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Hello there, I am a begineer to emacs. I am using doom emacs at the moment and just today moved to the 29 release of emacs just today. I am college student and using emacs to take notes as well as programming. I am new to programming as well i have been coding for about 1 year. I am constantly trying to find ways to improve my work flow and recently had some road blocks along the way ( mostly because i don't know emacs very well). I would like to learn from everybody about how emacs can be customized further.

Hi,

How am I supposed to contact Ranjeeth and Phil who have no email listed anywhere on their links?

It would be beneficial to make sure each buddy has a valid address.

I'd like to volunteer as an Emacs buddy. I've been using Emacs since about 2017. I use it mostly to program, both professionally and as a hobby, though I've also used other IDEs like IntelliJ and Eclipse intensively.
I'm not an expert but I'd say I'm decently proficient in Emacs Lisp; over the years I've built a big init file from scratch, I've contributed to a package, and I've worked on some additional features.

I also speak multiple languages (native English & Italian, proficient Spanish, decent Portuguese and French). My computer-related vocabulary is strictly in English, but I might be able to help Emacs-users who aren't English native-speakers.

Let me know if there's any information you'd need from me! :)

Hi,

I really do like the basic idea of helping GNN Emacs beginners with issues in form of a buddy-concept.

However, what makes me think is that this does not scale well because of the non-public nature of the proposed method as far as I understood it. In my personal experience, the vast majority of beginner questions are not unique questions to this very particular person starting with GNU Emacs. Therefore, the volunteers do invest their time with recurring beginners questions that could be answered once and published on the web so that other beginners are able to help themselves by using a search engine and others are able to link to those threads.

Therefore, I personally would prefer an approach like: "Ask any (non-specific general) question in one of the following places where other people might profit from the evolving message thread via Internet search. The volunteers listed at emacs-buddy can be @-mentioned via following user handles to help with particular questions."

What are your thoughts about that?

Side-note: I would love to see a revival of the Usenet for that purpose instead of using ephemeral web forums but this is a different discusssion.

This project has been on my radar for a while now.

I think I can try to be a buddy an see how this works. I mostly use Org mode :)

Is there anything in particular I need to do?

Hi Andrea,

I'm willing to be someone's Emacs buddy for a while. If someone wants to take me up on the offer, I'd prefer that they use Matrix to communicate with me rather than email--we could make a Matrix room just for our conversation, and use, e.g. my Ement.el client to communicate using Emacs (I get too much email already). My Matrix address is @alphapapa:matrix.org.