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Sacha has nice content and might know of other resources. I am sure she has noticed how few publish in that space and how many opportunities for women emacs use

Sacha has nice content and might know of other resources. I am sure she has noticed how few publish in that space and how many opportunities for women emacs users to share exist.

jonnycomputer 5y ago
Yeah. Its strange, because I feel fairly certain that there are a great many women (in absolute numbers) who use emacs and org-mode. My thought was maybe that I was just not seeing the content that was out there, and wasn't sure how to search for it. I agree that there is really a lot of room to grow its appeal outside of its traditional user/developer base.
- sachac 5y ago
  Noorah's talk (https://emacsconf.org/2020/talks/17/ https://emacsconf.org/2020/talks/17/ , also recommended elsewhere in this thread) is a good one to look at. You might also like https://www.rousette.org.uk/tags/emacs https://www.rousette.org.uk/tags/emacs and https://gretzuni.com/category/free-software/ https://gretzuni.com/category/free-software/ . One of the things I like about Emacs is its versatility. Do you think the people you're talking to might be curious about some examples of how people have used Emacs? I think it's awesome that people who are blind or have low-vision have Emacspeak, that people use Org Mode to work around the limitations of their brain, that people use Emacs for all sorts of non-coding things... I started trying to organize some links at https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity to give a sense of the breadth of different things people use Emacs for. It's totally not comprehensive, but I hope you can add more resources as you come across them. One of the most fun ways to grow Emacs' appeal outside the user/developer base is to use Emacs for your other interests and talk about how. I've seen lots of posts related to Org and cooking, exercising, and so on. I had fun using Emacs Lisp to help me figure out a quilt pattern. As for making it easier for other people to get into Emacs, some people find it effective to make a customized interface for the workflows people need, especially if they can tweak it to fit people's preferences. Gotta run (kiddo's woken up), but hope that helps!

Sacha has nice content and might know of other resources. I am sure she has noticed how few publish in that space and how many opportunities for women emacs users to share exist.

jonnycomputer 5y ago

Yeah. Its strange, because I feel fairly certain that there are a great many women (in absolute numbers) who use emacs and org-mode. My thought was maybe that I was just not seeing the content that was out there, and wasn't sure how to search for it. I agree that there is really a lot of room to grow its appeal outside of its traditional user/developer base.

sachac 5y ago
Noorah's talk (https://emacsconf.org/2020/talks/17/ https://emacsconf.org/2020/talks/17/ , also recommended elsewhere in this thread) is a good one to look at. You might also like https://www.rousette.org.uk/tags/emacs https://www.rousette.org.uk/tags/emacs and https://gretzuni.com/category/free-software/ https://gretzuni.com/category/free-software/ . One of the things I like about Emacs is its versatility. Do you think the people you're talking to might be curious about some examples of how people have used Emacs? I think it's awesome that people who are blind or have low-vision have Emacspeak, that people use Org Mode to work around the limitations of their brain, that people use Emacs for all sorts of non-coding things... I started trying to organize some links at https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsDiversity to give a sense of the breadth of different things people use Emacs for. It's totally not comprehensive, but I hope you can add more resources as you come across them. One of the most fun ways to grow Emacs' appeal outside the user/developer base is to use Emacs for your other interests and talk about how. I've seen lots of posts related to Org and cooking, exercising, and so on. I had fun using Emacs Lisp to help me figure out a quilt pattern. As for making it easier for other people to get into Emacs, some people find it effective to make a customized interface for the workflows people need, especially if they can tweak it to fit people's preferences. Gotta run (kiddo's woken up), but hope that helps!