On this page, I collect my public/media appearances of any kind.
I do have a separate press information page with my bio in German and English, summary of my academic work and photographs to download. Drop me a line via email in order to get the URL.
Most recent updates:
- 2017-04-28: GLT17
- 2017-04-28: Ö1 Matrix (Privacy) from February
- 2019-04-29: GLT18 and GLT19
- 2020-02-20: LinuxUser 03.2020 Article
- 2020-06-17: Linux Magazine July 2020 Article
- 2021-04-10: GLT21
- 2021-12-07: PIM lecture at Graz University of Technology and talk at EmacsConf21
- 2022-04-09: GLT22 talk
- 2022-07-03: BarCamp 22
- 2022-09-09: Digital.Lebel Graz.social
- 2022-12-04: EmacsConf22
- 2023-05-07: barcamp Graz 2023
- 2023-10-20:
- Barbara Karlich Show 2023
- Podcast episodes "The Informed Life" and "Focus On Linux"
- 2023-11-05: Worklab 2023 talk and video
- 2024-02-16: 37C3 talk
Some of them are available in German language only.
2005—2010
- <2005-05-14 Sat> GLT05: Einsatz von OpenSource in der Fahrzeugentwicklung
- <2006-05-20 Sat> GLT06: Der Kulturschock - Von der TU ins Berufsleben
- <2007-05-19 Sat> GLT07: Das perfekte Tool
- <2008-04-19 Sat> GLT08: Der Kulturschock - Von der TU ins Berufsleben
- <2010-04-24 Sat> GLT10: Weltfrieden durch LaTeX
- <2010-05-26 Wed> BIS-Vortrag: "Kulturschock - Von der TU ins Berufsleben"
- <2010-10-27 Wed> BIS-Vortrag: "LaTeX fuer Weltfrieden"
2012
- <2012-01-25 Wed> BIS-Vortrag: "Von der Uni ins Berufsleben"
- <2012-04-28 Sat> GLT12: Das Leben vereinfachen mit Emacs Org-mode
<2012-05-02 Wed> Ö1 Digital.Leben: "Datenschutz mit Freedom Box" (interview on national radio)
<2012-09-09 Sun 22:30> Ö1 Matrix: "Open Science" (interview on national radio)
- <2012-12-16 Sun> Die Presse: "Zielsichere Suche nach Dateien" (Dissertation der Woche; national newspaper)
2013
<2013-01-08 Tue 16:55> Ö1 Digital.Leben: interview on national radio on Personal Information Management (together with William Jones)
<2013-04-04 Thu> paper: What really happened on September 15th 2008? Getting The Most from Your Personal Information with Memacs
<2013-04-20 Sat> GLT13: A day in a life with Org-mode … (YouTube)
- <2013-11-27 Wed> BIS-Vortrag: Von der TU ins Berufsleben
- <2013-12-05 Thu> Podiumsdiskussion: Zwischen Datenmaßlosigkeit und Speicherdiät: Ein mur.at Streitgespräch zwischen Karl Voit und Heinz Wittenbrink
2014
- <2014-02-18 Tue> Open Science Podcast: Open Science in der Praxis (German)
- <2014-04-05> GLT14: Org-mode: All Questions Answered (YouTube)
- <2014-12-03 Wed> Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua
2015
- <2015-04-18 Sat> BarCamp Graz 2015: Session about a life without the cloud
- <2015-04-19 Sun> BarCamp Graz 2015: Session about my DIY digital photo management (Video-appearance until 1:07)
- <2015-04-25 Sat> GLT15: Linuxdays Graz 2015
- How to digitize your paper life (a German talk about this, video online)
- Company-talk about usability (for infonova)
- lazyblorg - blogging for lazy people (lightning-talk about lazyblorg)
- <2015-08-14 Fri> CCC Camp 2015: Lightning Talk about Emacs/Org-mode (starting at approximately 1h14min)
2016
- <2016-04-29 Fri>-<2016-04-30 Sat> GLT16: Linuxdays Graz 2016
- Org-mode: Einsteigerworkshop (German workshop for Org-mode beginners)
- Warum
freie Software? (German motivation talk to use free and open source
software)
- I was interviewed by Claudio Schiesl on this topic as well
- <2016-11-29 Tue> Digitaldialog zum Thema Privacy (2022-07-03: URL is gone; WayBackMachine has no backup of it): German talk and panel discussion
2017
- <2017-02-12 Sun> Ö1 Matrix: Tricks der Onlinebetrüger (German radio interview about privacy)
- <2017-04-28 Fri>-<2017-04-29 Sat> GLT17: Linuxdays Graz 2017
- GNU/Emacs for Beginners (German workshop)
- Digital Self-Defense in Times of the Cloud (German talk)
2018
- <2018-04-27 Fri> Feinstaubsensor Workshop at Linuxdays Graz 2018
- <2018-04-28 Sat> Talk: The Advantages of File Name Conventions and Tagging at Linuxdays Graz 2018
- <2018-12-29 Sat> 35C3: demo on Emacs Org mode (announcement)
2019
- <2019-04-27 Sat> Talk: How Do I Profit from Free and Open Source Software? at Linuxdays Graz 2019
2020
- <2020-02-20 Thu> LinuxUser
03.2020 Article (German):
- Semantisches Tagging erleichtert das Dateimanagement: Am Namen sollt Ihr sie erkennen
- A german version of my blog article on my file management method suitable for the general end-user.
- <2020-06-17 Wed> The
Linux Magazine features my
file-management article in its July 2020
issue
- My article is even the main headline on the title page ;-)
2021
- <2021-04-10 Sat> Emacs Org mode Features You May Not Know at Linuxdays Graz 2021
- <2021-11-27 Sat> Talk at EmacsConf 2021: The use of Org mode
syntax outside of GNU/Emacs - the go-life of Orgdown
- Video, Q&A Video, transcript, IRC comments
- My local PeerTube copy of the video
- My blog article on the same topic: Orgdown - a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text Documents
- Initial feedback on the project: Orgdown - the Interesting Feedback Phase so Far
2022
<2022-04-23 Sat> Talk: "Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit, HN, …" at Linuxdays Graz 2022
- Based on my blog article: Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit
- Watch the videos on the pages of the CCC as well as on YT (45min)
<2022-07-02 Sat> Barcamp Graz 2022: a motivation/demo session on PIM with the example of my personal GNU Emacs Org-mode setup. Read this article for shownotes and further links.
<2022-09-06 Tue> Ö1 Digital.Leben: Alternatives Vernetzen mit „Graz.Social“ (interview on national radio)
- via Podcastaddict
- "Die Initiative „Graz.Social“ möchte eine Alternative zu den kommerziellen Sozialen Netzwerken Facebook, Instagram und Twitter bieten."
<2022-10-21 Fri 09:00-13:00> "E-Mails, Dateien, Ordner: Tipps und Methoden zur Erleichterung Ihres digitalen Alltags"
- Course for Sprachen, Schlüsselkompetenzen und Interne Weiterbildung - TU Graz (Graz University of Technology)
- 14 attendendees of various backgrounds
- Content
- General mind-set to improve his/her PIM processes
- How to write and organize e-mails in an efficient way
- How to name files and folders for optimized management and retrieval tasks
<2022-12-04 Sun> Demo at EmacsConf 2022: Linking headings (poor-man's Zettelkasten) and defining advanced task dependencies
- Video, Q&A Video, transcript, IRC comments
- My local PeerTube copy of the video
- My blog article on the same topic: UOMF: Linking Headings With org-super-links (Poor-Man's Zettelkasten)
2023
- <2023-05-06 Sat> "Best Session Award for DEV" at barcamp Graz 2023
- An ad-lib session on authentication, 2FA, FIDO2, … (Based on Tipps zur Passwortsicherheit and Wie man eine vertrauenswürdige Authentifizierungs-App auswählt)
- <2023-06-23 Fri> mur.at Worklab 2023: invited
talk "The Art of Organizing Yourself and Your Data"
- Part of the session "Desire to collect - Tools & Roadmap"
- Talk was recorded (44min)
- More on the content of this talk in my blog article about it.
- <2023-10-22 Sun> guest on the podcast "The Informed Life" by Jorge Arango: Karl Voit on Org Mode – The Informed Life
- <2023-11-10 Fri> guest on the German podcast Focus On Linux about GNU Emacs and Org-mode.
- <2023-11-20 Mon> I've been invited guest at the Barbara Karlich Show
- It's the most widely seen talk show on the national TV in Austria.
- I talked about some PIM topics in order to make people interested. However, there were "more interesting things" as well which probably distracted the viewers. ;-)
- <2023-12-28 Thu> Don't
Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit, HN, facebook,
… at 37C3
by CCC in Hamburg.
- No recording but the slides were more or less the same as those from this talk.
Further more ...
- 2002–2013: co-founder and major contributions to LaTeX@TUG
- misc sessions at Bar Camps in Graz and Vienna
2009–2012: misc scientific papers on the topic of Personal Information Management:
starting with 2010: Misc contributions on http://orgmode.org/worg/ (Emacs Org-mode related)
<2014-10-31 Fri> two photographs of mine were selected out of 356 to be on BearingPoint calendars 2015
- 2014–2021: lector at the St.
Pölten University of Applied Sciences for "Fundamentals in
Personalized Healthcare Devices"
- Basically, it's a standard Personal Information Management (PIM) lecture with some minor specialization on health-related topics.
- This is much fun to me and I get very positive feedback from the students there.
- 2021–2022: lector at the Graz
University of Technology for Personal Information Management
(PIM): "Basics of Personal Information Management: The Efficient
Knowledge Worker (716.234)"
- Motivation article: Join my PIM Lecture at TU Graz
- Watch my promo video
- TU Graz Online page
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