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+         <p>This year’s Emacs conference (EmacsConf 2021) will take place on
+November 27 and 28.  I will be among the speakers.  My talk’s
+description:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+  <p>How Emacs made me appreciate software freedom</p>
+
+  <p>The theme will be “how Emacs empowered my software freedom”.  I will
+outline the key moments in my transition to a GNU/Linux operating
+system and mark those which eventually contributed towards me becoming
+an Emacs user, maintainer of a—dare I say—popular package, and
+contributor to upstream Emacs (among others).  By alluding to personal
+experiences, I will draw generalisable insights and connect them to
+what I believe are irreducible qualities of Emacs qua software and
+Emacs as a community of like-minded people.  The talk will be
+theoretical in nature: there won’t be any code-related demonstration
+nor technical references that only people with a background in
+computer science would likely recognise.  Personal anecdotes shall be
+tangential to the point and considered as ancillary to the thesis of
+what Emacs represents from the standpoint of software freedom and user
+empowerment.  The presentation is intended for a general audience that
+is interested in GNU software in general and Emacs in particular.  My
+formal educational background as a social scientist (i.e.  not a
+programmer) and later as a philosopher informs my approach to this
+topic.</p>
+
+  <p>The presentation shall be 40 minutes long.  Its text will be in essay
+form and shall be supplied as complementary material to the video.
+The notation will be in Org mode.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h2>Backstory</h2>
+
+<p>I had no intention to participate in the event, even though I was well
+aware of it and despite the fact that I had followed the previous two
+conferences.  My reasoning was that (i) I probably had no technical
+insight to share that wasn’t already known to the members of—and
+likely participants in—such a setting, (ii) I already have my website
+with a dedicated section on Emacs where I can publish any article or
+video I want, and (iii) EmacsConf provides a platform for people who are
+otherwise not disseminating their own stories to reach a wider audience.
+Some or all of these assumptions may have been fallacious.  They still
+represent what I believed at the time.</p>
+
+<p>At around the end of September, a few days before the deadline for the
+submission of proposals, someone knowledgeable of the conference’s
+logistics, whose name shall not be divulged, contacted me and asked me
+to deliver a talk.  I was eventually persuaded to make an attempt at
+taking a 20-minute slot, but it was not feasible to condense my thoughts
+to such a short video, especially given the tight deadline (I was
+preoccupied with other issues, including <a href="https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2021-09-29-modus-themes-1-6-0/">the release of modus-themes
+version 1.6.0</a>
+that was made just in time for the creation of the <code>emacs-28</code> branch in
+emacs.git).  So I replied, perhaps with some relief, that I would not be
+available for this year’s event and would consider trying again the year
+after.</p>
+
+<p>To cut the long story short, the 40-minute slot was considered a viable
+option and I made a last-ditch effort to submit an abstract before the
+deadline.  It happened on the 30th of September.</p>
+
+<p>There are lots of talks in this year’s conference.  All seem very
+interesting and I am looking forward to watch them.  Hopefully mine will
+be worth it as well.</p>
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