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EmacsConf 2015 Planning Doc

111 points by nosefrog 12y ago

jdreaver 12y ago
This looks very interesting! It also looks like there is a lot of support from may volunteers so far. No one at my 3-person company besides me uses Emacs, so it would be great to share workflows and ideas with others. Also, what a great way to advertise Emacs: use a public org-mode document stored on Github that is exported to HTML to plan the conference.
- nosefrog 12y ago
  :D Thanks, we have over 100 (!!!) sign ups so far! I'm really excited. If you want to help out, send me a ping: samer@samertm.com.
edward 12y ago
They're using Github and Google Groups to plan EmacsConf? Neither of these systems are free software. RMS will be unhappy.
- nosefrog 12y ago
  If you want to volunteer, we would love help moving away from those systems :) send me a ping: samer@samertm.com
  - pki 12y ago
    I don't use emacs, but have you considered something like Discourse (usable/postable as a mailing list + a proper modern forum for the less email liking)? Posts can also be made 'community wikis' and have revision history.
    - nosefrog 12y ago
      We'll actually be switching to Discourse soon :) Believe me, I am no fan of Google Groups. I didn't know that Discourse had community wikis. Then we can switch off of GitHub too (plus, git is a bit heavyweight for what is essentially a wiki doc :) )
- flossyourteeth 12y ago
  Indeed, promoting Free software would be a very noble side-effect.
- melling 12y ago
  Probably... Hopefully they're using org files to sooth some of the pain. :-) org files work well on Github. I've got an open issue that would make using org files even more usable. https://github.com/github/markup/issues/473 https://github.com/github/markup/issues/473 If this gets fixed, it'll be easier to maintain a blog, site, etc on Github with org files.
  - berntb 12y ago
    Please see my hobby: https://github.com/berntb/attorg https://github.com/berntb/attorg :-) (Yeah, I'm hellbanned. :-) )
UUMMUU 12y ago
While I am a vim user, I love seeing people having conferences to promote editors that aren't IDEs. Don't get me wrong, Eclipse and Visual Studio are great tools but nothing beats being able to open vim (or emacs in your case) and going to town on some code. Good luck guys!
- nosefrog 12y ago
  Thanks! And if you all put on a Vim conference, I would love to attend :) (Vim has like 5x the users of Emacs, right? that makes it easy :P)
- nickysielicki 12y ago
  Yes, because emacs is known for being a lightweight text editor without excessive bloat around it.
100k 12y ago
This is awesome! I'm excited for a chance to nerd out with fellow Emacs users and increase my (pathetic) Emacs-fu. On the subject of text editor conferences, I know some people who put together one about Notepad: http://notepadconf.com/ http://notepadconf.com/ I think it was mostly about drinking beer, though.
- nosefrog 12y ago
  We're idling on #emacsconf on freenode, you should drop in!
scandox 12y ago
An idea: have a talk by Tony Ballantyne http://tonyballantyne.com http://tonyballantyne.com I always encourage writers to use Emacs and I write in it too. So to have a successful author who uses it to its full potential would be really interesting.
- marvel_boy 12y ago
  Absolutetly !
- melling 12y ago
  He's a big user of org mode. http://tonyballantyne.com/tag/org-mode http://tonyballantyne.com/tag/org-mode This site is made with org mode? http://www.aethernetmag.com http://www.aethernetmag.com Seems like we might have emacs killer feature for non-developers.
  - scandox 12y ago
    The real killer feature for writers (especially novelists) would be an OS that booted into Emacs and didn't offer any distractions whatsoever. The ironically named selfcontrolapp.com is probably the biggest tech thing to affect the literary scene in a long time...but as a developer I know how to disable the iptables rules in the Linux version. And I have no actual self-control.
    - mjcohen 12y ago
      It could be named "EmacsOS". Then, someone could develop a laptop that only runs EmacsOS. I suggest calling it an "EmacsBook".
pg_is_a_butt 12y ago
opening the doc in vi works much better
rasengan0 12y ago
I hope evil-mode users are welcome :-)
- nosefrog 12y ago
  Of course :)

111 points by nosefrog 12y ago

This looks very interesting! It also looks like there is a lot of support from may volunteers so far. No one at my 3-person company besides me uses Emacs, so it would be great to share workflows and ideas with others. Also, what a great way to advertise Emacs: use a public org-mode document stored on Github that is exported to HTML to plan the conference.

nosefrog 12y ago
:D Thanks, we have over 100 (!!!) sign ups so far! I'm really excited. If you want to help out, send me a ping: samer@samertm.com.

edward 12y ago

They're using Github and Google Groups to plan EmacsConf? Neither of these systems are free software. RMS will be unhappy.

nosefrog 12y ago
If you want to volunteer, we would love help moving away from those systems :) send me a ping: samer@samertm.com
- pki 12y ago
  I don't use emacs, but have you considered something like Discourse (usable/postable as a mailing list + a proper modern forum for the less email liking)? Posts can also be made 'community wikis' and have revision history.
  - nosefrog 12y ago
    We'll actually be switching to Discourse soon :) Believe me, I am no fan of Google Groups. I didn't know that Discourse had community wikis. Then we can switch off of GitHub too (plus, git is a bit heavyweight for what is essentially a wiki doc :) )
flossyourteeth 12y ago
Indeed, promoting Free software would be a very noble side-effect.
melling 12y ago
Probably... Hopefully they're using org files to sooth some of the pain. :-) org files work well on Github. I've got an open issue that would make using org files even more usable. https://github.com/github/markup/issues/473 https://github.com/github/markup/issues/473 If this gets fixed, it'll be easier to maintain a blog, site, etc on Github with org files.
- berntb 12y ago
  Please see my hobby: https://github.com/berntb/attorg https://github.com/berntb/attorg :-) (Yeah, I'm hellbanned. :-) )

UUMMUU 12y ago

While I am a vim user, I love seeing people having conferences to promote editors that aren't IDEs. Don't get me wrong, Eclipse and Visual Studio are great tools but nothing beats being able to open vim (or emacs in your case) and going to town on some code. Good luck guys!

nosefrog 12y ago
Thanks! And if you all put on a Vim conference, I would love to attend :) (Vim has like 5x the users of Emacs, right? that makes it easy :P)
nickysielicki 12y ago
Yes, because emacs is known for being a lightweight text editor without excessive bloat around it.

100k 12y ago

This is awesome! I'm excited for a chance to nerd out with fellow Emacs users and increase my (pathetic) Emacs-fu. On the subject of text editor conferences, I know some people who put together one about Notepad: http://notepadconf.com/ http://notepadconf.com/ I think it was mostly about drinking beer, though.

nosefrog 12y ago
We're idling on #emacsconf on freenode, you should drop in!

scandox 12y ago

An idea: have a talk by Tony Ballantyne http://tonyballantyne.com http://tonyballantyne.com I always encourage writers to use Emacs and I write in it too. So to have a successful author who uses it to its full potential would be really interesting.

marvel_boy 12y ago
Absolutetly !
melling 12y ago
He's a big user of org mode. http://tonyballantyne.com/tag/org-mode http://tonyballantyne.com/tag/org-mode This site is made with org mode? http://www.aethernetmag.com http://www.aethernetmag.com Seems like we might have emacs killer feature for non-developers.
- scandox 12y ago
  The real killer feature for writers (especially novelists) would be an OS that booted into Emacs and didn't offer any distractions whatsoever. The ironically named selfcontrolapp.com is probably the biggest tech thing to affect the literary scene in a long time...but as a developer I know how to disable the iptables rules in the Linux version. And I have no actual self-control.
  - mjcohen 12y ago
    It could be named "EmacsOS". Then, someone could develop a laptop that only runs EmacsOS. I suggest calling it an "EmacsBook".

pg_is_a_butt 12y ago

opening the doc in vi works much better

rasengan0 12y ago

I hope evil-mode users are welcome :-)

nosefrog 12y ago
Of course :)