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Subject: Re: Projects page on Flink web page
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I some sense the wiki would be nice, but to me, wiki pages feel like "we
did not find a better place for that"...

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Robert Metzger <rmetzger@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> great idea!
> Maybe we should use the Wiki for such a list? It would make it easier for
> users to just drop a link to a github repo of an algorithm implementation.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Kruse, Sebastian <Sebastian.Kruse@hpi.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > at HPI, we recently had the idea of a projects page on the Flink web
> site.
> > Such a page could present programs that have been implemented atop of
> > Flink, ideally with a link to a github repository of the respective
> > project's code. This could bring benefits for both the Flink maintainers
> > and users with it.
> >
> > At first, these projects could promote the versatility of the Flink
> > platform if the Flink programs are concerned with quite different
> problems
> > (graph algorithms, machine learning, data analytics, ...). Moreover, a
> lot
> > of projects underline the relevance of Flink as a GP data processing
> > platform. Last but not least, given a set of readily implemented use
> cases,
> > a rather non-technical audience (i.e., w/o programming background) could
> > try out Flink without having to write any code (ideally).
> >
> > Also, such a projects page would be beneficial for the people that write
> > new Flink programs. Without a distribution platform for Flink programs,
> it
> > is likely that every program written in Flink is only used by its own
> > authors. The project page would be a good place to promote own Flink
> > programs but also to exchange programs, best practices or even subplans
> and
> > operators.
> >
> > As I think, that this idea addresses an important issue, I am putting it
> > here for discussion and looking forward to your feedback. :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sebastian
> >
>

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