Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
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 Lab's confluence wiki, see
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/labs/Home
Bernd
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