From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Back from FOSDEM Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:47:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87tygg2n2w.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38958 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PmNgj-0006n3-OY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:47:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PmNgi-0003Z2-GD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:47:17 -0500 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:39658) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PmNgi-0003YQ-Az for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:47:16 -0500 Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so4643890wyj.0 for ; Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:47:15 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi all, we have had a good time at FOSDEM. It was great to meet Carsten, Stefan Vollmar, Sebastien Vauban, Jose E. Marchesi, Brian Gough and others. Special thanks to Stefan, who presented a very nice use cas at his lab, and to Sébastien who presented a few Org Babel examples. Org cannot be presented without Org Babel. The devroom was fully packed, which is about 100 people. I expected to "introduce" Org and to try to convert some people, but about 70% of the audience was already using Org! So the presentation was really a mix of generalities and a live demo of some features (to be honest: I was a bit stressful and tired, I wish I did a better job.) Note for later: when talking to hackers, forget about the slides and have direct fun with an Org-mode buffer, display the *magic* of with no taboo -- questions will come along as you hit some neat feature. I've put my slides here: http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/u/org-fosdem-presentation-beamer.pdf One point I made : what's special about Org is that it's a reflexive tool, one that lets you discover the way you work and the way you want to work. Forget about getting "disciplined" by some external digital secretary, start by having fun discovering yourself with a tool that has virtually no learning curve (or "just" that of Emacs itself...) One surprising discovery: we never had and we don't have a roadmap. I'm fine with this and I don't plan to set up one. Better to do things rather than planning to do them. Best, -- Bastien