Hi all, I have written a draft for a press release called "CouchDB - latest status". The target to start somehow with weekly, twoweekly or monthly news.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1msjXweLWSbtlA1lck4vByv6qor50dbIFStENx_K8xvc/edit?usp=sharing I am looking forward to your feedback. Thanks Andy On 25 February 2014 17:11, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > I've distilled this thread into the following wiki page: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Weekly+News > > Posting this here for future reference. > > On 24 February 2014 22:47, Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > thanks a lot for your reply. > > > > On 24 February 2014 16:25, Peter Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi Andy, > >> > >> > >>> First of all I would like to say, that I really love your > >>> weekly-newsletters. I have subscribed to all of them. The information > you > >>> are providing is of very great value. Thanks for your awesome work :) > >>> > >> > >> Great to hear from you, and thanks for your support! > >> > >> > >>> I assume you know CouchDB as it is one of the early players in the > >>> NoSQL field. One of our goals for this year is to push many marketing > >>> efforts. The community is growing and big things are on it's way e.g. > the > >>> merge for rcouch and Cloudant's BigCouch into Apache CouchDB. > >>> > >>> So my question is what the process is, so that you also include news > >>> about CouchDB into the DB-Weekly newsletter? We would love to send > news and > >>> information about the project to you regularly - but maybe not every > week. > >>> > >> > >> Generally the best way is to just ensure that we know about things, > >> whether that's by dropping a mail occasionally with things you think > make > >> sense (bearing in mind we're trying to be a very general newsletter, so > >> things that are all "detail" or basically exclusively interesting to > Couch > >> users probably wouldn't fit) or even sending me a tweet to add something > >> into our queue to check out (@peterc). > >> > > > > ok - this is very cool and easy :). I am aware that you need the more > > highlevel bits regarding the CouchDB project. > > > > > >> What are Couch's main news mechanisms so far? Is there an existing > >> weekly newsletter in your space or something similar? (Possibly an > >> aggregating Twitter account (we do casually keep an eye on @couchdb > through > >> a Twitter list). Anything along those lines that we can subscribe > to/follow > >> will help us be more aware of things than we might otherwise be :-) > >> > > > > Recently we started a marketing team with the focus on a all these > things. > > Spreading the word about CouchDB. This is still in progress and we are > > planning social media activities and also setting up our own resources. > My > > target to get in touch with you was to make a starting point. As you may > > know it's always good to start something in a OpenSource project and then > > the sones start to roll. > > > > If I have more details on the topics above, I will come back to you and > > give detailed resources you can scan and follow. For the beginning, I > > suggest to send you a summary about activities via email. I think this > will > > happen within the next two weeks. > > > > Thank you very much for your time and your support! > > > > Cheers > > > > Andy > > -- > > Andy Wenk > > Hamburg - Germany > > RockIt! > > > > 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 > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
