Generally speaking, I think we want to encourage more training and tutorial content out there, for sure, so, the more the merrier.
My reservation here is that as an Apache project, it might appear to 'bless' one set of materials as authoritative over all the others out there. And there are already lots of good ones. For example, Jacek has long maintained a very comprehensive set of free Spark training materials at https://jaceklaskowski.gitbooks.io/mastering-apache-spark/ In comparison the slides I see proposed so far only seem like outlines? It's also a separate project from Spark. We might have trouble ensuring the info is maintained and up to date, and sometimes outdated or incorrect info is worse than none - especially if it appears quasi official. The Spark project already maintains and updates its docs (which can always be better), so already has its hands full there. Personally, no strong objection here, but, what's the upside to running this as an ASF project vs just letting people continue to publish quality tutorials online? On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 9:00 AM Lars Francke <lars.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Spark community, > > you may or may not have heard of a new-ish (February 2019) project at Apache: > Apache Training (incubating). We aim to develop training material about > various projects inside and outside the ASF: <http://training.apache.org/> > > One of our users wants to contribute material on Spark[1] > > We've done something similar for ZooKeeper[1] in the past and the ZooKeeper > community provided excellent feedback which helped make the product much > better[3]. > > That's why I'd like to invite everyone here to provide any kind of feedback > on the content donation. It is currently in PowerPoint format which makes it > a bit harder to review so we're happy to accept feedback in any form. > > The idea is to convert the material to AsciiDoc at some point. > > Cheers, > Lars > > (I didn't want to cross post to user@ as well but this is obviously not > limited to dev@ users) > > [1] <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRAINING-17> > [2] <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRAINING-13> > [3] You can see the content here > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-training/blob/master/content/ZooKeeper/src/main/asciidoc/index_en.adoc> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org
