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 > >> > > >> >
