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[eclipse.org-european-marketing-wg] Minutes European Marketing WG Tues. Oct. 21

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

Dial-in info:
Ottawa and International:  +1 613 287 8000

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NOTE:  the Toll Free numbers may not work from a mobile phone.

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 Germany:  00 800 2288 3502
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 United Kingdom:  00 800 2288 3502

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Susan Iwai
Communications Project Manager

www.innoopract.com
 




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Susan Iwai
Communications Project Manager
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