Hi Alex, welcome to the list and thank you very much for your questions and input! We are still in the process of starting everything up and especially our website is not entirely up to speed yet, so let me try to answer your questions on here for now.
Very short answer: a bit of 2, very much 3 & 4 Basically, the idea is to create a central repository for all sorts of training components, make this material searchable and provide tooling to compose material for training sessions out of the individual components. This will probably include but is in no way limited to "The Apache Way", Apache products, other open source products, ... So to give a concrete example of how I imagine/hope this will work is if I am asked to give an introduction to full-text search and overview of open source components out there, then I can check our index (whatever form that'll have in the end), find stuff on "what is an inverted index", "introduction to Solr" and "Elasticsearch fundamentals", create a metadata file referencing these materials from our repository and "compile" a finished presentation from these. With the added benefit of just recompiling this with updated content 2 years later, when I'm asked to give the same talk again. I do realize that there are numerous issues still to solve around this and that it will probably not work quite as nicely as I've made it sound, but one can dream.. I hope that answers your question, if not, please feel free to reach out and I will try again :) Best regards, Sönke On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:05 PM Alexandre Rafalovitch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Sönke Liebau Partner Tel. +49 179 7940878 OpenCore GmbH & Co. KG - Thomas-Mann-Straße 8 - 22880 Wedel - Germany
