Emacs Community Maintenance

Why do I do it? · Emacs tickles my brain Good effort/reward tradeoff Keeps Emacs growing, so I benefit Core Emacs News How: Reddit throughout the week, + others Categorization Why: . . . Lots of cool stuff Good use of speedreading Connects the community less frequent things Sketches •Map/untangle thoughts . Plan • · . Stuff that increases energy: Hacking cool stuff, kaizen Blog posts by others Cor videos/ Reddit posts/etc., but blog posts are best) Comments Blog posts Remember . Share Get ideas/comments Config • Do stuff • Same as • blog posts . . Videos Emacs Conf How: schedule • . . captions • publishing automation Why: - . Gets stuff out of . · . Stuff I'm less keen on at the moment: time-sensitive commitments (meetings, Coordination) →messes with going with the flow listening/watching → still feel a little time-starved, prefer text • talking people's heads/configs "Connects people Show interesting things Show things I might not have thought of mentioning, but that people can ask about help people connect with people • technical debt, sysad • long tasks, keeping things in my head Calendar How: • ical aggregation +manual events ↓ Emacs News IRC Why: . . Twitter EmacsWiki Help people find virtual events Good use of Emacs News

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