Overleaf presentation
- 1. Using Overleaf for Collaboration, Dissertations,
Grants, & Teaching
Arindam Basu
School of Health Sciences
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch,
New Zealand
October 4, 2016
- 3. “The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it”.
-Jamie Zawinski (1968-), Emacs developer and blogger
- 4. Three Two One
Three Principles: fearlessness, freedom of knowledge,
unfragment
Two Enablers: FOSS and The Cloud
One App: Overleaf (with Pandoc and Jupyter)
- 8. My Different Roles as a University Academic
Present before Students and Colleagues
Mark Papers
Guide Thesis Students
Apply for Grants and Funding for my research
Manage References
Analyse Data
Publish in Journals
Write more informal publications (Newspaper articles and
blogs)
Collaborate with colleagues
Sit on committees and analyse text data
Read documents
- 9. What Overleaf brings together
A Neat Writing Tool (Plain Text and WYSIWYG)
Presentation Tool
Developing Wireframes and Diagrams with TikZ/PGF
Workable File Manager
A communication Tool for Team Communication
Collaborative Writing
An Idea Sharing Tool
Publishing tool for Journal Submission
With Pandoc and Git, a Blogging Tool as well