as per a meeting on 12/16/11 with @caolanm, @mikeal, @tilgovi, @jchris and myself here is a rough summary of what we as the couchapp stewards discussed:
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there was agreement that the major goal of couchapps (in general) is to offer a convention for building HTML5 applications that are independent of and transportable (isomorphic?) between databases. therefore the platforms onto which you can deploy a couchapp are very important as a selling point. the more the merrier
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the deploy targets we discussed are: chrome extensions, ios + android with couchbase's stuff, phonegap, and desktop apps with Chrome Embedded Framework
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there was contention over whether or not its a good idea to port the erlang VM to run erlang couch on all the things. now that chrome ships with leveldb turned on we think it would be awesome to get https://github.com/mikeal/pouchdb to a 1.0 release. for the first release you won't be able to store binary attachments in pouch (although once http://t.co/0fj35mFs lands in Chrome this will b
