Hi JB great work. The new design is very pleasant. I agree with Christian, it looks so much commercial... if someone, with no know how on Karaf, opens it for the first time, he would think that Karaf is a paid product. Probably adding reference to Apache Community will mitigate this aspect.
I'm really excited to participate in a meeting about Karaf. Regards Giuseppe 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 >
