[ANN] EmacsConf 2024 Call for Participation

[Amin Bandali]

Dear fellow Emacsians,

We are excitedly calling for your participation for EmacsConf 2024,
planned for December 7 and 8, 2024 (Sat-Sun)!  Please submit your
proposal by September 20, 2024 (Friday).  See below for details on
how to send in your proposal, or chat with us about them and about
other ways of participating and volunteering around EmacsConf via
our main IRC channel #emacsconf on the Libera.Chat network.

(Please direct any replies for this message to myself or to the
 emacsconf-discuss list, so as to help minimize off-topic chatter
 on the other lists Cc'd on this message.  Thank you.)


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                             EMACSCONF 2024
                           Online Conference
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                         December 7 and 8, 2024


1 Call for participation
========================

  What have you found exciting about [Emacs] lately?  Have you figured
  out a good workflow?  Used Emacs for something interesting?  Come
  share what you've been learning at EmacsConf 2024 and meet other
  enthusiasts along the way!  All backgrounds and all levels of
  experience are welcome.  Emacs isn't just a text editor, it's a way of
  life!

  Not sure what to talk about?  We've shared a few [ideas] to help you
  get started.

  [EmacsConf 2024] will be a virtual conference on *December 7 and 8,
  2024 (Sat-Sun, 9AM-5PM UTC-5 America/Toronto, which is the same as
  2PM-10PM UTC)*.  If you'd like to present at the conference, please
  *[submit your proposal]* by *September 20, 2024 (Friday)*.  You can
  also take a look at [previous talks] to see how your talk can add to
  other ideas!

  We'll send out rolling acceptances, so feel free to get the
  conversation started early!  If there are similar proposals, we'll
  work with people so that the talks can cover different facets.


[Emacs] <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/>

[ideas] <https://emacsconf.org/2024/ideas/>

[EmacsConf 2024] <https://emacsconf.org/2024/>

[submit your proposal] <https://emacsconf.org/2024/cfp/>

[previous talks] <https://emacsconf.org/talks>


2 Talk formats
==============

  Ideally, talks will be prerecorded so that you can script and edit
  them as tightly as you want, and so that they can be captioned for
  accessibility.  Here are the talk options:

  - *5-10 minute lightning talk:* just the essentials!  If you can
    squeeze your prerecorded talk into 5-10 minutes by focusing on the
    essentials (not by talking super quickly!), we might be able to
    repeat it during the conference in order to fill gaps.
  - *20-minute talk:* short enough to keep people's attention, long
    enough to get into some details.

  There will be time for questions and answers after your talk, so you
  don't need to include that in your talk timing.  Just like in
  EmacsConf 2023, you can answer questions via a live video conference,
  IRC ([Internet Relay Chat]), the Etherpad (a web-based collaborative
  document), the wiki, or email (your choice).  The stream will move on
  to the next talk at the scheduled time, but interested people can keep
  hanging out with you for a longer conversation.

  If you are not available during the conference itself but you have a
  neat idea that you'd like to share, please propose it anyway!  You can
  always handle questions after the conference, and we might even be
  able to coordinate with other Emacs meetups for events in other time
  zones.

  We may have time for a few longer sessions.  If you'd like to be
  considered for a longer time slot, please include an outline for the
  extra time in addition to your 20-minute proposal.  Other session
  formats such as tutorials, workshops, and hangouts are welcome as
  well.


[Internet Relay Chat] <https://chat.emacsconf.org>


3 Submitting your proposal
==========================

  [Send us your idea] as soon as you can, so that you can have more time
  to work on your talk.  (Proposal deadline: Friday, September 20, 2024)

  If you need help, you can email us publicly at [emacsconf-org@gnu.org]
  or privately at [emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org].  You can also come
  and say hi to us on our IRC channel `#emacsconf' on `irc.libera.chat'
  using [your favourite IRC client], or by visiting [chat.emacsconf.org]
  in your web browser.


[Send us your idea] <https://emacsconf.org/2024/submit/>

[emacsconf-org@gnu.org] <mailto:emacsconf-org@gnu.org>

[emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org] <mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org>

[your favourite IRC client] <ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/emacsconf>

[chat.emacsconf.org] <https://chat.emacsconf.org>


4 Know someone who might have something to share?
=================================================

  All kinds of people use Emacs for all kinds of things.  We'd love it
  if EmacsConf 2024 could highlight interesting perspectives and reflect
  the diversity of our community.  If you know someone who might have a
  good idea for a talk, please reach out to them and encourage them to
  submit a proposal.  Many people (especially from underrepresented
  groups such as women, people of colour, non-developers, etc.) might
  not consider themselves proficient enough to share their thoughts.  If
  you let them know that you value their knowledge and experiences, and
  maybe even suggest something that you think others would like to hear
  about, they may realize that they do have something worth sharing and
  that we would love to hear from them.


5 Want to volunteer?
====================

  If you would like to help with the conference (planning the sessions,
  reviewing proposals, helping with infrastructure, making sessions more
  accessible, editing video transcripts, checking in speakers, reading
  questions out loud, organizing notes, etc.), please see our
  [volunteer] page.  Volunteers get early access to talks and learn lots
  of things along the way.  We'd really appreciate your help in making
  EmacsConf 2024 the best one so far!


[volunteer] <https://emacsconf.org/volunteer/>


6 Commitment to freedom
=======================

  We remain fully committed to freedom.  You'll be able to participate
  in EmacsConf using [free/libre software], and we use free/libre
  software to organize and run the conference.  You can find some notes
  about our setup and process at <https://emacsconf.org/infra/>.


[free/libre software] <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>

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