Hi everyone,
Here are notes from yesterday's call. Comments welcome -
Regards,
Susan
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European
Marketing Working Group
Minutes, Tuesday, October 21st
1 - News and
Updates
Banking Day New York, December 9th - Ian
- sponsorships are still available (USD 2 000), Sybase and Actuate are
already sponsors
- program is live - http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseBankingDayNYC
- located at Morgen Stanley,
registration is free
- 50-100 attendees, architects, senior development manager
Banking Day London
Action item: Ian plans a call with banking contacts to pitch
the banking day - if you'd like to participate, contact Ian
- event is planned for early February 2009, search for a location is in
progress
2 - Eclipse Summit Europe 2008, 18-20 November,
Ludwigsburg
Agendas - European
Marketing Symposium (Nov 18th, 09:00-12:00) and Members’ Meeting (Nov
17th, 14:00-18:00) - Ian
Draft agendas for both meetings is on the wiki and final versions will
be sent to the membership at large in the next days.
http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/membersminutes/20081117EuropeanMembersMeeting/MeetingAgendaNov17.php
Promoting ESE 2008
- Itemis has sent out a press release that was picked up by Heise on
the Automotive Symposium
- Software & Support have banner adds on the JAX eclipse area and
will have advertising on other properties (entwickler.com) - in
progress with Eclipse Foundation and S&S
3 Other Items
OOP 2009 - 26-30 January - http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/oop_2009/index.php
- Susanne Herl, Sigs-Datacom
- OOP conference 1500-1600 atendees
- proposing an Eclipse Pavilion featuring Foundation members
- feedback was requested by Susanne - eclipse.org projects and
commercial products, turnkey or member materials
- Susanne and Susan will put together information for feedback on the
marketing mailing list
Translating
Eclipse
Brochures - http://wiki.eclipse.org/Marketing_Resources#Brochures
- Brochures are ready to translate
and available on the wiki - Ian can provide non-.pdf version if required
- translations can simply be loaded back onto the wiki page
- Itemis offered to translate German - thank you! others welcome!
4.
Reminders:
- OSGi poster - deadline
for participation is October 29th
Nadja Outmani, Software & Support Verlag, will provide
information to participants
- Eclipse
Banner is now available for shared use by European members.
Contact Ralph Mueller, Eclipse Foundation, for more information.
- Eclipse Demo
Camps - check out the November 2008 Demo Camps -
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2008. The camps are publicized on
eclipse.org and each camp
is supported up to USD 500.00 by the Eclipse Foundation
- DevOXX, 8-12 December, Antwerp
Plug-in exhibit confirmed. Eclipse Foundation has reserved one
plug-in booth for demoing Eclipse projects.
Weigle Wilczek and Innoopract will likely participate. Others
interested in participating should contact Ian - ian (dot) skerrett
(at) eclipse (dot) org
5. Ideas for future
initiatives:
Theme days - eg. Banking Day, future Insurance Day is being planned
Stammtisch - organizing and promoting
- Software and Support Verlag has announced the last ones in Bonn and
Frankfurt on their web properties
Image Advertising - deferred to the group to bring this forward it if
seems feasible as an initiative for the WG
Country-specific programs - information about eclipse outreach in
various European regions and countries
Next call: Tuesday November 4th, 15:00 CET
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Susan Iwai
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