On 22 December 2013 14:11, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 22 Dec 2013, at 14:09 , Facundo Farias <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Wow! That's awesome. I have to take a look and find which are the tech > > magazines that we have in Latin America (Spanish speakers) but I also > would > > like to write a blog in the official's couchdb blog. The only question in > > here is.. Should we write on our own language, right!? About our > > experiences or anything!? > > I think having spanish and other-language blog posts would be amazing for > the CouchDB blog :)
yes yes yes +1 :) and you know what - I will try to translate it for myself because i love the Spanish language (but cannot speak it) :). Thanks a lot Facundo. If you have written the post - simply send it to me! Cheers Andy > Well done Andy! I like it! > > > > Facundo > > On Dec 22, 2013 9:40 AM, "Andy Wenk" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> first of all, I would like to wish everyone nice Christmas days. My kids > >> say "yeah - just two more times sleeping :) ". > >> > >> After having read Jan's summary about what was achieved within the last > >> year in the CouchDB project and based on some earlier thoughts I had, I > >> would like to start a thread to find out, how we can spread the word > about > >> CouchDB even more. We have people from over the world participating and > >> contributing to CouchDB what is fantastic. Now I would love to see them > >> talk and write about CouchDB. > >> > >> The following thoughts are based on the things Noah is already doing on > >> this topic. That means I would like to support and extend the things > Noah > >> has initiated already. > >> > >> As there are already 15 different languages we translate CouchDB to, my > >> first thought was to ask the translators to take another task and > checkout > >> which press-channels are suitable to get in touch with and talk to > people > >> there in their country. > >> As an example, I have contacts to various German magazines and asked my > >> contact person at my publisher Galileo Computing to send me a list of > >> channels they let review books or simply post news to (I will receive > the > >> list soon). I then want to add the contacts I have and contact these > >> persons to ask them in which interval I can send news to them. This > should > >> then be stored in a simple app (e.g. Mailchimp or something self built) > to > >> be able to send news very easily. > >> > >> Having contact to these magazines could also be extended to write > articles > >> there. I really like it but have to admit, that this is time consuming. > I > >> have written some (if you like, have a look here - German only - sry: > >> http://andywenk.tumblr.com/publications). This is a super tool to reach > >> many people. > >> > >> Another thing is writing blog posts. Everybody likes to write blog > posts - > >> he :) ? This is also a very great tool to spread the word. And it does > not > >> has to be a technical article at all. It's also cool to write about > things > >> going on in the Community like the BigCouch and rcouch merge, hackaton, > >> I18n and so on. > >> > >> Then we have all the social media channels and the Apache CouchDB blog > at > >> http://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/. Noah already asked us (the > community) to > >> use these tools. Imho we can still do better and write more. > >> > >> So in summary, here are the points I would like to discuss: > >> > >> a. what do we have already to spread the word about CouchDB? > >> b. what would you personally like to do to spread the word about > CouchDB? > >> c. how can we organise this? > >> d. which tools can we use? > >> e. is it feasible / reasonable to find a responsible person per > language / > >> country? > >> f. any further ideas? > >> > >> My short answers and what I know are: > >> > >> a. > >> - http://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/ > >> - http://planet.couchdb.org/ > >> - https://plus.google.com/communities/112687873154936256826 (we need > >> https://plus.google.com/communities/CouchDB or the like :) ) > >> - https://twitter.com/couchdb > >> - reddit > >> - hn > >> > >> b. > >> - write about CouchDB in the social media channels > >> - write blog posts at CouchDB blog > >> - write in planet couchdb > >> - write in personal blog > >> - write articles for magazines > >> - send news to magazines and websites > >> - attend conferences and speak about CouchDB > >> > >> c. > >> - to be discussed > >> > >> d. > >> - for sending news - are there any? > >> - start a list and use a mail tool > >> > >> e. > >> - yes - I would take the job for Gemany > >> > >> f. > >> - write a book about CouchDB > >> > >> I am looking forward to all your thoughts and input. And thanks a lot to > >> Noah for the great job he is doing about this! > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> Andy > >> > >> -- > >> 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 > >> > > -- 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
