From: Zak Rogoff <zak@montage.office.fsf.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:09:27 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Updating Sturmfels session description and bio.
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Updating Sturmfels session description and bio.
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diff --git a/2015/program/index.html b/2015/program/index.html
index b6ec6595..c25aaae6 100755
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+++ b/2015/program/index.html
@@ -353,20 +353,18 @@
 		<div class="session">
 			<h3>Rock your Emacs</h3>
 			<span class="label label-default">Room 32-141</span>	<span class="session-speaker"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#sturmfels">Ben Sturmfels</a></span>
-			<p>Do you love Emacs, but have never understood the strange code with lots of brackets? You're missing out on one of the great joys of Emacs — customising it to work exactly the way you want. It turns out that Emacs is little more than an interpreter for Lisp code interpreter, and once you know a little Emacs Lisp, almost anything is possible.</p>
+			<p>Do you love Emacs, but have never understood the strange code with lots of brackets? You're missing out on one of the great joys of Emacs — customizing it to work exactly the way you want. It turns out that Emacs is a full Lisp code interpreter, so once you know a little Emacs Lisp, almost anything is possible.</p>
 
-			<p>After attending this tutorial, you will know how to:</p>
-			<ul>
-				<li>make persistent customisations to your Emacs</li>
+				<p>After attending this tutorial, you will know how to:
+				<ul>
 				<li>read basic Emacs Lisp code</li>
 				<li>modify Emacs Lisp code as well as writing your own</li>
-				<li>customise behaviour for distinct modes</li>
+				<li>make persistent customizations to your Emacs</li>
 				<li>bind your favourite commands to keys</li>
-				<li>answer your own questions with the amazing documentation system</li>
+				<li>answer your own questions with the amazing help system</li>
 				<li>use built-in Emacs Lisp development tools like the debugger</li>
-				<li>write your own reusable modules for Emacs customisations</li>
 			</ul>
-			<p>This workshop will be enjoyed most if you already have a little programming experience.</p>
+				Programming experience is helpful but not required. Bring your Emacs and type along.</p>
 		</div>
 
 		<div class="session">
diff --git a/2015/program/speakers.html b/2015/program/speakers.html
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@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
 	</div>
 	<div class="col-md-10 col-sm-9 col-xs-8">
 		<h3 id="sturmfels">Ben Sturmfels</h3>
-		<p>Ben Sturmfels is a software engineer and free software activist from Ballarat, Australia. He organises Free Software Melbourne and leads the End Software Patents Australia campaign.</p>
+		<p>Ben is a software engineer and free software activist from Ballarat, Australia. He organises Free Software Melbourne, leads the End Software Patents Australia campaign, rides bikes, flies kites and grows vegetables.</p>
 	</div>
 </div>