EmacsConf 2023 progress report: 44 talks accepted, schedule being drafted

[Sacha Chua]

Web version: https://emacsconf.org/blog/2023-09-25-draft-schedule/

The EmacsConf 2023 call for participation period has wrapped up, hooray!
We’ve accepted 44 talks and posted them at
https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/, with 1 more penciled in (woof - Watch
Over Our Folders). This is about ~12 hours of talks. If we were to have
5 minutes buffer in between talks, it would be 15 hours and a pretty
cramped conference. I think we can pull off a two-track conference again
this year. Shall we give it a try? =) We can set up a schedule for the
different roles as we get closer to the conference.

I started drafting a schedule at
https://emacsconf.org/2023/organizers-notebook/#draft-schedule .
Thoughts on the order/grouping of talks? If the schedule looks all
right, I can send this draft to all the speakers in case they have any
requests regarding time preferences, other talk Q&A sessions that they
want to attend live, etc.

Next steps:

- Schedule: We’ll e-mail the draft schedule to speakers so that they can
  get a sense of where they are in the schedule, see if they really want
  to make it to a conflicting session’s Q&A live (they’ll have early
  access to the videos), etc.
  
- Infrastructure:
    - Dust off and document infrastructure, processes
    - Sort out access to media.emacsconf.org so that we can get the
      upload service up and running
    
- Draft brief intros for talks, keeping in mind that we’re going to say
  them out loud

- Speakers will work on videos, and we can help with nudges/coordination
  if needed

Sacha