publish a presentation to share a read-only view about hacker-slides

[ocdtrekkie]

The web publishing API creates a non-guessable URL by default. :)

[jacksingleton]

Ah perfect

[ocdtrekkie]

Sandstorm has just added a new sharing model which supports generating links to content with different access levels. Etherpad and a couple of other apps now support it.

I did a talk last weekend with a Hacker Slides presentation, and I want to post the link, but only if I can get a read-only sharing link for it.

[jacksingleton]

Thanks for the heads up! Yeah I noticed the behavior changed from letting anyone edit if the document url was shared to just locking everyone out.

[JonTheNiceGuy]

As I used HackerSlides at Oggcamp this weekend, and I'm now being asked to share my presentations, is their either a shortcut to get the files out, or failing that, something I can use to republish?

I'm currently using developer tools in Firefox to right-click-copy-as-curl and then paste in an SSH session to output to a file... but this is a bit messy! :)

[jacksingleton]

Hey Jon - not really right now.

Another thing you can do is use the sandstorm "Download Backup" button. That will give you a zip file with a data directory containing a file called slides.md

Then clone RevealJS, and follow the external markdown instructions (using slides.md as your markdown file): https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#external-markdown

You'll want a slides section with these attributes:
data-markdown="slides.md"
data-separator="^-( )-( *)-( *-)*"
data-separator-notes="^Note:"
data-charset="utf-8"

So... that's also a bit messy I know. But it is Hacker slides right ;)

But seriously, I'm going to give this app some love this weekend to make it more approachable for contributors and I think @zarvox may even hack out this feature.

[zarvox]

FWIW, this is fixed in 0.2.0 - the "Present" mode opens a window to the static-publishing URL. If you need to extract the markdown from a published presentation, you can grab it from http://<your-random-publishing-domain>/slides.md

Cheers!