Clippings

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 of the last years:
  • 2024-02-16: 37C3 talk
  • 2024-05-23: BarCamp Graz, PIM lecture TUG WS2024
  • 2024-09-15: my three contributions to: Håck ma's 2024
  • 2024-12-16: added my PIM lectures
  • 2025-05-02: GLT25 talk
  • 2025-05-19: barcamp Graz 2025
  • 2025-09-07: Lispy gopher climate technology live podcast
  • 2025-09-17: Podcast "Captain it's Wednesday" about Orgdown
  • 2025-12-14: Brief interview related to the new train tracks between Graz and Klagenfurt
  • 2026-04-11: GLT26 contributions
  • 2026-05-30: barcamp Graz 2026
  • 2026-08-23: FLUG-talks, Hack ma's, OpenGLAM
  • 2026-10-15: Better formatting as well as new figures for "Reach of Karl-Voit.at"

Some of them are available in German language only.

• <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"

• <2012-01-25 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)

• <2013-01-08 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

• <2014-02-18 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

• <2015-04-18 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 (my part starting at approximately 1h14min)

• <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
  • Einladung (PDF)

• <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)
    • German video on YouTube

• <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
  • Video recording of the talk
  • Long blog article on this topic with more links
• <2018-12-29 Sat> 35C3: demo on Emacs Org mode (announcement)
  • Shownotes

• <2019-04-27 Sat> Talk: How Do I Profit from Free and Open Source Software? at Linuxdays Graz 2019
  • Video recording of the talk
  • My blog post about it

• <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 ;-)

• <2021-04-10 Sat> Emacs Org mode Features You May Not Know at Linuxdays Graz 2021
  • By blog post about it
• fall semester: I conducted a lecture at the IST of the Graz University of Technology:
  • Basics of Personal Information Management: The Efficient Knowledge Worker (716.234)
  • See my motivation article: Join my PIM Lecture at TU Graz WS2021
• <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

• <2022-04-23 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)

• <2023-05-06 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

• <2023-05-17 Wed> German talk (and discussion) for Freiburger Linux User Group: "Der Einstieg in GNU Emacs und Org-mode"

• <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

  • Jorge interviewed me on topics related to GNU Emacs and Org-mode.

• <2023-11-10 Fri> guest on the German podcast Focus On Linux about GNU Emacs and Org-mode.

  • Episode 70: "Emacspinky"

• <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.

• <2024-04-27 Sat> Three sessions at barcamp Graz 2024:
  • Stop reading the News(?) (discussion)
  • How to Use Tags (ad-hoc talk)
  • Stop using Twitter/Insta/… (together with Heinz Wittenbrink)
• Håck ma's 2024: This was the first iteration of a new Austrian CCC Camp event in a very cool country-side castle, organized by various hackerspaces from Austria.
  1. <2024-08-29 Thu> "Praxistipps zur sicheren Authentifikation" (German)
     • An ad-lib session on authentication, 2FA, FIDO2, …
     • Based on Tipps zur Passwortsicherheit and Wie man eine vertrauenswürdige Authentifizierungs-App auswählt
     • Event page of that slot
     • Recording on media.ccc
  2. <2024-08-30 Fri> "Dateimanagement mal anders" (German)
     • An ad-lib introduction with a live-demo of my file management method and its tools from that article.
     • Event page of that slot
     • Recording on media.ccc
  3. <2024-08-31 Sat> "Sich und seine Daten (mit Org-mode) organisieren" (German)
     • An ad-lib introduction with a (way too short) live-demo of some personal workflows with Org-mode.
     • Event page of that slot with a very verbose link-list with my articles for that topic.
     • Unfortunately, the Recording was not published somehow.
• fall semester: I conducted a lecture at the IST of the Graz University of Technology:
  • Basics of Personal Information Management: The Efficient Knowledge Worker (716.234)
  • See my motivation article: Join my PIM Lecture at TU Graz WS2024

• <2025-04-26 Sat> Lightning talk on Managing Network Devices via Org-mode Table and OpenWRT Router at Linuxdays Graz 2025

  • Talk description (for the whole session)
  • Video recordings of the talk: media.ccc.de, YouTube

• <2025-05-17 Sat> A 45" session at barcamp Graz 2025 together with René: (no recording)

  • Going off-cloud + reducing dependencies to US-based services and mega-corps

• <2025-06-14 Sat> Fedicamp Graz

  • Das erste Grazer Fedicamp

• <2025-09-07 Sun> I was interviewed on Org-mode, Orgdown, Markdown, PIM, … on the Lispy gopher climate technology live podcast by Kent Pitman (1h13min)

• <2025-09-17 Wed> Another podcast interview: this time in German for episode 151 of the "Captain it's Wednesday" podcast.

  • Topic: Markdown and Orgdown (related to my article on Mastodon; 38min)

• <2025-11-19 Wed> German talk (and discussion) for Freiburger Linux User Group: "Persönliches Dateimanagement - Motivation, Praxistipps, Fragen und hoffentlich hilfreiche Antworten ;-)"

  • Slides
  • Vortragsnotizen

• <2025-12-14 Sun> Bereits 10.000 Fahrgäste: Rekordstart auf der Koralmbahn (German)

  • I've been interviewed briefly by the Kleine Zeitung as a random bypasser.
  • My interview is also featured in the small video attached to the article.

• https://glt26.linuxtage.at/

1. <2026-04-10 Fri> My Emacs and Org-mode Workshops at the GLT26 (no recordings)
   • Approximately 50 persons attended the four hour tour-de-force through Emacs basics, Org-mode basics and lots of demos to get your brains started on becoming creative about your own workflows. What a fun that was!
2. <2026-04-11 Sat> 2 lightning talks of about 5 minutes about chezmoi (dotfile management) and separating multiple users on the same computer through Linux user management.
   • Session information including slides
   • Recordings: media.ccc.de or YT

• <2026-05-30 Sat> Three sessions at #bcg26 - barcamp Graz 2026 (no recordings)

1. How to choose the right tool for your use-case?
   • based on How to Choose a Tool
2. How can we fix the issues with Social Networks?
   • Motivation and explanations around Fediverse, Mastodon and social media
3. How to find cool user groups in Graz to share knowledge and fun during the year
   • the brainstorming resulted in following addresses and special interest groups:
     • Lists of communities
       • https://doku.realraum.at/
       • https://www.linuxtage.at/de/community/
       • https://nerdkulturgraz.at/
       • https://events.graz.social/search?contentType=EVENTS&eventPage=1&sortBy=START_TIME_ASC&when=any
       • https://www.linuxtage.at/de/contact/ → Matrix-Channel for community stuff: https://matrix.to/#/!LBo2xbsxwh5YCVmP8-MDLPSZeWTYHAXsQihLrzyt1cU
       • City of Graz: "Meet the Meetups" → https://www.graz.at/cms/beitrag/10424881/7708470/
       • Graz geht voraus: https://grass-city-eeb.notion.site/90d2660a931c4ebca4fad7771518a77d?v=6ee12cb38d6d43b29c40db13f90f0bcd
       • https://gemeinsam.jetzt/initiative/
     • MISC additional groups
       • PV + energy: https://graz.social/@energiewende + https://events.graz.social/@energiewende_graz
       • https://www.oebm.at/
       • https://kometin.at/ (venue like Spektral)
       • UX: https://www.meetup.com/uxgraz/
       • Frontenddesign: https://www.meetup.com/frontend-graz/
       • https://kommunity.com/

• 2026-08: Håck ma's!:

  1. <2026-08-27 Thu> "Fediverse, Mastodon, graz.social (unsere Instanz)"
     • German: motivation and support for first steps in the Fediverse
     • My first talk to get live translated - and it's sign language! :-)
     • Recording: CCC-server and YouTube
  2. <2026-08-28 Fri> "Basics of Personal Information Management: Finding the best tool(s)"
     • Recording on CCC server and YouTube
  3. <2026-08-29 Sat> "How to use Fediverse Hashtags as a comment solution for blogs"
     • Recording: CCC-server and YouTube

• <2026-09-16 Wed> German talk (and discussion) for Freiburger Linux User Group: "Basics of Personal Information Management: Finding the best tool(s)"

• <2026-09-24 Thu> German keynote of OpenGLAM Kulturhackathon 2026 "Das richtige Werkzeug für die jeweilige Aufgabe finden"

  • Recording: OpenGLAM.at - Cultural Hackathon 2026 (starting with 1h42min)

• My programming projects are hosted on

  • GitHub: oldest projects
  • GitLab: mid-period projects
  • CodeFlow: newer projects and current go-to for me

• 2002–2013: co-founder and major contributions to LaTeX@TUG where we provided tutorials for learning the LaTeX typesetting environment.

• misc sessions at Bar Camps in Graz and Vienna

• 2009–2012: misc scientific papers on the topic of Personal Information Management:

  • tagstore > papers (Project page)
  • my papers on Google Scholar
  • my papers on dblp (Universität Trier, Schloss Dagstuhl)

• 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 and 2024/2025: lector at the Graz University of Technology for Personal Information Management (PIM): "Basics of Personal Information Management: The Efficient Knowledge Worker (716.234)"
  • Motivation articles:
    • Join my PIM Lecture at TU Graz WS2021
    • Join my PIM Lecture at TU Graz WS2024
  • Watch my promo video
  • TU Graz Online page
• starting with 2023: Lector at Technical University of Leoben
  • Organizational Security/Security Management
  • Risk Management and IT-Grundschutz
• <2023-10-18 Wed> managing director for a newly funded non-profit association: "graz.social - Association for the Promotion of Ethical Digital Culture"
  • https://info.graz.social/ → general German information
    • We're providing free services as well as information on free/distibuted services like Fediverse/Mastodon.
  • https://info.graz.social/verein/ → German information about the association

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