Re: ZODB Slides Needed

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Christopher Lozinski <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On May 27, 2017, at 3:29 PM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...

The first slide I would like to see is the ZODB family  tree (grove) with
> dates, relatives and branches.
>

I have no interest in this. I want people to use ZODB, so IMO, the focus
should be on what it's in it for them. Not some boring history. (I'm
reminded of awful man pages that give a tools history.)

...


> The Pycon PL proposal deadline is May 31st.
>
> The conference itself is in August 17 - 20
>
> If I am allowed to do two lightening talks at PyCon Prague, June 8-10,
> then the second one will be on ZODB.
>

I assume a lightening talk is 5 minutes, so roughly 5 slides.


> Since contributing content  is volunteer work, I do not ask for for
> commitment to a deadline.
>

Well, if I can find time this week for a few slides...

...


> There are so many wonderful concepts I have acquired from this community
> and use on a daily basis.  I would like to communicate them to others.
>

If I create slides, they will be focussed on why someone might choose ZODB
or something else.


>
> Maybe we should publish it as creative commons, non commercial.  Free to
> do talks with the material.
>

Yup.


>
> What platform do you recommend that we use for the text?  For the slides?
> I already have a bunch of text and LibreOffice slides to contribute.
>

I'm personally only interested in authoring slides in ReST.  I normally
create boring slides with S5 machinery that's hacked together. I've been
meaning to try hovercraft, so I will. :)

Jim

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