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An Emacs conference
- augustl 15y agoThe site doesn't seem to say anything about where and when, anyone knows?
- nic-ferrier 15y agothe organizer says he is collecting interest right now. Once he's gauged the level it will be decided when and where.
- officemonkey 15y agoTop story on HackerNews probably indicates interest.
- dotemacs 15y agoHi @officemonkey, updated the site with the location & time info. Thanks for your support :)
- ltsampros 15y agoIndeed it does, but I'd love to have input from other emacs related communities (emacs-devel, #emacs@freenode, org-devel, ding etc,) too. Also, I'd love to see more presentations from active developers about the current situation of Emacs and possible future directions, or even presentations about less-known features or even some how-to-get-involved-propaganda.
- nic-ferrier 15y agoI'd love to hear tromey talk about his plans to rebase emacs in CL: http://tromey.com/blog/?p=709 http://tromey.com/blog/?p=709
- wildanimal 15y agoI thought the plan was to rebase in Guile Scheme?
- nic-ferrier 15y agothat's just one plan. a lot of emacs people think that's a good plan, a lot of emacs people think that's a bad plan. I'm in the latter camp and prefer CommonLisp. But, hey, whatever works.
- LukeShu 15y agoI was under the impression that while a lot of people think CL is a better plan, the work is actually under way for Guile (I guess more by the Guile team than the Emacs team). But, I feel like you would know better than I do.
- stephenlee 15y agoSounds great.
- gnufs 15y agoPlease make sure to have reasonably high quality a/v records of the presentations.
- dotemacs 15y agoHi @gnufs, the idea is to have it done non-profit. So I'll be looking for volunteers to help me out with this aspect. Or I might approach Confreaks since they do a lot of conference filming. But not really sure how they operate...
- BCM43 15y agoYou might want to contact the debconf video team for advice/help. http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Videoteam http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Videoteam I've worked on it before, so you can PM me if you have any questions.
- iuguy 15y agoHi, I'm one part of http://www.44con.com/ http://www.44con.com/ and having run quite a few events in London would be happy to help out where I can. It might be worth at least meeting up for a chat to see what you want to do and bounce a few ideas around. My contact details are on my profile if you'd care to get in touch (as you don't have any on yours and a search for dotemacs on google yields quite a few results!).
- Derbasti 15y agoWant!
- gtrak 15y agoWould this be appropriate for emacs wannabe users like me? I'd love to shave off some years of the learning curve.
- dotemacs 15y agoHi @gtrak, why not :) Just make a proposal on the site, see what people say. The idea is for the conference to be shaped by the people, everybody has a say.
- drothlis 15y agoI recently put this guide together: http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html Its focus is on self-driven discovery by leveraging the Emacs built-in help and source code. Feedback welcome.
- agumonkey 15y agoVery very nice tutorial. Careful when you say elisp `if` is a function, it's a `special form` aka different evaluation semantics.
- drothlis 15y agoThanks! After "pretend that if is a function" I do immediately proceed to explain evaluation semantics: "what does it mean by 'if is a special form'? It turns out that if isn’t a regular function." Of course, I am open to suggestions for better wording etc. That's assuming you were talking about the "cc-mode customization" chapter. If I've called "if" a function anywhere else please let me know! And keep the feedback coming. :-)
- agumonkey 15y agoMy bad I stopped reading too soon. So maybe just using a different verb than 'is' would be enough to avoid confusion. (and yes I was on the cc-mode customization page)
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- almost 15y agoSounds good, and if it's in London even better :) Where do I sign up for updates?
- dotemacs 15y agoHi @almost, I haven't gotten that far yet. But I tweet as @dotemacs on Twitter, so that might be a good temporary step. Also the codebase for the site is here: https://github.com/dotemacs/emacsconf/ https://github.com/dotemacs/emacsconf/ so, maybe somebody can add what they'd like, such as a RSS feed...
- JoelMcCracken 15y agoEgads! Just what I have been waiting for! Emacs really sweet, but I think that, as it is commonly said with Lisps, its problems are largely social, not technological. As such, the community could really use some social solutions.
- agumonkey 15y agoFunny, the conference isn't even planned, yet it taught me the existence of Ecukes (cucumber for emacs). awesome
- grandalf 15y agoThis is a fantastic idea! I'm hoping it ends up being held in the bay area.
- 2nd_planet 15y agoThis is awesome! I'd love it if this happened!
- jsmcgd 15y agoA meetup group would be great http://www.meetup.com/create/ http://www.meetup.com/create/
- skylan_q 15y agoI can't make it out to London (if it's happening there) but I'm excited to see how it all turns out!
- dgroves 15y agoHello from OWASP Royal Holloway, I to am willing to help with venue and or whatever awesome goodness is required - I would be well chuffed to participate in an emacs conference! Just let me know what you need, and how I can help. Dennis
- natep 15y agoI still haven't gotten a confirmation email (and I checked my spam folder). Is the site overloaded?
- dotemacs 15y agoHey natep, contact me on twitter, I'm @dotemacs and I'll resolve this for you. Thanks
- natep 15y agoCan you use the email address in my hn profile? Thanks
- lmichelbacher 15y agoI reset my password and now I can login, somehow circumventing the missing confirmation email.
- jimfuller 15y agoI certainly would attend this ... Europe based best for me ... preferably Prague (which is a surprisingly good place for a conference).