Hi everyone - here are
the minutes from Tuesday's call. Additional notes, comments are
welcome -
Regards,
Susan
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European
Marketing Working Group
Minutes, Tuesday, November 25th, 15:00 CET
1 -
News and Updates
EclipseCon 2009 submission deadline extended to Friday November
28th
DevOXX, 8-12 December, Antwerp
Newsletter announced 3000 registrations
Eclipse Foundation has reserved one plug-in booth for joint exhibition
of Eclipse projects.
Booth schedule is fairly full, but Interested parties should contact
Lynn Gayowski
2 -
Eclipse Summit Europe 2008, 18-20 November,
Ludwigsburg
General impressions/debrief
WW - more active this year, leads were good
Actuate - always worthwhile, conversations are interesting, oem
opportunities, lead generation is a little weak
ComPeople - networking, program, seemed more like trade show like JAX -
opening up to decision makers
Instincttools - although its posted as a developer conference, there
was business content and participants
Katherina / Susan will follow up with Ralph/Bjorn
- Feedback
on Sponsorship - online survey?
- Was
there a higher percentage of decision makers at the conference this
year?
Results
of the Marketing symposium - Susan will add to list of future
initiatives
Presenters
from the Symposium will post slides to this mailing list
3 -
New Items
Banking day in Paris - Katherina Streater / Joern have
approached Ian and it will go ahead later in 2009
Insurance
day - next step is a kick off call for organizers
Items
for Dec 9th call:
Eclipse
Forum Europe - Nadja will give us an overview of the marketing
for EFE on the Dec 9th call
Proposal for Joint press releases - Manuela and Susan
Items
for the first call in January (Jan 6 or Jan 13)
What
are the business events for eclipse?
- vertical days, Open Source Meets Business
- Linux Tag, IDG conference in Berlin, June 2009 - add to agenda for
next year - question
for Ian
Training
series- feedback
WW - response was increased over last year, Ind TSI, Innoopract - same
Could this become a permanent feature on eclipse.org ? - Yuri/Joern
question for Ian
4 -
Reminders
Banking Day New York, December 9th - Ian
- 40 registrations until November 4th, growing 2-3 per day
- hosted at Morgan Stanley
- Details on http://www.eclipse.org/banking
Banking
Day London - Ian
- Early February as targeted date for the event
- Local partner for organizing and promoting the event will be required
- Sponsorship available: Interested parties please contact Ian Skerrett
Banking
Day Amsterdam - Jörn
- Industrial TSI is interested in organizing a Banking Day in Amsterdam
- WeigleWilczek will support
- Might be held closely before / after EBD London to reduce travel for
speakers
-
Eclipse Banner is now available for shared use by European members.
- 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
OOP
2009 - 26-30 January - Joint OOP Eclipse Pavlion
Information and details:
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-european-marketing-wg/msg00011.html
Eclipse Brochures are available on
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Marketing_Resources#Brochures
5 - Ideas for fututre 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
- Please collect and propose new ideas!
Next call: Tuesday, December 9th, 15:00 CET
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Susan Iwai
Communications Project Manager
EclipseSource
www.eclipsesource.com
Innoopract
www.innoopract.com
