Hi Sri, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > I've written most of the presentation, but I would like some suggestions > to improve it. I'll be presenting it at Northwest Linuxfest this Saturday.
Thanks! Keep us posted how it goes. First impressions are that the content is great, but needs to be more graphic & less wordy. I'd spread the whole thing out. Slides 3 & 4 are too wordy to me, and could potentially be split over 10 slides: (Slide #: text: image) 3: 2008 hackfest: photo maybe? http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/gnome-ux-hackfest-photos/ for example 4: Design & user experience: Early mock-up(s) from wiki/pencil drawings ideal - one candidate: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mairin/4384751226/ Another source: http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf Another: http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/26/let-the-wild-rumpus-begin/ 5: Release: Screenshot/video from http://gnome3.org/ 6: Design principles: Something "designy" from Google Images (like Charles de Gaulle airport maybe? http://www.flickr.com/photos/62904109@N00/2801145645/) 7: Clutter/distraction free: Screenshot of shell 8: Task focussed: Workspace switch screenshot (talk about Hamster "workspace to task" feature!) 9: Document centric: Some kind of screenshot to show what this means - perhaps something from Federico's 2008 GUADEC presentation 10: Revamp platform: No good ideas for an image here. Talk about API/ABI, GTK+ revamp & GObject introspection, fewer dependencies, consistent interfaces, etc. You can then take the audience through a slideshow of screenshots pointing out key features - I'd point to the revamped control center too, even though it's still in progress (worth pointing out too). And finally I'd replace slide 9 with some screenshots of core apps that are ported to GNOME 3 or have been included as "featured apps" - Shotwell, Totem, Rhythmbox, Simple Scan: http://www.gnome.org/applications/ This is also the opportunity to explain the revamping of the release sets. Hope this is the kind of feedback you were hoping for! Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
