====== Slide Templates ======

===== Beamer Templates =====

If you are in trouble with preparing your slides, you could use the {{slidetemplates/slides-template.zip?linkonly|template}} attached to the page.  It contains a %%LaTeX%% source file that you can modify to create %%FreeBSD%%-themes slides.  It uses the [[http://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home|Beamer class]] which is an easy-to-use extension to %%LaTeX%% for making presentations.  You can easily install it by the following command (as root):

<code>
# pkg install texlive-texmf
</code>

This will install **Beamer** and **pdfLaTeX** that can be used for compiling the sources to produce the desired PDF file.

<code>
$ pdflatex my-presentation.latex
</code>

===== LibreOffice / OpenOffice Templates =====

Or you can use the %%LibreOffice%% / %%OpenOffice%% {{slidetemplates/slides.otp?linkonly|template}} (contributed by BaptisteDaroussin).

===== A few suggestions .. =====

A few rule-of-thumbs when creating slides:

  * Try to make things legible, use large fonts.
  * Have title and closing.
  * Use less text, you do not have to include everything on the slides.  (Prepare and) Do a demonstration if needed.
  * You have only a limited amount of time, having only 1 slide per minute (in addition to title and closing) is usually fine.
  * Sometimes images can tell more than pure text.
  * Discussions and meetings are the place where you might want to talk about the details.

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