Moin Moin and welcome Lena! This sounds awesome - I am really looking forward to see the Weekly news :)
I started to write up some recent "news" and threw it to the marketing ml without feedback yet. You are welcome to read it. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1msjXweLWSbtlA1lck4vByv6qor50dbIFStENx_K8xvc/edit#heading=h.1k78xre3m8bo It's definitely wip and you can _ use it _ ask questions about it _ change it _ throw it away :) If you have questions about anything you are welcome to ask. I would love to help in any way ... Cheers Andy On 24 March 2014 10:41, Lena Reinhard <l...@thehoodiefirm.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm Lena, a Berlin-based writer and photographer and working on Hoodie's ( > hood.ie) marketing and communications for one year now. Besides, I'm > helping out with marketing for various conferences like Reject.js, > Nodecopter and CSSConf EU. > > I got into CouchDB via Jan L. and Noah who also came up with the idea to > start a "CouchDB weekly news" collection on the CouchDB blog. And this is > what I'd like to share my thoughts on with you. > > THE IDEA > The idea is to give everyone who's interested a weekly-issued, short > overview of what is happening in the CouchDB universe - including all (or > at least the most) important things that have been going on in the past > week. > > THE WHY AND HOW > I've been doing a similar weekly link collection for Hoodie's blog for > almost one year now (find all posts here: > http://blog.hood.ie/category/tgif-weekly-reading-recommendations/ ). It > helped us a lot in a few ways: after a few weeks, people started asking for > it when we couldn't post it once. It also helps us reach more people, > spread our own content better and all in all we got a lot of very good > feedback. People tell us they're looking forward to these posts each week. > And I think, in general and based on all the things Noah and Jan told me > about the CouchDB community, that it could be possible to reach something > similar for CouchDB, too. Due to the different community structure, the > CouchDB weekly news will be far more tech-focussed than the ones I'm doing > for Hoodie. My work on this will be supported by Cloudant; Jan and Noah > have already agreed to give me general feedback, especially in the first > weeks. > > I'm aiming to dive deeper into what's happening in the CouchDB community > for reasons of personal curiosity and interest; and I'm definitely hoping > to support your work on CouchDB's Marketing with this in the long term. > I'll also aim for supporting CouchDB's marketing with other work besides > these "weekly news", I'll try to keep track of the things I can do via this > mailing list and also stay in contact with Noah :) > > THE SCHEDULE > - release: weekly on thursdays at 11am UTC on CouchDB's blog > > THE STRUCTURE + CONTENT > - similar to > https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack/entry/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_42 > - Major discussions on mailing lists, blogs, a short summary of > discussions in the weekly CouchDB meeting and around > - News in the universe > - Releases > - Events > - New Committers and PMC Members > - plus: 1-2 "and also in the news" things (something funny, … > which doesn't have to be technical) > > --- > > This is currently the main things I got about this (I hope I didn't forget > anything). I'll be trying to get into this in the next weeks and I'd really > appreciate your feedback. So if you'd love to add things here, know about a > relevant source / piece of writing that should be in there or want to give > general feedback: I'd really love to hear from you. > > Looking forward to working with you! > > Best from Berlin > > Lena > > > -- > > Lena Reinhard > Twitter: twitter.com/ffffux > > -- 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
