Stop Using Proprietary Document Formats; A Lightning Talk Where I Will Yell At You

In the last year...

Did you willingly use a:

Prezi

Powerpoint

or Microsoft Word?

Wait...

transitional OpenXML vs. strict OpenXML

:(

We're library people...

...who talk a good game about...

openness

sharing

but we're still passing around Word docs

nothing is easier than ascii

It's indexable

will outlast you and me and everyone we know (probably)

So why aren't we using it (more)?

HTML is okayiiiiissshhh

Use Markdown!

and it works with

reveal.js

wordpress

tumblr

github

stackoverflow

your email client

everything really