Hi everyone - here is the agenda for today's call -
Regards,
Susan
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**European Marketing Working Group
Agenda, *Tuesday, December 9th, 15:00 CET
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**1 - News and Updates
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Feedback on ESE 2008 Sponsorship
- online survey?
Invitiation for Presenters from Marketing Symposium to post their
slides to this mailing list
Instantiations Event: Using Eclipse as an Application Platform in the
Enterprise
28-29 January, Munich
http://www.ars.de/web/news/sonstige/instantiations_de.do
*2 - **JAX / Eclipse Forum Europe, 20-24 April, Mainz* - *Nadja *
- overview of the marketing for EFE
*3 - **Joint press release* - *Manuela *and *Susan
*
*4 - New Items*
Feedback on demo camps*
*
*5 - Reminders
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*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
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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*
Insurance day - next step is a kick off call for organizers
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
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* Banking day in Paris - *Katherina Streater / Joern* have approached
Ian and it will go ahead later in 2009
- 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
*Marketing Symposium*, ESE 2008
1 - Business 'portal' 2 - Create a 'slide library' - propose content -
Andrea Mörike, Helge Brzoska, Joern Weigle
3 - Eclipse Day for business people - getting started with Eclipse
4 - Communications initiatives
*
Changing the sell to be suitable for runtimes - Eclipse
communications has been geared towards selling tools
*
New customers need to be educated in the eclipse approach to
issues such as liability, IP protection
*
Overall: A business communications strategy should complement
the technical communications strategy and activities
*
generate common press releases, mentioning several companies
that offer Open Source products & services targeted at one
sector such as the banking industry or insurance companies
*
identify and use a news wire for the distribution of common
press releases in Europe or in selected European countries
*
adapt key data & information about Open Source for the European
Market: - Sort out and communicate the results of surveys
regarding the Open Source market with regard to their relevance
for Europe and/or selected European countries
*
communicate the importance of key events like the annual release
train of the Eclipse Foundation to the press in Europe, pointing
out why this is relevant for the European market
5 - Other initiatives
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Creating bundles for verticals might ease the adoption - the
banking stack
*
(Member) Success stories
o
Background information on vertical industries – e.g. RCP
use cases
o
Mission critical eclipse based projects
o
success statistics – e.g. eclipse is used in 90% of banks
in xx
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eclipse.org/sales package: provide more information which
supports sales
*
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Susan Iwai
Communications Project Manager
EclipseSource
www.eclipsesource.com
Innoopract
www.innoopract.com
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