Plan and design the final showcase

10 Apr 2013
30 Apr 2013
Europe/Stockholm
ID: 
10.9
Task leader: 
olga.caprotti
Assignees: 
aarne.ranta
Assignees: 
borislav.popov
Assignees: 
Jeroen van Grondelle
Assignees: 
jordi.saludes
Assignees: 
lauri.carlson
Assignees: 
Norbert E. Fuchs
Assignees: 
olga.caprotti
Status: 
Ongoing
Timeframe: 
Apr 2013

The final showcase is an archive of the results of the projects to be delivered within 2 months from the end of the project.

Description of the final media package for the MOLTO project, as per Appendix X to Annex I:

To supply at the latest by the date of submission of the final report a Web enabled (or DVD based) public Showcase, and to grant the Commission the right to use the Showcase for its own dissemination and awareness activities (including Web based and electronic publications) after the completion of the project. The Showcase will feature a meaningful subset (software, data, etc.) of the functionality characterising the project demonstrator(s) arrived at, along with relevant copyright notices and contact information, and suitable installation aids and run-time interfaces.

USB-stick

If bootable, (e.g. a LINUX distribution augmented with all our software), we can make a running distro of the various services. Disadvantage: to run it requires the host laptop or PC to have the boot sequence in the BIOS altered to read the USB port device first.

Otherwise, a simple website interface to all the content can be started automatically from the USB stick. In this case the demos will probably have to rely on web-services running in the cloud and we have to deal with the issue of sustainability. We will of course distribute/archive the software for the web services.

See current options e.g. at http://www.bechtle.es/shop/BD_ES/product/alternative/028011008/728970/1?... (logotype printable if order exceeds 100 items)

Comments

Presentation tools for flagship demos

Major requirement is that the presentation should be browser-based.

These are the tools I am aware of:

One drawback is that AFAIK the source is xhtml, and people do not like to write xml. I have found a txt2tag tool to convert, it seems, http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/345266/artigos/s5-com-txt2tags/index.... but have not checked it yet.

  • slippy: https://github.com/Seldaek/slippy/

  • landslide (https://github.com/adamzap/landslide) (Kaarel uses this)

    • you write slides in Markdown
    • you compile them into a single file, either HTML or PDF (the PDF looks ugly so I don't use it). For the HTML I improved the stylesheet a bit, I didn't like the default one too much.
  • Google I/O 2012 slides (https://code.google.com/p/io-2012-slides/)

    • you write the slides in HTML, viewable immediately
    • lots of powerful Javascript and style files as part of the environment
    • no possibility to create a single file for publication

Kaarel's favorite is landslide because it's very lightweight and can create a single file for publication.

Markdown is what is used on the MOLTO website too and on github.