Wow, nice job on the demo website :) Another group to discuss Karaf user meet ups is with the OpenDaylight community - they already have a large network of SDN meet up groups, they're all Karaf users by default now.
Cheers, Jamie On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> -- >>> Jean-Baptiste Onofré >>> [email protected] >>> http://blog.nanthrax.net >>> Talend - http://www.talend.com >>> >> >> >> > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [email protected] > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com
