BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:EmacsConf-2026-Development X-WR-CALNAME:EmacsConf 2026 Development CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:[Panel] Improving the Emacs Community: Onboarding\, Participation\, and Growth - Participants ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-community URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/community DTSTART:20261212T153000Z DTEND:20261212T163000Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/community\nSpeakers: Participants\n\nTimes are appro ximate and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other resources.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\n mpv https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/ dev.webm\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using th e web-based player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: https://media.emacsconf.org/202 6/current/bbb-community.html\n\nThis talk is live. We'll upload it to http s://media.emacsconf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsc onf-discuss for updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf- discuss\n\nDescription:\n# [Panel] Improving the Emacs Community: Onboardi ng\, Participation\, and Growth\n\nParticipants\n\n **Panel members are be ing finalized**\n\n\n\nThe discussion idea was born from perpetual Sacha's interest in\nmaking Emacs community a better place.\n\nGNU Emacs and the community around it has no shortage of history.\nHowever\, different group s of Emacs users prefer using different media\nto communicate - between th e traditional mailing lists to newer\ninternational platforms like YouTube \, or country-specific forums.\nHere\, we would like to bring Emacs users representing various\nsub-communities together\, so that we can learn from each other and\nhopefully come up with new ideas.\n\nQuestions:\n\n1. Wha t made you start using Emacs\, and what kept you using it?\n\n2. What took you from using Emacs to actively contributing to the\n community - part icipating in forums\, writing Elisp\, organizing\n meetups\, answering q uestions?\n\n3. How does Emacs show up for you in real life - colleagues\, meetups\,\n friends? How did those connections form?\n\n4. If you know other software communities\, what's one thing Emacs could\n learn from t hem?\n\n5. What's one concrete thing you wish existed in the Emacs communi ty a\n year from now?\n\n**Note that you can ask other questions not lim ited to the above\nduring public Q&A session after the panel discussion**\ n\nRelated: \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Emacs as my portable user space across operating platforms - Mohamm ed Ismail Ansari (myTerminal) ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-portable URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/portable DTSTART:20261212T180000Z DTEND:20261212T181500Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/portable\nSpeakers: Mohammed Ismail Ansari (myTermin al)\n\nTimes are approximate and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other resources.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media pl ayer. Some examples:\nmpv https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https: //live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.web m\n\nor watch using the web-based player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: none\n\nT here is a pre-recorded video for this talk\, so it should be available fro m ${url} shortly after the talk starts.\n\nDescription:\n# Emacs as my por table user space across operating platforms\nMohammed Ismail Ansari - \, \n\n\n\nIn the talk\, I'l l cover my brief experience using Emacs across three\nmajor operating syst ems\, how it influenced the other tools within my\ntoolset\, my effort to share my configuration with the rest of us\, and\neventually super-emacs: my attempt at a minimal but feature-full\nstarter pack for Emacs that I've been maintaining for over a decade\nnow.\n\nAbout the speaker: I\, Mohamm ed Ismail Ansari (aka myTerminal)\, come\nfrom an academic background in E lectronics Engineering\, and have been\nworking professionally as a softwa re engineer since seventeen years.\nI love to create and experiment with a ll kinds of machines\, not just\ncomputers\, enjoying the exploration and tinkering process. In the\nrecent years I've also discovered my interest i n personal\nproductivity\, and pairing them with some of the core elements within\nmy toolset\, including Linux\, Emacs\, and many other open-source \nsoftware everything fits in place as if it was supposed to be.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Emacs everywhere: A fun romp through esoteric operating systems - A aron Grothe ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-os URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/os DTSTART:20261212T183500Z DTEND:20261212T185500Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/os\nSpeakers: Aaron Grothe\n\nTimes are approximate and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other resour ces.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\nmpv htt ps://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.web m\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using the web-b ased player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/curre nt/bbb-os.html\n\nThis talk is live. We'll upload it to https://media.emac sconf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsconf-discuss fo r updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss\n\nDes cription:\n# Emacs everywhere: A fun romp through esoteric operating syste ms\nAaron Grothe (he/him) - Pronunciation: Grow-Thee\, LinkedIn: \, \n\n\n\nOne of the greatest running jokes and truest philoso phies in the tech world is that Emacs isn’t just a text editor\; it’s an o perating system that happens to lack a good text editor. But a corollary t o this philosophy is that the real Emacs can run on virtually any operatin g system ever conceived.Or can it?\nThis talk is a lighthearted\, deeply t echnical\, and fun exploration of running full\, uncompromised GNU Emacs o n some of the most esoteric\, vintage\, and fringe operating systems in ex istence. If you have ever wondered whether a legendary text editor from th e 1970s can comfortably coexist with modern hobbyist kernels or forgotten platforms\, this is the session for you.\n\nThe Journey Across the Fringe\ n\nWe will kick off our adventure by looking past the usual Linux\, macOS\ , and Windows environments to explore how Emacs behaves in the wild. Our t our will take us across a fascinating spectrum of platforms\, including:\n \n- Haiku OS: The spiritual successor to BeOS\, known for its incredible snappiness and unique interface design.\n- ReactOS: The open-source eff ort to build an operating system binary-compatible with Windows NT.\n- A ROS (Amiga Research Operating System): Keeping the legendary Amiga spirit alive on modern hardware.\n- GNU Hurd: The long-standing microkernel-bas ed alternative to the Linux kernel\, staying true to the core GNU philosop hy.\n- Termux on Android: Bridging the gap between pocket mobile computi ng and serious Unix environments.\n\nBy examining these systems\, the goal isn't just to marvel at technical trivia\, but to discover the genuine bo undaries of where Emacs succeeds\, where it struggles\, and what these edg e cases reveal about portability and modern software design.The Redox OS F rontier and the WASM StopgapNo exploration of modern alternative operating systems would be complete without looking at Redox OS\, an innovative\, m icrokernel-based operating system written entirely in Rust. Currently\, Re dox OS cannot run a native version of Emacs out of the box.\n\nHowever\, n ecessity is the mother of invention. To ensure nobody leaves without their text editor fix\, we will demonstrate running Emacs compiled to WebAssemb ly (WASM) directly inside a browser on Redox OS. While we anticipate nativ e Redox OS support arriving in the next 18 to 24 months\, WASM serves as a brilliant\, functional stopgap in the meantime.\n\nConclusion\n\nEmacs in the 2020s is entirely a choice\, just as choosing to daily-drive or tinke r with an esoteric operating system is a choice. Together\, they form an u nexpectedly delightful combination for hackers\, hobbyists\, and digital a rchaeologists alike.Attendees will leave this talk with a fresh appreciati on for software portability\, a smile on their faces\, and perhaps a new s park of inspiration to find a weird operating system for their own weekend tinkering.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nWelcome\, brave souls\, to an eccentr ic journey into digital omnipresence! While others debate modern IDEs\, tr ue enlightenment lies in the extensible glory of Emacs. But why stop at ma instream systems? Today\, we boldly venture where few dare to tread: runni ng Emacs on obscure\, esoteric operating systems Haiku\, ReactOS and other s.  Prepare for a delightfully chaotic exploration of stubborn survival an d our ultimate\, unstoppable blueprint for total world domination—one biza rre kernel at a time. Resistance is futile!  Aaron Grothe has been a devel oper for years and has been an Emacs users for a very long time.  It was h is first full screen editor and it will probably be his last :-)\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:My Space Cadet Deck - an Android Stream Deck replacement with deep Emacs integration - Andy Drop ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-cadet URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/cadet DTSTART:20261212T191500Z DTEND:20261212T192500Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/cadet\nSpeakers: Andy Drop\n\nTimes are approximate and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other resour ces.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\nmpv htt ps://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.web m\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using the web-b ased player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/curre nt/bbb-cadet.html\n\nThis talk is live. We'll upload it to https://media.e macsconf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsconf-discuss for updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss\n\n Description:\n# My Space Cadet Deck - an Android Stream Deck replacement w ith deep Emacs integration\nAndy Drop (he/him) - Web: Fediverse: SpaceCadet@chaos.social\, \n\n\n\nAfter spending more time configuring my original Stream Deck than\ nactually using it\, I realized I’d rather build my own from scratch—just\ nto spend even more time configuring it.\n\nThis talk is a love letter to over-engineering. I’ll walk you through\nhow I turned an old Android table t into a programmable macro pad\,\ncomplete with custom Emacs keybindings\ , because why use a keyboard when\nyou can tap a screen like a caffeinated octopus?\n\nExpect:\n\n- *Software hacks* (SDD (Swearword Driven developm ent)\, and questionable\nlife choices).\n- *Emacs sorcery* (yes\, it /does / control my music\, launch terminals\,\nand occasionally insult me).\n- * Self-deprecating humor* (because if I can’t laugh at my own failures\,\nwh o can?).\n\nWarning: May cause sudden urges to automate everything. Side e ffects\ninclude increased caffeine consumption\, mild obsession with keybo ards\,\nand the occasional existential crisis when you realize you’ve spen t\nthree hours tweaking a button that saves you 10 seconds.\n\nAbout the s peaker:\n\nI'm a passionate Emacs user and developer\, tinkering with hard ware to\nintegrate it with Emacs. My talk introduces the SpaceCadet Deck\, my\nAndroid-based Stream Deck alternative\, and its deep integration with \nEmacs. I'll share my intention of building this customizable input\ndevi ce\, highlighting its potential to enhance workflows. Expect live\ndemos a nd practical tips.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:El Remoto: browse any GitHub repos without cloning them - Ag ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-remoto URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/remoto DTSTART:20261212T194500Z DTEND:20261212T200500Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/remoto\nSpeakers: Ag\n\nTimes are approximate and ma y change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other resources.\n \nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\nmpv https://l ive0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nffp lay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using the web-based p layer: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/current/bbb -remoto.html\n\nThis talk is live. We'll upload it to https://media.emacsc onf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsconf-discuss for updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss\n\nDescr iption:\n# El Remoto - browse any GitHub repos without cloning them.\nAg ( he/him) - IRC: iLemming\, \, \n\n\n\nImagine being able to `C-x C-f` and just browse any \nGitHub repo as if it is a local directory. Well\, turns out that's doabl e.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nMy name is Ag (he/him). I am a die-hard vimmer . I use Emacs because it\nvims better #truestory.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:æmacs: having a hoot with a guile emacs - Akira Kyle ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-guile URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/guile DTSTART:20261212T202500Z DTEND:20261212T204500Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/guile\nSpeakers: Akira Kyle\n\nTimes are approximate and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other resou rces.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\nmpv ht tps://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.we bm\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using the web- based player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/curr ent/bbb-guile.html\n\nThis talk is live. We'll upload it to https://media. emacsconf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsconf-discus s for updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss\n\ nDescription:\n# æmacs: having a hoot with a guile emacs\nAkira Kyle (he/h im) - \, @akira.social on bsky\, @akyle@mathstodo n.xyz on fediverse\, \n\n\n\nI spend most of m y computing time split between two programs: Emacs and a\nweb browser\, an d only one of them sparks joy. That's what drove my\npandemic project\, em acs-webkit\, which put a browser inside pgtk Emacs. I\ncame away thinking the more emacs-y design would be the other way around:\nan emacs that live s within the web platform. I've since tried starting on\nit more times tha n I'd like to admit\, from attempting to rebase the\noriginal guile-emacs\ , to deleting as much C as I could get away with\, to\ncompiling Emacs wit h emscripten. Each attempt left me better\nunderstanding how GNU Emacs bec ame *the* emacs\, but the human-hours\nneeded to disentangle\, let alone p ort\, the [horrors](https://emacshorrors.com/) from the depths of `src/` h aunted\nmy dreams.\n\nMeanwhile\, pieces of this puzzle of bringing emacs 2 da web\nstarted falling into place. In 2023 the Spritely Institute annou nced\nHoot: compiling Guile Scheme to WebAssembly with Wasm GC. Then at\nE macsConf 2024\, Robin Templeton announced the revival of the OG Guile\nEma cs\, building on work by Larry Valkama (lyrra)\, who successfully\nrebased the decade-old branch onto GNU Emacs 31. Finally\, LLM agents\nstarted se emingly autonomously coding compilers from scratch. With\nhuman-hours appa rently no longer a barrier\, why not try? After all\, if\nthe web is evolv ing toward a polyglot wasm environment\, it ought to have\nan emacs! I'd e ither find out the limits of agentic coding\, or end up\nwith my "perfect emacs" (a win-win\, or so I thought).\n\næmacs is the\nresult: my apologet ically vibe-coded step towards that idea. The æmacs\nfrontend is implement ed in Guile\, compiled to wasm with Hoot\, and renders\nthe UI in a webvie w. The backend is my fork of lyrra's exploratory\n"guilemacs" branch\, whi ch\, after a year of slogging through slop\, is now\na pure Guile Scheme i mplementation of Emacs Lisp: no C `src/` horrors\nremain! All state lives in this backend\, which talks to a frontend over a\nsexp websocket protoco l\, letting the UI render on a different machine.\nPerhaps someday\, Hoot may compile guilemacs itself for the browser.\n\næmacs/guilemacs breaks wi th full GNU Emacs compatibility (e.g. unicode\nonly)\, but loads most of E macs' lisp/ unmodified\, plus packages like\norg-mode and magit. Focusing on bootstrapping myself into æmacs as my\nmain editor has kept the scope s omewhat sane. But bootstrapping an editor\nwith LLMs inevitably led to boo tstrapping a coding harness into it too.\ngptel-agent allowed me to retrea t from Claude Code's we-know-best\,\none-size-fits-all TUI back into the z en of an emacs' diy kitchen sink\,\nand vibe code æmacs inside æmacs.\n\nT hat's how I got what I've wanted since\nI started using Emacs: smooth\, co ntinuous\, inertial scrolling\, not just\nthrough org-mode buffers full of images\, but through PDFs with aemacs-pdf\nand web pages with aemacs-webk it. Doing this takes hacks in GNU Emacs\,\nbut no disrespect\, emacs is bu ilt for hacking. Unfortunately\, while LLMs\nnever tire of hacking\, I do. The limits I found were my own\, but at least\næmacs is now my imperfect emacs.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nI'm a PhD\n student who has been trying to live inside emacs for over a decade. I've\n desperately wanted org litera te notebooks with inline interactive\n plotting\, so I wrote emacs-webkit as a pandemic project. I came away from\n thinking it would be far more Em acs-y to have Emacs run inside a browser\n instead. Unfortunately the esti mated human-hours of work were far too\n much\, even for a grad student. S o the idea percolated until it seemed\n like maybe it might be possible to prototype with LLM assistance. This is\n the story of my journey so far w ith emacs\, web browsers\, and now\n for-better-and-worse\, LLM agents.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:It's Probably Not a Virus - Corwin Brust ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-virus URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/virus DTSTART:20261212T210500Z DTEND:20261212T212500Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/virus\nSpeakers: Corwin Brust\n\nTimes are approxima te and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other res ources.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\nmpv https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev. webm\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using the we b-based player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/cu rrent/bbb-virus.html\n\nThis talk is live. We'll upload it to https://medi a.emacsconf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsconf-disc uss for updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss\ n\nDescription:\n# It's Probably Not a Virus\nCorwin Brust (he/him) - IRC: corwin\, \, \ n\n\n\nTwo antivirus engines flagged pieces of the official GNU Emacs 31.1 \nWindows binaries this September: McAfee quarantining preloaded .eln\nfil es at startup (bug#81750)\, and separately\, a\nTrojan:Win32/Suschil!rfn r eport on the distributed zip itself\n(help-gnu-emacs\, active since Septem ber 8). As the volunteer who\nbuilds and publishes these Windows binaries\ , I went looking for an\nactual defect: a full static-analysis pass across the shipped\nMINGW64 and UCRT64 sets (PE structure\, entropy\, import tab les\, and\na byte-for-byte trace of the one specifically-reported export b ack\nto its real source) found nothing. I shipped a second release\,\nbuil t without native compilation\, specifically to test whether\nremoving the suspected trigger helps &ndash\; a live experiment\, not a\nfix\, and I sa id so plainly to the mailing lists and to the FSF.\nThis talk walks throug h that investigation: what static analysis\ncan and can't prove about a fa lse-positive claim\, what I found and\nwhat I didn't\, and what it looks l ike to narrate an unresolved\nproblem honestly in public rather than waiti ng for a tidy ending\nbefore saying anything. It closes with what's still open as of\ntalk time &ndash\; including a small\, telling case of two Vir usTotal\nscan counts for the same file that don't agree with each other\,\ nand what that says about trusting a single number.\n\nAbout the speaker:\ n\nCorwin Brust is a GNU volunteer who builds and publishes the\nofficial GNU Emacs Windows binary releases. This talk is a field\nreport from an ac tive\, unresolved antivirus false-positive\ninvestigation into this year's Windows 31.1 release &ndash\; what got\nchecked\, what didn't turn up an answer\, and what shipped anyway\nwhile the question stays open.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:prefix-tab-groups - marco wahl ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-prefix URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/prefix DTSTART:20261213T150000Z DTEND:20261213T151000Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/prefix\nSpeakers: marco wahl\n\nTimes are approximat e and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other reso urces.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\nmpv h ttps://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.w ebm\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using the web -based player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: #emacsconf\n\nThis talk is live. We' ll upload it to https://media.emacsconf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsconf-discuss for updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman /listinfo/emacsconf-discuss\n\nDescription:\n# prefix-tab-groups\nmarco wa hl (he) - \n\n\n\nabout using a certain prefix ing as an alternative to grouping with parens\nnd about using that to writ e (e)lisp code.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\n- an old man wants to share an idea about text structuring and\n how emacs can help with that.\n- he actually uses this structuring for personal note taking.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Emacs as a Window Manager and concurrency - Thomas Koch ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-rau URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/rau DTSTART:20261213T152000Z DTEND:20261213T154000Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/rau\nSpeakers: Thomas Koch\n\nTimes are approximate and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other resour ces.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\nmpv htt ps://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.web m\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using the web-b ased player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/curre nt/bbb-rau.html\n\nThis talk is live. We'll upload it to https://media.ema csconf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsconf-discuss f or updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss\n\nDe scription:\n# Emacs as a Window Manager and concurrency\nThomas Koch - \, \n\n\n\nRau is one of three d ifferent Wayland Window Manager projects active right now\nand the only on e written only in Elisp (at the moment).\n\nI'll present the current state of Rau\, compare it with the other two projects\n(Reka\, EWM) and discuss some difficulties encountered with a focus on\nconcurrency and Emacs.\n\n Rau is already fully functional for daily use. The single threaded nature of\nEmacs however is a major issue that will require to move the major par t of Rau\nfrom Elisp into an Emacs module and thus into another language.\ n\n\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nThomas Koc h has a preference for logic\, correctness and elegance.\nTherefore\, he l ikes Haskell\, Emacs\, Nix\, Postgres and tries to help the success of .\nHe deeply values open\, respectful disc ussions with people of diverse perspectives.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Org Babel everywhere - George Huebner ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-babel URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/babel DTSTART:20261213T160000Z DTEND:20261213T161000Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/babel\nSpeakers: George Huebner\n\nTimes are approxi mate and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other r esources.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\nmp v https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/de v.webm\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using the web-based player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/ current/bbb-babel.html\n\nThis talk is live. We'll upload it to https://me dia.emacsconf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsconf-di scuss for updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discus s\n\nDescription:\n# Org Babel everywhere\nGeorge Huebner (he/him) - IRC: Shorden\, \, \n\n\n\nOrg Babel p rovides a wonderful literate programming experience that works across doze ns of languages\, but it requires an Elisp library to teach Org how to "sp eak" different languages.\nThanks to Org's Library of Babel\, the same fun ctionality can be achieved for an arbitrary "runnable" in less than 20 lin es of shell script and Elisp!\n\nI'm a physics undergraduate at UIUC and I primarily work with Nix(OS)\, Zig\, and Haskell\, all from within Emacs.\ nI've used Emacs and Org mode to solve CTF challenges\, write up my quantu m mechanics homework\, maintain a blog\, and even write a production-worth y runbook or two.\nEmacs is also my go-to tool for email\, IRC\, RSS\, mus ic\, task management\, and even sometimes editing text.\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:El-gpu and pix-el: GNU Emacs 2D and 3D game programming - Emanuel B erg ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-el-gpu URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/el-gpu DTSTART:20261213T163000Z DTEND:20261213T165000Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/el-gpu\nSpeakers: Emanuel Berg\n\nTimes are approxim ate and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other re sources.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\nmpv https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev .webm\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using the w eb-based player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/c urrent/bbb-el-gpu.html\n\nThis talk is live. We'll upload it to https://me dia.emacsconf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsconf-di scuss for updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discus s\n\nDescription:\n# El-gpu and pix-el: GNU Emacs 2D and 3D game programmi ng\nEmanuel Berg (he/him) - Pronunciation: Swenglish\, IRC: lacni\, incal@ dataswamp.org\n\n\n\nIn this project\, prepared especially for EmacsConf 2 026\, two modules -\n`el-gpu` and `pix-el` - for graphics on-board the GPU and CPU\,\nrespectively - have joined forces and been adapted to the newl y added\ncanvas format\, an exciting new feature included in vanilla GNU E macs.\n\nIn this video we show no less than three games - a snake clone\, which\noperates on a per-pixel basis\; a Tetris game\, with tiles loaded o n the\nfly from any visual creation even as it only exists in drawing\npro gram\, still a dynamic\, editable object\; and a Descent-like space\nshoot er\, powered-up by SDL and OpenGL\, executing part CPU-side Emacs\nLisp (E lisp)\, part CPU-side dynamic module C\, and part all-GPU GLSL.\n\nel-gpu and pix-el\, like their predecessor\, bad.el (boxing after dark)\,\nwhich was demonstrated at EmacsConf 2025\, comes with an interactive\nstudio\, t hat has its own UI\; it offers OOP-style drawing\, as well as\nexplicit pi xel-plotting\, with layerjs\, procedural shaders\, functional\nalpha masks \, and RGB bitwise blenders\, including for transparency\;\nwith image edi ting\, effects\, rotation\, and transformation\, with new\nidiomatic GNU E macs lisp\, e.g. the `with-pixels` macro\; also offering\nseveral ways of drawing text on the CPU as well as GPU\; and much more.\n\n\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:[Panel] Emacs\, LLMs\, and Free Software - Participants ORGANIZER:EmacsConf LOCATION:https://live.emacsconf.org/2026/watch/dev/ UID:emacsconf-2026-llms URL:https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/llms DTSTART:20261213T180000Z DTEND:20261213T190000Z DTSTAMP:20261023T152416Z DESCRIPTION:2026/talks/llms\nSpeakers: Participants\n\nTimes are approximat e and may change. Please check the talk webpage for details and other reso urces.\n\nWatch live using a streaming media player. Some examples:\nmpv h ttps://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\nvlc https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.w ebm\nffplay https://live0.emacsconf.org/dev.webm\n\nor watch using the web -based player: ${watch-track}\n\nQ&A: https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/cur rent/bbb-llms.html\n\nThis talk is live. We'll upload it to https://media. emacsconf.org/2026 by January or so. You can subscribe to emacsconf-discus s for updates: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacsconf-discuss\n\ nDescription:\n# [Panel] Emacs\, LLMs\, and Free Software\n\nParticipants: \n\n **Panel members are being finalized**\n\n\n\nThe topic of AI (as a br oad concept) and its flagship technology -\nLLMs - is rather controversial . Some of us enthusiastically accept the\ntechnology and its potential to change lives for the better\; some are\nmore cautious\, or outright questi on the long-term consequences for\nindividuals\, countries\, and the whole world\; raise ethical concerns\,\nor point to high energy consumption (es pecially concentrated in USA).\nHowever\, there is no doubt that Emacs (an d the whole world) cannot\nignore the topic.\n\nThe Emacs community alread y has both proponents and opponents of\nthe LLMs and a number of LLM integ rations have appeared over the\nlast few years. Here\, we have brought a number of Emacs users\nwith very different views about AI together\, to ma ke the range of\npositions explicit and to explore how Emacs and its commu nity can\nsupport different approaches without fracturing.\n\nWe tried our best to lay out the questions constructively\, and to\navoid the general topics that have already been beaten to death\nin online discussions acros s the web. We ask both the panel\nparticipants and the EmacsConf audience to approach the\ndiscussion the same way: with the goal of understanding e ach\nother's positions and finding ways for different choices to\ncoexist. \n\nP.S. There is no system but GNU\, and Linux is one of its kernels :)\n \nQuestions:\n\n1. If you were to imagine an ideal AI software you would u se with\n Emacs\, how would it look like? How would it **not** look like ? What\n freedoms it would need to have? Feel free to answer anything\, not\n limiting yourself to current LLM architectures. If your answer i s\n that no such software should exist\, that is a valid answer.\n\n2. W hat is the most useful application of LLMs with Emacs for you\n personal ly? If you are not using LLMs\, imagine that there is an\n ideal AI or c omplex automation software (non-AI) you would be\n willing to use and co me up with such application.\n\n3. What is the most critical use case in y our Emacs workflows where\n you would **avoid** using AI?\n\n4. Imagine that there is an LLM-generated code submitted to Emacs that\n implements long-awaited feature (for example\, multi-threading\n support in Emacs or time zone support in Org). As a maintainer\,\n under what conditions\ , if any\, would you accept LLM-generated code\,\n and what would need t o change for you to accept it? As a user\,\n would you be willing to use such a new feature? You can answer as\n a maintainer\, user\, or both. \n\n5. What is one thing the Emacs community should build\, document\, or\ n support (for newcomers or otherwise) around LLMs/AI in the next\n ye ar? And one thing it should decline to do?\n\n**Note that you can ask othe r questions not limited to the above\nduring public Q&A session after the panel discussion**\n\nRelated:\n\n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR