> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Oakes > <lyx-de...@oak-tree.us> wrote: > > 4.) It seems that there are people willing to help > promote/evangelize LyX, but I'm not sure we offer much in the > way of promotional materials to help. Would it be worthwhile > to create a limited number of tutorials for people, like > Venom, who will be holding seminars or workshops? (I've also > thought about teaching a design workshop through my local > library, and these materials would help provide a curriculum.)
I missed this thread! It would be nice. If you're interested, my conference (organized with "POuL", an association of linux-users of my university) was about 3 hours long and focused on taking notes at lesson and writing thesis. We offered a OpenSuse Live CD with all the necessary things to start quickly with LyX & LaTeX, I can share the link with you: VirtualBox/VMWare images are available too. We also distributed the basic MiKTeX, MacTeX and created a Debian repository for TeXLive, and obviously we gave LyX 2.0rc1 for all the platforms. We had 4 parts: 1) Why use LyX to take notes and writing thesis (funny, useless part) 2) A short introduction to LaTeX (to have a quick idea of what there's below) 3) Basic LyX features (maths, headings and so on) 4) Advanced features (shortcuts, presentations, instant preview with XY-pic and TikZ) The slides will be publicly available in a short but are in Italian, I can translate my parts (first and fourth) if someone is interested and ask the other speakers to do the same! Maybe we can publish them on the Wiki if you think their quality is good enough. The videos will be available soon. > I will be holding a workshop on LyX to graduate types at my university > and I'm not very sure where from to begin. Some ready materials > (slides on the advantages of LyX/LaTeX over MS Word and the hord, step > by step tutorials for creating your first document in LyX, using > bibliography and fancier features) would be of enormous help. My slides would definetely help you, I don't know what kind of audience do you expect, but if it's general audience, as mine was, I can give you some hints from my (little!) experience. venom00
