On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 01:59:48 +0800, Pratibha wrote:
>Has anyone made or does anyone have or know of slides that can >be re-used by others in introducing/motivating open source >to non-technical people. Preferably done in something like >StarOffice, otherwise what credibility would you have if >you use PowerPoint to make your pitch. >Possible/example audience could be officeworkers who you are >transitioning to open source on the desktop. Presentation >would give some context, explain a little what OSS is about, >why, who is using it, show adoption trends, etc. >I would rather re-use someone else's existing slides (if >generic enough), rather than spend time reinventing the wheel. >After all, that is what open source is about...re-using >existing slides, right? There should be some slides made by PLUG people that were used in the previous LinuxX (X<=10) conferences. I've seen a real good presentation made by a certain N.Deepak (foreigner). It's a PowerPoint presentation (why? his reason goes: "I made this for Windows users, and not for Linuxers - they know most of what the presentation tells them.") but it really looks pretty good for the non-technical people. You can check it out at http://www.geocities.com/netmaniac00/. it's freely distributable. I don't see anything wrong using PowerPoint presentations if you'll run the presentation on Windows machines. StarOffice or OpenOffice is still tad slow for those with ungifted machines, and starts up slow even with gifted machines. But if you'll use a Linux box... anyway you can edit .ppt presentations in SO/OO then save it as .sdd... Paolo Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
