This is a ridiculous presentation system that works great for creative, hurried people. See the demo for an example of it working.

It makes text and images as big as they can be, gives you minimal styling (em), and gives you left/right arrows for navigation.

Quickstart

You can skip every step by doing

wget https://raw.github.com/tmcw/big/gh-pages/big.quickstart.html

This is a bundle of all JS, CSS, and HTML code - which means that it's a bit harder to update, but there are no external dependencies here, so no conference-wifi-pwn.

Presentations with Big

the demo
javascript for cats by Max Ogden for empire js and there's a great video of him presenting it
d3-geo by Kai Chang
THREE.js + geo by Brandon Liu
FOSS4G: Beyond
Project It Yourself
Carto
Freeing the DC Code
WhereCamp Boston (big alpha)
foss4g (big alpha)
Yours? Post it in issues.

Stuff that works with big

bigclicker is a remote control for big
bigpy lets you use Markdown with big by implementing it as a pre-processing step in Python
big-themes (website) is a fledgling new repository for big themes. Try one, make one, take one home today.

Open Source

Big is awesomer because lambda, mikeal, and BraulioVM contributed to it! And you can too: it's Public Domain, CC0.
mdznr has a really cool fork with its own demo

HTML5

Big is totally HTML5! It uses the HTML5 doctype: <!DOCTYPE html>! It's therefore imbued with standardslicious hypeclouds.

Source

The source looks like:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><link href='big.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='big.js'></script></head><body>
<div>Big</div>
<div><em>Presentation software</em> for busy busy hackers</div>
<div>text</div>
<div>as <em>big</em> as it can be</div>
<div>no config</div>
<div><em>1.5k</em></div>
<div><em>images too</em></div>
<div><img src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2506/5757000880_509440308e_z.jpg' /></div>
<div>JS+CSS <a href='https://github.com/tmcw/big'>github.com/ tmcw/ big</a></div>

'features'

If you put an image as the first thing in a slide, it'll become a tiled background. I abused this power in my presentation on project it yourself

sgillies / big