Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs - Protesilaos Stavrou

"In this presentation I will tell you how to do much of your computing with the help of GNU Emacs. Emacs is a programmable text editor that can be used to do programming, manage your agenda, write emails, read the news, and more. All of this is done in an integrated and coherent way, while respecting your freedom." - Prot

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Speaker Bio

Protesilaos Stavrou (any pronoun) is a philosopher living in the mountains of Cyprus at a house they built themself which they affectionately call “the hut.” They spend their free time programming on GNU Emacs, writing essays on a wide range of life issues, and doing infrastructure work around their house.

They are also a self-taught programmer who enjoys learning by doing. They maintain more than 20 Emacs packages and continue to make contributions to the benefit of the Emacs community and free software at-large. Find all the relevant projects here: https://protesilaos.com/emacs.

On 2022-03-19 the Free Software Foundation awarded Prot the 2021 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor. They received it in their mail in late August 2022. Here is the announcement, which also includes all links to the backstory, as well as a video of Prot showing the physical item: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2022-09-01-emacs-fsf-award/ (pictures too!).

In May 2023 they received the Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program award for their Emacs modus-themes package: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/05/google-open-source-peer-bonus-program-announces-first-group-of-winners-2023.html. Prot's relevant essay on Accessibility and software freedom: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2023-05-11-accessibility-software-freedom/.

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Bio modified from https://protesilaos.com/about/, CC-BY-SA-4.0 Protesilaos Stavrou.
Image CC-BY-SA-4.0 Protesilaos Stavrou.