Hi Alex, great please go ahead..
-Sandeep On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Ali, Saqib <docbook....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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) > > >
