Re: [PHP-DOC] Conference Materials Site From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 07/15/00

Oh, I forgot to mention, everything is in CVS:

  cvs -d:pserver:<login> <email protected>:/repository co pres

If you wish to contribute, and don't have a CVS account, go to
http://www.php.net/cvs-php3.php and fill out the little form there.

-Rasmus

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> Guys, in an effort to pool our resources and provide a single repository
> for conference materials, I have created http://conf.php.net
>
> The idea is that when/if you give a talk on PHP, you will be able to refer
> people to http://conf.php.net/borland (for example, since I just gave a
> talk at the Borland conference).
>
> It will also give other people the ability to put together presentations
> quickly by reusing other peoples' slides and thus enable more people to
> get out there and promote PHP.
>
> Along with the fancy graphical view, I have written a little script that
> creates a static presentation for inclusion on conference proceedings cds.
> The script is gen-static.php and it is designed to be run manually with a
> bit of tweaking.
>
> Have a look at the first presentation there for a quick overview of the
> architecture of the thing. I suggest the following presentation setup:
>
> [Linux Instructions]
>
> - Laptop running in 1024x768 resolution. Most decent projectors do a
> good job at this resolution these days.
>
> - Run the truetype font server (xfstt)
>
> - Netscape Navigator 4.73
>
> - Under File-Preferences-Font select Verdana-ttf for your variable
> width font and Courier New for your fixed width font. Netscape will
> show you a font size of 0 in the dialog, but type 12 into the text
> box to force it to a 12pt default font.
>
> - Under the View menu turn off all the toolbars to get as much screen
> real estate as possible.
>
> -Rasmus
>
>