Fabian's idea is definitely nice, if we find somebody who wants to develop such a site :)
Marta has raised valid concerns. Maybe we could start by creating a Wiki page, that nicely categorizes the different items. I'm happy to prominently link the Wiki page from the "Powered By" and Starting page. On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:05 AM Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I like the idea of having a place to collect material (blogs, talk > recordings, slides) on Flink. > As Robert said, we had this before and dropped it at some point because the > content became stale. > Also I feel we would need something more dynamic than a static website > (like flink.apache.org) but something with search, tags, up/down votes. > > What do you think about collecting content on an external site similar to > flink-packages.org. > Maybe flink-packages.org can be extended to also list content pieces or a > new page (flink-content.org/flink-materials.org/???) could be built. > This is of course significantly more work, but might pay off because it can > offer more interaction and we could also allow externals (i.e, > non-committers) to post new content. > > What do you think? > > Cheers, Fabian > > > Am Mo., 11. Mai 2020 um 09:44 Uhr schrieb Marta Paes Moreira < > ma...@ververica.com>: > > > Hi, Yuan! > > > > Thanks for starting this discussion! It would be really good to make > those > > resources more prominent in the Flink website somehow. > > > > You can find an example close to the idea you're bringing up in [1]. My > > concern is that placing all resources in a page can be hard to maintain > and > > a bit overwhelming. For users, it also ends up being hard to pinpoint > what > > they are looking for if there is too much material. > > > > Rather than trying to maintain such a page, I think it could be valuable > to > > rethink the "Use Cases" section of the website and incorporate some > > relevant materials in association with the right context (e.g. industry, > > use case), then point users to a different place where they can find more > > (e.g. the Flink Forward playlist/Slideshare or other dedicated Flink > > channel). > > > > For blogposts, what we usually do is reach out to the authors of > > blogposts that are relevant to the community, but posted elsewhere, and > ask > > to submit them to the Flink blog as well. Could this also be an option > for > > the Chinese version of the blog? As far as I see, for now it's just a > > mirror of the English blog. > > > > Marta > > > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Powered+by+Flink / > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Various+Presentations > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 9:11 AM Yuan Mei <yuanmei.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hey folks, > > > > > > I am looking for a home to put and organize materials (mostly in > Chinese) > > > altogether for easier reference or search in the future. > > > > > > Those materials mainly include: > > > - video records for live broadcasting of Flink related content. For > > > example, the set of selected Flink Forward talks reinterpreted and > > > broadcasted in Chinese. > > > - regular meet up topics, minutes, and PPTs. Meet-ups are held twice > > every > > > month on average. > > > - write-ups/blogs to share user experiences e.t.c. > > > > > > Currently, those materials are published through the official Flink > > WeChat > > > account. The WeChat public account is a good way to “publish” > > information, > > > but very difficult to search or organize afterwards. Personally, I find > > > those materials are particularly helpful to users/developers not very > > > familiar with Flink, me, as an example. Hence finding a place > > easy-to-find > > > such materials is very important. > > > > > > There are several options we can adopt, but specifically, these > materials > > > are non-commercial stuff and purely for promoting the Flink community, > so > > > better not be tagged with any commercial trademarks. > > > > > > I was wondering how the English communities organize such materials? > Can > > we > > > simply put them under https://flink.apache.org/ as a subcategory? > like > > > https://flink.apache.org/cn > > > > > > Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks ahead! > > > > > > Best > > > > > > Yuan > > > > > >
