Hi Chintan,
On 2019-06-21 7:21, Chintan Mishra wrote:
> Dear team,
>
> I noticed this message on the Slack workspace by the user `@jan`
>
> https://couchdb.slack.com/archives/C49LEE7NW/p1560856033217500
>
> Quoting the message in the link:
>
> this would require very little erlang and we can help with that
> part, what this project would need is someone who comes up with a
> compelling technical vision that goes beyond “works for me / solves
> my problems” and who is committed to maintain this going forward,
> find a team that helps, etc.
>
> After reading this, I realized there are a few things that we(CouchDB's
> team and Rebhu Computing's team) can do to help the CouchDB project
> right now. Here is a small list of those things:
>
> 1. *Organize a competition*for getting people to know about CouchDB.
> 2. *Make CouchDB more visible*. Unlike most other popular databases the
> online presence of CouchDB is not huge. Slack communication is not
> search indexed which makes it difficult to get new people to see all
> the things that are happening in the CouchDB world.
> 3. A *way forward for CouchDB is focusing on what it is best*at viz.,
> being a database for _*C*__luster __*O*__f __*U*__nreliable
> __*C*__ommodity __*H*__ardware_. Being deploy-able at edge devices.
> Focusing on this will invite people building for IoTs towards
> CouchDB. And this will drive a whole new set of users/customers
> towards CouchDB and IBM's Cloudant project. We already use
> Cloudant's sync-android and CDTDatastore in our startup's(Rebhu
> Computing) product.
>
> Here are someways we, Rebhu Computing, can help right away:
>
> 1. We(Rebhu Computing) can organize a competition in India(Asia) where
> people build things using CouchDB. This can have *a theme to
> increase the number of participants*. And a jury can select the top
> 3 projects. The *winners get a T-Shirt* with CouchDB and startup's
> branding. And their project will be hosted by us(Rebhu Computing)
> for a year.
I'm +0 on the competition. I'm personally not a huge fan of competitive
activities, being more of a collaborative sort, but I recognize this
activity may make sense in your part of the world more than in mine.
As the Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit, it cannot be seen
that the Foundation has sponsored your *company* or your hosting service
- there are strict rules and regulations around this.
Quoting our policy: "Nothing in this ASF policy statement shall be
interpreted to allow any third party to claim any association with the
Apache Software Foundation or any of its projects or to imply any
approval or support by ASF for any third party products or services."
Our Third Party Event Branding policy is here:
https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/events
Any CouchDB branding will have to be approved by the PMC and possibly
the Apache Software Foundation. Further, Apache CouchDB is a trademark
that the Foundation will defend vigorously.
> 2. Migrate to Spectrum chat <https://spectrum.chat> and *make all of
> the CouchDB conversation search indexed*. No other DB community is
> actively doing this and it will improve CouchDB's ranking on
> DB-Engines website
> <https://db-engines.com/en/ranking/document+store>. I have
> personally wanted to do this for so long that I had already created
> a CouchDB group on Spectrum almost a year ago.
No, thank you.
The ASF has traditionally used IRC, and more recently Slack, for real
time chatting. We are happy to stay with the tools supported by and used
by the Foundation.
Perhaps someone would consider setting up a Slack-to-IRC gateway for the
Freenode #couchdb channel (which we lost when Slack discontinued the
gateway). Plenty of logging solutions exist for IRC. This would prevent
us having to uproot the community and use a new client.
> 3. I would love to know the *viewpoint of the whole team* about the
> suggested way forward for CouchDB.
That's my opinion. :)
-Joan
