# 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 :bird:@quantumofed
- Mark Carroll, he/him, 🐙mtbc
- Blaine Mooers, he/him, MooersLab
- Iain Barrass, he/him, ibarrass-qmul
- Jens Jensen, he/him, jjensenral (almost everywhere)
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*(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](https://github.com/M-x-Research)
## 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](https://exercism.org/tracks/emacs-lisp)
- 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