Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:47:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: developers@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Wes Peters <wes@opensail.org> Subject: Re: Slides, papers, etc. Message-ID: <20070114104554.G24395@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20070114104022.GC65886@abigail.blackend.org> 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> <20070114104022.GC65886@abigail.blackend.org>
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On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > 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. >From the topic it sounds like we're interested in slides and papers. I seem to have some combination online at the following URLs, and when I get back from London this evening I'll flesh out the missing slides: http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/2004asiabsdcon/ http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/2004bsdcan/ http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/2004eurobsdcon/ http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/2005eurobsdcon/ http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/2006bsdcan/ http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/2006eurobsdcon/ http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/2006ukuuglisa/ Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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