From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 14 11:08:40 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 D1BF216A407; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:08:40 +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 271CD13C46A; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:08:40 +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 43F3B48E82; Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:47:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:47:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Marc Fonvieille In-Reply-To: <20070114104022.GC65886@abigail.blackend.org> Message-ID: <20070114104554.G24395@fledge.watson.org> References: <20061113225512.GD1634@kobe.laptop> <20061128232326.T95096@fledge.watson.org> <50FF9A98-DFE9-4CF7-8760-B0AF2FE1F339@opensail.org> <20070113132216.GA59518@abigail.blackend.org> <20061113153246.J38359@fledge.watson.org> <20061113225512.GD1634@kobe.laptop> <20061128232326.T95096@fledge.watson.org> <50FF9A98-DFE9-4CF7-8760-B0AF2FE1F339@opensail.org> <20070113125711.GB16664@soaustin.net> <20070114033349.GB2734@kobe.laptop> <20070114104022.GC65886@abigail.blackend.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: developers@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Giorgos Keramidas , Mark Linimon , Wes Peters 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 11:08:41 -0000 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 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 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