> On 28 Mar 2015, at 18:20, Johs Ensby <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Jan,
>> I don’t see us taking a camera into CERN and the BBC for mood shots and 
>> interviews.
> I do
> Dont underestimate the “us” of this list

I’m not trying to. If anyone says they are willing to spend a week or so 
travelling to Geneva and London and a few more weeks on pre- and 
post-production for the benefit of CouchDB, I’ll be their biggest supporter. 
I’m just suggesting that I haven’t seen anyone here (yet) and that with the 
resources I know about, we can do something very low-key that can get us a 
looong way.

Just having a list of “these big names are using CouchDB” on the website would 
be terrific, and, while not trivial, be A LOT easier than producing 
high-quality video.

Having “here is what a few of those big names are doing with CouchDB and how 
they like it / why they chose it” case-studies is the next level up from there 
and that’s *still* going to be a lot less work etc.

I’m just worried we are getting excited about high hanging fruit while starving 
and ignoring the low-hanging ones.

Again, I’ll support anyone who is going all out on kick-ass CouchDB end-user 
videos. I just also want to make sure we do something with the other resources 
we have to get something tangible going with less effort and maybe even faster.

Best
Jan
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> 
> Alexander,
> great list, I am focusing on what I see as business cases for CouchDB (Apple 
> is a different animal)
> - BBC: 
> http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2009/speakers/endafarrell 
> <http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2009/speakers/endafarrell>
> - CERN: http://readwrite.com/2010/08/26/lhc-couchdb 
> <http://readwrite.com/2010/08/26/lhc-couchdb>
> all I need to develop a story idea of someone has a warm contact that is 
> interesting in doing the interview and hopefully pull in some colleague
> j
> 
> 
>> On 28 Mar 2015, at 18:15, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, then just my cautioning: producing video is orders of magnitude more 
>> involved than producing text. Since we are just getting started, unless we 
>> have someone who’s happy to do pro video work for us, I’d suggest that we 
>> focus on text and use video as a prop for transcripts and such.
>> 
>> Note that the Apple videos you linked were done by a professional video 
>> production crew with plenty of resources. I don’t see us taking a camera 
>> into CERN and the BBC for mood shots and interviews.
>> 
>> Again, if we *do* have people that are willing to do this, I’m all for it. 
>> To get started, it might be easier and more bang for the buck to start with 
>> text.
>> 
>> Best
>> Jan
>> --
>> 
>> 
>>> On 28 Mar 2015, at 18:07, Johs Ensby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jan,
>>> my suggestion if we got an opportunity with CERN or BBC is to set the 
>>> target at
>>> article that could be adopted to various purposes and with video being 
>>> supporting clips and possibly a standalone.
>>> What many dont realise is that the biggest part of this job is story and 
>>> coordination of approval.
>>> Heading for text first eases the approval process for a video release.
>>> 
>>> Noah,
>>> I thought of some case videos that Apple did some years back a the way to go
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42e-HFbt6Z4 
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42e-HFbt6Z4>
>>> This is a typical B2B story that uses interviews with several people that
>>> are part of the decision making process.
>>> - head of production
>>> - technology controller
>>> - editor
>>> this is an exemplary piece when it comes to supporting tech selection.
>>> Marketing is all about supporting decision making and in B2B, especially 
>>> selecting tech platforms it needs to be this kind of story.
>>> 
>>> j
>>> 
>>>> On 28 Mar 2015, at 17:55, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 28 Mar 2015, at 17:46, Johs Ensby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Agree that there is not a one-size-fits-all approach
>>>>> My “open” approach is
>>>>> - story idea first
>>>>> - interviewee agrees with it and OKs it with whoever needed to go public 
>>>>> (comms dept)
>>>>> - interview on video
>>>> 
>>>> Are you planning to release the video, or is that just the basis for a 
>>>> written version?
>>>> 
>>>> Best
>>>> Jan
>>>> --
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> - article writeup and approval
>>>>> - video edit and apprtoval
>>>>> - adaptation for various formats/channels
>>>>> j
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 28 Mar 2015, at 17:38, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Are we interested in doing interview over, say, white papers, or case
>>>>>> studies? I'd like to suggest that we approach each company with a list of
>>>>>> options and see what works, instead of a one-size-fits-all approach.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 at 15:38 Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Dear Sally,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Alex, a fellow PMC member and others at the marketing list of the 
>>>>>>> CouchDB
>>>>>>> project had the great idea to start a interview series with big players 
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> the tech industry who are using CouchDB. We are now looking for people 
>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>> these companies we can contact. The list is as follows:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Apple
>>>>>>> BBC
>>>>>>> CERN
>>>>>>> NodeJS/NPM
>>>>>>> Drupal
>>>>>>> Soundcloud
>>>>>>> Erlang Solutions
>>>>>>> Apache Cordova
>>>>>>> Microsoft
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Please find more details below how these companies / projects use 
>>>>>>> CouchDB.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Can you help us with some contacts? Or do you have any advice how to 
>>>>>>> find
>>>>>>> out, who are the people we should contact at these companies?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thank you so much for any help ;-)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Warm regards
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Andy
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>>> From: Alexander Shorin <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Date: 27 March 2015 at 12:44
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: CouchDB users interview
>>>>>>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
>>>>>>> Andreas
>>>>>>> Wenk <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Andy Wenk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Can someone send a list of companies we would like to contact?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> From my point of view:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - Apple: they have CouchDB included in XCode server
>>>>>>> - BBC:
>>>>>>> http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2009/speakers/endafarrell
>>>>>>> - CERN: http://readwrite.com/2010/08/26/lhc-couchdb
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - NodeJS/NPM: they had a couple of posts about their experience with
>>>>>>> CouchDB and troubles they had, but it would be good to ask them some
>>>>>>> more questions about
>>>>>>> - Drupal community: they don't technically uses CouchDB, but the
>>>>>>> replication protocol
>>>>>>> - Soundcloud: iirc they uses CouchDB as well or also just replication
>>>>>>> protocol
>>>>>>> - Erlang Solutions: https://elearning.erlang-solutions.com/couchdb/
>>>>>>> - Apache Cordova: their plugins registry
>>>>>>> http://http://plugins.cordova.io is driven by CouchDB
>>>>>>> - Microsoft: Yaron Goland seems very active on replication@ ML and may
>>>>>>> know something
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - Cloudant/IBM, PouchDB and Hoodie/Neighborhoodie: I think, there is
>>>>>>> no need to explain why (:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> These are big fishes, but any success with them could attract the
>>>>>>> others. Most urls on CouchDB in the Wild page are not giving much
>>>>>>> hope, but you can walk among them and pick few links which you likes.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In additional, may be some call on Twitter / ML / Socialmedia may be
>>>>>>> helpful.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> ,,,^..^,,,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
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