Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:40:22 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: developers@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Wes Peters <wes@opensail.org> Subject: Re: Slides, papers, etc. Message-ID: <20070114104022.GC65886@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20070114033349.GB2734@kobe.laptop> References: <20061113225512.GD1634@kobe.laptop> <20061128232326.T95096@fledge.watson.org> <50FF9A98-DFE9-4CF7-8760-B0AF2FE1F339@opensail.org> <20070113132216.GA59518@abigail.blackend.org> <20061113153246.J38359@fledge.watson.org> <20061113225512.GD1634@kobe.laptop> <20061128232326.T95096@fledge.watson.org> <50FF9A98-DFE9-4CF7-8760-B0AF2FE1F339@opensail.org> <20070113125711.GB16664@soaustin.net> <20070114033349.GB2734@kobe.laptop>
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 05:33:49AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-01-13 06:57, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > > I know I'm too stupid to put a .pdf into the wiki. > > How about the projects/ repository? > > I was initially toying around with the idea of an "advocacy" collection > of presentations, and other material that developers and other > interested people can use to promote FreeBSD. > > Some times, presentation material contains large "blobs" of stuff which > is, essentially, not well suited for storing inside CVS though. For > example, it's nice to have a collection of compressed PDF documents, but > I'm not sure how well CVS can handle multiple copies, revisions and > updates to these documents, without bloating the repository too much. > > On 2007-01-13 14:22, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: > > doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides already contains some presentations about > > FreeBSD, it's possible to add more (and up to date) presentations. > > These are written with DocBook/XML-slides though. I haven't worked a > lot with DocBook/slides, but the HTML output it generates is AFAICT very > "plain". > > It is, nevertheless, extremely nice that the slides are in a readable, > plain text format, which can be versioned, edited, reviewed, and > distributed easily with CVS. We can leverage the existing network of > CVSup servers to distribute copies of presentations stored in > `doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/'. We can integrate their build to our web > site very easily. We can cross reference, index, and present these as > part of out advocacy web site section. All these advantages are, at > least for me, very important. > > Now, if we can find a nice way to attach a nicely designed, professional > looking CSS stylesheet to these slide collections, that would be great! > If we can also get someone who is experienced with DocBook/XML-slides to > write up a short "Internationalization Cookbook for FreeBSD slides" > tutorial, we would really have something going :) > Maybe Murray can help a bit on this (Cced). I'm not against the fact we also could use Beamer for some presentations with the advantage of a very nice rendering, easy to learn, text source files, pdf rendering and buildable with the current full docproj installation. On another hand I know OOo can export files to DocBook but I don't know if it can be directly useable in our DocBook/XML-slides environment. > IMHO, this is something that should be discussed on freebsd-doc, so I've > taken the liberty to set Mail-Followup-To. > Re-set cause I see a Cc to freebsd-doc@kobe-laptop which sound weird here :) -- Marc
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