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Hey HN, I recently started an Open Source club at my school, and one of the key aspects of the club is that I (along with a few others) give quick tech talks.
by prezjordan 13y ago
Hey HN,
I recently started an Open Source club at my school, and one of the key aspects of the club is that I (along with a few others) give quick tech talks. I found that it took far too long to whip up a short slideshow, so I wrote this. Its entire purpose is to allow you to get something presentable and interactive out quickly.
It's sort of a two-birds type deal because we'll be actively working on this project through the club :)
I'd love to hear your feedback!
- adiM 13y agoHow does it compare with Pandoc[1], which is the swiss-army knife of Markdown-to-foo converters, and also handles presentations. [1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
- prezjordan 13y agoJust looking through the "HTML Slides" examples, seems like Pandodoc is more than capable of achieving what Cleaver does (and much, much more).
- nsmartt 13y agoYou didn't find a solution that met your precise needs, so you started building one. Don't let the fact that other solutions exist get you down.
- Keyframe 13y agoI feel like this always happens when I'm either done or almost done with my projects as well.
- dindresto 13y agoBeing so lightweight makes Cleaver far cooler, since that makes it easier to hack on it, and customize it.
- nborwankar 13y agoAlso look at Asciidoc which outputs Slidy slideshows.
- Pitarou 13y agoPandoc does something pretty similar. But that doesn't mean there isn't room in the world for both projects. Pandoc strives to be a universal converter, and that means there are certain things it couldn't / shouldn't do. For example, you could add special kinds of slide effects or transitions to Cleaver's markdown dialect that wouldn't be appropriate for Pandoc.
- qznc 13y agoWhy not try something revolutionary and ditch slides altogether? Use the beamer for a demo or switch it off. Use your bullet point as presenter notes, but do not show them to the audience.
- bowerbird 13y agoor maybe hand-puppet shadows! :+) -bowerbird