Re: Talk about GNU/Emms

[Sacha Chua]

Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:

Hello, Yoni!

> 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
> * how Emms development is organized and how to get involved.

We can be a bit flexible about the time, if you think you might need a
little more to explore a good topic comfortably. It could be a good
deep-dive, so maybe even up to 40 minutes if you feel like preparing
something like that? I think the dev-facing part might be extra
interesting for me and for other Emacs Lisp developers because EMMS does
a lot of inter-process communication *and* also has a lot of things
plugged into it using Emacs Lisp (by other people, too!) *and* has to do
all of that with good performance, which is super cool. =) If people can
be inspired by your talk to integrate more things into Emacs (whether
it's multimedia or something else) or to build things that other people
can hook into, I think that would be awesome.

What do you think about either a 20-minute or 40-minute talk - whatever
feels comfortable in terms of the knowledge you want to share? I know
preparing a talk can be quite an investment of time, so we appreciate
whatever you want to work on. =)

Sacha