EmacsConf 2019 - Zürich Satellite announcement

[Alain M. Lafon]

Dear Emacs users

We are happy to announce the official EmacsConf 2019 Zurich (CH) 
satellite! For the satellite, there will be a physical venue where 
we will gather, watch remote and hold live talks whilst enjoying 
good discussions as well as food.

In accord with discussions with the organizers of the original 
virtual conference (Amin Bandali and Sacha Chua), the satellite 
will be an official EmacsConf venue.

The Zurich satellite will be free (as in beer) for guests. Venue 
and food will be provided by 200ok llc (200ok.ch) whose founders 
are very happy Emacs users.

The planning for the main conference is not finished, yet, but we 
do have a tentative schedule for the Zurich venue:

- 9AM EDT/2PM CET (local time): The conference starts
- The main conference will start with a keynote and commence with 
talks.
- The Zurich satellite will be watching the main conference.
- Speakers of the main conference who are physically located at 
the Zurich satellite will give their talks in front of a live 
audience and will have their talks also streamed for the online 
audience.
- 6PM CET: Dinner break
- 6:45PM: Live talks at Zurich satellite
- For this slot, the Zurich satellite deviates from the main 
track. EmacsConf had over 30 great submissions, but the main 
track can only feature that many talks. During this slot, the 
Zurich satellite will feature a selection of additional live 
talks.
- 9PM: End of live talks
- For the locals, it will be getting late. Therefore, the Zurich 
satellite will switch back to watching the talks from the main 
track and enjoy the EmacsConf goodness until the very end of the 
conference.
- 11PM: Estimated end of conference

The schedule is subject to change and might slightly change 
alongside the lineup of the main conference.

The Zurich satellite venue has a maximum capacity of 30 people. We 
will open the registration for guests right away, but will limit 
the registrations to 20 people. 10 spots will be reserved for 
potential speakers who want to come to Zurich and hold their talk 
in front of a live audience. We kindly ask you, the speakers, to 
RSVP until October 10th for a spot at the Zurich satellite. Please 
do so by emailing address@hidden. After October 10th, 
we'll open the remaining seats for guests and speakers alike. For 
some early pictures of the venue, please see the announcement 
here: 
https://200ok.ch/posts/2019-09-17_announcing_the_official_emacsconf_zurich_satellite.html

We are very much looking forward to EmacsConf 2019 - to meeting 
great people, having interesting discussions and sharing all 
things Emacs and Lisp \(^_^)/

Best regards
Phil and Alain

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