On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Nathan Handler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently had an idea for a new art-related project. We have members of the > community giving presentations all of the time (at LoCo events, conferences, > etc). Currently, there is no Ubuntu presentation template that these users can > use. Debian has discussed this idea at DebConf in the past [1], and they have > created some great designs. I think it would be great if we could attempt to > do something similar for Ubuntu. If we do this, I think we should focus on > LaTeX Beamer and OpenOffice.org Impress, which appear to be the most popular > methods of creating presentations on Ubuntu. I wanted to know if any members > of the Art team would be interested in working on this project. I would be > glad to help in any way possible, but I am definitely not creative or > artistic enough to create a theme from scratch. I would also like to hear any > other ideas/suggestions you might have about this project. I personally think > that if we could come up with a decent template, it would greatly benefit the > Ubuntu community. > > Thanks, > Nathan Handler > > [1] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200706_debconf7_beamer/index_en.html
As a starting point, there actually already is a collection of 30 pretty amazing OO Impress templates for Ubuntu (and derivatives) made by a Nicaraguan LoCo member on SpreadUbuntu: http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/th/material/presentation/ubuntu-impress-templates-vol1 They're really well done. - Andrew -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
