[NYCBSDCon] presentations

[George Rosamond]

Patrick McEvoy:
> I would like to ask all presenters to use the same presentation laptop.
> It would make the transitions between talks go much smoother.
> Last time we lost some momentum dealing with video sync issues. We could
> put together a laptop with multiple slide presentation programs and
> collect the talks from the presenters beforehand. It would make it
> easier to record the slides during presentations and help the con move
> smoothly.
> I would like to talk about this early as to have the presentations run
> as smoothly as possible and to solicit any additional ideas from
> presenters
> 
> 
> Presentations applications would include:
> 
> Open Office (NeoOffice if Presentation machine is a Mac)

LibreOffice is pretty much the standard now AFAIK, and it runs on OSX

> MS Office (PowerPoint)
> KeyNote (Again if Presentation machine is a Mac)
> Adobe Acrobat Reader (and additional PDF readers if requested)

MagicPoint :)

> 
> Additional:
> -Connection to the internet for Google slides and any additional online
> presentation options.
> 
> ** Please add your thoughts.

I can see the logic, but this may be hard to pull off.  What if they
want to go to console to show something?

But I guess with online HTML slides it should be fine.

We should request this from the speakers, but not sure if they'll all be ok.

g