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 >> >
