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An overview of Sozi

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An overview of Sozi
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SVG-based zooming presentation software
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Initially inspired by the proprietary software Prezi, Sozi is a free and open-source "zooming presentation" tool based on open standards. This talk will expose the general concepts of Sozi and how it benefits from the use of open standards, from a user's as well as a developer's point of view. We will give an overview of the current status of the project and the expected future developments. Over the last few years, several presentation tools have emerged that provide alternatives to the traditional desktop slideshow software. Some of them, like reveal.js, allow to create slideshows using web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Others, like the proprietary software Prezi, have set a new paradigm based on a sequence of camera movements (translations, zooms, rotations) over a single, unlimited canvas where all the visual content of your document is laid out. Initially inspired by Prezi, Sozi is a free and open-source "zooming presentation" tool based on open standards. A Sozi presentation is an SVG document augmented with presentation data and a player script in JavaScript. As a consequence, such a document can be played directly by any standards-compliant web browser without the need to install a plugin or a specific viewing software. For presentation creators, we have chosen to build the Sozi editor as an extension to the free SVG editor Inkscape. Sozi is open to contributions: volunteers have provided translations to 8 languages, others have created packages for several widely-used GNU/Linux distributions