In the world of server stability, a period as short as 7 days is extremely short. And only 99,7 in such a short time is quite bad. That suggests it’ll go down for a total of 30min every week.
There are a lot of things I don’t like about academia’s traditions.
Having references and sources is a must. Putting them on screen during a presentation is not.
The presentation is not the authoritative final version of the research for others to reference. It’s the quick entertaining version. It’s the advertisement for the paper. The paper needs the citations. The presentation just needs to entertain and entice. A presentation is a kind of performance. A one person play of sorts. Audience members don’t stop a play in the middle to check sources, or ask questions. Q&A comes after the presentation is finished. You can have a separate slide deck, of only charts and graphics with corresponding numbers that you hand out to the audience specifically for questions. But that’s not part of the presentation.
You’re still just thinking of how everyone currently uses them. Which I said was the wrong way. None of the uses you mentioned has anything to do with the presentation it’s self. You know, the part where you’re lecturing in front of a group of people. Knowing how to make a slide deck is all the difference in how useful they are.
What I suggested, flat out, can not be used for anything you said. You might have 70+ slides for a 10min presentation. But it works great during the presentation itself. (What it’s supposed to be for). My style guide works for emphasizing points, entertaining and maintaining attention, so people remember more and don’t need to reference as much later. It makes the actual presentation better. Not just something to replace notes or reference materials for later. If you’re designing your slide deck to actually hand out for people to read, it’ll be rubbish for the actual presentation.
It honestly always seemed silly to me. Unless I told the helmsman to wait for some reason, they should just go as soon as they’re ready. Why wait an extra moment just for me to say “go”?
That said, if it was some kind of required protocall, I’d pick a different silly term each time. Like “Banana Bread”, “Pencil”, or “Fuck off”.