I agree, while NiFi has a lot of magic under the covers, the most impressive thing to new people is how easy you can configure and control that magic via the UI. I think showing off this capability as soon as possible is the best way to attract new users.
If there was a way to have a live demo linked from the site, or even just an image/movie showing how easy it is to add processors, link them together and quickly have a working dataflow, I think people would understand the benefits of NiFi more quickly. Dan Bress Software Engineer ONYX Consulting Services ________________________________________ From: Matt Gilman <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: From apache nifi (incubating) site to running nifi in fewest clicks... For those with OSX we could make the latest convenience binaries available with homebrew [1]. I needed to test something using ActiveMQ last week and found it available there. Two commands and I had a running instance locally (with default settings), but we could certainly do something similar. [1] http://brew.sh/ On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > Yesterday I had a chance to talk to a really cool startup with awesome > developers who gave some great feedback on nifi. One of the things > they mentioned was how much they loved the UI. In fact they said if > they hadn't seen the reference to the UI they would have said > 'interesting' and moved on but not really followed up. > > The point they made is we should make it as easy as possible to get > from landing on the apache nifi webpage to having an up and running > instance of NiFi for them to get to start playing with the UI. > > I'd like to put this out there to get a sense of how people see this > being most effectively done. > > They mentioned Vagrant. We've also had some folks mention and > contribute references to docker images. Other ideas might be > providing a live/running site where people could just immediately > start gaining familiarity with nifi. > > Each of these have different pros/cons and it is unclear how to do > these in apache effective ways. > > Look forward to ideas you all may have or thoughts on what other > effective approaches projects have taken. > > Thanks > Joe >
