On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Michael Jakl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:20, Robert Burrell Donkin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Ian Holsman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Personally I think you should focus on the message of the presentation, not >>> the format, and try to make it available to as many people as possible. >>> Sadly this means PPT or PDF nowadays. >> >> in the end, binary formats are bad for collaboration since they can't >> be diff'd. PDF is a fine final format but i'd need to get annotations >> working using a FOSS editor. (if anyone clueful would like to jump in, >> that'd be great) > > What about latex-beamer[1]? It's plaintext and can be transformed into > PDF, Postscript or any other format latex supports. Though, latex > itself is also a large software package to add as a dependency.
forrest isn't exactly small either ;-) maybe we need to take a step back and think about organisation it would probably be better to separate concerns about the website from concerns about presentations i prefer to use S5 for presentations: * it's just HTML, CSS, JavaScript * no generation step required * has textual diffs which is important for community development * html should be a very low barrier to entry for apache contributors. however, a binary format is needed to upload to places like slide share and may be preferred by some readers. PDF seems like the best choice for this (to avoid issues with hetrogeneous PPT editor). contributors of talks are also likely to have it in a binary format. i think we need to split binaries from source presentations as far as web content is concerned, a CLA'd confluence would probably be the best choice since it's a very low barrier to entry. not sure whether the labs infrastructure supports it. labs seem to serve content from svn, which AIUI may not make infrastructure happy if we start using it to serve a website attracting traffic. probably need some guildance on this. > For graphs I like to use Graphviz[2] which is also plain text with > various output formats. looks cool - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
