M-x Research - planning meeting

Who do we have here?

- name, pronouns, gh

• David Pérez-Suárez, He/him, 🐙dpshelio
• Eric Fraga, he/him ericsfraga (almost everywhere)
• Ed Bennett, they/them, 🐙edbennett
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• Mark Carroll, he/him, 🐙mtbc
• Blaine Mooers, he/him, MooersLab
• Iain Barrass, he/him, ibarrass-qmul
• Jens Jensen, he/him, jjensenral (almost everywhere)

(apologies for missing due to clash, has added a little to these notes afterwards:)

• Sadie Bartholomew, she/her, sadielbartholomew

schedule

• 2 times a month (1st/3rd Tuesdays), one more formal, the other one informal

  • Tuesdays 16'00 - 17'00

• repository

What activities can we do?

• Starting with emacs - Journal club like maybe point to some material to do asynchronously in a time frame and then have a discussion
• elisp programming - codeclub? Good idea!
  • February - the functional month?
  • discuss the anatomy of an emacs package
  • test framework rt (lisp) - would it work with ELisp, or is there something else?
    • there's an ert
  • Review how to submit a package to MELPA
  • exercism
• Manage multiple programming projects
  • Project setup - what do you need to work with X programming language
  • Demonstrate how to integrate workflow with GitHub repos.
  • Review current workflows to solicit advice on how to improve them.
  • LSP - language servers usage and development
• Work with others (who doesn't use emacs)
  • Work collaboratively (like liveshare)
• Literate programming in Org and other packages.
• How to manage your time with Org agenda (I gave up.)
• Reference management with emacs (invite John Kitchin as a guest speaker)
  • would suggest that we should start with the new [cite:@reference] syntax first? Sounds good (blaine)
• Manuscript preparation with Emacs
• Management of multiple writing projects
• Review the use of org-roam in knowledge management
• Making presentations with org (or other things)
  • reveal, pdf, …
• Showcase your favourite org-related package
• Emacs discoverability in general
  • Pre-fixed key bindings. How people aggregates their preferred commands.
• Book Club for the small number of emacs books (or online equivalents / guides) out there
  • SB has read Hahn's Emacs Field Guide fairly recently so could cover that, etc.
• Working with (La)TeX via emacs (request from Sadie)
• Group hack as a special event, maybe?

What roles should we have?

• session chair - David
• talk organiser
• website updater - ? (Sadie is happy to do this but wasn't at meeting to confirm)
• zoom controller - Ed (Ed's backup?)

Actions

• Add people to github organisation (Mark Dawson)
• Add wiki to the m-x Research repo? (to keep this type of docs)
• Calendar link
• Test with jitsi.

tags: emacs, rseuk