Hi Achim,
thanks for the update, and great idea about the naming. I will update
the site proposal accordingly.
For the asciidoc, that's the purpose: link the doc directly in the karaf
and karaf-boot samples.
For the meetup, for now, I'm talking with potential sponsors. I will get
back to you soon.
Thanks
Regards
JB
On 11/12/2015 08:49 AM, Achim Nierbeck wrote:
Hi JB,
great design for the website.
Just one small "critique" I would like to see all Projects of beeing equal
to each other, so no "sub-projects" anylonger.
Therefore my idea would be to call Karaf -> Karaf-Container (at least in
the docs) to show that all of the "sub-projects" are equal in terms of
priority to us.
This would result in a Karaf-Container, Karaf-Decanter, Karaf-Cellar,
Karaf-Cave and last but not least Karaf-Boot on our new website.
This in combination with the new Asciidoc related documentation should help
a lot.
Regarding recipes in the docs, this is where asciidoc comes in real handy
cause we can actually link to "online" resources in the asciidoc sources
which will be rendered
during rendering time. That reduces code duplication, and makes it much
easier to point to sample code or test code which already exists in our
repository.
regarding the meetups idea I'm anxious to find out what you have in mind
here.
regards, Achim
2015-11-12 7:54 GMT+01:00 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>:
Hi all,
I already discussed with some of you about my plan on Karaf marketing.
I think clearly that we had a great project, a great team, a great tool,
but we're not really good in term of promotion and marketing.
Especially, we have to be clear in the message and the projects that we
deliver. For instance, again, I'm sure that karaf-boot is a huge step
forward in Karaf adoption. I'm not sure that all users are aware and know
the purpose of Cellar, Cave, Decanter, and even some Karaf areas.
In order to improve the Karaf marketing area, I would like to propose the
following plan:
1. More professional website
I think we have to improve both the content and the look'n feel of the
website.
In term of content, I think it makes sense to not emphasize on OSGi. The
fact that Karaf runs OSGi is not really interesting for most of end users
(of course, it is for advanced/power users). We have to explain that Karaf
is modern and multi-purpose container. More over, with karaf-boot, it
becomes also a bootstrapper and "run anywhere" paradigm platform.
So, I started a new website, changing the look'n feel (to give a more
professional shape) and the content (changing the marketing message):
http://maven.nanthrax.net/goodies/karaf/site/
I will complete the website today (some cleanup, other pages than the home
one, etc), but it already gives you an idea.
2. New guides/documentation
I'm working on the improvement in term of content of the documentation.
Especially, the dev guide will be more straight forward, providing recipes
for users.
All guides will use asciidoc now. You can already see the kind of output
on the Decanter guide:
http://karaf.apache.org/manual/decanter/latest-1/index.html
All Karaf guides (and subprojects) will be rendered in a popup using such
look'n feel.
3. Meetups
I plan to organize a Karaf Meetup beginning of 2016. I have some sponsors
in mind. The purpose is to meet most of Karaf users, devs, and enthusiasts.
I will give you more details soon.
Thoughts ?
Regards
JB
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Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[email protected]
http://blog.nanthrax.net
Talend - http://www.talend.com
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Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[email protected]
http://blog.nanthrax.net
Talend - http://www.talend.com
