On 31/10/2014 3:10 am, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
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.
Great, I've added a note to our history page
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History#28_November_2014.2C_Illinois_State_GIS_Association_Annual_Conference
Feel free to update it.
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.
I have recently gone through and fixed this. You can check latest
version here:
http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/presentation/index.html#/
· 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.
On the first slide, there is a note "press s for slide notes", which
brings up a second browser page of notes. The idea is to have a 2nd
computer running with the notes (like powerpoint).
Maybe we should work out how someone can print the notes on paper.
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
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