Thought a little bit more about a possible #LibrePlanet lightning talk. Stumbled across a potentially useful metaphor. #Emacs community plumbing: Emacs News, the Emacs calendar, Planet Emacs Life, and EmacsConf. I don't have to fill the pipes, I just help move things around. :)
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Community Plumbing
2024-01-31-05
I want to... share some of the things we're doing in the Emacs community
so that... I can convince you that building plumbing for your community can be fun, easy, and awesome
This is great because... enthusiasm spreads. virtuous cycle
Blog aggregator
Planet Emacs Life
(uses Planet Venus)
@sachac yeah, you are basically a news aggregator, and you even automate most of your aggregating tasks (I assume) using Emacs! The quality of your Emacs news posts is incredible though, it seems to me that you probably read, at least in part, everything that you post. It isn't just a robotic copying of things you find on Reddit and PlanetEmacs. This is super helpful, especially when I was first getting started with Emacs.
@ramin_hal9001 aww, shucks! I'm so glad it helped you get started (and get sucked in, mwahahaha). And now you're inspiring others, too! Emacs News takes me 1-2 hours each week, and it's one of the things I really look forward to. New snippets to borrow for my config, new ideas to file away for future use, new packages to explore... I have a fair bit of code around gathering the news, checking for duplicates, and moving things into the right categories. Most of the code is in the same index.org that has all the Emacs News. But even if I get around to training a classifier to guess default categories for posts when my simple regex match doesn't work, I'd still want to read stuff. I love that I get to learn from other people who have taken the time to share their enthusiasm. :)
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