Simple web based presentation system useful for WineConf

[Mike Hearn]

Hi,

With the spring comes WineConf 2005, and perhaps some interesting
presentations by people. Last time I went to WineConf I was asked to
write a mini presentation to show newbies what Wine hacking was all
about. 

In the end, there weren't many non-Wine developers there (which is what
you'd expect, really) so we just had a discussion about how to reduce
the learning curve instead. In retrospect that was far more interesting
and useful than any presentation I could have done.

Nonetheless, that presentation was there and when I wrote it, I also
wrote a little XSL transform for slide shows. That's because I don't
like PowerPoint that much, especially I don't like how sucky its web
export is and slideshows are good to put on the web.

So here is the presentation itself:

  http://bylands.dur.ac.uk/~mh/wineconf2004/presentation.xml

Just load it into a web browser like Mozilla or even IE6 (konq doesn't
support xslt, sorry). As you can see it's nicely Wine themed :)

Here is the transform if you want to use the same presentation system
yourself:

  http://navi.cx/~mike/xslt-slides/gen.xsl

Just look at the source code of presentation.xml to see how to use it.

I'm hoping we'll have a similar mix for this years Wineconf as last year
- Lionels OpenGL/games presentation in particular was interesting, but I
think the mix of discussion and presentations was good.

One problem with presentations is that they tend to be in quite
specialist areas, eg a DCOM presentation wouldn't be all that useful
because there aren't many people working on it. So I think a bias more
towards discussion of process and project organisation, things like
that, would be more useful.

That's just my humble opinion of course ;)

thanks -mike