Hi everyone - minutes for today's call -
Regards,
Susan
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European
Marketing Working Group
Agenda, Tuesday, January 27th, 16:00 CET
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1 -
News and Updates
Eclipse Community Awards nominations close January 31st
- panel of judges, announced at EclipseCon Monday night
- http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/eclipseawards/index.php
EclipsIST
2009, April 28-29, Istanbul - Karen Dai
http://www.eclipsist.org/
Training series - Lynn
8 week April 6 - May 29th
Group calendar
Insurance
day
- Munich and Amsterdam?
- targetting May 5/6
Eclipse Embedded Day - end June/early July,
Munich/Stuttgart
- focusing on embedded, telematics
- intiating
company is MicroDoc, inviting collaborators - contact Christine
Mitterbauer, MicroDoc
- Ian invited Christine to send announcements to the general
marketing list and this one
Eclipse Day Karlsruhe - June 25th - tentative
2- Test
conferences jointly
Plan is to have a joint exhibit as we did at JavaPolis at 3 conferences
for 2009
Action Item for all - send conference suggestions to Susan with
a brief explanation of why we should attend and rough pricing for a
small booth.
- Cebit was one suggestion
- we'll shorten/lengthen the list on the Jan 27th call
- Solution Linux, Paris, end of March - large event, but so far little
eclipse content there
- Linux Tage, Berlin 24-27 June, IDG conference
- Cebit - Linux New Media exhibit (
3. Webinars - Stephanie Pietzker
4- Developing content to market eclipse to executives
Create a 'slide library'
- propose content - Andrea Mörike, Helge
Brzoska, Joern Weigle
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/Marketing_Resources
- do any members in this group have generic marketing materials for
decision makers they could donate?
- what do we have, what is missing, can we produce what is needed?
Marketing plan for 2009 - Agenda Item for Jan 27th - Ian
in the next call we'll brainstorm:
- key messages, key influencers/events/analysts/press
- implementation plan
5
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Reminders
Call
for future European Marketing WG chairpeople
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
OOP
2009 - 26-30 January - Joint OOP Eclipse Pavilion
Information and details:
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-european-marketing-wg/msg00011.html
JAX
/ Eclipse
Forum Europe, 20-24 April, Mainz - Nadja
- overview of the marketing
for EFE
- Nadja has sent information on member-to-member benefits
S&S
planning a new English Eclipse magazine
- send editorial ideas to Nadja
EclipseTime
2009, Toulouse
- end June
- event will be opened to up to 10 sponsors
- 200 people - managers, technical folks
- Jocya will send info
Joint
press release - Manuela and Susan
- WW, Bredex, Anyware
- EclipseCon - end Feb, early March
- next steps offline
Banking
Day London, Feb 10th or 12th - Ian
- http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseBankingDayLondon
- registrations excellent - 60/80 slots registered
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
Brochures are available on
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Marketing_Resources#Brochures
Appendix I- 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
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
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New customers need to be
educated in the eclipse approach to issues such as liability, IP
protection
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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
--
Susan Iwai
Communications Project Manager
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