Re: Draft call for participation (maybe June 26?), lessons learned from last year

[Amin Bandali]

Hi Sacha, all,

Many thanks to Sacha and everyone for all the effort, and chiming in
and participating!

Sacha Chua writes:

[...]
> I removed the section on the commitment to freedom because the same kind
> of message is on the https://emacsconf.org/2023 page, but since that's
> something bandali added before, let's check with him to see if that's
> okay. It might be important to at least some of our potential
> speakers/attendees that they won't need to use any proprietary software
> in order to participate in EmacsConf, unlike many other conferences. Can
> someone think of where it makes sense to put that in, maybe in just one
> sentence?

I'm all for adding positive wording about our commitment to our
community that they will always be able to watch and participate in
EmacsConf using only free software, but I'm not a fan of the removal
of that section.  I'd purposefully included that in the CFP in part
as a form of activism, to help spread the word about the cause of
free software.  We can also show how we practice it, by linking to
some of your awesome https://emacsconf.org/blog/ posts on parts of
our infra/setup, with even more posts to come in the future.

-a