EmacsConf 2023 is less than a month away. Speakers have been uploading videos, captioning volunteers have been editing away, and I thiiiiink I've gotten most of the infrastructure dusted off. Exciting!

Here's where we are with regard to talk status:

Waiting for 26 talks (~550 minutes) out of 42 total. Talks received so far:

• TO_ASSIGN (waiting for captioning volunteers) - 8 talk(s), 150 minutes: adventure (05:58), matplotllm (09:34), teaching (19:27), nabokov (09:51), collab (19:16), doc (42:45), scheme (21:01), emacsen (18:28)
• TO_CAPTION - 2 talk(s), 21 minutes: eval (09:35), mentor (10:44)
• TO_STREAM - 6 talk(s), 124 minutes: llm (20:26), writing (08:53), ref (15:04), emacsconf (15:05), world (22:20), emms (38:38)

Speakers have been really nice about keeping in touch, so I'm not too stressed about gaps in the schedule. Captioning volunteers have been chugging through the talks and OpenAI Whisper's gotten a bit better at spelling things, so that's terrific too. It's so exciting!

zaeph and bandali will probably host the general track and the development track respectively. They've done it for a number of years now, so it'll probably be fine even if we don't have a dry run all together since they've got limited availability. (And we can take on new volunteers if people want to help read questions!)

My stress level is pretty manageable at this point. I can even spend evenings playing video games with the kiddo and weekends going on little bike adventures, so that's awesome. I'm still a little worried about tech hiccups, but we'll probably be able to figure things out.

Next steps are:

• keep processing videos and captions
• make the intro videos available so that speakers can correct my pronunciation of their names
• smoothen out and document the process for last-minute submissions
• test everything again

It's happening!