[PHP-DOC] Re: [PHP-DEV] Conference Materials Site From: Manuel Lemos (mlemos <email protected>)
Date: 07/20/00

Hello Rasmus,

On 15-Jul-00 14:55:39, you 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.

This is an excelent idea, but wouldn't it be better if the presentations
could be developed from a target media independent specification format and
then be generated in different presentation formats: static HTML, PDF,
Shockwave Flash, SVG, SMIL, etc..

I think this would help more to reuse these materials to make presentations
to promote PHP, since not everybody can have access a PHP enable remote
server via a network to show in a live presentation and presentations can
also be copied and browsed by users that don't even know how to set

I don't know if there are better formats for slide based presentation
format description. But something in XML seems appropriate. I have found
a Python application that seems to do what I am suggesting. I think it
would worth taking a look and eventually cooperate in the development of
a better presentation engine.

http://www.reportlab.com/demos/pythonpoint/pythonpoint.html

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

Web Programming Components using PHP Classes.
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