Re: Talk about GNU/Emms

[Yoni Rabkin]

Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:

> Sacha Chua <sacha@sachachua.com> writes:
>
>> Yoni <yoni@rabkins.net> and Cairn <cairn@pm.me> write:
>>
>>>> I was wondering if there would be interest in me putting together a talk
>>>> about Emms.
>>> I'd be very interested! Emms hasn't been talked about at Emacsconf
>> AFAIK, and it's good to get talks by maintainers themselves.
>>
>> Ooh, that could be lots of fun. It could be a user-focused talk
>> encouraging people to think of Emacs as more than a text editor, with
>> some demos of cool things you can do, why, and how. Or it could be a
>> developer-focused talk that goes into more detail on how to extend EMMS.
>> (New players? New sources? Digging into the information that's
>> available?) What would you feel like talking about and helping people
>> learn more about? =)
>>
>> Sacha
>
> If I'm doing a 20 minute talk, then I can dedicate 10 minutes to
> each. If I manage that then people who are only interested in the dev
> part can jump in only to the second part.
>
> It could look like:
>
> user-facing
>
> * introduction
> * installation and quickstart
> * configuration examples
> * the browser and beyond the basics
>
> dev-facing
>
> * Emms design principles: core, sources, players, playlists
> * track metadata: how info methods work and the cache
> * writing your own: player, info method

...also: how Emms development is organized and how to get involved.

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