Major Discussions

Offer to donate Nano and futoncli to CouchDB (see thread)

CouchDB got the offer to receive Nano and futoncli as donations. Many questions and details have been discussed in the thread. Legal questions around it have been raised separately towards the ASF Incubator this week as well.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• pouchdb-find (beta) – advanced query language for PouchDB
• beanbag 1.2.3 – generic CouchDB driver built upon request
• express-pouchdb 0.14.0 – express submodule with a CouchDB style REST interface to PouchDB

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• IBM Cloudant overview, NoSQL database-as-a-service (video)
• How to Install CouchDB Locally and Enable CORS
• Open Source Databases Keep Chipping Away at Oracle’s Empire

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: initctl: Unknown job: couchdb in Ubuntu 12.04
• Stack Overflow: How to insert CouchDB documents in bulk?
• Stack Overflow: How to add a plugin to CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB PouchDB sync – angular-pouchdb – Type Error
• Stack Overflow: how to grab output for just the map function not the reduce

No public answer yet

• Stack Overflow: Setting up a view server on a remote CouchDB host

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!
• CouchDB has a new wiki. Help us move content from the old to the new one!
• Can you help with Web Design, Development or UX for our Admin Console? No Erlang skills required! – Get in touch with us.
• 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 on board!

Events

• January 29, Sheffield, UK: Sheffield.js – CouchDB 101
• February 7: CouchDB Day 2015, Hamburg, Germany; ticket sale for the free tickets is still open.

Job Opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Software Engineer, San Francisco, USA
• Software Engineer, New York, USA

Time to relax!

• “To avoid being stuck in a local maxima, we need to periodically look across boundaries. This means both looking below familiar abstractions, and above to see what others are building upon your work.” – Coevolution of Software
• “How about let’s have 2015 be the year that we stop looking for ‘rockstars’ and stop tolerating ‘rockstar’ behavior like people who constantly interrupt and speak over others because their ‘rockstar’ opinion is just that … important. If we all mindfully work to interrupt this interrupt culture, all voices can be heard, and everyone wins.” – On interrupting interrupt culture
• Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots. – Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?
• “Fuelling the mind isn’t easy, it requires rigour and discipline. Put in that discipline, however, and the returns will be considerable. Your ideas will flow and, the more you apply yourself to priming the brain, the more you’ll see connections in the content you encounter.” – Designing a Mind