Podcast Ideas

Creating Packages

What to know
Where to start
Example packages? Easy to follow tuturials
Simple things to start off with? Like YASnippet packages
Repo or site that has random emacs ideas for packages?

Emacs for beginners

Interactive Tutorials
Where to go next after built in tutorial
Elisp 101
Using MELPA and installing packages
Resources to subscribe/follow like blogs, social media accounts etc
Must have packages

Interview Mastering Emacs author

Need to add more stuff

Handling Package Archives, ex: Melpa

Why create a new archive? Whats wrong with the old ones?
Difficulty
How did you get started
How would one go about staring their own
Contributing?
Security? (Typo squatting, update package to be malicious once in some archive)

Community (Sacha Chua candidate?) (Done)

~~Overall Friendlies~~
~~Encouragement towards beginners~~
~~Myth: Old hacker culture makes it difficult to change emacs?~~

Learning elisp

How did you learn?
Beyond the info manual
Mastering Emacs book?

Running a conference (Samer has said yes :D) (Done)

~~Why take the initiative?~~
~~How hard is it to organize something this big?~~
~~Where can people show their support?~~

Eshell (Done)

~~Samer would like to talk about this~~
~~Combine this talk w/ the one above? Why not~~

Starting a emacs meetup/community

What are steps necessary?
How did you decided to do this?
Fallbacks? Challenges? Fear of failing

Auto-complete and Company-mode showdown (Suggested by Tobias)

Development Status
Pros and Cons
Need to add more stuff

Evil Mode show (Suggested by Tobias)

Converting VIM minions to emacs saints
How idea got started/ History behind it
Current development status
Future plans

Transitioning from VIM to emacs (Tobias and Chris) (Done)

~~Story from converting to an emacs saint.~~
~~Also willing to talk about their Python and other languages setup~~
~~Need to add more stuff~~

Unit Testing Elisp Frameworks

Need to add more stuff

Developing Games in Elisp

Links to get question ideas for Vasilij interview:
- https://github.com/wasamasa/quasiconf-2015
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Amusements.html (likes pong, tetirs, snake. Made by same guy)
- Concact author from built-in games also.

Funny Emacs

doctor
life
animate-birthday-present
butterfly
Emacs appearances in film and TV
Probably more…

Different forks of emacs

Aquamacs (Emacs for OSX)
XEmacs
- Stephen Turnbull
  - XEmacs history
  - why someone should consider XEmacs today
  - navigating lisp challenges
jed (and S-Lang)
Too lazy to check for others.

Emacs “Starters”

Spacemacs
Prelude
Emacs Starter Kit
Awesome Emacs (kinda?)
Sane Defaults

Political and religious about emacs and it’s future

Kinda like this one
Mmm maybe not a good idea? Don’t know much about this stuff.

Exercism.io Emacs Lisp Track (Done - Jason Lewis)

~~Introduction to exercism.io~~
~~Types of questions~~
~~What to create/grow out of creating an elisp track~~
~~Need to add more stuff~~

Maintainers of Big shot packages

Hydra
Projectile (I freken love this package)
Helm
Magit
Irony (C/C++)
Elpy (Python) One question may be… Jython Support?
Eclim (Java)
AUCTeX (TeX/LaTeX)
Org (Carsten Dominik, Bastien Guerry)
Gnus
Robe
ESS
ein (iPython notebook mode inside emacs!)
ERC (widely considered to be the best emacs IRC client)
roguel (Roguelike game written in elisp)
Challenges as a maintainer

Interview FSF old timers about emacs

Richard Stallman (RMS)
Noah Friedman (ERC co-author, long time FSF staffer, lots else :)
Roland Mcgrath (Ditto.)
RMS & Noah could probably recommend others)

System Crafters interview

Starting a youtube carreer https://www.youtube.com/c/SystemCrafters/featured

LSP

https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode

Eglot

https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot

All the new completion frameworks

Nicolas P. Rougier

Creator of Nano Emacs
And a lot of other goodies https://github.com/rougier?tab=repositories

EWW

Gotta give this package more credit with shr enabled + org mode like