EmacsConf 2022 CFP deadline extended to Sept 30th

Zaeph · 2022-09-19 16:46

The content of the email on the list is reproduced below: > Dear fellow Emacsians, > > This is the second and final Call for Participation for EmacsConf 2022 > now extended until September 30, and the conference itself planned for > December 3 and 4 (Sat-Sun). Please see the CFP below for details on > how to send in your proposal(s), or chat with us about them and about > other ways of participating and volunteering around EmacsConf via our > main IRC channel #emacsconf on the Libera.Chat network. > > If you're considering submitting a proposal but think the remaining > time may not be enough, please reach out to me off-list as soon as > possible so we could work something out. > > I'll close this portion of the email with a thank you to all of the > folks who have submitted session proposals or expressed interest in > volunteering with EmacsConf. We look forward to reading and reviewing > all of your messages and proposals, and getting back to you about them > and about the next steps soon. :-) > > Best, > amin > > P.S. please direct any replies to this post either to myself or to the > emacsconf-discuss list, so as to help avoid generating extra off-topic > chatter in the other lists cc'd on this message. Thank you. > > > ___________________ > EmacsConf 2022 > > Online Conference > ___________________ > December 3 and 4, 2022 > _________________ > Table of Contents > _________________ > > 1. Call for Participation > 2. Important dates > 3. Talk formats > 4. Preparing and submitting your proposal > 5. Getting involved > 6. Commitment to freedom > > > 1 Call for Participation > ======================== > > [EmacsConf 2022] will be a virtual conference on *December 3 and 4, > 2022 (Sat-Sun)*. If you'd like to present at the conference, please > [submit your proposal] by *September 30, 2022*. > > EmacsConf 2022 is about the joy of [Emacs] and Emacs Lisp. > Come share your experiments and adventures with the Emacs text > editor / operating system / way of life! We welcome speakers of > *all backgrounds* and *all levels of experience*, including > newcomers giving their first talk. What have you found exciting > about Emacs lately? What do you wish someone had told you when you > were starting out? What part of your workflow might inspire someone > to get into Emacs or go deeper? > > A great way to get started with writing a proposal is to start by > exploring the programs from previous years: [2021], [2020], [2019], > [2015], [2013]. You might also find some neat ideas on the [ideas] > page. Feel free to add yours there too! If you're still not sure, > come by our IRC channel `#emacsconf` on `irc.libera.chat` and say > hi. You can join the chat using [your favourite IRC client], or by > visiting [chat.emacsconf.org] in your web browser. > > All kinds of people use Emacs for all kinds of things. We'd love it > if EmacsConf 2022 could highlight interesting perspectives and > reflect the diversity of our community. If you know someone who > might have a good idea for a talk, please reach out to them and > encourage them to submit a proposal. Many people (especially from > underrepresented groups such as women, people of colour, > non-developers, etc.) might not consider themselves proficient > enough to share their thoughts. If you let them know that you value > their knowledge and experiences, and maybe even suggest something > that you think others would like to hear about, they may realize > that they do have something worth sharing and that we would love to > hear from them. > > > [EmacsConf 2022] <https://emacsconf.org/2022/> > > [submit your proposal] <https://emacsconf.org/2022/cfp/> > > [Emacs] <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/> > > [2021] <https://emacsconf.org/2021/schedule/> > > [2020] <https://emacsconf.org/2020/schedule/> > > [2019] <https://emacsconf.org/2019/schedule/> > > [2015] <https://emacsconf.org/2015/schedule/> > > [2013] <https://emacsconf.org/2013/#program> > > [ideas] <https://emacsconf.org/2022/ideas/> > > [your favourite IRC client] <ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/emacsconf> > > [chat.emacsconf.org] <https://chat.emacsconf.org> > > > 2 Important dates > ================= > > For EmacsConf 2022, we are planning for 9am to 5pm Toronto/EST > (2pm-10pm UTC) on December 3 and 4. Depending on people's > availability, it might be two half-days. > > Item | Date ---|--- CFP opens | July 17, 2022 CFP closes | September 30, 2022 Speaker notifications | October 15, 2022 Schedule published | October 31, 2022 EmacsConf 2022! | December 3 and 4, 2022 > > If you are not available during the conference itself but you have a > neat idea that you'd like to share, please propose it anyway! > You can always handle questions after the conference, and we might > even be able to coordinate with other Emacs meetups for regional > events (if you're an Emacs meetup organizer and would like to make > this happen let's [get in touch]!). > > Please note that although we will try our best to stick to the above > dates in the coming months, given the current state of the world, we > may have to move things around a bit in case of unforeseen events. > Thank you for your patience and understanding. > > > [get in touch] <https://emacsconf.org/contact/> > > > 3 Talk formats > ============== > > We'd like EmacsConf 2022 to inspire lots of different people to > explore lots of different things in Emacs. We hope to put together > a stream of quick ideas followed by lots of conversation over IRC > and/or Q&A sessions, with occasional deep dives into topics that > many people might find interesting or useful. > > As you think about your talk/session, consider what you can share > in: > > - *Up to 10 minutes total:* What is the core idea? What do you want > people to do or remember? You can show just enough to get people > interested and then point them to where they can learn more > afterwards. You can answer questions over IRC, the pad, or the > wiki, and there's no limit to how long that conversation can go. > > - *Up to 20 minutes total:* How would you flesh out some of the > points from your 5-10 minute presentation? How can you show the > pieces working together? > > - *Up to 40 minutes total:* What would benefit from a deep dive? > How do you keep it engaging? > > When writing your proposal, please write an outline of what you plan > to talk about if you have 5-10 minutes. If you'd like to propose a > longer talk, outline what you might include if you had more time to > present (up to 40 minutes, including Q&A). > > Here's an example for a potentially 40-minute talk: > > - 5-10 minutes: quick demo of the abc package working together with > xyz package. > - 20 minutes: same as above, with some customization options to > accommodate a different workflow. > - 40 minutes: all of the above, including modifying the behaviour of > the package in order to add something new. > > This flexibility would help us in devising the conference schedule > so that as many people as possible could get a chance to present > their ideas, while still allowing for featuring longer deep dive > talks. > > Other session formats such as tutorials, workshops, and hangouts are > welcome as well, in case you would find those other formats > preferable to a traditional talk format. If you're interested in > these or other session types, please let us know [publicly] or > [privately]. We'll be happy to work something out with you. > > > [publicly] <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org> > > [privately] > <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org-private> > > > 4 Preparing and submitting your proposal > ======================================== > > We're aware that it can be challenging and intimidating to prepare > and submit a proposal to a conference, and we want to help make it > less so. Come say hi to us on our IRC channel `#emacsconf' on > `irc.libera.chat', and we'd be happy to try and answer any questions > or concerns you may have about writing your proposal or submitting > it. We'd also love to receive suggestions on how we can best help > you and other prospective speakers interested in giving a talk at > EmacsConf. > > Once you're ready to submit your proposal, the [submit] page has the > instructions on how to submit your talk. The submissions will then > be reviewed by a selection committee (please [let us know] if you > would like to help review submissions as part of this committee). > > If your talk is approved, we'd love it if you could help us make > sure the conference runs smoothly. After we email you with the time > allotted for your talk, we'll ask you to > > - prepare a prerecording of your talk, or record it with our help if > that'd be easier for you; and > - schedule a short tech-check if you'd like to be able to answer > questions in a live session. > > Don't forget to subscribe to our main mailing list, > [emacsconf-discuss], for discussion and announcements about the > EmacsConf conference. > > If you'd like to propose something other than a talk, like > restreaming the conference, you can also use this CFP to share your > ideas with us. > > We look forward to your ideas and submissions! > > > [submit] <https://emacsconf.org/2022/submit/> > > [let us know] <https://emacsconf.org/contact/> > > [emacsconf-discuss] > <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss> cont. in the reply.

Zaeph · 2022-09-19 16:46

> 5 Getting involved > ================== > > If you would like to help with the conference (planning the > sessions, reviewing proposals, helping with infrastructure, making > sessions more accessible, editing video transcripts, etc.), see our > [planning] page and come say hi to us at `#emacsconf` on > `irc.libera.chat`. > > Importantly, as EmacsConf continues to grow and receive increasingly > more talk/session proposal submissions each year, we have thought > about adding multiple parallel tracks during the conference days to > accommodate the large number of sessions. However, we're currently > a very small team and we would need your help to do it! If you're > interested in helping stream a parallel EmacsConf track and have a > reliable internet connection with decent speed and bandwidth, please > [get in touch] with us so we can help get you set up for streaming. > We'd also likely need more volunteers still for each track, for > example a host for that track to announce the next talk (this can > also be done by the streamer if the streamer is interested and able > to) and another volunteer to help check in speakers of upcoming live > sessions. > > If you are interested and able to help with any of the above, please > reach out to us; we'd love to have your help! > > In addition to the [emacsconf-discuss] list, feel free to subscribe > to [emacsconf-org] as well, for discussions related to organizing > the conference by the EmacsConf organizers and volunteers. > > We'd really appreciate your help in making EmacsConf 2022 the best > one so far! > > > [planning] <https://emacsconf.org/2022/planning/> > > [get in touch] <https://emacsconf.org/contact/> > > [emacsconf-discuss] > <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss> > > [emacsconf-org] <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-org> > > > 6 Commitment to freedom > ======================= > > We remain fully committed to freedom, and we will continue using our > infrastructure and streaming setup consisting entirely of [free > software], much like previous EmacsConf conferences. Articles and > documentation about the EmacsConf infrastructure are still underway, > and will be announced on the emacsconf-discuss list when available. > If you are curious about the EmacsConf infrastructure or are > interested in working on it, please join our `#emacsconf-infra` > channel on `irc.libera.chat` and say hi! > > > [free software] <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>