Re: Talk about GNU/Emms

[Yoni Rabkin]

Sacha Chua <sacha@sachachua.com> writes:

> 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

I can work on a 40 minute talk which will include a user-facing portion
for the first 10 minutes, and then the remaining half of an hour about
Emms internals. How does that sound?

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