GNOME Presentation Material

The following material is for anyone who wants to give a presentation on GNOME.

We have several recommended presentations, some short segments you can choose from to construct your own presentation as well as talking points and a list of presentations given by others that you are welcome to use.

Presentations

• (40 minutes) For audiences familiar with open source software, but not so familiar with GNOME.
• (40 minutes) For audiences not familiar with free software.

Short topic segments to build your own presentation

Download all segments here: gnome-slides-2.zip

How to add segments

• use OpenOffice format,

• use our template,

• add speaking notes even if you think the slide is obvious,
• use less than 10 words per slide, preferably less than 5, (if you have more to say, say it in the notes),
• use standard fonts, (we should probably recommend a font ...)

• open up your presentation on another computer and make sure all the images and fonts also copied over. (Note that when embedding images in OpenOffice, you might have to use the menu option to insert image - instead of copying and pasting - in order for the images to show up on another computer.)

You can combine the following segments to form a talk:

• GNOME 3 (5 m)
• GNOME 3 (60 m) (Paul)
• History of GNOME (10 m) (Paul)
• Friends of GNOME (one slide) (Vinicius)
• Friends of GNOME (5-10 min) (Stormy)
• Free software (5 min)
• Accessibility for users (Jason)
  • overview (5 min)
  • video demos (Willie had some)
• Developing accessibility in your project (i.e., Is my project A11y-compliant?) (10-15 min)
• How accessibility has benefited usability and the world (examples of mainstream usage that started from a11y development)
• Localization (5 min)
• Developer Platform
• GNOME Mobile (5 min)
• What is the foundation/structured (Stormy)
• GNOME Shell (5 min) (Jason)
  • video

  • demo talking points

• Zeitgeist (Jason)
  • video
  • demo talking points
• How do things get done in GNOME/How does GNOME work? (10 min) (Stormy)
• How to get started with GNOME? (as a user) (Jason)

• OLPC (5 min -> use pictures from their site)

• Devices that use GNOME (5 min) (Stormy)
• How to get started with GNOME development? (Jason)
• How to contribute to GNOME even if you're not a "coder" (Jason)
• Who works on GNOME? (Stormy)
• Who uses GNOME? (Case studies).
  • City of Largo
  • Extremadura schools

  • Swiss Federal Court (http://www.osor.eu/case_studies/open-source-on-the-desktops-of-the-swiss-federal-court-and-federal-administrative-court-organisational-challenges)

• Sponsors (Stormy)
• GNOME values
  • Usability
  • Accessible
  • Free software

  • Internationalization (See Dave Neary's mail for good examples. Would be nice to have presentation with local pictures.)

  • Developer friendly
• Applications:
  • Abiword
  • GNOME Do
  • Photos and image editing
    • F-spot
    • Inkscape
    • GIMP
  • Note taking
    • Tomboy
    • Evince
  • Instant messaging, twittering
    • Empathy
    • Pidgin
    • Gwibber
  • Music
    • Banshee
    • Rythmbox

Todo

• Slide template (Vinicius)
• FAQ for presenters
• Tips and tricks for effective presentation delivery.
• Convert segment slides to template
• Add speaking notes to all segment slides

Past Presentations

• Reaching Out: GNOME Outreach Program for Women and Google Summer of Code - presentation about the Outreach Program for Women in GNOME and how similar efforts can be made GSoC-wide to increase the number of women and other students with no prior free software development experience who gain that experience and successfully apply for GSoC. Given by MarinaZhurakhinskaya at the Google Summer of Code Mentors Summit in October 2011.

• An Introduction to GNOME 3.0 (Intended to educate audiences on what GNOME is, GNOME's history, and upcoming GNOME 3.0 features and benefits - more than just GNOME Shell.

• "State of GNOME" by StormyPeters for Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit slides text

• "GNOME as the computing platform of the future" by StormyPeters slides text

• "The year of the GNOME desktop" - a presentation about the questions surrounding the adoption of gnome by ErikSnoeijs: Presentation documents

• "Digital ramps and handrails" - a presentation about GNOME Accessibility by DaveNeary: Digital ramps and handrails.odp

• Ten years of Freedom presented KenVanDine at SCALE 6x 2008 scale_2008_gnome.odp and scale_2008_gnome.pdf

• "Marketing GNOME" - a presentation on ways to spread GNOME and get quality user feedback given at FOSDEM by DaveNeary: Marketing_GNOME.odp

• Ten years of Freedom presented by JorgeCastro and KenVanDine at OLF 2007 jcastro_kenvandine_ohio_2007.odp and jcastro_kenvandine_ohio_2007.pdf

• 'GNOME: 10 years of freedom'; A presentation on the history of Gnome, by Erik Snoeijs and later improved and translated by BehdadEsfahbod. http://behdad.org/download/Presentations/gnome10years/

• A whole bunch of GNOME related presentations are available on ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/marketing/ (en is English ones, fr is French ones)

• One of Nat's presentations: http://nat.org/NatFriedman-GUADEC-5-Pendulum.sxi

• One of Federico's presentations (History of Gnome, up to 2.6, in Spanish): http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/2004-Medellin/gnome.sxi

• A presentation by Adam Weinberger given at BSDCan (the Canadian BSD Conference, apparently BSDCan was catchier than BSDCon or CanBSD or CanBSDCon) about GNOME on BSD: gnome_on_bsd_slides.tar.bz2

• Some Spanish presentations in the GNOME Hispano wiki: http://es.gnome.org/Documentacion/Presentaciones wouldn't be hard to translate those.

• Presenting Gnome 3 and Greek Gnome Community, FOSSCOMM, Patras-Greece 2011. Presentation On-line