I'm also a Lucene/Solr committer and have created hundreds of slides for talks and training. Mostly in Keynote or ODP format, which is the closest I get to an open format. But it is really hard to collaborate with others on updating an ODP presentation.
So my hope for this project would be to find some way to represent slides in "souce" form which could be managed in e.g. GIT. without sacrificing the ease of designing slides in a visual tool. I have been thinking about swithing to Google Slides, which are quite capable and has all the collaborative features, but then they are kind of lock-in and lack a well defined standard source form… Markdown sounds a bit too lacking in terms of graphical design options. HTML, CSS and JS on the other hand would perhaps be a natural choice? A repository of components / slides / logos / reusable graphs or sentences or paragraphs etc would be useful, so one could "include" such elements into a presentation or slide. Some of my slides include a graph or diagram that need frequent updating, such as graph of mailing list activity numbers, list of releases last 24 months etc. Let's imagine a HTML5 slide which includes a small JS snippet that fetches the data for the graph from some data source online at "build time". Then you could easily refresh your presentation :) Are you aware of any open source tooling around generating slideshow in HTML5? I mean other than exporting to HTML from Powerpoint :) -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > 24. apr. 2019 kl. 16:18 skrev Sönke Liebau > <[email protected]>: > > individual
