Quoting Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>:
> Branko ?ibej wrote:
> >
> > Blair Zajac wrote:
> >
> > >I put together a PowerPoint presentation that I presented to my
> > >development team and management at work on the benefits of Svn
> > >and an introduction on how to use it.
> > >
> > >It's targeted at CVS users, which we were.
> > >
> > >Get it at
> > >
> > > http://www.orcaware.com/svn/Subversion-Blair_Zajac.ppt
> > >
> > >Feel free to use it at your own work. If you have any feedback or
> > >improvements for it, please send them back to me so it can be
> updated.
> > >
> >
> > Two suggestions from me:
> >
> > * The canonical TLA for Subversion is SVN, not Svn
>
> Thanks, I've made this change and put a new version up on my web site.
>
> > * In a few places, your slides absolutely overflow with bullets,
> > which make them quite unreadable. You should try to never use
> more
> > than 5 or 6 bullets in a list, and less if you have nested
> lists.
>
> Agreed, but I'm not going to put the time into this given that I've
> a million of other things to do and have already used the slides for
> my
> presentation.
Your call. :-)
> Somebody who may use them in the future may make this change.
>
> >
> > Other than that, it looks fine!
> >
> > >Maybe this could be added to the Svn Presentations at
> > >
> > >
> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=131
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Sure, go ahead. When I put my presentation there, I posted both the
> .ppt
> > file, and a ZIP archive of the slides converted to 640x480 .png's,
> so
> > that non-Windows people can at least look at them.
>
> What do I need to do to get the ppt up there?
There should be a link at the top of the folder list, something like "suggest a
file". You use that to upload your file, and some exalted being with appropriate
privileges (me :-) confirms it later on.
> What tools did you use or how did you get the PNGs from the slides?
I just told PowerPoint to export the presentation as a set of bitmaps. It even
groks PNG.
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Received on Mon Aug 12 13:03:58 2002