Hello, My name is Alex and I am a committer to the Apache Lucene/Solr project. My - self-selected - focus within the community is onboarding of the new (Solr) users. This includes introductory training, improved examples, compilation of non-obvious resources (I run http://www.solr-start.com/), etc. I also try to point people at Solr training/presentation/projects by other people as appropriate.
So I was quite excited when I stumbled on this project. Anything that simplifies the onboarding for those who train others is awesome. Yet, I am a little confused on the specific initial focus even after reviewing the website and some of the threads. So, I thought I would throw it here and see if the tree I am barking up is the right one. Is this project primarily about: 1) Having the best "Introduce to the Apache Way" material - the presentations/etc about the Apache itself? 2) Having common templates for people teaching/presenting about individual Apache Projects (e.g. Solr) to make it easier for them to produce the material. So, similar to what ApacheCon gives to its presenters but even better? 3) Having a way to discover all the various trainings done by different people about Apache projects? 4) Allowing people to contribute their material to some central repository under the license that allows reuse/remix? 5) Something completely else? For (3) specifically, my blue sky idea was that it would be absolutely fantastic to have an old-yahoo-style directory of all resources. At least for Solr, Google has real trouble finding good content, even if it is out there. Especially, if it is a video. I actually had a preliminary go on this idea, but could not find any software to make it easy and did not want to bikeshed to that level of depth (though perhaps one day...). Regards, Alex.
