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reply Benjamin Thaut <code benjamin-thaut.de> writes:
Is there a official presentation template for Dconf 2016? If not 
it would be greate if someone could create one. Many programmers 
(me included) are not good with picking colors and thus 
presentations usually don't look as good as they could.

Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut
Apr 20 2016
next sibling parent Suliman <evermind live.ru> writes:
On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

 Is there a official presentation template for Dconf 2016? If 
 not it would be greate if someone could create one. Many 
 programmers (me included) are not good with picking colors and 
 thus presentations usually don't look as good as they could.

 Kind Regards
 Benjamin Thaut


If anybody need backgrounds you are free to use this 
http://dlang.ru/Files/2016/free_texturs.zip
Apr 20 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent reply qznc <qznc web.de> writes:
On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

 Is there a official presentation template for Dconf 2016? If 
 not it would be great if someone could create one. Many 
 programmers (me included) are not good with picking colors and 
 thus presentations usually don't look as good as they could.


Is there a format the majority uses? Powerpoint? LibreOffice? 
Reveal.js? LaTeX-Beamer? Markdown-based?
Apr 20 2016
parent Benjamin Thaut <code benjamin-thaut.de> writes:
On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 20:10:56 UTC, qznc wrote:

 On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut 
 wrote:

 Is there a official presentation template for Dconf 2016? If 
 not it would be great if someone could create one. Many 
 programmers (me included) are not good with picking colors and 
 thus presentations usually don't look as good as they could.


 Is there a format the majority uses? Powerpoint? LibreOffice? 
 Reveal.js? LaTeX-Beamer? Markdown-based?


I personally use LaTeX-Beamer. Mostly because it looks pretty 
decent without fidelling around with it too much. (e.g. compared 
to powerpoint). Thanks for the tips.
Apr 20 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent reply qznc <qznc web.de> writes:
On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

 Many programmers (me included) are not good with picking colors 
 and thus presentations usually don't look as good as they could.


My advice for "graphical-design-challenged" presenters would be

* If you feel unsure about colors, then don't use them. Black on 
white is enough.
   Syntax highlighting might be an exception, but even there black 
on white might be enough.

* Only use one font (including title page, footer, etc).
   Use some default font (Times New Roman, Arial, etc).

* A second font, if you show code.
   Use a fixed-width font for that.
   The one you use in your terminal or IDE.

* Only use size, bold, and maybe italic for formatting.
   Do not use underline, small caps, or other fancy stuff.

* Use a big font size.

* Left align everything. There is no law that you have to center 
anything.
   Left align feels more structured, because everything lines up 
on the left.

* Avoid bullet points.
   Consider "one statement per slide".
   Consider removing the bullets.

* If you have images, make them fullscreen.
   Fullscreen also applies to diagrams, plots, etc.


A quick look through the old dconf videos tells me that for 
example Walter mostly uses a simple plain black-on-white scheme. 
However, the slides would benefit from being left-alignment imho.
Apr 20 2016
next sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
qznc <qznc web.de> wrote:

 On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

 Many programmers (me included) are not good with picking colors 
 and thus presentations usually don't look as good as they could.


 
 My advice for "graphical-design-challenged" presenters would be
 
 * If you feel unsure about colors, then don't use them. Black on 
 white is enough.
   Syntax highlighting might be an exception, but even there black 
 on white might be enough.
 
 * Only use one font (including title page, footer, etc).
   Use some default font (Times New Roman, Arial, etc).
 
 * A second font, if you show code.
   Use a fixed-width font for that.
   The one you use in your terminal or IDE.
 
 * Only use size, bold, and maybe italic for formatting.
   Do not use underline, small caps, or other fancy stuff.
 
 * Use a big font size.
 
 * Left align everything. There is no law that you have to center 
 anything.
   Left align feels more structured, because everything lines up 
 on the left.
 
 * Avoid bullet points.
   Consider "one statement per slide".
   Consider removing the bullets.
 
 * If you have images, make them fullscreen.
   Fullscreen also applies to diagrams, plots, etc.
 
 
 A quick look through the old dconf videos tells me that for 
 example Walter mostly uses a simple plain black-on-white scheme. 
 However, the slides would benefit from being left-alignment imho.
 


Great tips thanks. I use powerdot. I think a ppt template for beginners
would be great.
Apr 20 2016
parent Antonio Corbi <acorbi ggmail.xml> writes:
On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 00:55:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 qznc <qznc web.de> wrote:

 On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut 
 wrote:

 Many programmers (me included) are not good with picking 
 colors and thus presentations usually don't look as good as 
 they could.


 
 My advice for "graphical-design-challenged" presenters would be
 
 * If you feel unsure about colors, then don't use them. Black 
 on
 white is enough.
   Syntax highlighting might be an exception, but even there 
 black
 on white might be enough.
 
 * Only use one font (including title page, footer, etc).
   Use some default font (Times New Roman, Arial, etc).
 
 * A second font, if you show code.
   Use a fixed-width font for that.
   The one you use in your terminal or IDE.
 
 * Only use size, bold, and maybe italic for formatting.
   Do not use underline, small caps, or other fancy stuff.
 
 * Use a big font size.
 
 * Left align everything. There is no law that you have to 
 center
 anything.
   Left align feels more structured, because everything lines up
 on the left.
 
 * Avoid bullet points.
   Consider "one statement per slide".
   Consider removing the bullets.
 
 * If you have images, make them fullscreen.
   Fullscreen also applies to diagrams, plots, etc.
 
 
 A quick look through the old dconf videos tells me that for 
 example Walter mostly uses a simple plain black-on-white 
 scheme. However, the slides would benefit from being 
 left-alignment imho.
 


 Great tips thanks. I use powerdot. I think a ppt template for 
 beginners would be great.


For the emacs users here :) (surely you know this yet) org-mode + 
org-export allows you to write in a very light markup language 
and export your work to several formats at once (this includes 
several html5 backends, beamer backend, etc..).

And the editing experience with org-mode is superb, you can 
collapse all your document, show the section you are working in 
now, promote/demote headings, move headings (and hierarchical 
content) up and down with a keystroke, and much, much more.

Antonio
Apr 21 2016
prev sibling parent qznc <qznc web.de> writes:
On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 20:40:03 UTC, qznc wrote:

 On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut 
 wrote:

 Many programmers (me included) are not good with picking 
 colors and thus presentations usually don't look as good as 
 they could.


 My advice for "graphical-design-challenged" presenters would be 
 [snip]


Converted this into a blog article:
http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/slide_design_programmers.html

It even has an image :)
Apr 21 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On 4/20/16 3:53 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

 Is there a official presentation template for Dconf 2016? If not it
 would be greate if someone could create one. Many programmers (me
 included) are not good with picking colors and thus presentations
 usually don't look as good as they could.

 Kind Regards
 Benjamin Thaut


In my presentation, I just used whatever default Keynote (apple office) 
used (black background, white text).

When I first started writing it, to insert code snippets, I was taking 
screenshots of my editor to get the syntax highlighting.

What turned out to work better, is copying and pasting from a terminal 
based editor (vim), which copied the font, colors, and formatting. Then 
the presentation doesn't look pixelated if scaled, and you can edit 
stuff after the fact (though editing the coloring is difficult, easier 
to copy and paste again).

Just thought I'd post this in case anyone finds it useful.

-Steve
Apr 21 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 4/20/2016 12:53 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

 Is there a official presentation template for Dconf 2016? If not it would be
 greate if someone could create one. Many programmers (me included) are not good
 with picking colors and thus presentations usually don't look as good as they
 could.


I found this book helpful:

   http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071636080

once you get past the click-baity title. It's well worth the $2.50 investment, 
and a quick read. Even if you only get one good idea out of it, it's worth
while.
Apr 21 2016
parent reply Mithun Hunsur <me philpax.me> writes:
On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 22:37:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 4/20/2016 12:53 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

 Is there a official presentation template for Dconf 2016? If 
 not it would be
 greate if someone could create one. Many programmers (me 
 included) are not good
 with picking colors and thus presentations usually don't look 
 as good as they
 could.


 I found this book helpful:

   http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071636080

 once you get past the click-baity title. It's well worth the 
 $2.50 investment, and a quick read. Even if you only get one 
 good idea out of it, it's worth while.


I haven't decided on what my presentation will look like yet, but 
I'll be roughly following the tips here: 
https://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/ It 
isn't perfectly applicable to a completely-technical 
presentation, but the general tips are quite useful (large fonts, 
easy-to-parse layout, and supporting the presentation rather than 
_being_ the presentation).
Apr 21 2016
parent reply Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 22 April 2016 at 00:35:21 UTC, Mithun Hunsur wrote:

 supporting the presentation rather than _being_ the 
 presentation).


Powerpoints have a bad habit of damaging presentations rather 
than supporting them...


I hate slides. Focus on making interesting content and consider 
doing a hand out with actual details.

A slide has less information on it than a tweet.... perhaps best 
is to think of it as a series of suggested tweets - brief 
marketing information rather than anything useful.
Apr 21 2016
next sibling parent Craig Dillabaugh <craig.dillabaugh gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 22 April 2016 at 01:53:02 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Friday, 22 April 2016 at 00:35:21 UTC, Mithun Hunsur wrote:

 supporting the presentation rather than _being_ the 
 presentation).


 Powerpoints have a bad habit of damaging presentations rather 
 than supporting them...


 I hate slides. Focus on making interesting content and consider 
 doing a hand out with actual details.

 A slide has less information on it than a tweet.... perhaps 
 best is to think of it as a series of suggested tweets - brief 
 marketing information rather than anything useful.


My favorite advice on giving presentations:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html

Maybe not everything applies to a talk where you will be showing 
code, but still great advice in my opinion.
Apr 21 2016
prev sibling parent Johannes Pfau <nospam example.com> writes:
Am Fri, 22 Apr 2016 01:53:02 +0000
schrieb Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com>:


 On Friday, 22 April 2016 at 00:35:21 UTC, Mithun Hunsur wrote:

 supporting the presentation rather than _being_ the 
 presentation).  


 
 Powerpoints have a bad habit of damaging presentations rather 
 than supporting them...
 
 
 I hate slides. Focus on making interesting content and consider 
 doing a hand out with actual details.
 
 A slide has less information on it than a tweet.... perhaps best 
 is to think of it as a series of suggested tweets - brief 
 marketing information rather than anything useful.


Slides =/= slides. Lecture slides are completely different when
compared to talk slides. It's always fascinating how much text can fit
on a slide. And in many courses slides completely replace scripts. How
much information you provide on slides is mostly a convention / personal
habit and target audience thing:

It's basically:
* Do you only want to sell something?
* Or do you want to convey information?
* Do you want the slides to convey information 'stand-alone' without
  the talk?
* If the topic is complicated, more text (or more slides) is sometimes a
  good idea. It reminds the speaker to spend more time on the topic.
  Additionally you don't want to require the audience to take notes
  only to be able to follow the presentation.

As an example, marketing slides are different from technology /
programming slides and the TV / media guys often have the best designed
slides (Well, they've got paid artists for that...).
Apr 21 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent welkam <wwwelkam gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

 Many programmers (me included) are not good with picking colors 
 and thus presentations usually don't look as good as they could.


Ill just leave this here
http://i2.wp.com/socialmediaguerilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/data-ink.gif

https://speakerdeck.com/cherdarchuk/remove-to-improve-the-data-ink-ratio
Apr 21 2016
prev sibling parent reply poliklosio <poliklosio happypizza.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

 Is there a official presentation template for Dconf 2016? If 
 not it would be greate if someone could create one. Many 
 programmers (me included) are not good with picking colors and 
 thus presentations usually don't look as good as they could.

 Kind Regards
 Benjamin Thaut


As a guy who is going to watch the recordings on-line, I would 
like to remind you not to rely on laser pointers too much.
Its never visible on the recordings!
I think its best (mileage may vary) to have little enough on a 
slide so that you can comfortably describe what to look at, with 
words.
Apr 22 2016
parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 4/22/16 3:50 AM, poliklosio wrote:

 On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 07:53:53 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

 Is there a official presentation template for Dconf 2016? If not it
 would be greate if someone could create one. Many programmers (me
 included) are not good with picking colors and thus presentations
 usually don't look as good as they could.

 Kind Regards
 Benjamin Thaut


 As a guy who is going to watch the recordings on-line, I would like to
 remind you not to rely on laser pointers too much.
 Its never visible on the recordings!
 I think its best (mileage may vary) to have little enough on a slide so
 that you can comfortably describe what to look at, with words.


Good one. -- Andrei
Apr 23 2016