Talk title:

  Reading and writing emails in GNU Emacs with Gnus

Talk description (<= 500 words):

  Gnus has had the reputation of being difficult to grasp and
  configure.  The myriad of configuration options of its many major
  and minor modes which afford Gnus its high degree of customizability
  can also seem overwhelming and daunting for folks looking to learn
  about and use it to build a workflow for doing email in GNU Emacs.

  This talk aims to provide a high-level outline of some of the key
  concepts in Gnus, and a roadmap for approaching and configuring Gnus
  and Message to your liking so that you, too, can read, compose, and
  send emails with GNU Emacs.

Format (10 minutes, 20 minutes, description of other format) and outline:

  20 minutes recording, and possible workshop after conference?

Introduction for you and your talk (<= 100 words):

  Amin Bandali is a computing scientist and activist for user freedom,
  and a participant in various free software projects and communities.
  Bandali wears a few hats around the GNU Project and is a volunteer
  member of the Free Software Foundation SysOps team, a core organizer
  of EmacsConf, a Debian Developer and a contributor to the Trisquel
  GNU/Linux distribution.

  In this talk, Bandali will go over configuring Gnus and Message for
  reading and composing emails, showcasing one of many approaches for
  using GNU Emacs for email communications.

Speaker name (and optional pronunciation) and preferred pronouns:

  Amin Bandali - he/him

Speaker availability (times and time zones that you're available Dec 7-8; 
ex: after 1pm America/Toronto both Sat and Sun):

  Unfortunately unlikely to be available that weekend

Preferred Q&A approach (live web conference, IRC, pad, wiki, and/or e-mail questions after the event):

  pad, wiki, or email

Public contact information (IRC nick, e-mail, website, and/or social media):

  IRC: bandali on Libera.Chat and OFTC
  email: bandali@gnu.org or bandali@kelar.org
  website: https://kelar.org/~bandali

Private emergency contact information (phone number or messaging) in
case we need to reach you due to technical difficulties (optional):

  [redacted]

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