On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:39 AM, maddiin wrote: > Reading your comment makes me think of a theatre scenery with two old guys > sitting in a loge and being sarcastic about the show. ^q^ >
...just in case and to avoid confuse I wasnt being sarcastic at all... Otherwise all good...I have dropped some option re “CouchDB in the wiki graphic" : http://bit.ly/iItaQ On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Chris Anderson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:18 PM, maddiin <madd...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > cinnebar wrote: > >> > >> Hi agree that excess and overkill is undesirable. The content of the > >> graphics is still fluxy...still experimenting with ideas... and the set > >> online is gradually being updated... http://bit.ly/iItaQ > >> The oriental symbol is a Japanese symbol for couch and I have been using > >> it > >> because images cant be translated the way text can. Do you think that > the > >> use of this symbol would alienate American or European users or > >> compromises > >> the 'identity' of CouchDB? > > Word! CouchDB's identity is pretty strong, and can be transmitted > through many media. The key is the replication story. > > * I really like this thread because it reminds me of the early days of > Rails. > > One of the first things that really catapulted Rails into the > mainstream was DHH's screencast. With all our creative energy, if we > could start pushing it out to the world in the form of tutorials and > hello-world examples, Couch would be everywhere. The key is making it > super easy to get started. > > I think a big part of Rails' early success was the website: > > http://rubyonrails.org/ > > The design is less important than the content. > > Having all the blog posts, wikis, videos, case-studies, IRC logs, > screen-casts, etc. available in a an easy-to-digest website, will make > no-hassle for newcomers, which is the most important thing. > > I know a software package that makes making a website like that really > fun: CouchDB. > > So go for it! Creating content is the most important thing. If we use > CouchApps to aggregate content, then we can all share our views of the > web via replication. Eventually as we overwhelm youtube, blogs, etc, > with how-to-use-CouchDB content, people will see how simple it is. > > I think we can structure it all with hashtags and feeds, Jon Udell > style, and use CouchDB to persist and serve it. But really it doesn't > matter, as long as we make it easy for new arrivals to find just what > they need to know about CouchDB, while at the same time giving them a > taste of the "Relax" feeling. > > Chris > > I agree a lot with these comments. Still a ways off from smoothly operating replication hub here and tinkering with graphics meantime...honestly any excuse to make graphics...and CouchDB surely is a worthy cause...Anim vid or stickers definitely just steps away... ...Things like the hand drawn diagram of CouchDB structure on the homepage are an important part of the "relax" aesthetic. I have impression of Japanese culture from CouchDB being a serious piece of tech while aspiring to easy and a relaxed state of mind at the same time. CouchDB Zen. Cheers