Hello All,
I had some time while getting my tire repaired today to outline a project presentation of Inkscape. I'm supposed to give a little 10 minute thing at this place http://crca.ucsd.edu/ next wed.
I figured that this type of outline and developing slides might be important for us all. And we can copy and paste for different types of presentations (technical, artistic, and then very specific).
Here is the outline http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InkscapePresentations
Its the other one other than Teds.
Could you all look over and rip into it and add/subtract anything. I know its not totally complete, but I wanted to basically develop an overview.
I will make the SVG slides (and use Inkview) and post them to CVS after the outline of the presentation looks good.
Jon
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Jonathan Phillips wrote:
Hello All,
I had some time while getting my tire repaired today to outline a project presentation of Inkscape. I'm supposed to give a little 10 minute thing at this place http://crca.ucsd.edu/ next wed.
I figured that this type of outline and developing slides might be important for us all. And we can copy and paste for different types of presentations (technical, artistic, and then very specific).
Here is the outline http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InkscapePresentations
Very cool, this is definitely the sort of thing the project needs right now to explain Inkscape to the broader audience.
I've laid in with a hacksaw and chopped out a lot to try to trim it down to some of the essential points. For instance, no need to belabor the points describing Open Source; those who don't know what it is won't understand it anyway, those who do will just be bored. ;-) It's better to focus on Inkscape itself and what it does.
There are (at least) three slides missing:
* SVG Exposed - An Example SVG file * Using Inkscape - Screenshot(s) * Inkscape's Inner Workings
Hmm, also.......... As my old marketing buddy would put it, "PowerPoint is Eeeviiiiiiil." ;-)
Inkscape will be good for doing presentations not because it's like PowerPoint in some ways but because it's not like PowerPoint in many ways.
It's worth checking out Edward Tufte's presentation philosophies:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
If you're still not sure that PowerPoint is evil, you should see the Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint: http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/ :-)
Tufte would probably tell us: * Excise bullets. If you need text to explain something, do it in full prose. But remember a picture is worth a thousand words. * Don't say "grow" - show a graph made of people's photos * To compare raster vs. vector, just show a raster & a vector image * Instead of describing what SVG is, just show a simple SVG file * Instead of saying the Uses of Inkscape, show examples of those uses
Bryce
--- Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1...> wrote:
Tufte would probably tell us:
- Excise bullets. If you need text to explain
something, do it in full prose. But remember a picture is worth a thousand words.
- Don't say "grow" - show a graph made of
people's photos
- To compare raster vs. vector, just show a
raster & a vector image
- Instead of describing what SVG is, just show a
simple SVG file
- Instead of saying the Uses of Inkscape, show
examples of those uses
Bryce
Anyone else see the irony of a bullet saying "excise bullets"? :)
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On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 00:10, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Tufte would probably tell us:
- Excise bullets. If you need text to explain something, do it in full prose. But remember a picture is worth a thousand words.
I like the other points, but I would have to say that I disagree with this one. You have to think about a presentation as an outline of what you're really going to talk about. It's there to keep you on topic and to give the audience a little bit of a direction of where you're going (so they don't get surprised and confused). Bullets are better here than full text - people read full text but scan bullets.
--Ted
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 21:14, Jonathan Phillips wrote:
I had some time while getting my tire repaired today to outline a project presentation of Inkscape. I'm supposed to give a little 10 minute thing at this place http://crca.ucsd.edu/ next wed.
Hmmm, well I'm set up to give a talk at my local LUG on Inkscape on Thursday (http://plug.phoenix.az.us/). It's probably a little bit longer (about 40 minutes or so) but I have to do alot more explaining of what vector art is :) I think that we could make a nice set of slides though.
What's your timeline? I was thinking about working on the presentation this weekend.
--Ted
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Bryce Harrington -
John Cliff -
Jonathan Phillips -
Ted Gould