[PLUG] Conferences, Powerpoint, and freedom - Status and Apology

[Marvin Kosmal]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:04:12AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > I am scheduled to speak at the IEEE Sustainable Technologies
> > Conference at the Lloyd Center Doubletree on Thursday morning
> > August 1, next week.  This morning, the conference chair sent
> > out an email saying that all presentations must be Powerpoint,
>
> And the chair, seeing my plight, has worked with me to relax the
> constraints.  I must make sure that I don't screw up the tight
> transition to the next powerpoint presentation, but the session
> chair and I are working out alternatives.
>
> I may be able to run my webslides from the conference laptop,
> assuming that version of Firefox (or Internet Explorer) is
> configured to run javascript, flash animations, and local files.
>
> A better alternative is me bringing my own projector, putting
> it on a platform above the conference projector, and show slides
> using my own laptop and cabling, while shuttering the light output
> from the conference projector with a black box surrounding the
> lens.  I will bring a libreoffice generated PPT, one slide,
> full screen black, for the conference projector.
>
> Hopefully, this will allow the next presenter to set up their
> slides and start presenting the moment I finish with Q/A .
>
> I am still looking for help with the setup, just in case something
> glitches the windoze machine or projector.  I'm trying to contact
> the AV contractor for the conference, perhaps I can pay one of
> their people to hang around and fix unexpected problems.
>
> We still need to smash the Powerpoint monopoly, and replace bullet
> point list slides with more humane and effective presentations.
> But that is a long term problem to solve separately from the
> environmental problems we will address at the conference this week.
>
> I apologise to the conference and the chair for making protest
> threats and to this list for my rant.
>
> Keith
>
>

What rant?

You are GOOD to GO!!

Marvin





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