Jenn That does help and once the new site goes live they'll be prominent.
All, This company does have a live demo up and running. I've not personally tried it yet but.. https://www.silvercloudcomputing.com/nifi-1.html Already a pretty solid thread going here. This is great! Thanks Joe 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 >> > >>
