Updates to First-time Contributors Workshop slide deck

An urgent opportunity came up the other day for the Drupal Contribution Day Japan, which is a precursor event for DrupalCon Nara 2025. To try to meet this deadline, Chris and I are going to collaborate on getting a new canonical slide deck started with standard slide layout names so that we can create a Mentoring theme using the Barcelona 2024 design.

Some feedback on the branded slide deck that Chris is working on.

I looked at the standard layouts provided by themes in Google slides. And then went through each of the slides in the deck to document them, their use, and whether they could be mapped to a standard layout.

It seems to me there are too many variations at the moment and that's not including the random flair.

Also adding the Event logo on nearly every slide will make it harder to update for a speaker giving the session at an event.

Theme standard layouts

• Title Slide
• Section header
• Title and body
• Title and two-columns
• Title only
• One column text
• Main point
• Section title and description
• Caption
• Big number
• Blank

New Branding slide styles

I think I can condense most of the Title (left-aligned) slide styles into "Title and two-columns" and "Title and body" (or "One column text") by having optional Sub-title and making the flair images consistent. That might also solve the "Picture with Caption" slides.

Then maybe we have a custom layout for "Title and three-columns".

Unused: Big number, Section header

Adding a couple more custom named layouts would make it easier. I came up with the following and exported from Google slides (Format is pptx), and the next step is to import into the slide deck, apply a layout to a slide, consolidate the text because the existing slide decks do not use standard layout placeholders.

I had to tarball the pptx file in order to be able to upload it. So it needs a tar zxf Drupal-Mentoring.pptx.tar.gz in order to extract the Drupal-Mentoring.pptx. trying to File > Download the theme as ODP format failed for me on the slide deck.

I applied the theme to the FTCWS Themed slide deck in the Mentoring drive and fixed everything up so that existing content fit into placeholder content (with the exception of event logos). Some of the screenshot content is never going to be perfect for a theme due to how stylized the original image crop/masks were.

I also added the instructional slides back because these are really important for new presenters.

I added unique speaker notes from the current canonical slides as well as from @ninelivesblackcat's midcamp slides into the deck.

I also added her Drupal Forge slide.