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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:21:04 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        linimon@lonesome.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, blackend@FreeBSD.org, wes@opensail.org, keramida@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Slides, papers, etc.
Message-ID:  <20070114181928.U24395@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070115.000907.32439009.hrs@allbsd.org>
References:  <20070113125711.GB16664@soaustin.net> <20070114033349.GB2734@kobe.laptop> <20070114104022.GC65886@abigail.blackend.org> <20070115.000907.32439009.hrs@allbsd.org>

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On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Hiroki Sato wrote:

> bl> Maybe Murray can help a bit on this (Cced).  I'm not against the fact we
> bl> also could use Beamer for some presentations with the advantage of a
> bl> very nice rendering, easy to learn, text source files, pdf rendering and
> bl> buildable with the current full docproj installation.  On another hand I
> bl> know OOo can export files to DocBook but I don't know if it can be
> bl> directly useable in our DocBook/XML-slides environment.
>
> Well, what do you think about simply importing FreeBSD-related presentation 
> materials into the doc tree for the moment like OpenBSD project does?  I 
> often think we should have such a collection of presentations in our web 
> site if possible, too, but often forget the URLs or get "404 not found" if I 
> find them.
>
> I think we can store them into doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides in the original 
> format and create the "collection of presentations" page. Converting them to 
> another format is generally difficult and it is not a good idea to force the 
> authors to use DocBook-slides or so.

Requiring them to be converted to DocBook format is a good way to make sure no 
one ever submits any.  :-)  I'm happy to provide PDF slides for any and all 
presentations anyone can think to ask for them for.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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