Thanks, everyone for the feedback and suggestions! I was thinking about whether to call the external site as " flink-learning.org"?
If nobody disagrees upon this whole idea, we will start with a demo of the least functionalities discussed - several collections of learning materials (videos, ppts, blogs, examples) with search - meets up and other activities publishing - and so on. On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:33 PM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
