I was not able to help much with #emacsconf23: only a video caption check for the "Literate Documentation with Emacs and Org Mode" by Mike Hamrick (@spudlyo)
Japan is not the best location to attend the conference. Time-zone wise, the conference is between 11pm and 7am on Saturday and Sunday this week-end. But we'll be able to watch all the talks later !
And thank you @sachac for the amazing organization! 😃
@jchelary Nice work! You did a nice job fixing the mistakes I saw the auto-captioning software make earlier, I also was pleased to see you added quotation marks and other nice clarifications to the captions, thanks! At over 40 minutes that must have been quite a lot of work.
@spudlyo you had 99% of the contents on gitlab so I used that as reference (by the way, there are some glitches in the original document) and it made things way easier. @sachac added some decorations to the text she sent last night too.
I was familiar with most of the contents since I wrote something similar (but way less "informed") as a memo to myself on my blog, and I also use org-mode as a daily writing tool. But mixing the two and adding the "literate" part was really nice.
(shameless plug for #macOS users who want to build Emacs from scratch:
I don't have a habit to work on subtitles. So, every time I need to, the learning curve of dedicated software (#Aegisub in this case) gets the best of me and I eventually end up using a text editor and mvp. I saw somewhere that there was a #subel.el mode for emacs (not on #melpa though) to do just that. I guess I need to give that one a try.
@jchelary I think that was already a great help. And you also helped acknowledge speakers and review submissions, the speed of which impressed some people. :) Thanks, JC!
@sachac Haha ! That's one of the perks of being in this weird time-zone 😃
As for watching the talks beforehand, I'll sure do, some I'm really interested in!
It was nice to have this early submission system this year. I really hope the organization was less stressful that last year thanks to that.
I'm trying to imagine how an #OmegaT conference could look like and how to technically organize it with free software, so helping with #emacsconf was really a great source of inspiration.
@jchelary Being originally from GMT+8 myself, I have great sympathy for conference timezone envy. I'd love it if we could get things to the point of being able to run a conference based on the other side of the world. Let's see if the crontab technique will work this year. If so, then we can run the sessions mostly on autopilot... :)
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