I've distilled this thread into the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Weekly+News
Posting this here for future reference. On 24 February 2014 22:47, Andy Wenk <andyw...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > thanks a lot for your reply. > > On 24 February 2014 16:25, Peter Cooper <pe...@cooperpress.com> wrote: > >> Hi Andy, >> >> >>> First of all I would like to say, that I really love your >>> weekly-newsletters. I have subscribed to all of them. The information you >>> are providing is of very great value. Thanks for your awesome work :) >>> >> >> Great to hear from you, and thanks for your support! >> >> >>> I assume you know CouchDB as it is one of the early players in the >>> NoSQL field. One of our goals for this year is to push many marketing >>> efforts. The community is growing and big things are on it's way e.g. the >>> merge for rcouch and Cloudant's BigCouch into Apache CouchDB. >>> >>> So my question is what the process is, so that you also include news >>> about CouchDB into the DB-Weekly newsletter? We would love to send news and >>> information about the project to you regularly - but maybe not every week. >>> >> >> Generally the best way is to just ensure that we know about things, >> whether that's by dropping a mail occasionally with things you think make >> sense (bearing in mind we're trying to be a very general newsletter, so >> things that are all "detail" or basically exclusively interesting to Couch >> users probably wouldn't fit) or even sending me a tweet to add something >> into our queue to check out (@peterc). >> > > ok - this is very cool and easy :). I am aware that you need the more > highlevel bits regarding the CouchDB project. > > >> What are Couch's main news mechanisms so far? Is there an existing >> weekly newsletter in your space or something similar? (Possibly an >> aggregating Twitter account (we do casually keep an eye on @couchdb through >> a Twitter list). Anything along those lines that we can subscribe to/follow >> will help us be more aware of things than we might otherwise be :-) >> > > Recently we started a marketing team with the focus on a all these things. > Spreading the word about CouchDB. This is still in progress and we are > planning social media activities and also setting up our own resources. My > target to get in touch with you was to make a starting point. As you may > know it's always good to start something in a OpenSource project and then > the sones start to roll. > > If I have more details on the topics above, I will come back to you and > give detailed resources you can scan and follow. For the beginning, I > suggest to send you a summary about activities via email. I think this will > happen within the next two weeks. > > Thank you very much for your time and your support! > > Cheers > > Andy > -- > Andy Wenk > Hamburg - Germany > RockIt! > > GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 > > https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
