[jira] [Comment Edited] (SOLR-6748) Additional resources to the site to help new Solr users ramp up quicker

["Xavier Morera (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Xavier Morera edited comment on SOLR-6748 at 12/14/14 2:59 AM:
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Hi [~steve_rowe],

Thanks for your feedback. I will add it there. Two comments:
- Even though the training is under a paid site, if you get a trial account you can actually watch the course for free so there is no obligation to pay. That's why I thought it would've been a good fit under Resources page. Also, I've spent hundreds of hours creating material to help non-proficient-in-search-devs get started, delivered it as an online training, then an in person training and now...
- I also have a book coming up in the next month on the same subject, focusing on helping people get started with Solr quickly. This one will be 100% free. Being a book, can I come back and submit it to be added to the website with the others?

Thanks also for your time to reply. Much appreciated. Who can I contact to get approved for the Wiki?


was (Author: xavier-morera):
Hi [~steve_rowe],

Thanks for your feedback. I will add it there. Two comments:
- Even though the training is under a paid site, if you get a trial account you can actually watch the course for free so there is no obligation to pay. That's why I thought it would've been a good fit under Resources page. Also, I've spent hundreds of hours creating material to help non-proficient-in-search-devs get started, delivered it as an online training, then an in person training and now...
- I also have a book coming up in the next month on the same subject, focusing on helping people get started with Solr quickly. This one will be 100% free. Being a book, can I come back and submit it to be added to the website with the others?

Thanks also for your time to reply. Much appreciated.

> Additional resources to the site to help new Solr users ramp up quicker
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-6748
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6748
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: documentation
>            Reporter: Xavier Morera
>
> I would like to request the addition of an online training I created for Pluralsight called *Getting Started with Enterprise Search using Apache Solr* in the following page: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html
> It is not exactly a video only, it is an online training so no idea if it should be added beneath videos or separately.
> It aims to take a developer with absolutely no knowledge of Solr or even search engines, to take them into being able to create a basic POC style application with Solr in the backend. A few thousand people have watched it and I have received very positive feedback on how it has helped people get started very quickly and reduce the entry level barrier.  
> Is this possible? The url of the training is:
> http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/table-of-contents/enterprise-search-using-apache-solr
> I believe it will help a lot of people get started quicker.
> Here is the full story of how this training came to be:
> A while back I was a Solr total rookie, but I knew I needed it for one of my projects. I had a little bit of a hard time getting started, but I did after a lot of hard work and working with other pretty good Solr developers.
> I then worked and created a system which is doing pretty good now. But I decided that I wanted to create a resource that will help people with absolutely no knowledge of Solr or search engines get started as quickly as possible. And given that I am already a trainer/author at Pluralsight, who focused mainly on Agile development, I thought this was the right place to start helping others.
> And so I did. I have received positive feedback, and given my background as a trainer I have also given it as "Solr for the Uninitiated", also for people with no previous knowledge of Solr. 
> It has also been received well to the extent that I have been hired to make it into a book, which I am writing at the moment.



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