Slides, papers, etc.

[Robert Watson]

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 at 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 at 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