In search for an emacs hacker

[Vitus Schäfftlein]

Hey, folks!

tl;dr looking to hire an emacs hacker who helps me change emacs to make 
it work for academics.

I've been using emacs for about a month now and have started realizing 
how great it is! I really like that you can do basically anything with 
it, and I have noticed the huge potential emacs has for academics (I'm 
thinking of org-ref, org-roam-(bibtex), org-noter, pdftools, 
org-transclude,  and of course the LaTeX-export functionality of 
org-mode). I have the deep desire to trash all proprietary software that 
is used at the university (above all, Adobe Reader DC) and use emacs 
instead, and I want other academics to do it, too. I think academia 
should be least dependent on big companies and support FOSS projects.

The problem about all this is that, at the moment, it is frustrating to 
use emacs for all this. I got errors all the time which have costed me 
days of my time and probably quite some hair already. Often times, 
functions do not work as they should or functionality that is needed for 
a good workflow is not implemented. Getting things to run on windows, 
which most people use, is a pain on its own. For this reason, I want to 
create my own blog on which I explain how to use emacs as an academic. 
Now these people aren't emacs programmers and neither am I (I know how 
to set variables, key-bind functions, and some very basic lisp, but 
that's it), so my goal is to (1) provide simple 
step-by-step-instructions to get everything running smoothly and (2) 
describe in detail how an emacs workflow for academics can look like. My 
big dream is to eventually create something like doom emacs or 
spacemacs, but for academics. Functions and key-bindings should closely 
resemble those of programs academics usually use.

Before that happens, though, I need to get everything running smoothly 
first, and I openly admit I am simply not capable of this. I have been 
working with a great emacs hacker <https://github.com/alezost> before 
and got quite some things done already. For example, we have created a 
minor mode which overlays citations in APA-Style 
<https://github.com/alezost/org-ref-prettify.el>, changed magic latex 
buffer so that it is better suited for writing math/logic in it and 
configured org-mode to create awesome-looking PDFs. Unfortunately, 
though, Alex has his focus on other projects now, so I am all alone 
again. For this reason, I am looking for someone who is willing to help 
me with my project and some things I would like to have changed for my 
own sake. Of course, they will be paid, but I am a student paying out of 
his own pocket so my financial resources are limited (i can send you 
150$ for a bigger task, but not 1500$...).

Is there an emacs hacker out here who is convinced that emacs should be 
used by academics, too, and who wants to support this cause while 
earning some money on the way? If so, please get in touch with me!

Best regards,

Vitus