Slides, papers, etc.

[Marc Fonvieille]

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.

> 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 at kobe-laptop which sound weird
here :)

-- 
Marc