<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Tiago Antao <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tra@popgen.net" target="_blank">tra@popgen.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
<br>
It is a pleasure to report that the abstract for the SciPy conference<br>
was accepted.<br>
<br>
As you probably know both Joao and me will be presenting Biopython (Joao<br>
on BOSC and me on SciPy). The scope of the presentation will be<br>
slightly different: I think Joao will concentrate on updates, whereas<br>
my presentation will be more general.<br>
<br>
I would like to spend some time on putting forward a snappy<br>
presentation that could be re-used (even if only partially) by others in<br>
the future.<br>
<br>
I am trying to think on what technology to use. I want to avoid<br>
powerpoint, beamer and friends. Also most web presentation frameworks<br>
are actually quite powerpoint-like.<br>
<br>
I am trying to find something that is free-software, can easily use<br>
animations and insightful presenting features. Should work on the web<br>
and on live-presentations. I am ignoring dead-tree printing.<br>
<br>
I am considering quite some wacky things like blender or animation<br>
packages. Trying to be a bit out-of-the-box in terms of form...<br>
<br>
If someone has any ideas...<br>
<br>
Tiago<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Tiago,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hopefully I'm not too late here. I recall Bow once gave a nice talk that was based on Reveal.js or similar:<br><a href="http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/17">http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/17</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>It is PowerPoint-like, but since it is based on JS and HTML, you could in principle add your own JavaScript-driven animations after drafting it using the original framework and generating the basic presentation.<br>A little heretical at a Python conference, but you could supplement Biopython's own plots with BioJS widgets:<br><a href="http://biojs.io/">http://biojs.io/</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Prezi is non-Free, but it is free-as-in-beer for academics and is definitely different from PowerPoint. Useful as a point of inspiration, at least.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Have you considered or investigated doing the whole presentation as an IPython/Jupyter notebook? This would probably be the most direct way to show off Biopython's features, including plots. I think it would be possible to launch PyMol from the shell, too.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Eric<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></div>