[NYCBSDCon] presentations

[George Rosamond]

Patrick McEvoy:
> 
> On 11/20/13 10:03 AM, George Rosamond wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Glad you mentioned that, I wanted to offer to pre-record some canned
> video for anyone who wants it. That way we can get examples for actual
> "BSDs in Production" without having people reinventing the wheel for a
> presentation. I want to get as much of this done pre-con to smooth out
> any wrinkles ahead of time.
> Glad I kicked off this thread though. Looks like we are getting some
> good ideas.
> 
>

Cool.  Thanks for taking this on Patrick.

The more vital issue to deal with:

*  the date (as discussed in the previous dangling thread)

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