Post #3988405
2026-07-21 14:29 UTC
Dear conference organizers,
Presentation ≠ PowerPoint
If you will be requiring the use of PowerPoint, you must SAY SO in advance. It doesn't matter if "everybody" uses it. "Everybody" isn't everybody.
Sincerely,
Me
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@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us 2026-07-21 14:42
@belehaa@wandering.shop During my conference speaking days, you would have needed powerful crowbars to separate me from DeckSet, a Markdown-based presentation tool. Integrating presentations with the universe of text-based tools such as git for versioning is a one-way turnstile. Once you go there, you don't want to go back to opaque, proprietary representations and tool-specific APIs. https://gist.github.com/johnloy/27dd124ad40e210e91c70dd1c24ac8c8 Requiring Powerpoint like it's 1987 all over again? Bah!