From: Joseph Nuthalapati Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 14:28:49 +0000 (+0530) Subject: emacsconf 2019: Diversity and Conclusion sections X-Git-Url: http://njoseph.me/gitweb/blog.git/commitdiff_plain/c0422b41368cdba809dd3c0ea11a1d20c9d7f77c emacsconf 2019: Diversity and Conclusion sections Signed-off-by: Joseph Nuthalapati --- diff --git a/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md b/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md index 31ebb6d..34b7d7c 100644 --- a/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md +++ b/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md @@ -144,3 +144,15 @@ have LSP support yet. Maybe it's a conflict of interest for JetBrains. The conference had an excellent live-coding demonstration of LSP by Torstein Krause Johansen in his presentation titled "How Emacs became my awesome Java editing environment". + +## Diversity + +The conference seemed to have a good racial mix of speakers. There was a blind +speaker too. I am happy to see some representation from non-programmers among +the speakers. The conference can do better in terms of gender diversity. + +## Conclusion + +The conference was totally worth losing a night's sleep over. I had to stay up +till 5 am due to timezone differences. I am now more motivated to write some +Elisp myself and customize Emacs to my specific needs.