EmacsConf 2024 notes :: Sacha Chua

[2024-12-28 Sat] : Added talk and Q&A count, added note about BBB max simultaneous users, added note about BBB, added thanks

The videos have been uploaded, thank-you notes have been sent, and the kiddo has decided to play a little Minecraft on her own, so now I get to write some quick notes on EmacsConf 2024.

We did early acceptances again this year. That was nice. I wasn't sure about committing longer periods of time early in the scheduling process, so I usually tried to nudge people to plan a 20-minute video with the option of possibly doing more, and I okayed longer talks once we figured out what the schedule looked like.

There were 82 days between the call for proposals and the CFP deadline, another 49 days from that to the video target date, and 29 days between the video target date and EmacsConf. It felt like there was a good amount of time for proposals and videos. Six videos came in before or on the target date. The rest trickled in afterwards, which was fine because we wanted to keep things low-pressure for the speakers. We had enough capacity to process and caption the videos as they came in.

Speakers uploaded their files via PsiTransfer again. I didn't get around to setting up the FTP server. I should probably rename ftp-upload.emacsconf.org to upload.emacsconf.org so that people don't get confused.

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