Topic - Emacsconf

EmacsConf website: emacsconf.org

• Communication:
  • Capturing submissions from e-mails
  • Adding notes to Org logbook drawers from e-mails
  • Reviewing the last message from a speaker
  • Adding a talk to the wiki
  • Using e-mail templates for confirmations and acceptances
  • Coordinating captioning volunteers using a backstage area
  • Automatically updating talk status from the crontab
  • Adding little nudges to help on the EmacsConf wiki
• Subtitles:
  • Editing subtitles in Emacs with subed, with synchronized video playback through mpv
  • Picking timestamps from a waveform (2021)
  • Chapter markers
  • Converting our VTT files to TTML
• Schedules:
  • Converting timezones
  • Scheduling with SVGs
  • Using TRAMP and timers to run two tracks semi-automatically
• Navigation:
  • Jumping to and working with talks using Embark
  • Making it easier to do talk-specific actions
  • File prefixes
• Multimedia:
  • EmacsConf backstage: Makefile targets (2024)
  • Making a (play)list, checking it twice
  • Using Spookfox to publish YouTube and Toobnix video drafts
  • Re-encoding the EmacsConf videos with FFmpeg and GNU Parallel
  • Autopilot with crontab
  • Updating YouTube videos via the YouTube Data API using Emacs Lisp and url-http-oauth
  • Using Emacs and Python to record an animation and synchronize it with audio
  • Making lots of intro videos with subed-record
  • Trimming the BigBlueButton recordings based on YouTube duration
• Data analysis:
  • Figuring out our maximum number of simultaneous BigBlueButton users
  • Summarizing EmacsConf's growth over 5 years by year, and making an animated GIF
  • Looking at EmacsConf's growth over 5 years, and how to do pivot tables and graphs with Org Mode and the Python pandas library
• Other:
  • EmacsConf 2023 status update: stuff is happening!
  • EmacsConf 2020: Emacs News Highlights and a wishlist
  • Learning a lot on the way to EmacsConf
  • Using Spookfox to automate creating BigBlueButton rooms in Mozilla Firefox
  • Automatically join BigBlueButton web conferences using Tampermonkey
  • Update on Emacs Conf 2015 videos; Org Mode tables and time calculations (Sept 2015)
  • Emacs Conference 2013 videos (Apr 2013)
  • After Emacs Conf 2013; ideas for Sunday and Monday
  • Getting ready for the Emacs Conference

See also: emacs