On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:18 PM, maddiin <[email protected]> wrote: > cinnebar wrote: >> >> Hi agree that excess and overkill is undesirable. The content of the >> graphics is still fluxy...still experimenting with ideas... and the set >> online is gradually being updated... http://bit.ly/iItaQ >> The oriental symbol is a Japanese symbol for couch and I have been using >> it >> because images cant be translated the way text can. Do you think that the >> use of this symbol would alienate American or European users or >> compromises >> the 'identity' of CouchDB?
Word! CouchDB's identity is pretty strong, and can be transmitted through many media. The key is the replication story. * I really like this thread because it reminds me of the early days of Rails. One of the first things that really catapulted Rails into the mainstream was DHH's screencast. With all our creative energy, if we could start pushing it out to the world in the form of tutorials and hello-world examples, Couch would be everywhere. The key is making it super easy to get started. I think a big part of Rails' early success was the website: http://rubyonrails.org/ The design is less important than the content. Having all the blog posts, wikis, videos, case-studies, IRC logs, screen-casts, etc. available in a an easy-to-digest website, will make no-hassle for newcomers, which is the most important thing. I know a software package that makes making a website like that really fun: CouchDB. So go for it! Creating content is the most important thing. If we use CouchApps to aggregate content, then we can all share our views of the web via replication. Eventually as we overwhelm youtube, blogs, etc, with how-to-use-CouchDB content, people will see how simple it is. I think we can structure it all with hashtags and feeds, Jon Udell style, and use CouchDB to persist and serve it. But really it doesn't matter, as long as we make it easy for new arrivals to find just what they need to know about CouchDB, while at the same time giving them a taste of the "Relax" feeling. Chris > > http://twitpic.com/cne19 > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
