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

["Steve Rowe (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Steve Rowe commented on SOLR-6748:
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Hi Xavier,

I think the appropriate place for linking to your training site is from the Solr MoinMoin wiki's Support page: [http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Support].  Or maybe create a new wiki page for training?

For things other than books, I think the standard for posting on the website should be that materials are freely available.

Also, if we were to start including things like this on the website, there would be huge amounts of churn as people want to add/remove/change stuff - the wiki is much more suited to that kind of thing.

> Additional resources to the site to help new Solr users ramp up quicker
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>
>                 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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