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Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by benjanik » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 12:00 AM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #17

Can anyone recommend a realtime remote presentation solution? That is, something that updates the slides for the viewers as well, to use instead of sharing a screen with slides.

I work for Beautiful.ai - we have this, but currently behind a feature flag. We'll be releasing what you described soon - the reason it isn't fully released yet is that you still need some kind of conference call link, and having two links gets a bit awkward for viewers. We're also working on a way to record video with synchronized slide advancement for an asynchronous "meeting" with the same intended effect. Let me know if you want to chat or check it out.

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by EuAndreh » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 12:00 AM UTC

cycomanic wrote: post #11

I really like reveal. However I still havent found a good way of creating slides. I find writing directly in HTML too tedious, but haven't really found a good other way. Most of the Markdown converters that are floating around are to restricted. At the moment I'm using org-reveal which works quite well, but I often find that the layout options lacking so I end up putting a lot of HTML into the org files which again d…

reveal.js has built-in support for markdown already https://revealjs.com/markdown/.

Is that what you are after, or you're talking about something else?

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by curiousgal » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 12:03 AM UTC

dazbradbury wrote: post #19

curiousgal wrote: post #17

Can anyone recommend a realtime remote presentation solution? That is, something that updates the slides for the viewers as well, to use instead of sharing a screen with slides.

Good question. Would also be interested in this, as something to accompany [insert video conferencing tool of choice] to make use of dual monitors sensibly. What's your use case out of interest?

It would be very useful for schools. I have to grade quite a few presentations and many students have crappy internet so a lot of the times the slides appear smudgy and I have to go over them manually after the presentations.

Having the slides automatically synced during presentation would require way less bandwidth than screen sharing and thus result in a better experience for both parties.

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by iseanstevens » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 12:10 AM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #17

Can anyone recommend a realtime remote presentation solution? That is, something that updates the slides for the viewers as well, to use instead of sharing a screen with slides.

Apple Keynote does this now I believe via the iCloud web site. Not FOSS but useful

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by yoloClin » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 12:15 AM UTC

I really like Reveal.js.

I feel the design constraints enforced (size / amount of text per slide) is awesome, but at the same time very limiting for technical presentations where large amounts of text data is pretty important.

Does anyone else have this issue / work around it? Maybe I suck at designing slide decks, but I just feel that the ability to break design rules easily is sometimes a must-have.

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by codegeek » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 12:26 AM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #17

Can anyone recommend a realtime remote presentation solution? That is, something that updates the slides for the viewers as well, to use instead of sharing a screen with slides.

Take a look at BigBluebutton [0]. It allows presentation sharing in a nice way and is generally built for sessions with 50 or less users. You have to self host it though but they have a nice install.sh script.

[0] https://bigbluebutton.org

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by makach » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 12:27 AM UTC

Wow, spent some time fiddling with this framework. I really like it and I think the potential is huge, unfortunately I am too lazy so I will probably just stick with PowerPoint. Maybe make an adapter and publish to this format is possible..?

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by openbrian » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 12:43 AM UTC

Take reveal.js to the next level with markdeck. It a dockerfied version of reveal using markdown and graphics generated on the fly with asciitosvg and graphviz. https://github.com/arnehilmann/markdeck

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by rhencke » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 12:58 AM UTC

makach wrote: post #27

Wow, spent some time fiddling with this framework. I really like it and I think the potential is huge, unfortunately I am too lazy so I will probably just stick with PowerPoint. Maybe make an adapter and publish to this format is possible..?

I look forward to seeing your open-source library that does this. :)

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by bretttt » Sat, Nov 28, 2020, 12:59 AM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #17

Can anyone recommend a realtime remote presentation solution? That is, something that updates the slides for the viewers as well, to use instead of sharing a screen with slides.

We have a few customers beta testing liven.io right now, which does exactly this. Primarily we're working with venues to coordinate presentations / livestreams across multiple screens (think main pres on one screen, event agenda on another, speaker timer on another, etc.), then broadcasting that out for a remote or hybrid event. It's all browser based and runs on websockets - if that sounds interesting feel free to reach out and you can try it out!