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, > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Some Notes: > > > > · 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. > > > > Thanks to all those that put the presentation together, it worked very well > for this presentation, and I’m sure other in the future. > > > > Thoughts on the future: > > · 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. > > · 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. > > > > Thanks again for the hard work in setting this up. > > > > Bobb > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://live.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc >
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