I just looked at this for the first time and I thought it was an excellent ppt, only wish there was a video of the actual presentation.
- Jeff On May 26, 2005, at 9:27 PM, Ryan McCain wrote: > Maybe some of these responses are coming late. I did the presentation > today.. Here is the final presentation I used. I looks MUCH better in > OpenOffice than it does PowerPoint. Pls. do not distribute this. I am > working with my companies legal dept. to get this licensed under the > GFDL. > > Otherwise, the presentation went great. We had all the right people > in the room who can get the open source movement started within the > company. I also plugged BRLUG. :) > > www.jordanmayer.net/oss/OpenSource_NG.ppt > www.jordanmayer.net/oss/OpenSource_NG.sxi > > Now that this is done I can start to focus on > opensourcepresentations.com .. Anyone interested in helping out? > > Ryan > > > -------------------------------------- > > Ryan McCain > Northrop Grumman Corporation > Linux System Administrator 3 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: 225.219.0556 > Fax: 225.219.0540 > > Registered Linux User #364609 >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/26/05 1:02 PM >>> > I also agree, the rule of thumb is four points per slide. I admit > that I > violated the rules myself for slide 3, open source history, which has > SIX big > bullets and sub bullets. Looking at it again, I'd move the "free" > "open > source" bullet out to a separate slide called terminology with > "freeware" and > "shareware" also on it. This does not have to result in something > that's > dumbed down and content free. > > Notes are where you put all the details. They remind you of what you > wanted > to say, make the presentation intelligible later and give you a place > to > write down good audience questions and other feedback. They should > also be > trimmed down for legibility much more than I made the notes to slide 3. > > Iterations take out the excess. The more you give the presentation, > the more > feedback you get and the more you realize exactly what you are trying > to say > and exactly what words get the point across. > > Open Office, by the way, does a great job of exporting presentations > to html. > Notes are exported by Open Office's html writer, which also makes > index and > navigation frames. If you have named your slides, you get a the index > is > easy to follow and your readers can jump to the point they want. > Medium and > high quality exports look great. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
