Hi everyone, first of all, I would like to wish everyone nice Christmas days. My kids say "yeah - just two more times sleeping :) ".
After having read Jan's summary about what was achieved within the last year in the CouchDB project and based on some earlier thoughts I had, I would like to start a thread to find out, how we can spread the word about CouchDB even more. We have people from over the world participating and contributing to CouchDB what is fantastic. Now I would love to see them talk and write about CouchDB. The following thoughts are based on the things Noah is already doing on this topic. That means I would like to support and extend the things Noah has initiated already. As there are already 15 different languages we translate CouchDB to, my first thought was to ask the translators to take another task and checkout which press-channels are suitable to get in touch with and talk to people there in their country. As an example, I have contacts to various German magazines and asked my contact person at my publisher Galileo Computing to send me a list of channels they let review books or simply post news to (I will receive the list soon). I then want to add the contacts I have and contact these persons to ask them in which interval I can send news to them. This should then be stored in a simple app (e.g. Mailchimp or something self built) to be able to send news very easily. Having contact to these magazines could also be extended to write articles there. I really like it but have to admit, that this is time consuming. I have written some (if you like, have a look here - German only - sry: http://andywenk.tumblr.com/publications). This is a super tool to reach many people. Another thing is writing blog posts. Everybody likes to write blog posts - he :) ? This is also a very great tool to spread the word. And it does not has to be a technical article at all. It's also cool to write about things going on in the Community like the BigCouch and rcouch merge, hackaton, I18n and so on. Then we have all the social media channels and the Apache CouchDB blog at http://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/. Noah already asked us (the community) to use these tools. Imho we can still do better and write more. So in summary, here are the points I would like to discuss: a. what do we have already to spread the word about CouchDB? b. what would you personally like to do to spread the word about CouchDB? c. how can we organise this? d. which tools can we use? e. is it feasible / reasonable to find a responsible person per language / country? f. any further ideas? My short answers and what I know are: a. - http://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/ - http://planet.couchdb.org/ - https://plus.google.com/communities/112687873154936256826 (we need https://plus.google.com/communities/CouchDB or the like :) ) - https://twitter.com/couchdb - reddit - hn b. - write about CouchDB in the social media channels - write blog posts at CouchDB blog - write in planet couchdb - write in personal blog - write articles for magazines - send news to magazines and websites - attend conferences and speak about CouchDB c. - to be discussed d. - for sending news - are there any? - start a list and use a mail tool e. - yes - I would take the job for Gemany f. - write a book about CouchDB I am looking forward to all your thoughts and input. And thanks a lot to Noah for the great job he is doing about this! Cheers Andy -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! http://www.couchdb-buch.de http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
