Welcome Lena! I'm going to post a short notice to the user@ and dev@ lists asking people to forward news-worth links and info to this list.
On 24 March 2014 11:17, Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
