[DISCUSS] How to spread the word about CouchDB - some marketing stuff

[Andy Wenk <an...@nms.de>]

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

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Re: [DISCUSS] How to spread the word about CouchDB - some marketing stuff

[Andy Wenk <an...@nms.de>]

On 22 December 2013 14:11, Jan Lehnardt <ja...@apache.org> wrote:

>
> On 22 Dec 2013, at 14:09 , Facundo Farias <fa...@gmail.com>
> 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" <an...@nms.de> 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

Re: [DISCUSS] How to spread the word about CouchDB - some marketing stuff

[Jan Lehnardt <ja...@apache.org>]

On 22 Dec 2013, at 14:09 , Facundo Farias <fa...@gmail.com> 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 :)

Best
Jan
-- 



> Well done Andy! I like it!
> 
> Facundo
> On Dec 22, 2013 9:40 AM, "Andy Wenk" <an...@nms.de> 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
>> 

Re: [DISCUSS] How to spread the word about CouchDB - some marketing stuff

[Facundo Farias <fa...@gmail.com>]

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!?
Well done Andy! I like it!

Facundo
On Dec 22, 2013 9:40 AM, "Andy Wenk" <an...@nms.de> 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
>