Notices by Sacha Chua (sachac@emacs.ch)

@jeffcliff @kakafarm oh, that's just MELPA

If you're reading this, you're probably still following my @sachac account. emacs.ch is shutting down, so I've set up my own GoToSocial instance at @sacha . The automated account migration process didn't bring everyone over, sorry! I hope you'll follow me over there!

2024-01-08 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/01/2024-01-08-emacs-news/

All right, I managed to write about my subed-record workflow for making 47 intro videos ( https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/01/emacsconf-backstage-making-lots-of-intro-videos-with-subed-record/ ), add Org Mode comments with the things I wanted to demonstrate, livestream a demo ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QskeNbGbMa4 ) taking advantage of the links I put in my comments, add the video to my blog post, send the captions to Deepgram's Whisper API, and edit the captions and upload it as the transcript. All this morning, yay! This could work. =)

Since lots of people prefer to avoid YouTube, I'd like to find a Peertube instance where I can sign up, upload videos, and possibly livestream. https://joinpeertube.org/instances?profile=video-maker&themes=15&nsfw=no-opinion&languages=en&quota=50000000000&isStreamer=yes lists a few possibilities. Recommendations welcome!

2024-01-01 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/01/2024-01-01-emacs-news/

Added help wanted tags to #EmacsConf talks that still need captions edited for live talks / late submissions: https://emacsconf.org/help_with_main_captions/

2023-12-25 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/12/2023-12-25-emacs-news/

2023-12-18 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/12/2023-12-18-emacs-news/

Today I used #Emacs Lisp to parse Deepgram's #speech recognition JSON output with utterances, punctuation, and smart format turned on and the #Whisper Large model selected. I turned the words array into a VTT subtitle file with speaker identification (handy for EmacsConf Q&A) and captions limited to roughly 45 characters with punctuation preferred for splitting. It's way faster than waiting for a CPU-only computer to run Whisper Large on the files. Looking forward to experimenting with this for my personal braindumping too.

OrgMeetup hosted by @yantar92 happening now https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led <2023-12-13 Wed 19:00-21:00 @+03,Europe/Istanbul>

From https://emacs.ch/@yantar92/111549860162341841 - agenda:

- Give advice to new users
- Showcase Org configs or workflows
- Demo/discuss interesting packages
- Troubleshoot each-other's issues
- Discuss "Org mode" section of Emacs news (https://sachachua.com/blog/)
- Discuss anything else Org-related

Everyone is free to join the discussion/chat or lurk around silently,
listening. No recording by default.

All right, videos posted, pads and IRC logs copied, update sent to emacsconf-discuss, thank-you notes sent! Now I have a little time to make some progress on non-#EmacsConf parts of my todo list. I'll eventually circle back and do captions for the live/late talks and maybe indices for the Q&A. Plenty of things I need to catch up on, though! :)

2023-12-11 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/12/2023-12-11-emacs-news/

Links to #EmacsConf BigBlueButton recordings are now available from https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/ . I'll eventually work on figuring out combining them into webms so people can watch them more easily instead of using the web player, and then I can figure out minor edits.

2023-12-04 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/12/2023-12-04-emacs-news/

#EmacsConf was tons of fun! :) The prerecorded videos are up at https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks and I'll work on extracting the live talks and Q&A this month.

I'm updating our #EmacsConf opening remarks in which we help people learn how to find their way around the conference. I have tracks, watching, Q&A, Etherpad, IRC, captions, notes, general feedback, status, guidelines for conduct, updates and videos, hosts, and thanks (which will actually be in closing remarks). I need to add a tip on checking out the talk page for additional resources. Anything else?

2023-11-27 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/11/2023-11-27-emacs-news/

Yay, all the #EmacsConf talks uploaded so far either have captions or volunteers are working on captions for them. That's 4 in progress (127 minutes total) and 20 finished (365 minutes). One week to go. I can use the next few days to test the infrastructure and improve the process documentation (especially those just-in-case scenarios!) before I might need to do any last-minute captioning. Mildly stressed, but I know we'll all manage to figure things out!

2023-11-20 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/11/2023-11-20-emacs-news/

2023-11-13 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/11/2023-11-13-emacs-news/