Re: [Edu-sig] Writing presentation manager for OSCON, in Pygame

2005-07-18 Thread Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra
[ Kirby Urner ] | Interesting work Rodrigo. Thank you. By the way, I hope you have found your missing coat. (I was the one giving speech right after yours at Goteborg ;o) | My setup code is not so friendly. It is friendly enough

Re: [Edu-sig] Writing presentation manager for OSCON, in Pygame

2005-07-18 Thread Kirby Urner
> roadmap = _(""" > This speech talks about > === > > * How **big** is the Brazilian Python Community (BPC) ? > * How **fast** does it grow ? > * First Conference **PyConBrasil** held April 2005 > * Who's **Who** > * What are we doing with Python, Zope and Plone

Re: [Edu-sig] Writing presentation manager for OSCON, in Pygame

2005-07-18 Thread Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra
[ John Zelle ] | I've just begun working on a very similar | project. I'm using PyQT (it's a learning project) rather than PyGame. I | agree with the "programming" slides approach, but I've been around and | around on the API, an

Re: [Edu-sig] Writing presentation manager for OSCON, in Pygame

2005-07-18 Thread Kirby Urner
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Guido van Rossum > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:05 PM > To: Dethe Elza > Cc: edu-sig@python.org; Kirby Urner > Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Writing presentation manager for OSCON, in Pygame > > At EuroPython I saw several PyGame-based

Re: [Edu-sig] Writing presentation manager for OSCON, in Pygame

2005-07-18 Thread John Zelle
Kirby, Is there any chance I could talk you into posting some of your code sooner, or at least an example of how the code to define a simple presentation might look? I've just begun working on a very similar project. I'm using PyQT (it's a learning project) rather than PyGame. I agree with the

Re: [Edu-sig] Writing presentation manager for OSCON, in Pygame

2005-07-18 Thread Dethe Elza
Best wishes on your presentation, Kirby! At the Vancouver Python Conference last year, Paul Prescod joked that I was the only one writing my own presentation software. I also used PyGame, but in my case each "slide" was a mini-game (or game-in- progress). I'll note that it was the last tim

[Edu-sig] Writing presentation manager for OSCON, in Pygame

2005-07-18 Thread Kirby Urner
Sort of relevant to the queries below, I'm developing source materials for my upcoming presentation at OSCON 2005. I've determined that using closed source presentation software i.e. PowerPoint, would not be appropriate to this venue (smart me, huh?), and furthermore, using Impress or other OpenO

Re: [Edu-sig] Writing presentation manager for OSCON, in Pygame

2005-07-18 Thread Guido van Rossum
At EuroPython I saw several PyGame-based presentations. Armin Rigo has been doing this for years and with impressive results (visualizing Greenlets for example). But the best one I saw was Gustavo Niemeyer's Solving Puzzles with Python: http://www.python-in-business.org/ep2005/talk.chtml?talk=1194&