I think this is a very good idea. With a team committed to keep the site up
to date the main concern should also be resolved.

Cheers,
Till

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 5:25 PM Yuan Mei <yuanmei.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep, Marta's concern is definitely a great point in terms of maintenance
> costs.
>
> What I would like to highlight is a place to collect scattered materials
> `altogether` so that they are easy to search, tag, and update. In that
> sense, I really like Fabian's idea.
>
> It is even better if we could have some level of interaction so that people
> can comment and give feedback to the author directly and ask questions
> under those materials. We can even analyze what type of materials are more
> popular based on feedback, and accordingly, we can adjust our promotion
> strategy. I think these would be great complementation to what we can
> achieve solely through mailing lists, slack, or stack overflow today.
>
> I can ask whether the team running to promote the Flink community in China
> can help to build such a site if appropriate. It should not be too
> difficult if we do not intend to do fancy stuff :-).
>
> What do you say?
>
> Best
>
> Yuan
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 7:54 PM Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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