On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 22:37:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/20/2016 12:53 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
Is there a official presentation template for Dconf 2016? If
not it would be
greate if someone could create one. Many programmers (me
included) are not good
with picking colors and thus presentations usually don't look
as good as they
could.
I found this book helpful:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071636080
once you get past the click-baity title. It's well worth the
$2.50 investment, and a quick read. Even if you only get one
good idea out of it, it's worth while.
I haven't decided on what my presentation will look like yet, but
I'll be roughly following the tips here:
https://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/ It
isn't perfectly applicable to a completely-technical
presentation, but the general tips are quite useful (large fonts,
easy-to-parse layout, and supporting the presentation rather than
_being_ the presentation).
