Emacs Chat

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The Emacs community has a lot of amazing people, although we rarely get to meet face to face. It's great to get a sense of what people are like. I've been enjoying the Prot Asks series of casual conversations with people about Emacs and their other interests, and I'd love to resume my Emacs Chats. There's a lot of cool workflow stuff that doesn't get captured in lists of keyboard shortcuts and functions.

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Upcoming episodes

Format

An Emacs Chat might start off with me asking a bunch of questions about your config, or you can walk through the things that you're the most excited about or that are hard to appreciate when people just read the code. Or we can just chat about whatever cool Emacs thing you want to share. =)

Some options in case you're worried about accidentally leaking private information:

  • We can record the conversation without livestreaming and edit it to obscure or remove anything that needs removing. Benefits: Maximum control, and I get an excuse to make Emacs even more of a video editor
  • We can livestream with a 15-second delay so that I can kill the livestream in case something gets flashed on the screen. Benefits: We can learn from other people's questions and comments.
  • We can livestream it without a delay and make the recording unlisted until we can review it. Benefits: Possibly more lively conversations

After our conversation, I'd love to go back over it, edit the transcript, add some chapters and headings, run it by you for double-checking, and post it on my blog.

Let's schedule a chat!

… probably in October or so when the kiddo settles into a new schoolyear. E-mail me if you'd like me to reach out to you when I figure out how to schedule things again! I might also be able to squeeze in weekday evenings (7 PM to 9 PM America/Toronto, ex: ) if I clear it with W- and A+.

We will probably use Google Meet because sometimes Jitsi weirds out. Let me know if this isn't okay and I can bring up BigBlueButton instead.

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