Hi Any, hi Garren,

thanks for the warm welcome! 

@Andy – this looks really useful, thanks for sharing! I'm currently trying to 
deal with the tons of CouchDB-related information I'm currently getting, and 
I'm sure this doc helps :)
@Garren – easiest may be email ([email protected]) or on Twitter (@ffffux) 
:)


On 24.03.2014, at 11:02, Garren Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>> 
> 

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