Presentation Proposals
Table of Contents
Drafts of talks that could be given, kept general so each can be cut down to a
particular call. Nothing here has been submitted. default/ holds the general
version of each; a version shaped for one conference would sit beside it under
that conference's name.
1. What the review found
Two reviews were run over the first six drafts on 2026-10-01, one for technical substance and one for how a program committee would read them. They agreed on the main point: the first six were all Clojure, agent or testing talks, and none was written for a Lisp, Scheme or Racket room. The strongest public work for those rooms was not on the shelf. Eight drafts were added and the six were recut.
They disagreed on what to submit first. The technical review picks Two REPLs, One Port, for Dutch Clojure Days, on the strength of its evidence. The presentation review picks The Failure That Looks Like Success, because agent-plus-REPL was the most crowded subject at Clojure/conj 2026 and this one has no competitor.
2. Drafts
| Draft | Status | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Two REPLs, One Port | Submit first | 35 to 40 minutes |
| The Failure That Looks Like Success | Keep | Lightning or 20 minutes |
| A Thousand Org Files, One Parser | Keep | 20 minutes at EmacsConf |
| Visibility Is Verification | Essay, not a talk | Essay plus talk |
| What Can Your Agent See? Nine Things to Read Besides the Source | Fold into another talk | 20 minutes, or a workshop position paper |
| :or Changed Under You | Lightning only | 7 to 10 minute lightning |
| The Runtime Is Excellent and Unreachable | New, from the review | ELS lightning first |
| 779 Tools | New, from the review | 20 minutes at EmacsConf |
| Property Tests for Guile, Engine by Hypothesis | New, from the review | 20-minute workshop talk or experience report |
| One Spec, Two Lisps | New, from the review | 20 to 30 minute experience report, or a workshop paper |
| Read Time Is Not Eval Time | New, from the review | 5-minute lightning |
| One Divide, Four Lisps | New, from the review | Lightning, or a 20-minute meetup talk |
| What Never Moved | Hold until the work exists | 40 minutes, or an Onward! essay |
| Roulette Outside Racket | Weak fit | 20 to 30 minutes |
| Keyed Patterns for Guile | Proposed; the library does not exist yet | Scheme Workshop paper with a 20-minute talk |
3. By venue
4. Conferences still ahead
From the events index. CFP dates are as recorded in the linked notes; the ones marked unchecked have not been looked up and may already be closed.
| When | Event | CFP |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 2026 | EmacsConf 2026 (virtual) | unchecked; may be closed |
| Jan 2027 | POPL 2027 and co-located workshops | unchecked |
| Apr 30–May 1 2027 | MinuteCon 2027 (Cambridge MA) | opened 2026-10-01; 20-minute lightning and 45-minute full; AI Security track |
| spring 2027, if held | Dutch Clojure Days | unchecked; the 2026 edition ran its CFP Nov 1 to Jan 15 |
| spring 2027, if held | Babashka Conf | unchecked; 2026 notes |
| spring 2027, if held | European Lisp Symposium | unchecked; 2026 notes |
| 2027 | ICFP, with the Scheme and miniKanren workshops | unchecked; 2026 notes |
| 2027 | SPLASH | unchecked; the 2026 workshop deadlines were in late June |
| 2027 | RacketCon | unchecked; 2025 notes |
| 2027 | Clojure/conj | unchecked; 2026 notes |
| any month | Boston Lisp | a meetup; no call |
5. Shape of a draft
Each draft has a one-line pitch, a short abstract, the audience, format and venue, what the review said, and its backing: public repositories and notes on this site. Where the backing is not public, the draft says "concept only".