#+title: November 2: Save the date! EmacsConf is coming to Boston
#+date: October 17, 2019
#+author: Greg Farough
#+options: toc:nil

*The office of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) joins Zürich as the
second satellite location to EmacsConf 2019 - the one and only
conference on the world's most polarizing text editor.*

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is happy to announce our [[https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/fsf-office-directions][office in
Boston]] as the next official [[https://emacsconf.org/2019/][EmacsConf]] satellite! Join us on Saturday,
November 2 for an all-day event on everyone's favorite
self-documenting, customizable, and extensible editor: [[https://gnu.org/software/emacs][GNU Emacs]]! The
FSF will join Zürich, Switzerland as the second physical satellite to
EmacsConf, which will be held online this year.

Beginning at 9:00 a.m. EDT, we will be gathering at the FSF office to
watch both remote and in-person talks on Emacs and Emacs Lisp. A light
breakfast and dinner will be provided by the FSF, and three lucky
attendees will come away with some official Emacs merchandise from the
[[https://shop.fsf.org][GNU Press]].

A tentative schedule of the conference is as follows:

- 9:00 a.m. EDT: Conference begins with keynotes from Amin Bandali,
  Sacha Chua, and Emacs maintainer John Wiegley.
- 9:30 a.m. EDT: "User-related" conference track begins, with talks
  from Sachin Patil, Parham Doustdar, and Marcin Swieczkowski in
  addition to the lightning talks.
- 12:00 p.m. EDT: "Development" conference track begins, with talks
  from Jonathan Chu, Howard Abrams, Damien Cassou, and Matt Ray.
- 4:00 p.m. EDT: "Future" conference track begins, with talks from
  Greg Farough and Perry Metzger.
- 4:50 p.m. EDT: Closing remarks, with dinner provided by the FSF.

A small raffle will be conducted after the conclusion of each
conference track, and Emacs stickers will be free for all attendees!

Although attendance is gratis, space is very limited, so please be
sure to send an RSVP to address@hidden as soon as possible to
secure your spot.