On 24 March 2014 11:04, Lena Reinhard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 :) > cool :) > @Garren – easiest may be email ([email protected]) or on Twitter > (@ffffux) :) > erm I suggest to use the mailinglist here ([email protected]). I guess Lena has already subscribed. Then we have everything at one place and shared ... I hope that is ok for everybody :) Cheers Andy > > > 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 > >> > > > > -- 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
