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This looks very interesting! It also looks like there is a lot of support from may volunteers so far.

No one at my 3-person company besides me uses Emacs, so it would be great to share workflows and ideas with others.

Also, what a great way to advertise Emacs: use a public org-mode document stored on Github that is exported to HTML to plan the conference.

:D Thanks, we have over 100 (!!!) sign ups so far! I'm really excited. If you want to help out, send me a ping: samer@samertm.com.

While I am a vim user, I love seeing people having conferences to promote editors that aren't IDEs. Don't get me wrong, Eclipse and Visual Studio are great tools but nothing beats being able to open vim (or emacs in your case) and going to town on some code. Good luck guys!

Thanks! And if you all put on a Vim conference, I would love to attend :) (Vim has like 5x the users of Emacs, right? that makes it easy :P)

Yes, because emacs is known for being a lightweight text editor without excessive bloat around it.

This is awesome! I'm excited for a chance to nerd out with fellow Emacs users and increase my (pathetic) Emacs-fu.

On the subject of text editor conferences, I know some people who put together one about Notepad: http://notepadconf.com/ I think it was mostly about drinking beer, though.

We're idling on #emacsconf on freenode, you should drop in!

They're using Github and Google Groups to plan EmacsConf? Neither of these systems are free software. RMS will be unhappy.

If you want to volunteer, we would love help moving away from those systems :) send me a ping: samer@samertm.com

I don't use emacs, but have you considered something like Discourse (usable/postable as a mailing list + a proper modern forum for the less email liking)? Posts can also be made 'community wikis' and have revision history.

We'll actually be switching to Discourse soon :) Believe me, I am no fan of Google Groups.

I didn't know that Discourse had community wikis. Then we can switch off of GitHub too (plus, git is a bit heavyweight for what is essentially a wiki doc :) )

Indeed, promoting Free software would be a very noble side-effect.

Probably... Hopefully they're using org files to sooth some of the pain. :-)

org files work well on Github. I've got an open issue that would make using org files even more usable.

https://github.com/github/markup/issues/473

If this gets fixed, it'll be easier to maintain a blog, site, etc on Github with org files.

An idea: have a talk by Tony Ballantyne http://tonyballantyne.com

I always encourage writers to use Emacs and I write in it too. So to have a successful author who uses it to its full potential would be really interesting.

Absolutetly !

He's a big user of org mode.

http://tonyballantyne.com/tag/org-mode

This site is made with org mode? http://www.aethernetmag.com

Seems like we might have emacs killer feature for non-developers.

The real killer feature for writers (especially novelists) would be an OS that booted into Emacs and didn't offer any distractions whatsoever. The ironically named selfcontrolapp.com is probably the biggest tech thing to affect the literary scene in a long time...but as a developer I know how to disable the iptables rules in the Linux version. And I have no actual self-control.

It could be named "EmacsOS".

Then, someone could develop a laptop that only runs EmacsOS. I suggest calling it an "EmacsBook".

I hope evil-mode users are welcome :-)

Of course :)

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