Beautiful. Thanks, Robert!
I'll start there. And will pursue the PR teams of the companies requested
earlier in the thread as well.
Warmly,Sally
From: Robert Kowalski <[email protected]>
To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]; Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 18 April 2015, 10:44
Subject: Re: CouchDB users interview
Hi Sally,
I just spotted this post on our users ML:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/201504.mbox/%3CCAPMhwa4wV3PN6oG0xCjs6V0OM%3DZ3MocXCYM-e19hVcUPK%2Bn%2BOg%40mail.gmail.com%3E
I guess based on that feedback you can work with Giovanni for a complete and
official testimonial.
Let me know if I can help!
Best,Robert
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks, Robert.
I'm still planning to approach this from the PR/Marketing standpoint, so my
intention was to connect with the appropriate contact/gatekeeper with a
"referral"/"reminder" as to whom from the organization was part of the project
(e.g. a Committer, on the dev@ list, etc) or is using the product (if known).
As such, if there are any internal contacts who are amenable to me telling
their PR team something along the lines of "we've been working with [NAME] on
Apache CouchDB and would love to have a testimonial about your experience", the
request tends to go more smoothly, as they'll have someone specific to connect
with. Often, PR folk tend to say "no" unless there's a personal link somewhere.
I hope this makes sense :-)
Warmly,Sally
[From the mobile; please excuse top-posting, spelling/spacing errors, and
brevity]
----- Reply message -----
From: "Robert Kowalski" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "Sally Khudairi" <[email protected]>
Subject: CouchDB users interview
Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2015 23:07
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.
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