Petrov Day as Slides

[Daniel Speyer]

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I've adapted Jim Babcock's Petrov day booklet into a slideshow.

In New York, we've always had issues with how to read the booklet. The
ritual is performed in the dark, so we can't read paper. We've read it
from our glowing) phones, but looking at a glowing thing in your hand
while the room is dark gets really isolating. I've heard blue lights
can give the feeling of darkness while leaving paper legible, but most
places don't have those. I'm hoping most places do have data
projectors (we do).

Shifting to slides means greater control of what's seen when, which
has both advantages and disadvantages. It also allows some visual
tricks paper doesn't.

It might also allow better button integration. I need to understand
how the button works better, but if we're physically passing a
wireless mouse around the circle anyway, the opportunity to click the
button becomes a lot more real than if we stick a laptop somewhere
random.

I've mostly left the text alone. A few changes were necessitated by
the new format. I've also made the instructions more specific (can
never be enough of that) and made more use of the physical symbols.

The one big change I made is to the ending. Reading nontrivial text in
unison is hard, and the whole thing never felt like a conclusion to
me. I admit to be unsure whether what I've written will work, but it
seems worth a try.
Link is https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rM5ECNPElURuRRKxaUudzjQbVfh2Xk8TIGdPpAENaa4/edit?usp=sharing
. There might still be changes before the day. Feel free to fork, use,
comment on or ignore this.