Cheers Andy. I know a few other people are interested in it too. I'll leave it a few days to see if anyone objects.
(And I've not forgotten about your other email!) On 1 February 2014 19:56, Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote: > I have added my name also to the Marketing page as I am interested in > helping with this. But I would like to leave the big bits to Ashley :) > > I am +1 for a new list > > here again a link to my thread with ideas: > http://markmail.org/search/list:org.apache.couchdb-*?q=How+to+spread+the+word+about+CouchDB+-+some+marketing+stuff > > > Thanks for the action Noah > > Cheers > > Andy > > On 1 February 2014 15:20, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Moving this to dev. >> >> Ashley, can you subscribe to dev? Marketing discussion should happen >> on the dev list. (Though, I am open to the idea of creating a new list >> for marketing discussion.) >> > Jens, most of the posts there seem very relevant to me. I don't see >> the spam you see. >> >> My membership has been pending for months. LinkedIn tells me that >> Marouan OMEZZINE is the current manage. Anyone know who this is? I >> just sent them a message and got: "You are no longer authorized to >> message this member." >> >> I have submitted a support request to LinkedIn now to become admin of that >> page. >> >> Ashley, I'd love to have your help with this stuff! >> >> Please feel free to go ahead and create the Facebook page. Once you >> have done so, please add me as a manager as well. I will email you my >> Facebook account privately. >> >> Once you've done that, add yourself to the Marketing team here: >> >> https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Marketing >> >> (You might need to sign up for the wiki and have your username added >> to the contributor group. Let me know if you get stuck or need >> assistance with that.) > > >> On 24 January 2014 05:31, Ashley Parkes <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Sorry if I'm an accidental top poster- I researched the mailing list >> concept last night, but I still don't know if I'm doing it right! >> > >> > Anyway, LinkedIn - you can create company pages as well as groups. >> Spotty updates definitely look bad, but it's also better (IMO) to have a >> well-fleshed-out description page pointing to the website than nothing at >> all. Same for Facebook. So if we do those for CouchDB, we can then develop >> update strategies to be implemented when we know exactly what kind of >> content we want to post and on what schedule. >> > >> > Also, LinkedIn now has a section for volunteer work! If y'all who have >> been contributing for a long time wanted to list your CouchDB work there, >> this theoretical company page would be linked to you, and anyone who's >> interested in what you do on the side is going to look at that. Not exactly >> an aggressive marketing tactic, but it gets the name out there. >> > >> > >> > Ashley >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> >> -- >> Noah Slater >> https://twitter.com/nslater >> > > > > -- > 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 -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
