Presentations

A collection of presentations/talks that we've given or intend on giving at Amoeba. Feel free to send pull requests, comments, or any kind of feedback.

Contributors thus far:

• Daniel Jabbour - @bitgangsta
• Chris Barton - @huTweeted

Based on Reveal.js and Middleman

This project utilizes the reveal.js presentation framework in combination with the Middleman static site generator. This makes creating new presentations incredibly easy. To do so:

Create a new presentation folder and index.html.erb

Make a folder such as source/<your_presentation>. Inside, create an index.html.erb. This will contain the presentation. At the top of the file, you can set certain variables, such as:

---
title: My presentation title
description: A great presentation.
theme: beige
---

Now, underneath these variables you can put your <section>s, which are your individual slides, as you would for any reveal.js presentation. You can also use markdown. For example:

<section data-markdown>
	<script type="text/template">
		## Page title

		A paragraph with some text and a [link](http://hakim.se).
	</script>
</section>

Note: You can also break the individual slides out inside partials (see below for an example).

Create a JS configuration for your presentation

In order to wire everything together, you need to setup reveal and init it. To use the reveal defaults, include the following in your presentation:

<% content_for :javascripts do %>
  <%= javascript_include_tag "defaults" %>
<% end %>

You can optionally create your own JS file by copying the defaults into a new file and including it as such.

Optional Setup

Custom themes

The theme variable is optional, and will default to the reveal.js default theme. You can also define your own new themes by just making a scss file inside source/stylesheets/reveal/themes (copy an existing one to have a starting point).

Partials

A very clean way to isolate your slides is into partials. For instance, create an index.html.erb with the following content:

<% slides = %w(title slide2 slide3 final) %>

<% slides.each do |slide| %>
  <%= content_tag(:section, partial("slides/#{slide}")) %>
<% end %>

... and put your slides into the "slides" directory under your presentation. Super clean. Woot.