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31 # To add a new person to this file, please use the "person" macro with
32 # two arguments, a name and a link to a picture. Like this:
33 # { { { person(First M. Last, http://link to picture) } } }
34 # call, insert the descriptive text
36 # Here comes a new person, please use the "person" macro to set name
37 # and image link. After the macro, write your text.
39 # Ian Barton ------------------------------------------------------------------
41 {{{person(Ian Barton,http://orgmode.org/img/people/ian_barton.jpg)}}}
43 I started out in a farming family before going into medical research
44 as a virologist and then into computing. I have now returned to
45 farming, where I hope I'll stay!
47 I have only been using Emacs for two or three years and had been
48 looking for something that allowed me to keep all my information in
49 plain text. When I discovered org I knew that I had found the Holy
52 Org develops so rapidly that every time I wonder if I can do "x" in
53 org, it's either already implemented, or one of Carsten's multiple
54 beings creates it overnight. However, despite rapid development and
55 many features org's core functions remain simple to use.
57 Outside farming and playing with computers I try to indulge my passion
58 for mountaineering, which I am trying to pass on to my three young
59 children, who are sometimes reluctant companions in our adventures!
61 # Charles Cave ----------------------------------------------------------------
63 {{{person200(Charles Cave,http://orgmode.org/img/people/charles_cave.jpg)}}}
65 I started using Emacs on Unix workstations in the early 1990s but now
66 I use Windows desktop machines.
68 I was using XEmacs for my Perl programming work in my role of a
69 software tester for a Sydney based software company. Around 2007 I
70 discovered David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology through web
71 sites such as [[http://www.43folders.com]] and
72 [[http://www.diyplanner.com/]]. I later created a portal of GTD resources
73 [[http://gtdportal.pbworks.com/]]
75 I stumbled upon the Planner mode for emacs, then did more research on
76 Emacs outliners and found org-mode. What attracted me to org-mode was
77 keeping all information in one file and the outlining commands were so
78 simple. The format of an org-mode was very logical and easy to
79 generate and parse using scripts in Perl or Python.
81 XEmacs soon gave way to GNU Emacs which is friendlier to org-mode and
82 in my opinion, a better Emacs. My other useful Emacs package is
83 mup-mode for typesetting music using the [[http://www.arkkra.com][MUP program]]. I also use
84 org-mode to publish articles for the web about GTD, org-mode and my
87 org-mode and Remember mode are another great combination of tools.
88 I capture my thoughts, ideas, notes, journal entries, and Internet
89 banking receipts into plain text files.
91 I want to tell the world about org-mode so I write articles on how I
92 have used org-mode in my daily life. I work as a technical writer of
93 training materials, and I naturally enjoy writing to help people
94 understand how to use technology. My articles can be found at
95 [[http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/]]
96 I couldn't live without org-mode! Each new release
97 has exciting new features.
99 # Dan Davison -----------------------------------------------------------------
101 {{{person(Dan Davison,http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison/dan.jpg)}}}
103 I'm a university-based researcher in evolutionary biology/genetics. In
104 addition to using org-mode for all my task and project management, I
105 now use it as my working environment for programming and data
106 analysis, which I can highly recommend.
108 Although I'd used emacs for a few years beforehand, encountering
109 org-mode finally motivated me to learn emacs-lisp, which I have really
110 appreciated (I had previously found it strangely refractory). The
111 community of org users is providing a constant stream of high quality
112 new additions, and when you have any doubts about how to proceed
113 yourself, it is a spectacularly helpful and reliable source of
116 I helped Eric Schulte to produce the [[http://orgmode.org/manual/Working-With-Source-Code.html#Working-With-Source-Code][new source code functionality]] of
117 org-mode (originally called org-babel). I have [[http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison/software/dbm/dbm.php][one other software
118 project]] outside my work; its aim is to use the large amounts of
119 information about musical similarity available online to organise and
120 navigate a personal music library.
122 # Carsten Dominik -------------------------------------------------------------
124 {{{person(Carsten Dominik,http://orgmode.org/img/people/carsten_dominik.jpg)}}}
126 I am the main Org-mode author, being on this project since 2003.
128 Just like my earlier Emacs hacks [[http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/reftex.html][RefTeX]], [[http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/cdlatex/][CDLaTeX]], and [[http://idlwave.org][IDLWave]], writing
129 [[http://orgmode.org][Org-mode]] resulted from a direct need for it: I wanted to get organized
130 and wanted to do it in Emacs. There was nothing available that fit my
131 wishes, in particular no combination of outline-based note-taking with
132 task management in a single system.
134 With lots of help from the community around Org-mode, this project has
135 grown into a versatile toolbox, which is being used by a large number
136 of people, in various ways and to various ends.
138 Org-mode was largely written on the commuter train to Amsterdam, where
139 I [[http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dominik/][work]] as an [[http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html][Astronomer]] at the [[http://www.astro.uva.nl][Astronomical Institute]] of the
140 [[http://www.uva.nl][University of Amsterdam]].
142 # Thomas S Dye ----------------------------------------------------------------
144 {{{person200(Thomas S Dye,http://www.tsdye.com/images/tom.jpg)}}}
146 I am an archaeologist (http://www.tsdye.com/) who switched to Linux
147 almost 20 years ago when the demise of DOS made most of my little
148 Turbo Pascal utilities obsolete. My outrage at the irresponsibility
149 made possible by proprietary standards led me to discover the Free
150 Software Foundation and, of course, emacs, which has been central to
151 my computing life ever since.
153 With no formal computer science training and a wide range of other
154 interests that keep me from doing anything more than dabbling at
155 programming, I typically stumble across cool emacs features by
156 accident rather than design. Sometimes these features change the way
157 I conceptualize a problem and the space of possible solutions. A
158 short list, roughly in the order I discovered them, includes regular
159 expression search and replace; emacs as an interface for other
160 applications, like python and R; reftex, whose manual (written by
161 Carsten, I believe) suggests generating an index by creating a list of
162 unique words over a certain size found in a document, then letting
163 reftex guide the markup process, one unique word at a time (!); and,
164 most recently, org-babel, which seems to this non-programmer as equal
165 parts simplicity and magic.
167 I'm currently integrating org-mode + org-babel into my research
168 workflow. Here, org-mode is an organizer (thanks to Bernt Hansen's
169 terrific how-to) and a laboratory notebook. The org file is structured
170 with an eye to creating a meta-document that describes the conduct of
171 the research, from the mundane practical details of the lab work,
172 through the reasoning behind analytic decisions, and on to choices
173 behind presentation of results.
175 I'm using org-babel to tangle two LaTeX source files -- the document
176 I'll submit for publication, and a beamer presentation. Org-babel's
177 ability to tangle (and weave) source code from several languages at
178 once means that my meta-document can record most of what I do, as I do
179 it: SQL queries and my reasons for believing they yield correct
180 results with respect to some specific goal; short statistical analyses
181 in R and my reasons for believing their results answer particular
182 questions; creation of graphics with ggplot2 and the design decisions
183 behind them; and of course the LaTeX source, along with my reasons for
184 presenting particular content in the order that I choose.
186 I think I'm using the literate programming facilities of org-babel to
187 create a piece of reproducible research, but the workflow is still
188 developing. All I can be certain of at this stage is that org-babel
189 has me thinking in new ways. What fun!
192 # Eric S. Fraga ---------------------------------------------------------------
194 {{{person200(Eric S. Fraga,http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/27579696.JPG)}}}
196 I am a computer scientist working with chemical engineers, doing
197 research in optimisation and automated design methods. Org-mode is a
198 key tool in the management of both my research programme and my
201 Being based on simple text files and being open source, Org-mode is
202 attractive for being future-proof. It allows me to no longer worry
203 about whether I'm locked in to some software vendor's changing view of
204 what is important or necessary and I know that all the information I
205 have put into my org files is and always will be accessible.
207 Org-mode provides me with an excellent framework for collaborative
208 work. As it is available on a very wide range of devices, including
209 hand-held computers, the full power of the system is at hand no matter
212 My [[http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/][web pages]], describing my research activities and interests, are all
213 written in Org. Lately, I have been experimenting with literate
214 programming using Org with the recently added org-babel framework!
216 My contribution to the Org-mode project is mostly as an enthusiastic
221 {{{person(Peter Frings,http://orgmode.org/img/people/peter_frings.jpg)}}}
223 I'm part of a software team in Mortsel, Belgium, as a requirement
224 analyst, conceptual designer, interaction designer, graphic designer
225 and spec writer ---or whatever the titles are---; i.e., the whole
226 shebang except programming. I do miss programming a bit, which I did
227 professionally during the first 10 years of my career. That itch
228 sparked my current interest in functional programming, but I lack the
229 time to do anything serious with it.
231 Although I'm not an artist, I like photography ('grepe' on Flickr),
232 and I play the double bass in a couple of folk bands.
234 Being an avid emacs user, I stumbled upon Org-mode and never looked
235 back. I use it mainly to start writing ideas and concepts, to-do list
236 and scheduler and to track the time I spend on the various tasks. I'm
237 pretty sure I'm only using 5% of what it can do, especially given the
238 furious pace of development in the last year. Nothing compares to the
239 Org community, with Carsten et all on top (how can people fix a bug
240 faster than you can read the problem report?).
242 I <3 Org-mode. Spread the word!
244 # Bastien Guerry --------------------------------------------------------------
246 {{{person(Bastien Guerry,http://api.ning.com/files/LwgxVloM62IRf1TIIH3rC*v9UqiIHkYEb0DQcxOqOIc_/bastien_guerry2.jpg)}}}
248 Over the past decade, I have been studying philosophy, cognitive
249 sciences and educational theories. I'm interested on how to use
250 computers for education, and I'm a consultant in this field.
252 I'm not a programmer but I've been raised in Emacs, so I can read
253 some elisp code, fix some bugs and sometimes write a function.
255 My first Emacs contribution was [[http://directory.fsf.org/project/BHL/][BHL]], a mode to convert plain text to
256 HTML, LaTeX, etc. When I discovered Org I thought: "Wow. This is the
257 perfect tool for playing with ideas I'm too lazy to implement in BHL."
258 And it turned out to be much more than that: Org has been a matrix for
259 many new ideas that I couldn't have dreamt for with BHL.
261 Org is to Emacs what Emacs is to computers.
263 And nothing compares to the Org community.
265 # Bernt Hansen ----------------------------------------------------------------
267 {{{person(Bernt Hansen,http://www.norang.ca/pics/Bernt.jpg)}}}
269 I am a freelance software designer working from my office near Toronto,
270 Ontario, Canada. I use Org-mode to track all of my personal and
273 Org-mode was the end of my long quest to find a better organizational
274 toolkit. I had tried many other systems over the years in an attempt to
277 I started using Org-mode in August 2006 after trying out planner for a
278 year. I needed something to track time spent on tasks and a note filing
279 system where I could actually find the notes back again and in a
280 reasonable amount of time. Being able to actually read the note was an
281 added bonus -- my handwriting is awful - especially when I'm in a hurry
282 such as making notes during a client conversation. Fortunately for me I
283 can type faster than I can write.
285 Since then Org-mode has continued to evolve and it has many more
286 features than I will ever need from my organizational software suite.
287 I'm no longer searching for a better organizational toolkit.
289 # Wes Hardaker ----------------------------------------------------------------
291 {{{person(Wes Hardaker,http://www.hardakers.net/images/wes-tammerack.jpg)}}}
293 I like to bite off more than I can chew on a regular basis. I'm
294 actively involved in a ton of things. I'm an avid
295 [[http://www.capturedonearth.com/][Photographer]], a
296 [[http://www.ws6z.com/][Amateur Radio]] enthusiast, and Community
297 Emergency Response Team supporter. I love hiking
298 ([[http://www.openstreetmap.org/][making maps of everywhere I go]])
299 and enjoy finding [[http://yamar.geoqo.org/][Geocaches]]. All of this
300 takes coordination, organization and careful tracking of the things
301 that I have yet to accomplish. I think faster than my fingers can
302 frequently write down [[http://pontifications.hardakers.net][my ideas and thoughts]].
304 Org-mode has certainly made managing my overwhelming
305 list of things I need to do, want to do or simply thinking of much
306 easier. I don't feel nearly as lost since I've started using it.
308 I participate in a [[http://www.hardakers.net/][large number]]
309 of [[http://www.hardakers.net/][open source projects]]
310 (both for work and pleasure) and have contributed at least
311 [[http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-export-generic.php][at least
312 a little bit to org]] via my org-export-generic functionality.
314 Thanks a bunch to Carsten and everyone else for writing such a
317 # Manuel Hermenegildo --------------------------------------------------------
319 {{{person(Manuel Hermenegildo,http://www.software.imdea.org/images/manuel_hermenegildo.jpg)}}}
321 I am a researcher (and the director of) a research institute and a
322 university research group, both in Computer Science. Org has had a
323 huge positive impact in the way I organize my (unfortunately many)
324 tasks --and in fact my life as a whole. It is also used by many people
325 in the institute and the research groups I am part of. Here is how:
327 We participate in a large number of projects, from research projects
328 to taskforces regarding many organizational aspects of our institute,
329 and we make extensive and collaborative use of org to get organized
330 within them. We used /shared/ org files, essentially one per project,
331 to gather our notes, tasks, deadlines, etc. for that project. These
332 files are kept in a server and we edit them collaboratively using svn
333 or git. People include as their org-agenda-files only the org files of
334 the projects they are involved in. We use tags to assign tasks to
335 people (e.g., my tag is :MH:). We also have of course private org
336 files, where we use FILETAGS to assign all the tasks in the files to
337 the owner of the file. Then, we use tag filters to generate agendas
338 and TODO lists that only have our tasks. This is far simpler and more
339 flexible than any of the other methods of getting organized that we
340 have seen so far! And it is all in simple ASCII files and through
343 I have also contributed a bit to org development, mainly some aspects
344 that help support the model described above, some issues related to
345 the generation of web pages, and minor things here and there.
347 I cannot say as others that org is the main reason I use emacs: in
348 fact, it is scary to think about when I started using emacs (1983?).
349 But org has done something truly amazing: make emacs even more useful
350 (and very much so!) than it already was for me. Try it for yourself
351 --you will not be disappointed!
353 # Tassilo Horn ----------------------------------------------------------------
355 {{{person(Tassilo Horn,http://www.tsdh.de/~heimdall/tsdh.jpg)}}}
357 I started using Emacs about the same time I've switched to GNU/Linux
358 around 1999. When people are saying they switched to Emacs because of
359 org-mode, for me it was the Gnus newsreader, which I'm still using
362 Over the time, I've learned elisp and gotten my hands dirty in several
363 projects, like EMMS, Gnus, and Circe. And I'm the author of doc-view,
364 which is integrated in Emacs 23. In org-mode, I'm in charge of the
365 linking stuff between Org and Gnus.
367 Org has become the most important part of my workflow: if I didn't
368 org-remember it, it won't be done!
370 In my free time, I'm trying to do as much crazy stuff as possible:
371 parachuting, hang gliding, rock climbing, snowboarding, and cooking!
372 Believe me, the last thing's the most dangerous.
374 On my day job, I'm a researcher at the Institute for Software
375 Technology at the University Koblenz-Landau, where my main interests
376 are MDA and especially model transformations.
378 You can find me as tsdh on IRC in #emacs, #gnus, and #org-mode.
380 # Andrew Hyatt ----------------------------------------------------------------
382 {{{person400(Andrew Hyatt,http://lh5.ggpht.com/_JOGKg1oOsqk/Su2mDWjG1SI/AAAAAAAADYE/G0sRrzjpvIw/DSC_0021.JPG)}}}
384 During my first year of college, I was introduced to emacs, and I've
385 been increasing my usage of it ever since. I use it to read mail,
386 chat, code in C++, Java, and Python, and of course organize my work
389 Previous to org-mode, I tried out many different GTD-style systems,
390 but found them all annoyingly inflexible or inefficient. Now I use
391 org-mode to plan out my tasks in my own quasi-GTD system, show me what
392 there is to work on, take notes while I'm working on tasks, and time
393 how long I spend working on tasks. My contributions to org are the
394 org-screen module (for linking to screen sessions), and schedule-based
395 tracking in org-depend. I have some ideas for further contributions
396 that will have to wait until my next long flight (which is when I tend
397 to do all my org-mode hacking).
399 Right now, I'm spending most of my emacs hacking time working to
400 [[http://code.google.com/p/wave-client-for-emacs/][integrate emacs with Google Wave]]
402 I've been working as a software engineer since 1997, both around
403 Silicon Valley and currently in New York City. Besides work, I hang
404 out with my family, eat out at interesting restaurants, try and
405 perfect my pizza-making and cappuccino-making skills, exercise, and
406 read interesting books. For current activities, see
407 http://twitter.com/andrewhyatt.
409 # Shidai Liu (aka Leo) ------------------------------------------------------------------
411 {{{person(Shidai Liu (aka Leo),http://orgmode.org/img/people/leo.jpg)}}}
413 =Planner= got me started on =Emacs= in late 2005 after seeing some of
414 it's cool features. One year later (October 2006) I moved to =Org=,
415 realising how much more powerful it was, plus the vibrant community is
416 has. From then on =Org= has been the focal point of my pure
417 emacs-based personal information manager (=Org=, =Gnus=, =BBDB=,
418 =Calendar=, =Diary=, etc.). Here is a list of things I use Emacs for:
420 |-------------------------+-------------------|
421 | TASKS | EMACS SOLUTION |
422 |-------------------------+-------------------|
423 | Email/News | Gnus |
424 | Version control systems | Magit + VC |
425 | Calculator | Calc |
427 | Task/time management | Org |
428 | Common lisp development | SLIME |
429 | LaTeX/TeX authoring | AUCTeX |
430 | Notes taking | Org + AUCTeX |
432 | Addressbook | BBDB |
433 | Calendar | Calendar |
434 | Bibliography database | BibTeX |
435 | Spell checker | Ispell + Flyspell |
437 | File manager | Dired |
438 | Playing music | EMMS |
439 | Inputting Chinese | Eim |
440 | Dictionary | Dictem |
442 |-------------------------+-------------------|
444 I am currently living and studying in Cambridge UK. I enjoy my
445 experience here and value the opportunities it gives me. Post my study
446 I'd like to take a break travelling while reflecting on what I should
447 focus in the future. But whatever I do I will use Emacs + Org!
449 # Pete Phillips -------------------------------------------------------------
451 {{{person(Pete Phillips,http://www.petephillips.me.uk/images/pete-karen-italy2009_medsize.jpg)}}}
452 (I'm the one on the left btw.)
454 I started using org-mode in Aug 2005. Before that I had used 3
455 different models of Psion organisers (II/II XP, Psion 3a, Psion 5mx),
456 and a Sharp Zaurus) to organise my lists/things to do. Analog-wise, I
457 also used a DayRunner for about 8-10 years as well as a HPDA.
459 In Summer/Autumn 2005 I did a [[http://ccgi.philfam.co.uk/wordpress/2005/10/05/4][blog post about moving to org-mode]] after
460 trying out planner mode from [[http://sachachua.com][Sacha Chua]]. During my initial period it
461 became clear that I needed some method of dealing with [[http://www.flippingheck.com/GTD---Back-to-basics-3---Context-and-Next-Actions][Contexts]]. I
462 tried various ways of using the TODO keywords with some success, but
463 eventually Carsten solved the problem by adding the TAGS
464 functionality. I tried this out for a few days and on 19th Dec 2005 I
467 : On Dec 19, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Pete Phillips wrote:
471 : Just one word - Awesome!
473 ... the combination of TODO keywords to record the status of the
474 item/action (Waiting, Next, Done etc) plus the use of tags to record
475 the context (:Home: :Laptop: :Jim: etc) was the 'Aha!' moment which
476 made org-mode the answer to my needs.
478 I have org-mode up in emacs 24 hours a day, in a frame next to my mh-e
479 buffer. I organise just about everything with these two emacs
480 tools. Whilst I use firefox/chrome for web browsing, my mail reading,
481 list making and diary/calendar management are all done through emacs.
482 [[http://ccgi.philfam.co.uk/wordpress/category/gtd][I have some blog posts about GTD and org-mode]] which may be interesting
485 I manage a [[http://www.smtl.co.uk/][UK NHS testing lab]] (yes - new website on the way,
486 honestly), with a team of scientists providing pharmaceutical QA and
487 medical device testing services to the Welsh NHS. Whilst I used to be
488 very active on the org-mode mailing list, my workload these days
489 doesn't allow me that luxury. However, org-mode is more important to
490 me now than ever - basically I manage my life with it - work and home.
491 In my spare time I play jazz, and even use org-mode to keep lists of
492 numbers I would like to try out, contacts for jazz venues, lists of
493 forthcoming gigs etc.
495 A big thank you to Carsten for this superb tool.
497 [[http://www.petephillips.me.uk][Pete Phillips]]
500 # Giovanni Ridolfo ------------------------------------------------------------
502 {{{person200(Giovanni Ridolfi,http://www.isof.cnr.it/nanochemistry/picGR.jpg)}}}
504 I started using Emacs just to use Org-mode. Then Emacs began to be my
505 second operating system; the first is [[http://www.debian.org][Debian GNU/Linux]], and the last
506 is Windows XP (bleah!).
508 I am a chemist, working in Bologna, Italy.
509 When I am not in the laboratory, I am at the
510 computer writing and reading reports and also the Org-mode
511 mailing list. I pay particular attention to the posts
514 I am also active in my LUG: [[http://erlug.linux.it/main/][Emilia-Romagna LUG]], since I think that
515 when spreading free software /the more the merrier/.
517 I love reading. The books I have just finished
518 are [[http://www.wumingfoundation.com/english/about_our_books.htm][Q]] and [[http://www.enricobrizzi.it/inattesapiega/index.htm][L'inattesa piega degli eventi]].
520 # T.V. Raman ------------------------------------------------------------------
522 {{{person(T.V. Raman,http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3FmCG50jehg/R2l7StSQVII/AAAAAAAAA44/tLI0crQJaG4/s512/%20009.JPG)}}}
524 I am a Computer Scientist with over 11 years of industry
525 experience in advanced technology development. During this time, I
526 have authored 3 books and filed over 25 patents; my work on auditory
527 interfaces was profied in the September 1996 issue of Scientific
528 American. I have leading edge expertise in Web standards, auditory
529 interfaces and scripting languages. I participate in numerous W3C
530 working groups and authored Aural CSS (ACSS); in 1996 I wrote the
531 first ACSS implementation. I have led the definition of XML
532 specifications for the next generation WWW including XForms, XML
533 Events, and Compound Document Formats such as X+V.
535 T.V. Raman is blind and uses Emacs for much of his interaction with
536 his computer system, because he has taught Emacs to [[http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/][speak]]. I
537 (Carsten) have seen him using his system, and it is amazing. You can
538 see him introducing Carsten Dominik during his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM][Google Tech Talk]]. The
539 picture shows him with his dog /Bubbles/.
541 # Andreas Roehler -------------------------------------------------------------
543 {{{person150(Andreas Roehler,http://orgmode.org/img/org-mode-unicorn.png)}}}
545 Studying economics in former GDR until 1975, my diploma
546 thesis has been rejected as I proposed a cure employing
547 free speech, free press, independent unions etc.
549 Turned towards literature later, wrote plays, prose and
550 poetry. Former Bertolt Brecht Theater Berliner
551 Ensemble staged 1993 my adaption of Aischylos "The
554 Crossed the Berlin Wall in 1984 and proceeded - next
555 turn of life came with lecture of a book by french
556 sociologist Serge Thion: Historical Truth or Political
559 Translated the book with the help of friend and
560 finally, as no one would do it in Germany, published it
561 in 1994. A lot of things stirred up, we started a
562 journal too. Refusing the common power play we
563 invited people with quite different ideas, religions
564 etc., published articles from right-wing settlers as
565 from muslim activists, published Norman Podhoretz and
566 Noam Chomsky likewise.
568 Things got hot, service took action, the computers and
569 all the equipment being seized again and again; seizures,
570 which have been forbidden by german press law beside.
572 Detected GNU Linux at this occasion - not to pay
573 licenses repeatedly. Detected Emacs - free software is
574 a kind of free speech.
577 Literatur- und Kunstpreisträger im Karin Fischer Verlag ...
578 , Andreas Röhler (W.-Hasenclever-Preis) ...
579 [[http://www.karin-fischer-verlag.de/sites/preistraeger.html]]
582 Aischylos. DIE ORESTIE Schauspiel 5 D 7 H Stand: 27.03.01 ·
583 DIE PERSER (Ü: Andreas Röhler) Schauspiel 1 D 3 H Stand:
585 [[http://www.theater-verlag-desch.de/autoren/showAuthor?autor=Aischylos]]
587 Gedichte. Grafik von Thuur Camps Röhler, Andreas Berlin,
588 Mariannepresse. 1986. Gedichte. (Graz) 1943. 136 S., 2 Taf.
589 23 cm. OPp Goll, Ernst Verlag: Leykam. ...
590 [[http://ade.bookmaps.org/g/e/ged_69.html]]
593 ... Dirk Kurbjuweit, Katja Lange-Müller, Harry Mulisch,
594 Albert Ostermaier ... Peter Piwitt, Hans Pleschinski,
595 Andreas Röhler, Dieter Schmidt, Eva ...
596 [[http://www.poetenfest-erlangen.de/archiv/teilnehmerliste.htm]]
599 eingereicht von Andreas Kölling. Wissenschaftliche Betreuung:
600 Professor Stephan .... Christa Moog, Hans (Chaim) Noll,
601 Andreas Röhler, Karl Hermann Röhricht, ...
602 [[http://www.textbatzen-andreas.de/magister/magister.html]]
604 Bis 2003 Herausgeber der
605 Zeitschrift für Kultur Geschichte und Politik, Sleipnir
606 [[http://www.sleipnir.netfirms.com]]
609 # Eric Schulte ----------------------------------------------------------------
611 {{{person400(Eric Schulte,http://www.cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/me.png)}}}
613 After a liberal arts education in Mathematics and Philosophy -- my
614 studies having deliberately excluded the applicable and computational
615 sciences -- I left school and spent the next 5 years working in the
616 research and development of computational tools. I have now come full
617 circle and am [[http://www.cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/][pursuing my graduate studies]] in computer science at the
618 [[http://www.cs.unm.edu/][University of New Mexico]].
620 In 2006 I began using Emacs and roughly a year later started using
621 [[http://orgmode.org][Org-mode]]. Initially I used Org-mode solely for note taking. It has
622 since turned into both my research laboratory and my main document
625 I've had the pleasure of working on a couple of Org-mode related
626 projects -- [[file:org-tutorials/org-plot.org][org-plot]], [[file:org-contrib/org-exp-blocks.org][org-exp-blocks]], [[file:blorgit.org][blorgit]] and [[file:org-contrib/babel/index.org][org-babel]]. Writing
627 emacs-lisp in Emacs is a pleasure which is greatly amplified by the
628 thoughtful construction of Org-mode. It's readable design, and
629 numerous strategically placed hooks and control variables make it the
630 most hackable framework I have ever encountered.
632 Through Emacs I realized the benefits of a truly customizable
633 environment, and as a result Emacs took over my OS; now Org-mode has
634 blurred the lines between customization and development and it is
635 preceding to take over my Emacs.
637 # Manish Sharma ---------------------------------------------------------------
639 {{{person300(Manish Sharma,http://www.vyom.org/media/manish-org.jpg)}}}
641 I had tried dozens of task management tools of various kinds
642 (web-based, browser-based, wiki-style, MS Excel-based, paper-based, MS
643 Outlook-based, plain text file based, Post-It based... you get the
644 idea) between 2003 and 2007. I really tried to like them... but
645 something or the other was always amiss. Planner was the first system
646 that I kept going back to after trying every fancy new system; I kept
647 looking around until I found Org-mode around August 2007 and that was
648 the end of my journey. It was like finding out who you are going to
649 spend the rest of your life with. :)
652 I initially thought Org was awesome and could not be improved further
653 but I had underestimated Carsten, various contributors and the amazing
654 community of users who keep pushing the envelope of what is possible
655 without sacrificing the deceptive simplicity of the system.
657 It morphs into the perfect system to suit any new-fangled ideas I
658 might have about organizing and approaching work. To me, Org is like a
659 DIY-kit of organizers -- it scales as you grow and discover and tune
660 how you would like to organize your life. I doubt if I will ever need
661 or use full power of Org.
665 {{{person(David O'Toole,http://orgmode.org/img/people/dto.jpg)}}}
667 David O'Toole is a Lisp programmer living in Massachusetts, USA.
668 Interests include GNU Emacs, Ubuntu, and independent games development.
670 His website is http://dto.github.com/notebook
673 # Stefan Vollmar --------------------------------------------------------------
675 {{{person300(Stefan Vollmar,http://www.nf.mpg.de/mitarbeiter/stefan-vollmar_c.jpg)}}}
677 I started using Emacs on large Unix systems when I was still a physics
678 student, but I confess to have strayed from the Path in later years,
679 as I had been disappointed with its lack of integration into the other
680 platforms I needed to use for my [[http://www.nf.mpg.de/index.php%3Fid%3D66&L%3D1%2Fresearch%2Fboar...z.de%2Fcms%2F%2Fpr.txt%3F%2F%2Fresearch%2Fboards%2Fencapsbb-0.3.2_fixed%2Findex_header.php%3Froot%3D&tx_spdirectory_pi1%5Bmode%5D%3Ddetail&tx_spdirectory_pi1%5Bmodifier%5D%3Dcatorder&tx_spdirectory_pi1%5Bvalue%5D%3D164&cHash%3D4c5c9b6c1d][work]] at the
681 [[http://www.nf.mpg.de][Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research Cologne]].
683 This has changed with [[http://aquamacs.org/][Aquamacs Emacs]] and
684 newer versions of Emacs in general. Org-mode is a very (very) good
685 reason on its own to re-consider Emacs - in my case, it was "love on
686 first sight" with Org-mode's conceptual beauty, even before I found out about
687 the astonishing Org community and the torrent of continuous
690 Org-mode was instrumental for planning our
691 [[http://www.nf.mpg.de/kinderuni/kinderuni_en.html][Looking into Brains]] project,
692 also to generate its [[http://www.nf.mpg.de/kinderuni][HTML]] documentation. We have started to use
693 Org-mode for the software documentation of my group's
694 platform-independent [[http://www.nf.mpg.de/vhist][VHIST]] and
695 [[http://www.nf.mpg.de/vinci][VINCI]] projects and are working on an
696 integration with their [[http://qt.nokia.com/][Qt]]-based frameworks.
698 My only remaining problem with Org-mode is to communicate properly
699 my very own list of favorite features: it just takes too long to
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