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Technical setup: Wordpress
- CouchDB's blog is on Wordpress.com: http://blog.couchdb.org/
- the user interface can be accessed via https://couchdbblog.wordpress.com/wp-login.php (this link can also be found in the blog's sidebar, headline "Meta")
- if you need a user account so you can create posts yourself, please
- create an account on Wordpress.com if you don't have one yet
- send an email with your Wordpress.com user name to marketing@.
- for detailed information on how to create a post on Wordpress, see this tutorial.
Weekly Process & Timing
- on Tuesday:
- draft Weekly post (for formatting, see details below)
- if not agreed on differently: pick a person to review the draft post and then if everything is okay,
- publish
- share
Publishing & Sharing
- after publishing, share content on CouchDB's social media accounts:
- if you don't have access to these accounts yourself, ask on marketing@ who can share it
- send email to dev@, user@, marketing@
- subject is [BLOG]: The CouchDB Weekly News is out
- content is as e.g. in this email
Content sources setup
Content Decision
An important part of curating the Weekly News is deciding which content will be included and which won't. Main criteria are e.g.:
- up-to-dateness – content should not be outdated
- relevance – it should be of possible interest for a broader amount of people
- relation – it should be related with CouchDB
- [list to be extended]
List of all Weekly sections, including description and annotations
Please note that some sections are only included in the Weekly News under circumstances (e.g. "Releases" is only included when there's a new version of CouchDB; "CouchDB Weekly Meeting" is only included if a meeting has been held in this week; etc.). These sections are marked it *. All other sections are fixed, unless there's just no items for them.
Formatting
There's a recurring structure which can be seen e.g. in this post . There's also a sample post which can be used as a template. Generally, the Weekly News looks as following:
CouchDB Weekly News, MONTH DAY, YEAR
Releases
CouchDB Weekly Meeting (see summary)
Major Discussions
Major Discussion Topic 1 (see thread)
…
Releases in the CouchDB Universe
- release incl. version, linked – about
Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe
Use Cases, Questions and Answers
no public answer yet:
- Stack Overflow:
- Stack Overflow:
For more new questions and answers about CouchDB, see these search results.
Get involved!
If you want to get into working on CouchDB:
- We have an infinite number of open contributor positions on CouchDB. Submit a pull request and join the project!
- Do you want to help moving the CouchDB docs translation forward? We'd love to have you in our L10n team! See our current status and languages we'd like to provide CouchDB docs in on this page. If you'd like to help, don't hesitate to contact the L10n mailing list on l10n@couchdb.apache.org or ping Andy Wenk (awenkhh on IRC).
We'd be happy to have you!
New PMC Member [or: New Committer]
- [NAME] (IRC nick: name, Twitter: name) joins the Apache CouchDB Project Management Committee today. [NAME] has made outstanding, sustained contributions to the project. Welcome to the Couch, [NAME]!
- [NAME] (IRC nick: name, Twitter: name) has been elected as a CouchDB committer.
Events
- Month Day(s), Town, Country – Event title, linked
Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills
- Position, linked, Town, State, Country
Time to relax!
- "Quote, italic." – Post title, linked
… and also in the news
Submissions
- Please send any submissions for the next CouchDB Weekly News by Tuesday, if you have any.
- News in the CouchDB and PouchDB universe
- Interesting use cases
- CouchDB related events
- good and inspiring reads