In the interest of transparency, this is what the schedule looks like so far;
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| Time | Title | Speaker | Notes |
| | | | <25> |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Opening remarks | Samer | |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Hearing from Emacs beginners | Gopar + mflor35 | |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | How to start an Emacs Meetup! | Harry Schwartz | |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | Lunch break | | |
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| 1:00 - 1:30 | Some Emacs Talk | Ryan Rix | |
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| 2:00 - 2:30 | Emacs is Easy | Constantine | |
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| 3:00 - 3:30 | | | |
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| 4:00 - 4:30 | | | |
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| 5:00 - 5:30 | | | |
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| 6:00 - 6:30 | | | |
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| 7:00 - 7:30 | | | |
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| 8:00 - 8:30 | Lightning Talks | | |
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And this is the list of people interested in speaking that we’re following up with:
| name/email | will talk (y/m/n) | notes |
|-----------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| John W | m | On a flight on the 29th. Asked if he wants to pre-record a talk. |
| Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk> | m | Asked about giving a remote talk. |
| Stefan | m | Asked him about giving a remote talk. If he's not interested, I can read something outloud |
| Marcin | m | Wants to give a remote talk on writing an org-mode exporter from scratch. |
| Brad Merrill <brad_merrill@hotmail.com> | m | Wants to give a talk |
| Nicolas P | m | Wants to give a remote talk on seq.el or map.el. |
| Howard Abrahms | | haven't asked |
| Sylvian (spacemacs) | | haven't asked |
| Ryan Rix | y | some random stuff, need to follow up |
| Harry Schwartz | y | Starting an Emacs Meetup, need to follow up |
| Gopar + friend | y | Talking to emacs beginners, need to follow up |
| Constantine | y | Need to follow up |
| Samer | m | I can talk about eshell :) |
This is the agenda for things that we need to finish before the conference.
| TODO | deadline |
|--------------------------------------------------------------+----------|
| Finalize schedule | 8/20 |
| Get remote speakers to run through their talks w/ jitsi meet | 8/22 |
| Get pre-recorded talks | 8/22 |
| Test space w/ jitsi meet or hangouts | 8/22 |
| Finalize catering | 8/22 |
| Finalize FSF swag | 8/22 |
| Finalize T-shirt (if it's happening) | 8/22 |
| Set up mediagoblin | 8/22 |