Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:09:07 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: blackend@FreeBSD.org Cc: linimon@lonesome.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, rwatson@FreeBSD.org, keramida@FreeBSD.org, wes@opensail.org Subject: Re: Slides, papers, etc. Message-ID: <20070115.000907.32439009.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070114104022.GC65886@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20070113125711.GB16664@soaustin.net> <20070114033349.GB2734@kobe.laptop> <20070114104022.GC65886@abigail.blackend.org>
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----Security_Multipart(Mon_Jan_15_00_09_08_2007_157)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote in <20070114104022.GC65886@abigail.blackend.org>: bl> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 05:33:49AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: bl> > On 2007-01-13 06:57, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: bl> > > I know I'm too stupid to put a .pdf into the wiki. bl> > > How about the projects/ repository? bl> > bl> > I was initially toying around with the idea of an "advocacy" collection bl> > of presentations, and other material that developers and other bl> > interested people can use to promote FreeBSD. bl> > bl> > Some times, presentation material contains large "blobs" of stuff which bl> > is, essentially, not well suited for storing inside CVS though. For bl> > example, it's nice to have a collection of compressed PDF documents, but bl> > I'm not sure how well CVS can handle multiple copies, revisions and bl> > updates to these documents, without bloating the repository too much. bl> > bl> > On 2007-01-13 14:22, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote: bl> > > doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides already contains some presentations about bl> > > FreeBSD, it's possible to add more (and up to date) presentations. bl> > bl> > These are written with DocBook/XML-slides though. I haven't worked a bl> > lot with DocBook/slides, but the HTML output it generates is AFAICT very bl> > "plain". bl> > bl> > It is, nevertheless, extremely nice that the slides are in a readable, bl> > plain text format, which can be versioned, edited, reviewed, and bl> > distributed easily with CVS. We can leverage the existing network of bl> > CVSup servers to distribute copies of presentations stored in bl> > `doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides/'. We can integrate their build to our web bl> > site very easily. We can cross reference, index, and present these as bl> > part of out advocacy web site section. All these advantages are, at bl> > least for me, very important. bl> > bl> > Now, if we can find a nice way to attach a nicely designed, professional bl> > looking CSS stylesheet to these slide collections, that would be great! bl> > If we can also get someone who is experienced with DocBook/XML-slides to bl> > write up a short "Internationalization Cookbook for FreeBSD slides" bl> > tutorial, we would really have something going :) bl> > bl> bl> Maybe Murray can help a bit on this (Cced). I'm not against the fact we bl> also could use Beamer for some presentations with the advantage of a bl> very nice rendering, easy to learn, text source files, pdf rendering and bl> buildable with the current full docproj installation. On another hand I bl> know OOo can export files to DocBook but I don't know if it can be bl> directly useable in our DocBook/XML-slides environment. Well, what do you think about simply importing FreeBSD-related presentation materials into the doc tree for the moment like OpenBSD project does? I often think we should have such a collection of presentations in our web site if possible, too, but often forget the URLs or get "404 not found" if I find them. I think we can store them into doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/slides in the original format and create the "collection of presentations" page. Converting them to another format is generally difficult and it is not a good idea to force the authors to use DocBook-slides or so. -- | Hiroki SATO ----Security_Multipart(Mon_Jan_15_00_09_08_2007_157)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFqkeUTyzT2CeTzy0RAoQYAKDeLxGVcE8W6fjU1+f2uvjyN/tssgCfUqMo cqy8SUEnkqR/k36/UuF7hOw= =DFwo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Mon_Jan_15_00_09_08_2007_157)----
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