Thread:Talk:Events/FOSDEM/2013 - DevRoom - Qgil/How to make slides easy to update and localize/reply (2)

Seeing brion's answer perhaps the best approach is... "there is an app for that!" :)

I mean:

eventually contribute improvements back.
 * HTML/CSS based presentation. The master is always available online and downloadable. A new downloadable package it is offered every month.
 * Runs locally on last stable Firefox at full screen with flexible layout for different desktop / projector resolutions.
 * Text strings are properly internationalized and handled from localization files. No need to touch HTML files for text changes. (this needs good assessment: it works for traditional application development, no idea about strings & HTML although I guess no problem with Javascript to the rescue).
 * http://translatewiki.net/ is used to maintain the original copy in English and all the translations.
 * http://github.com is used to maintain the master. Anybody can fork their own versions and.
 * GitHub can also host the online version of the master.
 * All language versions would go into a single tarball. Also the versions lite for presentations and full for online distribution.
 * The speaker selects language and lite/full version in the first page of the file, then s/he gets the right sequence of slides.

Maybe someone is doing this already...

Pros:
 * Easy to maintain text updates and translations.
 * Everybody can install the supported Firefox version for free.
 * No hassle with different resolutions with projector, etc.
 * No hassle with missing / wrong fonts.
 * Possibility to play with CSS & Javascript.
 * Possibility to embed dynamic content from the web, multimedia...
 * In case of emergency the online version is there.
 * Use of great platforms for collaboration and external contributions.

Cons:
 * Basic HTML skills needed to modify your own copy e.g. remove / add pages.
 * "GitHub" might scare some people before knowing that it's not a big deal.