Hello Alex, This sounds like an excellent idea! :)
Saqib On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > Packt Publishing has kindly agreed to let me run a contest with e-copies of > my book as prizes: > http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-for-indexing-data/book > > Since my book is about learning Solr and targeted at beginners and early > intermediates, here is what I would like to do. I am asking for feedback on > whether people on the mailing list like the idea or have specific > objections to it. > > 1) The basic idea is to get Solr users and write and vote on what they find > hard with Solr, especially in understanding the features (as contrasted > with just missing ones). > 2) I'll probably set it up as a User Voice forum, which has all the > mechanisms for suggesting and voting on ideas. With an easier interface > than Jira.... > 3) The top N voted ideas will get the books as prizes and I will try to > fix/document/create JIRAs for those issues. > 4) I am hoping to specifically reach out to the communities where Solr is a > component and where they don't necessarily hang out on our mailing list. I > am thinking SolrNet, Drupal, project Blacklight, Cloudera, CrafterCMS, > SiteCore, Typo3, SunSpot, Nutch. Obviously, anybody and everybody from this > list would be absolutely welcome to participate as well. > > Yes? No? Suggestions? > > Also, if you are maintainer of one of the products/services/libraries that > has Solr in it and want to reach out to your community yourself, I think it > would be a lot better than If I did it. Contact me directly and I will let > you know what template/FAQ I want you to include in the announcement > message when it is ready. > > Thank you all in advance for the comments and suggestions. > > Regards, > Alex. > > Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch > - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at > once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) >
