Daily Archives: April 8, 2015

CouchDB Weekly News, April 08, 2015

Major Discussions

[VOTE] CouchDB Logo – Round #3 (ongoing, SEE THREAD)

A third round to vote on the CouchDB logo was just started. The options to vote for are:

Please send your votes (+1 / 0 / -1) for each proposed candidate, so we can get an impression of which one(s) the community members like and which they don’t. The vote is open for non-committers as well.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

no public answer yet:

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 us with the work on the new CouchDB website? Get in touch on our new website mailing list and join the website team! – www@couchdb.apache.org
  • 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 welcome you on board!

Events

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

Time to relax!

  • “[E]xpectations for decision-making have gone from “get it done soon” to “get it done now” to “it should have been done yesterday,” we tend to jump to conclusions instead of asking more questions. And the unfortunate side effect of not asking enough questions is poor decision-making. That’s why it’s imperative that we slow down and take the time to ask more — and better — questions.” – Relearning the Art of asking Questions
  • “Why were programmers hiring for ninjas, espousing meditation, and writing “koans?” Why were these faux-Asian aspirations so widespread?” – Damaged Karma: Commoditization and Exploitation of Asians in Tech
  • “I see people writing about ‘callout culture’ a lot, and while a lot of digital ink seems to be spilled on scrutinising the behaviour of people who do the calling out, very little seems to get said about ways to constructively react when you are the recipient of a callout.” – So You’ve Been Called Out: A Handy Guide to Receiving Social Justice-Related Criticism on the Internet

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