[lopsa-discuss] formats for BoF slides/audio

[Dan Lowe]

On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:43 PM, Trey Harris wrote:

> We have several BoFs from LISA for which we have PowerPoint or  
> Keynote slides and audio recordings (in mp3, 96/44.1), and one for  
> which we just have slides.  We would like to post these to the  
> website quickly.
>
> What formats would be most useful to those of you who would like to  
> get the BoF content but weren't able to attend?

I personally only ever listen to the audio portion of things like  
this even when slides are available - mostly because when I have time  
to listen, I am doing something that demands my eyes be elsewhere:  
driving, mowing the lawn, clearing snow off the driveway, vacuuming,  
etc. So all I hope for is that there's an audio-only format that my  
iPod will play (mp3 is perfect).

But on the subject of slides, IMO, multipage PDF is the best format  
to offer. It's much more platform-independent than Powerpoint or  
Keynote. Doing a video file with the audio synced to the slides is a  
lot of work for whoever has to generate that file and I don't believe  
it brings a whole lot of value over simply offering an audio file and  
a PDF of slides. The kind of people who can manage life as a sysadmin  
are probably going to be able to work out when to move to the next  
slide without a huge amount of trouble. And I bet a lot of people are  
like me and will do audio-only anyway.

  -dan

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