Thanks for the update and your efforts advocating.

Cheers!

--
Jorge Sanz
http://jorgesanz.net

Sent from my tablet, sorry for my brevity, top posting, etc.
El 30/10/2014 17:11, "Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)" <[email protected]>
escribió:

>  All,
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> Just a short note to the list about a Presentation I did this past Tues at 
> the Illinois State GIS Association Annual Conference in Chicago.
>
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> The presentation went over very well.  There were a number of walkup folks 
> with questions afterwards.  We also handed out 23 USBs with the Live Demo 
> Installed to folks interested in trying it out.
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>
>
> The Open Source presence at this conference was very light and mention of 
> Open Source, while it existed was minimal.  Our group presented two other 
> presentations related to Open Source that were also very well attended as 
> well.
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> Some Notes:
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> ·          This was the first time I used the REAVEL.JS presentation, it 
> worked rather well, and I used this as tool to hook the audiences’ attention 
> early on by describing how it worked and how they could start using it 
> themselves.
>
> ·          A few of the project Icons on the pages were bad links, I had 
> planned on going in and fixing them beforehand, but never ended up with time 
> to do it.  I did look at the code and it looks like it might have been 
> generated with some sort of script.  Maybe re-running it is in order.
>
> ·          There were a few of the project Icons that displayed larger than 
> others, and pushed some of the other Icons off screen somewhat.
>
> ·          As a presenter not knowing the details about each and every 
> projects capabilities, I would have liked to have had a one-line description 
> on each project slide about its capabilities.  I did see in the code 
> something called presentation notes that looked to contain some of this type 
> of information, but I never did figure out how to display this during the 
> presentation, probably something easy to do, though, that I just don’t know 
> about.
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> Thanks to all those that put the presentation together, it worked very well 
> for this presentation, and I’m sure other in the future.
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> Thoughts on the future:
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> ·          I have a couple of other conferences coming up locally that I may 
> decide to present at, I may be able to put some time into fixing some of the 
> notes items about before then.
>
> ·          I wondered about setting up more of a branding mechanism in the 
> presentation with regard to the background, etc.  Might be nice to package 
> the reveal.js package with simple instructions on how a sponsoring 
> organization might insert their own logo into the presentation easily, I had 
> to go into the code to figure it out for example.
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> ·          Ok, this one might be better mentioned after I have created one, 
> but I wonder about setting one or two of these reveal presentation up for 
> each project to replace the Quickstarts and Overviews for each project, even 
> going so far as to say that they need to be in place by some point in the 
> future.
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> Thanks again for the hard work in setting this up.
>
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> Bobb
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