GitHub Markdown Presentation 🎈

A simple template for creating presentations on the web hosted using GitHub Markdown You can also serve it locally if you don't want to upload your presentation online.

Getting started

Fork the repo and edit _config.yml and then activate GitHub Pages in the repo settings on the master branch.

This project depends on Ruby and github-pages gem.

1. Installing Ruby and dependencies:

For Windows (using Chocolatey package manager):

$ choco install ruby
...

For macOS (using Homebrew package manager):

$ brew install ruby
...

For Ubuntu (using apt):

$ sudo apt-get install ruby-full
...

After installing please verify the version by running:

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x64-mingw32]

Life should be great right now, install the project dependencies

$ gem install github-pages
...

2. Running the project

Clone the forked repository to your computer

$ git clone https://github.com/username/gh-presentation.git
$ cd gh-presentation
$ jekyll serve
...

The site should now be served on http://localhost:4000 and it should be listening for changes in your markup.

3. Creating content

To create new slides you will have to use GitHub Markdown.

All the slides are located under the _posts folder. To see an overview of all the slides you can use esc on your keyboard to get an idea of how the numbers (e.g. 1000-01-01-intro.md) work on each slide.

Upcoming features:

• Exporting to PDF
• Notes for the presenter
• WebSockets for broadcasting the presentation to multiple users

Contributing:

Please contribute by creating issues, pull requests or staring this repo even 🚀