[ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Presentation Template

[Vikram Dhillon]

Those are some nice templates, but shouldn't we select a standard
template that people can use like Opensolaris does [1]

[1] http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+advocacy/mktgdownloads

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Regards,
Vikram

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Andrew SB <a.starr.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Nathan Handler <nhandler at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently had an idea for a new art-related project. We have members of the
>> community giving presentations all of the time (at LoCo events, conferences,
>> etc). Currently, there is no Ubuntu presentation template that these users can
>> use. Debian has discussed this idea at DebConf in the past [1], and they have
>> created some great designs. I think it would be great if we could attempt to
>> do something similar for Ubuntu. If we do this, I think we should focus on
>> LaTeX Beamer and OpenOffice.org Impress, which appear to be the most popular
>> methods of creating presentations on Ubuntu. I wanted to know if any members
>> of the Art team would be interested in working on this project. I would be
>> glad to help in any way possible, but I am definitely not creative or
>> artistic enough to create a theme from scratch. I would also like to hear any
>> other ideas/suggestions you might have about this project. I personally think
>> that if we could come up with a decent template, it would greatly benefit the
>> Ubuntu community.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nathan Handler
>>
>> [1] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200706_debconf7_beamer/index_en.html
>
> As a starting point, there actually already is a collection of 30
> pretty amazing OO Impress templates for Ubuntu (and derivatives) made
> by a Nicaraguan LoCo member on SpreadUbuntu:
>
> http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/th/material/presentation/ubuntu-impress-templates-vol1
>
> They're really well done.
>
> - Andrew
>
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