Decide on what to include and in what format

[karthik]

Slide decks are so highly individual that it would be hard to provide something generic but also customizable (because our presentation style will have to match the style/layout of a presenter's deck). Instead we might be better off providing text as bullet points along with some images that go with said text. Then anyone presenting could incorporate these into their talks.

In addition we could provide another deck that is already designed (and not easily customizable) that someone could use as-is (maybe even present from our repo) without any modification. We could keep this deck current and people wouldn't have the burden of futzing around with anything.

thoughts?

[sckott]

That makes sense to have text and images so anyone can copy those in to their presentations and then a ready to go one as well.

[maelle]

I agree with all the above.

I also see this as a further opportunity to show tic in action! I'm not exactly sure how it'd work yet but here's what I have so far: the text official source would live in a Markdown file. Then with some scripting:

• Put this text in a RMarkdown document with Xaringan headers and render to html and link to the rendered html from the README of this repo (maybe simply by turning gh-pages on). This slidedeck should have an rOpenSci style somehow.

• Use decktape.js to produce a pdf from this html file.

• Use officer to produce a Power point (basic style) from the same Markdown text https://davidgohel.github.io/officer/ Later maybe tweak this code to also produce a Power point slidedeck with rOpenSci style (but keep the basic one so that people can use it as building blocks in their own Power point style)

This way one would store text as Markdown and each update of this text would re-regenerate the RMarkdown, html, pdf and pptx slidedecks, and anyone could still use the Markdown file and images folder to build their talk. It'd be a bit of an adventure to set it up I guess, but it'd show how to use tic so not a waste of time?

[maelle]

Also related to stuff @stephlocke is doing over at https://github.com/lockedata/presdown 😺