accessibility.
  On November 2, please use this channel to post transcriptions or
  descriptive texts about what’s happening during each talk.

- #emacsconf-org: dedicated channel for EmacsConf organizers and
  speakers, intended as an internal, low-traffic space.  For general
  discussion around the conference please use #emacsconf instead,
  unless there’s an urgent matter requiring immediate attention of the
  organizers.

I’d like to invite you to keep our [[https://emacsconf.org/2019/conduct][code of conduct]] in mind while
participating in the conference so as to help make it an all around
great experience for everyone involved!

Lastly, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list [[https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss][emacsconf-discuss]] for
general discussion and announcements about the conference.

* Infrastructure Status

We have set up a status page at https://status.emacsconf.org where we
will post latest updates on any disruptions to various parts of our
infrastructure.  If you notice a problem or experience disruption
that’s not acknowledged there, please join the #emacsconf-org IRC
channel and send a message about it.