Fascinating, thorough, thought provoking, broad and intelligent overview of open source, social networks, online learning, long tails and all of that kind of stuff.
Delivered in the most inaccessible, un-open-source, huge and annoying format possible (I mean, if you’re going to have slides then at least use the Adobe slide function???)
Eh?
Update: Hey, it’s great to be the public :D Here’s a much more easily viewable version of the survey, thanks guys… I’ll now be pestering everyone I work with to have a look at it too!
Well I wanted to publish this also as an Powerpoint document but guess what, export function from Open Office didn’t like the 91 slides.
The export function to PDF in OO doesn’t have slideshow functionality. Well you can always select “fit page” from the zoom menu to make it easier to read.
Thanks for responding to my admittably grouchy comment (had a miserable day – of sorts)… understand your predicament in many ways too… but here are a couple of alternatives:
1. [This is useless at this point and also a tad hypocritical] You could always do the presentation using CSS as a webpage?
2. More practical this one – I really enjoyed it as a screen read and think that’s what it really works as so, while offering the .pdf to those who want to print, a flash version would be incredibly cool.
Here’s some suggestions: http://incsub.org/blog/?p=90
As I said I’m no expert though (well, apart from at whinging :o)
More readable version of the future of FLOSSE results
Due to public demand, here is a more easily accessible version of the result slides of our workshop about the future of FLOSSE.
Don’t blame the format, James, and keep in mind the different purposes of document. The PDF does exactly what the acronym says- ot is a portable document, and can be printed and viewed exactly as created. And it can be generated very easily.
Blame more the bloatware that Acrobat Reader has become, but it is not the only software out there for looking at PDFs (http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?qt=pdf+viewer). If you are free of wintel, the Mac OSX Preview app is much more responsive and cleaner to navigate. I never use AcroReaderTakes10minutesToLoad.
It’s like blaming HTML because NetScape 4 or IE 5 mangled the usability of your web site. It’s not the file format’s fault
Actually, the latest release of AcroReaderTakes10minutesToLoad has changed its name to AcroReaderTakes2minutesToLoad. Hopefully Adobe takes the same route with other applications as well. They have a bad habit to load every single plug-in on startup, used or not.
I told you I’m hardly in a position to preach about open source software… any suggestions for XP?
(the viewer doesn’t shrink the download from 3MB plus though….)