Conversation

Notices

1. MJ (jotaemei@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 00:10:56 CET MJ

   This year’s #Emacs Conference is taking place right now; its official website is naturally RMS/FSF/MIT flavored. The video feed is not working on my mobile phone browser. So, the alternative instructions are to open a link in MPV (will VLC work?) on a desktop. The event times that are given in the schedule do not display a timezone. And presentation notes and collection of audience questions are provided via Etherpad. 😆 I hope the recordings will be available. ☺️ https://emacsconf.org/2022/watch/dev/

   • Sacha Chua (sachac@emacs.ch)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 00:10:56 CET Sacha Chua

     in reply to

     @jotaemei sorry about the timezones! I have a note at the top of https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/ (although I think I got one of the conversions wrong), but I may have gone a little crazy adding the schedules to lots of pages and should add a timezone to each of those too. :) I'll add it to the TODOs for next year.

   • Sacha Chua (sachac@emacs.ch)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 00:11:53 CET Sacha Chua

     in reply to

     @jotaemei the prerecorded talks and transcripts should already be up on the pages for each talk and at https://media.emacsconf.org , and we'll work on the rest of the stuff in the weeks to come.

   • MJ (jotaemei@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 02:29:13 CET MJ

     in reply to

     • Sacha Chua

     @sachac Hey. It's no problem. Sorry. I should have been less subtle that I thought it was funny in a charming way. Congratulations on the conference and thank you for everything you do!

   • Sacha Chua (sachac@emacs.ch)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 02:29:13 CET Sacha Chua

     in reply to

     @jotaemei it's cool, it's cool. :) It's always handy to have small, concrete suggestions for improvement. I've been meaning to write code to translate times into local times on the schedule instead of just on the talk pages, and maybe to make those timezones configurable, but it was one of those lower-priority items I didn't manage to squeeze in this year. Maybe someone will contribute that, or maybe I'll get to it next year now that I've sorted out all this other infrastructure!

   • Sacha Chua (sachac@emacs.ch)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 13:30:06 CET Sacha Chua

     in reply to

     @jotaemei I made the schedules with Emacs Lisp, of course. :) https://git.emacsconf.org/emacsconf-el/tree/emacsconf-schedule.el has the code for making the schedules and the SVGs, while https://git.emacsconf.org/emacsconf-el/tree/emacsconf-publish.el updates the wiki

   • MJ (jotaemei@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 13:30:07 CET MJ

     in reply to

     • Sacha Chua

     @sachac That sounds fun. What did you code it in? At the RMS presentation on Sunday, I heard him mention LibreJS. I didn’t know about that one.

   • MJ (jotaemei@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 13:44:12 CET MJ

     in reply to

     • Christine Lemmer-Webber
     • Sacha Chua

     @sachac So the silver lining to my obnoxious about the conference website is I get to see the code that put it together and learn something. Yes!
     BTW, I came across a nice thread by @cwebber a few days back that started here: https://octodon.social/@cwebber/109433522674939837 I didn’t realize the connection at first on Sunday but am now subscribed to your website’s RSS feeds. Thanks!

   • Sacha Chua (sachac@emacs.ch)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 13:44:12 CET Sacha Chua

     in reply to

     @jotaemei Totally didn't read it as obnoxious, that's cool. :) I appreciate that you care about making things better for people in other timezones, which is most people anyway. Maybe next year I'll have time to figure out a good UI for selectable timezones, even, or maybe someone will contribute it!

   • Sacha Chua (sachac@emacs.ch)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 17:22:22 CET Sacha Chua

     • David T. O'Toole

     @dto @jotaemei inline svgs in an Org buffer were the only way I could make sense of the schedule as I tried different times and scheduling strategies. :) They were really handy in convincing the other organizers that it would be worth all the work needed to do two full tracks, too.

   • Sacha Chua (sachac@emacs.ch)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 01:26:52 CET Sacha Chua

     in reply to

     @jotaemei I like this dropdown on the Debconf schedule: https://debconf22.debconf.org/schedule/ Just didn't have time to implement something like that this year. :)

   • MJ (jotaemei@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 01:26:53 CET MJ

     in reply to

     • Sacha Chua

     @sachac I should have paced myself and read the top paragraphs of the page, where it’s explained clearly that all times were in EST! 🤣

     I’m wondering though, “How does one make a schedule MJ-proof?” Should it just say the local timezone abbreviations next to the times on the listing? Is that excessive? If we had that though, you could have the converter button/link along side each one. It could be how the translate link works for posts on Mastodon, possibly.

   • MJ (jotaemei@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 01:26:55 CET MJ

     in reply to

     • Sacha Chua

     @sachac I like this idea of a timezone converter for people displayed on (or by) the listing. For me, the cause was that I was trying to find my way around the site at the last second and was afraid I’d missed a presentation I saw someone post earlier about coming up, but I think it was just that the speakers were running a little behind schedule.