I think I have, can you give me a short reminder what the process would be be like? What steps do I have to take and which steps are you taking and what is the result?
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone --a quick follow-up on this. > Do we have any low-hanging fruit? Otherwise I'll just plow through the PR > contacts and will let you know who is amenable to working with us. > Thanks so much,Sally > > From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: TheApacheFoundation <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, 28 March 2015, 13:08 > Subject: Re: Fwd: CouchDB users interview > > Thanks, Andy. > This is a great idea --I've been discussing a similar approach with the > ASF Fundraising team. Nice to see we're in synch on this. > Yes, I'll be happy to reach out to help obtain interviews and > testimonials. Is this your primary list or do you have some low-hanging > fruit that are "friends of CouchDB" and ready to chat now? > I'm traveling over the next couple of weeks and might have some > connectivity issues during this time, and would prefer to start with our > friendlies first. > One thing that is helpful is if we have a technical contact within these > groups whom we can leverage where possible. So if you can pass on our > contact's name(s), coordinates (so I can copy them on any emails), and role > in the project (if any on a formal basis), that would be terrific. > And, of course, we presumably have inside contacts with Cordova, for > example. Do let me know which organizations you'd like me to help with :-) > Cheers & chat soon,Sally > > > From: Andy Wenk <[email protected]> > To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> > Cc: TheApacheFoundation <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, 28 March 2015, 10:36 > Subject: Fwd: CouchDB users interview > > 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: > > AppleBBCCERNNodeJS/NPMDrupalSoundcloud > Erlang SolutionsApache 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 > > > > > >
