On Jul 11, 2010, at 3:30 PM, David Coallier wrote: > Hey everyone, > > On 11 July 2010 22:19, Filipe David Manana <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Avi Flax <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 16:47, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Would it be worth trying keeping the names of those various >>> technologies, but organizing them in a neater, simpler, cleaner way? >>> AKA not a word cloud? >>> >> >> Thinking better, having only names of programming languages (Perl, Ruby, >> etc) and platforms (.NET, Java, etc) might give the wrong idea that Apache >> CouchDB provides libraries for all those languages and platforms. All the >> existing libraries are third party. >> >> > > Here are some scribbles I've done on Friday and some things (From > crazy to boring) that I've thought of and I'm starting to learn > towards the utterly simple graph. >
I think we need to focus on the things CouchDB can do that others can't. That means: p2p Replication / sync Running on Mobile Devices Queries against heterogenous data (something I'm missing?) > Anyways: > > 1) Hand scribble in notebook: > http://david.couchone.com/images/65a917c2a53e7f5f70ad500015001277/couch-2.jpg > > 2) Same as above with legend: > http://david.couchone.com/images/65a917c2a53e7f5f70ad500015001277/couch-3-legend.jpg > > Those two diagrams present some flaws. They are horizontal diagrams > where they should be horizontal to fit on the couch page. > > Here are some much simpler images and how they'd look if on the site. > > 3) Diagram: > http://david.couchone.com/images/65a917c2a53e7f5f70ad500015001277/couch-4-gfl.png > Look on CouchDB: > http://skitch.com/davidcoallier/dm4hh/apache-couchdb-the-couchdb-project > > 4) Even simpler diagram with less arrows: > http://david.couchone.com/images/65a917c2a53e7f5f70ad500015001277/couch-5-gfl.png > and how it'd look on CouchDB's website: > http://skitch.com/davidcoallier/dm466/apache-couchdb-the-couchdb-project > > I'm not very thrilled by any of them even though I like the third one > (3) but I hope this can give some people some better ideas :) > > > -- > David Coallier
