[NYCBSDCon] presentations

[Patrick McEvoy]

On 11/20/13 12:59 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
> 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)
> 
> g

The later dates all work for me. For family reasons, I would prefer not
to do it any earlier.
P





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