Meeting Notes 2012-09-11
Table of Contents
Assigning roles for emacs club this coming year
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Keeper of meeting notes
- Candidate must be funny and expressive (Andrew doesn't meet these criteria)
- Rafe will do the job
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Webmaster and administrator
- Git and website – job goes to Nikos
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Elisp evangelist – Andrew
- Homework assignments
- Plugin ideas
Upcoming talks
- Python setup
- Prelude
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emacs tutorial
- Mish always does it (1 for 1 is 100%)
- Andrew almost falls out of his rolling chair (seems like this might take effort)
- Zach's sandwich always gets on his laptop (seems preventable)
- Obligatory dongle jokes
Food
- "Nose goes"
- No one remembers who Laura Fox is
Piazza
- Gauge interest at emacs tutorial
Plugin idea – yeoman
- yeoman is a package manager/build system for the web (specifically client-side code)
- Interface in emacs for yeoman – build, start up server
- Built by Google – good!
- Secondary plugin idea – literate lisp
Don Knuth
- Origin of TeX and LaTeX
- TAOCP – still not finished, typeset in TeX because nothing was good enough
How many hardcore emacs hackers does it take to connect a MacBook to a projector?
- 3 by my account
- More than 15 combined years of higher education…
Walkthrough of the emacs club repository
- emacsclub.github.com – the actual website, builds automatically through some Github magic ($100 million series A, still supports emacs)
- emacsclub is the repo to actually edit
Date: 2012-11-14 17:49:53 EST
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