[Live-demo] Maintaining and translating the OSGeo-Live presentation

Jody Garnett jody.garnett at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 17:10:16 PDT 2012


Here are some examples: 
- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxjp.themes.htmlslide 
- http://yergler.net/blog/2012/03/13/hieroglyph/

Andrea what do you use to make your rich structured text slides?

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Jody Garnett


On Saturday, 27 October 2012 at 7:20 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Missing an obvious option - use sphinx ( just like docs ) and have it
> generate a PDF slide show. Moovida does this for his presentations.
> 
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> Jody Garnett
> 
> On 26/10/2012, at 7:06 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com (mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com)> wrote:
> 
> > On 26/10/12 19:42, Luca Delucchi wrote:
> > > I would like to translate to italian the presentation but it's an hard
> > > work, someone can help me to understand how to compile it?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Luca,
> > To date, I've been keeping the text for the OSGeo-Live presentation separate, in osgeolive_taster_script.txt
> > 
> > However, Barry has been mentioning some ideas which make sense about decompressing the openoffice file (which apparently is just a zip file), and us maintaining (and translating) the notes page instead.
> > 
> > Barry,
> > Would you like to weigh in on this?
> > I think you mentioned something about using stylesheets to create HTML versions of the docs as well.
> > 
> > Jorge has copy the slides over into another fancy html format at:
> > http://jorgesanz.net/slides-201209-geocamp
> > I wonder whether if would be possible to use stylesheets or similar to create this type of format?
> > 
> > I've seen other formats too. Roald trialled using prezi:
> > http://prezi.com/ooulyho8ydqx/osgeo-live/
> > 
> > So my underlying question to everyone is: "Should we improve how to store our OSGeo-Live presentation"
> > 
> > I think our selection criteria is something like:
> > 1. Documentation is easy to maintain and we can easily track small changes. (Ie text rather than commits to subversion)
> > 2. It is easy to create a translation of the text. This probably means a separate file for text, so the text can be translated.
> > 3. It can be stored in a format that is readily available at conference venues, and can be used offline
> > 4. Optionally can be translated to other presentation formats - eg PDF, HTML, ...
> > 
> > 
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