Hi Lena, This is great. I think a Couchdb weekly will work really well. How would be the best way to send you links or information. I work on Fauxton (the new Couchdb web UI), and it would be nice to let you know when we add new feature thats worth telling the larger community about.
cheers Garren On 24 Mar 2014, at 11:41 AM, Lena Reinhard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm Lena, a Berlin-based writer and photographer and working on Hoodie's > (hood.ie) marketing and communications for one year now. Besides, I'm helping > out with marketing for various conferences like Reject.js, Nodecopter and > CSSConf EU. > > I got into CouchDB via Jan L. and Noah who also came up with the idea to > start a "CouchDB weekly news" collection on the CouchDB blog. And this is > what I'd like to share my thoughts on with you. > > THE IDEA > The idea is to give everyone who's interested a weekly-issued, short overview > of what is happening in the CouchDB universe - including all (or at least the > most) important things that have been going on in the past week. > > THE WHY AND HOW > I've been doing a similar weekly link collection for Hoodie's blog for almost > one year now (find all posts here: > http://blog.hood.ie/category/tgif-weekly-reading-recommendations/ ). It > helped us a lot in a few ways: after a few weeks, people started asking for > it when we couldn't post it once. It also helps us reach more people, spread > our own content better and all in all we got a lot of very good feedback. > People tell us they're looking forward to these posts each week. > And I think, in general and based on all the things Noah and Jan told me > about the CouchDB community, that it could be possible to reach something > similar for CouchDB, too. Due to the different community structure, the > CouchDB weekly news will be far more tech-focussed than the ones I'm doing > for Hoodie. My work on this will be supported by Cloudant; Jan and Noah have > already agreed to give me general feedback, especially in the first weeks. > > I'm aiming to dive deeper into what's happening in the CouchDB community for > reasons of personal curiosity and interest; and I'm definitely hoping to > support your work on CouchDB's Marketing with this in the long term. I'll > also aim for supporting CouchDB's marketing with other work besides these > "weekly news", I'll try to keep track of the things I can do via this mailing > list and also stay in contact with Noah :) > > THE SCHEDULE > - release: weekly on thursdays at 11am UTC on CouchDB's blog > > THE STRUCTURE + CONTENT > - similar to > https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack/entry/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_42 > - Major discussions on mailing lists, blogs, a short summary of > discussions in the weekly CouchDB meeting and around > - News in the universe > - Releases > - Events > - New Committers and PMC Members > - plus: 1-2 "and also in the news" things (something funny, … which > doesn't have to be technical) > > --- > > This is currently the main things I got about this (I hope I didn't forget > anything). I'll be trying to get into this in the next weeks and I'd really > appreciate your feedback. So if you'd love to add things here, know about a > relevant source / piece of writing that should be in there or want to give > general feedback: I'd really love to hear from you. > > Looking forward to working with you! > > Best from Berlin > > Lena > > > -- > > Lena Reinhard > Twitter: twitter.com/ffffux >
