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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:11:01 +0000
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Subject: Re: CouchDB news for DB-weekly
From: Noah Slater <nslater@apache.org>
To: "marketing@couchdb.apache.org" <marketing@couchdb.apache.org>,
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Cc: Peter Cooper <peter@cooperpress.com>
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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 <andywenk@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> thanks a lot for your reply.
>
> On 24 February 2014 16:25, Peter Cooper <peter@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
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Noah Slater
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