From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 14 18:21:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9933616A407; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:21:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B69A13C455; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:21:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236A247AFC; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:21:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:21:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Hiroki Sato In-Reply-To: <20070115.000907.32439009.hrs@allbsd.org> Message-ID: <20070114181928.U24395@fledge.watson.org> References: <20070113125711.GB16664@soaustin.net> <20070114033349.GB2734@kobe.laptop> <20070114104022.GC65886@abigail.blackend.org> <20070115.000907.32439009.hrs@allbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: linimon@lonesome.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, blackend@FreeBSD.org, wes@opensail.org, keramida@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Slides, papers, etc. X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:21:07 -0000 On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Hiroki Sato wrote: > 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. Requiring them to be converted to DocBook format is a good way to make sure no one ever submits any. :-) I'm happy to provide PDF slides for any and all presentations anyone can think to ask for them for. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge