I think a boon for adoption would be to piggyback on the current trend of Docker adoption and getting NiFi containerized. In conjunction with this, a "NiFi appliance" that can be booted up in VirtualBox/VMWare would make for complementary additions.
I don't think it's feasible at this point to host a live demo, so the next closest thing is to let people experience the project with minimal impedance. Not that standing up NiFi is difficult by any means, but I could envision both a barebones configuration that presents you with a blank workspace and then some variants that show key use cases so people can immediately feel the impact and understand how this makes their life, business, organization better. Videos only do so much, but the "tactile" experience can really send the message home. It's an easier win with 'Step 1' being "Run 'docker run ...'" or "Open this file in VirtualBox." If there is a desire to go further in the area of accessibility, say in the appeal to people who are only interested in managing data flow, an equivalent of boot2docker [http://boot2docker.io] Take the templates, which I agree are needed and crucial, and autoload them into the Docker container or VM image. People that like what they see won't mind opening up a configuration file and tweaking as needed and establishing an environment. On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > One could argue that we have no users at this point :-) But that shouldn't > stop us from ensuring we lay down the foundation to help bring folks in and > get them to be productive using it. > > While the application does provide a lot of in-line documentation we will > need to setup a nice user guide which will document the basic concepts and > functions of the application. Once the wiki and such is established we can > post step-by-step guides and also include templates to help users quickly > put a base flow together. > > Getting this right and ensuring it evolves is important for not just > building a user base but also building a diverse contributor base. > > Please do fire out thoughts on things we should tackle/consider early on > for users. > > Thanks > Joe >
