Topic on Talk:Events/FOSDEM/2013 - DevRoom - Qgil

Some principles thinking in the need to produce a presentation others can translate / update / extend:

• Less text = easier to translate.
• Some numbers are good: technical audience likes them; no L10n hassle.
• Too many numbers are bad: difficult to keep up with updates.
• Links are good: there is always a wiki page with more info.
• Pictures are good: we have plenty & shareable in Commons.
• Diagrams are good: publishing the sources to update or derive new ones.
• Very personal artwork is bad: difficult to evolve when the author is gone.

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• we excluded the sketch-style for the last reason (having a way to build new slides without the original author)

• There is 2 kind of slides that would need to be created: slides that support the talk, and slides that are meant to be published and read on the web

• hopefully I won't sound too pedantic saying it: most diagrams are bad, cluttered :-) And charts, well… there is even a blog dedicated to junk charts… So I feel like our goal would be to avoid as much as possible diagrams and charts, limiting them to the most simple ones. Let set some radical example here in term of clarity, legibility.

I was thinking about something like this:

• Slide 1: One word or sentence + graphic and plenty of extra space (out of the graphic or overlapping it).
• Slide 2. Copy of slide 1, adding a text paragraph.
• Slide 3: Like in slide 1.
• Slide 4: like in slide 2.
• etc...

The master is the slide set with all the slides, ready for online consumption. When it comes the time to have a presentation, the presenter only has to remove slides 2, 4, 6, 8...

Don't worry about diagrams until I come up with some data (if I do).  :)

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