wingologA mostly dorky weblog by Andy Wingo2011-10-19T14:32:34Ztekutihttps://wingolog.org/feed/atomAndy Wingohttps://wingolog.org/the user in the loophttps://wingolog.org/2011/10/19/the-user-in-the-loop2011-10-19T14:32:34Z2011-10-19T14:32:34Z

The videos from this year's GNU Hackers Meeting in Paris are up. All the videos are linked from that page. There were technical problems with a couple of them, and we didn't get BT Templeton's presentation on Emacs Lisp in Guile (using delimited dynamic bindings to implement buffer-local variables!), but all in all it's a good crop.

I gave a talk entitled "The User in the Loop" that argued for the place of extensibility in the GNU project. I also pointed out some ways in which Guile fulfills those needs, but that was not the central point to the talk. I argued that point at more length in a previous article.

Anyway, let's give that newfangled HTML5 video tag a go here. It starts with the cut-off statement, "We all know that code motion is very important to efficiency, so..."

Alternately you can download the video directly (~350MB, 52 minutes). There are notes too, a superset of the slides from the talk.