I've often used Pharo and Squeak for presentations, particularly when interactive widgets can get me beyond typical presentation stuff. The main hurdle I see in getting a really awesome Pharopoint is that I'd like to have a presenter interface that is different for me the presenter than what the audience sees. Here are some things that come to mind:
(1) Allow me to keep my higher resolution 16x10 aspect ratio screen and present to a 4x3 monitor.
(2) Allow me to keep presenter notes that people can't see.
(3) Allow me a preview of upcoming slides and to jump around.
(4) Make my cursor on the presentation leave a trail, so I can highlight things with my mouse.
From a programming Pharo programming perspective, this stuff isn't hard. Where the rubber hits the road is that Pharo needs to interact with the operating system to set up the two different decoration-less windows, displaying one on the projector and keeping the other one on the laptop. In Powerpoint and the like, getting into this mode is just a button click away. Once that functionality is just a few lines of Smalltalk away, I'm sure we'll see really interesting versions of Pharopoint coming soon after.

Just my two cents,

Jeff


On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 12:57 PM Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com> wrote:
I think that this kind of experiences is excellent because this is
exactly the level for Bloc.

Stef

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:
> On 03/11/17 12:33, Tim Mackinnon wrote:
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>> Cool - great minds think alike ;)
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> :)
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>> In your photo - there is keynote, are you creating there and then
>> rendering in Pharo - or are you exporting to keynote to had out afterwards?
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> That was the first experiment. I took a slide from a keynote presentation I
> have made and tried reproducing it in Bloc. The quality of the graphics and
> typographical support is now good enough to do that.
> It is a page from
> https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/pharo-50c66685913c
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> I'm not yet sure how I'd want it integrated with gtInspector, how to have a
> slide-specific DSL and what kind of storage format to use.
>
> My Bloc experiments on vimeo are helping me test hypotheses on how I'd want
> to work with it. Last week I was distracted by private reasons, the weeks
> before that with PharoLauncher, P3, Iceberg...
>
> Interaction between text areas and drag and drop was not yet working as I
> wanted it to.
>
> Earlier experiments I've done with a glamour based browser, including
> exercises where save would recompile a method and show the results
>
> Stephan
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