On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@apache.org> wrote: > J Aaron Farr wrote: >> >> On Mon 30 Mar 2009 21:31, Steve Loughran <ste...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> This is the proposal discussed at apachecon last week for a lab >>> related to cloud stuff in Apache. Robert Burrel-Donkin is on board >>> too; I will move my slideware to this project and let him present it >>> at bar camp next week. Powerpoint will be our first deliverable. >> >> +1 to the lab. > > Is that vote going to be enough for me to start creating the SVN > directories? > >> Not sure about PowerPoint... :-) > > I can handle the move. I will put my existing PPT file for robert to start > with. > > I'd also worry more about tooling for diagrams. I've played with Dia and > Inkscape and never found either of them particularly compelling, so right > now some of my artwork is in Visio. Which I resent for various reasons > related to them removing their export-as embedded-postscript feature in a > way designed to really inconvenience anyone planning to use visio diagrams > in a book. I wasted a day bringing up an old copy of visio in a vmware > image, opening up my files in the newer version, saving them in the old > format and then reopening and exporting them in the old version. If someone > can point me at a nice way to do diagrams that works well across platform I > would be very happy indeed.
i don't know of any way to do good way to do cross-platform diagrams :-/ > who uses inkscape? i tend to use Dia, Inkscape and Gimp (unfortunately, when i start using Dia, Inkscape and Gimp, time flies...) - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org
