[Desktop_printing] REMINDER: Preparation material for Printing Summit

[John Cherry]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 19:08 -0500, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> >> Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> >>> This is a gentle reminder to send in your presentation material for
> > the
> >>> Printing Summit before March 16, 2006. Presentation templates can be
> >>> found at:
> >>>
> > http://groups.osdl.org/workgroups/dtl/desktop_architects/desktop_printin
> >>> g
> >>>
> >>> The questions in the templates are there as a guidance. You are
> >>> encouraged to replace the actual questions with your own content. You
> >>> may also want to send your presentation directly to the
> >>> desktop_printing at osdl.org mailinglist as inspiration for others.
> >> Is this template for *all* presentations, or ???
> > 
> > Good question.
> > 
> > I start not answering it by saying that *all* participants should send
> > in a presentation based on the template. :-)
> > 
> > I suggest that you feel free to add whatever else you want to bring up
> > at the back of your presentation in the understanding that you may not
> > be able to cover that at the actual summit, depending on how the actual
> > agenda/schedule will look like. That will definitly help us in setting
> > up the schedule and even in case that there isn't enough time to
> > actually talk about it, the other participants will be able to read it.
> > 
> > Also, once we have finalized the agenda we may want to contact some
> > people for additional presentations in order to set up in-depth
> > discussions towards specific topics.
> 
> Well, I guess my main point is that the template is 4 slides of
> introduction material, whereas I was under the impression that I
> would be presenting more in-depth information about CUPS and
> various specific topics (drivers, PPD format extensions, plug-and-
> play, etc.)
> 
> Or am I misunderstanding the purpose of the template?!?

The template is for EVERYBODY that attends (and some that don't).  For
you, these slides could serve as the introductory slides for your
in-depth CUPS topics.  Do whatever you need to do to cover the topics.

Cheers and have a good weekend...

John