[seam-dev] Seam University

Now that the Seam final release has been out for about a week (and I've had a chance to gather my wits), I've been thinking a bit about what we should do with the seamframework.org web site. I think that we're all in agreement that we need to do something, however the devil is in the details - it's plain to me that we can't do a straight migration of all content to the jboss.org community site and still retain all the value that the current site provides. Essentially, the contents of the site can be broken down into a few categories: 1. Forums 2. Knowledgebase 3. Marketing 4. Reference - links to documentation, downloads, Maven artifacts, etc I believe that 1, 3 and 4 are the types of content that we can successfully host on the jboss.org infrastructure (still accessible from www.seamframework.org), in a similar way that hibernate.org does it. What I don't believe that we can host there is the knowledgebase. I think that this is one area where we're currently failing our community, and that we have the potential to make vast improvements on. This is where Seam University comes in. My vision for this is to build a site that is run with the same collaborative community effort that has exploded into existence as a result of Seam 3. This would be a site where Seam users could submit their own articles, tutorials and tips for using Seam, and have it properly indexed via a powerful keyword search algorithm (this bit is quite important). I know we have in.relation.to, but the problem with this site is a) only a select few can submit content to it, b) new content falls off the radar quite quickly and c) it's mainly centered around product announcements. As for hosting this, my preference would be to use Google App Engine so that the site could double up in purpose as being a showcase of CDI/Seam technology in the cloud. Anyway, these are my initial thoughts on this subject and I would really love to hear some feedback on these ideas. So don't be shy to let me know what you think. :) Shane