Move away from Keynote

[nikomatsakis]

I'd love to move away from Keynote slides, I'm just not sure what to move to.

Some requirements:

• Able to easily make graphics and pictures
• Able to easily get onto the web
  • Along with screencasts, I'd like to be able to step through the slides and see notes and so forth
• Able to have people edit and submit PRs
• Easy to edit

Some nice-to-haves:

• Ability to do animations
  • it might be can workaround this by just having things appear in different places

Some candidates:

• reveal.js by itself isn't that great, but the mon-artise project has potential

[ests]

Well, my first though was reveal.js actually. Besides that, is the "fire" animation obligatory? ;)

[nikomatsakis]

@ests

Besides that, is the "fire" animation obligatory? ;)

Yes. It's my trademark! =) More seriously, though, I do think that animations are helpful. It's quite possible though that a careful sequence of diagrams (maybe supplemented with CSS transitions) can more than fill the gap.

To be honest I am not inclined to revisit the existing slides so much, at least not now, just because the current screencasts are good and I would rather work on new materials. I was thinking of doing some work on a tutorial covering structs-and-enums (since it seems like such a core foundation), and I had the thought of trying to reproduce said slides in mon-artiste or something similar.

cc @pnkfelix

[ctjhoa]

For what it's worth, I used https://slides.com/ in the past and it's a good tool too (powered by reveal.js).

[nixpulvis]

Maybe LaTeX? Or too much syntactic overhead? Might be able to bug some people for good libraries for it.