This repo contains several slide presentations for use during the Railsbridge Open Workshops (specifically the Ruby For Women Workshops).
Not all presentations are ready to be shown yet!
We use a Ruby app called showoff to generate and serve the workshop slides.
Alex has been improving showoff; until his latest patches get accepted and released, you will have to download and install his version, as follows:
git clone git://github.com/alexch/showoff.git
cd showoff
bundle install --without optional
rake gem:install
Alex has been working on these slides on a fork, so until they are accepted into the Railsbridge github repo, do this:
git clone git://github.com/alexch/workshop.git
For example, if you want to run the "Teacher Training" presentation, which lives in the teachers directory, do
showoff serve teachers
This will launch a local Sinatra server on port 9090. Open your browser to localhost:9090. On a Mac you can run:
open http://localhost:9090
Use arrow keys to navigate slides. Press '?' to see a help window.
(You can also cd into the directory and then run showoff serve if you like.)
You can create a custom presentation out of any combination and ordering of the section directories by creating your own showoff.json file. See nyc.json for an example -- it's the same as the standard showoff.json but inserts NY-specific resources after the Welcome section.
Slides are in Markdown format. Showoff will read all .md files in alphabetical order.
You can also add custom .css, .scss, and .js files, which will get imported into all slide sections.
Images should be in, or relative to, the current directory.
Try this: first gem install pdfkit, then visit
http://localhost:9090/pdf
but I make no guarantees!
Email mailto:railsbridge-workshops@googlegroups.com
This project is under an open source license. We're not sure exactly which one... probably MIT.
Gill Sans is under copyright. It's a great slide font and it comes with all recent Macs (and Gill Sans MT comes with MS Office). But it might not be on the instructor's machine so I checked in a zip file. This was probably the wrong thing to do.
Here is Gill Sans licensing info http://www.fontslive.com/font/gill-sans-family.aspx http://www.ascendercorp.com/font/gill-sans/
"The Gill Sans stack should work on most all computers. Gill Sans comes on all Macs and Gill Sans MT is installed with Microsoft Office, and Calibri (which is a good stand-in for Gill Sans) is one the core Vista fonts and is installed with both Office Windows and Office Mac. And lastly, if all else fails, use Trebuchet" - http://www.artsiteframework.com/guide/fontstacks.php -- the stack he's talking about is
"Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", GillSans, Calibri, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif
Perhaps we should replace it with a free font like SansBetween http://manfred-klein.ina-mar.com/ http://manfred-klein.ina-mar.com/fonts/2008-02/SansBetween-MAC.zip http://manfred-klein.ina-mar.com/fonts/2008-02/SansBetween-PC.zip