FrOSCon is a two-day conference on free software and open source, which
takes place on 24th and 25th June 2006 at the University of Applied
Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany.
The Call for Papers ends on March 15th - so you better hurry if you want to give a presentation there! I proposed two MySQL-related talks and also asked some other colleagues to file a few submissions. There is enough stuff happening here to talk about 
By the way, their registration frontend is very slick - it's called pentabarf (which I personally think is a weird name) and is powered by Ruby on Rails.
I have been struggling with that for ages: how can I configure my slides to not display all bullet points at once when I switch to the next slide, but rather display one at a time?
I prefer not not distract my audience by having them read through the entire slide in advance instead of listening to me still elaborating on the previous bullet points. Some Google research finally pointed me to
this article, which also mentions how to accomplish this:
- Mark the frame that holds the bullet points
- In the Tasks pane, select "Custom Animation"
- Click "Add" and select the Entrance Effect you want to use. For displaying one item after another, either the plain "Appear" or "Fade In" effect is probably least distracting. Apply the Effect with OK.
- Small progress: now all bullet points will be displayed at once, but after the slide itself has been displayed.
- This can be changed with the "Effect Options" Button in the "Custom Animation -> Modify Effect" dialogue of the Tasks pane (it's well hidden as the button is only labelled as "..."). Click on the button and choose the "Text Animation" tab in the appearing dialogue. In there, change the "Group Text" option from "As one object" to "By 1st level paragraphs". If you have sublevels of bullets, choose the appropriate level that suits your needs.
- Now click OK and test the presentation again. Each bullet should now be appear individually. You're done!
Next week, the MySQL Development Team (around 100 people) will meet for our internal annual development conference in Sorrento, Italy (between Naples and Salerno).
On Tuesday evening (18:00), we would like to meetup with local MySQL users and affiliated OSS developers to chat about MySQL and OSS and go out for dinner together. So if you are located close to Sorrento, please get in touch with us at community at mysql.com for further details! Looking forward to meet you there - I will be attending the conference until Wednesday.
Update: We decided to meet earlier (at 18:00) instead of 19:30, to have some more time for discussion before heading out for food.
