Re: Conference Materials Site

Oh, I forgot to mention, everything is in CVS: cvs -d:pserver:<login>@cvs.php.net:/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 > >