<p dir="ltr">As a person actively involved with the recording and live steaming of the content a many conferences I'm very interested in methods of making presentations better.</p>
<p dir="ltr">One thing I've found is that even experienced people often make minor mistakes which adversely affect the quality of the output. These are things such as; using low contrast text meaning the slide is unreadable from the back of the room, or putting text too close to the edges of slides meaning it gets cut off.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To try and fix these problems (in a more scalable way then yelling at every presenter) I created the slidelint project. The tool automatically checks for these common problems in PDF presentations. It is like a code linting tool for presentations. There is both an online version at <a href="http://slidelint.net/">http://slidelint.net/</a> and an offline version at <a href="https://github.com/timvideos/slidelint">https://github.com/timvideos/slidelint</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">Obviously it doesn't fix problems with content but might be a useful first start.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The project could use some love because I don't have any time to work on it. I'm happy to help anyone who is interested in helping out.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Tim 'mithro' Ansell</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 May 2015 2:28 pm, "Ian" <<a href="mailto:ilox11@gmail.com">ilox11@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Good suggestions Phillip. I did years of community projects and committees but when I did about 8 months with Rostrum as part of a project I found out so much more about speaking and meeting management. Certainly recommend the experience that either organisation can give to those willing to learn and share. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Perhaps Kathy and the 2016 Team could put you and myself and others that put their hands up on a sub-committee as part of Speaker Support? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 26/05/2015 11:58 am, "Phillip Smith" <<a href="mailto:lists@fukawi2.nl" target="_blank">lists@fukawi2.nl</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On 26 May 2015 at 09:39, Ian </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:ilox11@gmail.com" target="_blank">ilox11@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div>I would like to discuss - preferable off to one side so I'm not filling the list up with non-Linux posts - how to help presenters for any LCA to produce a better presentation and avoid the common presentation pitfalls.</div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">I too would be willing to review speakers presentations in this manner. I certainly don't claim to be perfect, but I have been a Toastmaster for several years so have some experience. On that note, if there are people who would like to present but aren't confident doing so, look up your local Toastmaster club and give it a go :)</div></div></div></div></div>
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