Fair enough. If you believe we can handle the "garbage collection" of old material well, I am good with your suggestion.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Matthias J. Sax <mj...@apache.org> wrote: > I don't think that outdated slides are too much a problem because we > also include the date of the talks. So people can judge by themselves > how old the talk (and information is). > > If we keep an eye on it, and update this section in about 3 month > intervals (or maybe even 6 month) to remove old stuff should be good > enough. And this interval does not put too much effort on the community > to keep it up to date in a useful manner. > > If we only point to slideshare accounts, the problem about old slides is > even more difficult to handle, because we (as a community) cannot remove > old slides from those accounts and rely on the cooperation of the > slideshare account owner. Furthermore, I would expect the number of > slide decks over all slideshare accounts to be growing -- thus making it > even more difficult for users to figure out which slides are relevant or > not. (I doubt that people remove old slides -- it seems that slideshare > is often used as historical backup of all available slides). > > Thus providing a selection of talks over the website seems to be a good > idea. > > Let me know if you disagree. > > -Matthias > > On 11/02/2015 08:48 PM, Stephan Ewen wrote: > > I am a bit sceptical about the slides on the website, because they just > go > > out of date. Nobody remembers to update the links to slides in the > > materials section, so some more permanent links would be great. > > > > Linking to training is good, maybe to a few slideshare accounts of > > committers that these people keep up to date anyways... > > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Matthias J. Sax <mj...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > >> Will do. > >> > >> -Matthias > >> > >> On 11/02/2015 11:34 AM, Robert Metzger wrote: > >>> I would really love to see it extended. > >>> Do you have time for opening a pull request for extending the page a > bit > >>> Matthias? > >>> > >>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Martin Liesenberg < > >>> martin.liesenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> It might also be useful to link to the training materials which can be > >>>> found here: > >>>> http://dataartisans.github.io/flink-training/ > >>>> > >>>> Best regards > >>>> Martin > >>>> > >>>> Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> schrieb am Mi., 28. Okt. 2015 > >> 10:53: > >>>> > >>>>> Yes, you can find lots of Flink slides on the Slideshare. > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Matthias J. Sax <mj...@apache.org> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Hi, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I just "discovered" that on the Flink "Material" page, a couple of > >>>> slide > >>>>>> decks are listed (https://flink.apache.org/material.html). I guess, > >>>> this > >>>>>> list is far from complete. Should we try to extend it? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -Matthias > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > >
