After a comment from @paperdigits about sharing slides/resources for presenting and speaking about free software, I went ahead and created a github organization for us to upload and share slides, assets, and information that may help others present and raise awareness.
On that note, I am absolutely open for feedback/ideas/advice on organization.
At the moment there is a single repository, Presentations, where I have uploaded the slides I submitted for LGM2015 in Toronto (and that pippin delivered for the State of the Libre Graphics kickoff presentation). I will be adding my notes and work in progress for my presentation at LGM2016 about the community soon.
This actually has me wondering if we should be consolidating all of the possible opportunities we might have to attend conferences and to raise awareness into a list? I know we’ve got members all over the place - that might be able to attend, give presentations, etc… I’m just not sure how willing they’d be to actually stand up and represent.
Thanks Pat! It is amazing how on top of this you are.
I think its nice to have finished presentations archived, but I was thinking it’d also be nice to have things organized into topics, from which you can easily grab information for your slides.
I’m currently outlining my deck and will contribute to the structure of the repo. I hope you’ll find it useful. I’ll also look a bursting your presentation out into reusable chunks.
@patdavid I don’t know if you have this list elsewhere, but maybe a list of article/tutorial ideas could be kept in the README.md of the repo? We could take pull requests and let people say what they’d be interested in reading.
I was actually considering putting the entire site into a repo there, but haven’t yet. Mostly because I’m embarrassed by the code that builds the site.
On that note, I wasn’t sure if something like that made more sense as part of github, or just right here on the forums? We could technically create a post (or wiki post), that let’s people talk about the site, articles, and tutorials while staying within our own infrastructure…
You shouldn’t be embarrassed, it all works and we are using it!
Staying withing our own infrastructure makes sense. I like how boingboing.net does their article comments. You could sticky a thread about possible article topics.
@patdavid what tool are you using to generate your slides? I’d started using Pandoc’s markdown for slides, since I find pandoc to be simple and flexible. Pandoc can also output into 6 different slide fomats: S5, DZSlides, Slidy, Slideous, or reveal.js (HTML) or LaTeX Beamer (PDF). I think it’d make sense to contribute slides in the same format.
My idea was to break my final presentation down into sets of slides, so people who’d want to give talks will have something to start from.
Sorry I didn’t answer this sooner! I meant to and got sidetracked with some color stuff…
What I use depends on my mood mostly. If I’m in a rush and need something straightforward and fast I’ll use reveal.js (or throw something together on http://slides.com/).
I was using Sozi occasionally but have not in a while. However, I will often just drop into Inkscape if I want to play around a bit - particularly with typography, images, etc.
Now I’ll have to go and play with Pandoc again…
I like the idea of using a “starter” slide deck, and something like Pandoc would be great for that. I just know that folks often like to personalize their slides for their own style and tastes.
I’d personally say that assets + styleguides might be really useful too. This is a matter of taste again, of course.
I’ll see what I can come up with… And we can go from there. I’ll try and post the slide content before I present so maybe I can grab some feedback!
I was actually thinking that maybe we should compile a list of Free Software meetings worldwide that we could possibly try to at least present at? Something to start helping to raise awareness of the community in general with other advocates of free software…
Just noticed that I hadn’t made @paperdigits an owner on the github organization (now rectified).
On that note, for anyone that doesn’t know, we have a PIXLS.US github organization that hosts the website and various other neat things. If you have any questions or want to join you can bug me, or @paperdigits now…
The way I would ideally like to receive it is perhaps not suited to the tone of this forum, but seeing a list of such here would suffice A Google Calendar would be awesomer.
