On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Keith Lofstrom <kei...@gate.kl-ic.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:04:12AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > I am scheduled to speak at the IEEE Sustainable Technologies > > Conference at the Lloyd Center Doubletree on Thursday morning > > August 1, next week. This morning, the conference chair sent > > out an email saying that all presentations must be Powerpoint, > > And the chair, seeing my plight, has worked with me to relax the > constraints. I must make sure that I don't screw up the tight > transition to the next powerpoint presentation, but the session > chair and I are working out alternatives. > > I may be able to run my webslides from the conference laptop, > assuming that version of Firefox (or Internet Explorer) is > configured to run javascript, flash animations, and local files. > > A better alternative is me bringing my own projector, putting > it on a platform above the conference projector, and show slides > using my own laptop and cabling, while shuttering the light output > from the conference projector with a black box surrounding the > lens. I will bring a libreoffice generated PPT, one slide, > full screen black, for the conference projector. > > Hopefully, this will allow the next presenter to set up their > slides and start presenting the moment I finish with Q/A . > > I am still looking for help with the setup, just in case something > glitches the windoze machine or projector. I'm trying to contact > the AV contractor for the conference, perhaps I can pay one of > their people to hang around and fix unexpected problems. > > We still need to smash the Powerpoint monopoly, and replace bullet > point list slides with more humane and effective presentations. > But that is a long term problem to solve separately from the > environmental problems we will address at the conference this week. > > I apologise to the conference and the chair for making protest > threats and to this list for my rant. > > Keith > > What rant? You are GOOD to GO!! Marvin > -- > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug