[TriLUG] Presentation software for TriLUG meetings

[Jack Hill]

Oops, didn't mean to send this yet.

On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Jack Hill wrote:

>
> I use latex class beamer <http://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home> for 
> my presentations. I'm not sure if this counts as lightweight (I can use my 
> editor to create it) or heavyweight because the output is pdf (a quick 
> internet search didn't find any conversion to html, although that does sound 
> like a fun project ☺). I usuallygive presentations using okular, however 
> impressive <http://impressive.sourceforge.net/> is a Python wrapper around 
> Xpdf or GhostScript that has some shiny features.

I would be happy to collaborate on a TriLUG theme although this probably 
wouldn't be that useful unless people start giving TriLUG presentations 
outside of the group.

If you're looking for traditional GUI presentation creator, look at 
Calligra Stage <http://www.calligra.org/stage/>. I believe that they have 
been doing work on themes, in particular so that a theme can be shared (to 
the extent that that makes sense) between the presentation and the 
word-processed notes written in Calligra Words.

Tangent: for people who need to create research posters, there is also 
beamerposter.

Jack