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Jason C. McDonald

I usually just use LibreOffice Impress. My public speaking professor in college taught us the "six by six" rule: no more than six bullet points per slide, and no more than six words per bullet point. (And PLEASE do NOT read the darned thing aloud!) I've never had a problem with slide decks as a result.

The last talk I gave, though, I just used Visual Studio Code, with the few quotes or outline points I needed written in Python source code files. It was pretty well received.


Bonus: This past July, I watched Naomi Ceder give a presentation at EuroPython where she used greenscreen Zoom background photos for all of her "slides". It was quite impressive!