[stsp]

The photos are all from the area around Calgary, where some of the initial ideas were born during an OpenBSD hackathon. IIRC we disabled Latin1 support during this hackathon.

While giving this talk in Belgrade, Ingo apologized he didn't have photos from a Belgrade hike yet so he used the Calgary ones instead.

[odabaxok]

This does not answer the original question. What is the purpose of these photos?

[coldtea]

It's a little thing called decoration, you should look it up sometime...

[Scarblac]

I like photos as decoration, but they all have captures, in the same font as the presentation. The captures have quite some information (like the heights of the mountains). The photos are placed where you'd expect presentation images to be as well. But it's all entirely unrelated to the presentation.

All in all it's much more distracting than normal decoration.

[odabaxok]

To answer in your tone: You misspelled distraction. ;)

...but seriously, it does not add any value to the presentation. Also, every photo has a caption, which can be truly a distraction. I can imagine if someone tries to read all of them and loses track in the presentation in every single slide. The author could have decorated with something on-topic, if he felt the slides were too plain.

[coldtea]

>To answer in your tone: You misspelled distraction. ;)

Heh, less of a malevolent tone, and more of a reference to a Futurama episode (s2e6).

[hueving]

To capture imagery of Calgary.