Jenn's screencasts are linked to in the updated website which should be live later today!
Matt 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 > > > > > >
