The costs of hosting a live demo is something the ASF can help with.

Having a live instance that's world accessible would certainly give us a
strong incentive to tighten up our security posture. :)

-- 
Sean
On May 13, 2015 9:29 AM, "Joe Witt" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jenn
>
> That does help and once the new site goes live they'll be prominent.
>
> All,
>
> This company does have a live demo up and running.  I've not
> personally tried it yet but..
> https://www.silvercloudcomputing.com/nifi-1.html
>
> Already a pretty solid thread going here.  This is great!
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Jennifer Barnabee
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We have the screencasts I did [1] - in case that helps.
> >
> > [1]
> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHre9pIBAgc4e-tiq9OIXkWJX8bVXuqlG
> >
> > -Jenn
> >
> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Dan Bress <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >> >
> >>
>

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